Special Issue: Studying Brexit’s causes and consequences

The British Journal of Politics and International Relations (BJPIR) is an international journal that publishes innovative, cutting edge contemporary scholarship on international relations, comparative politics, public policy, political theory and (especially) politics and policy in the United Kingdom. It is the world’s premier journal for research into British politics.

BJPIR is a fully refereed journal of the Political Studies Association of the UK. It has always sought to reflect and drive the major currents of debate in political science and international relations, both in the UK and internationally. The journal seeks to reflect and respond to the changing real world of politics, by publishing articles that are of contemporary relevance to both the study and practice of politics.

Since its inception in 1999, in response to the growing internationalisation of the political studies community in the UK and beyond, the transnationalisation of the political science profession and the globalisation of politics, the journal has welcomed empirically rigorous and theoretically innovative articles on themes and issues that are of such global and scholarly significance that they matter for all states and countries irrespective of geographical location.
Brexit presents new, daunting analytical tasks to social and political scientists. This Special Issue collects articles that contribute to completing these new tasks, across a range of domestic, comparative and international dimensions. The authors focus on three broad areas:

+ the path that led to the referendum
+ explaining and interpreting the vote for Brexit
+ assessing its consequences

Articles in this issue

+ Introduction: Studying Brexit’s causes and consequences by Daniel Wincott, John Peterson, Alan Convery

+ Inevitability and contingency: The political economy of Brexit by Helen Thompson

+ Taking back control? Investigating the role of immigration in the 2016 vote for Brexit by Matthew Goodwin, Caitlin Milazzo

+ When Polanyi met Farage: Market fundamentalism, economic nationalism, and Britain’s exit from the European Union by Jonathan Hopkin

+ Critical political economy, free movement and Brexit: Beyond the progressive’s dilemma by Owen Parker

+ Northern Ireland and Brexit: Three effects on ‘the border in the mind’ by Cathy Gormley-Heenan, Arthur Aughey

+ Brexit and Scotland by Aileen McHarg, James Mitchell

+ UK diplomacy at the UN after Brexit: Challenges and Opportunities by Megan Dee, Karen E Smith

+ Brexit, Trump and the special relationship by Graham K Wilson

+ America, Brexit and the security of Europe by Wyn Rees

+ Performing Brexit: How a post-Brexit world is imagined outside the United Kingdom by Rebecca Adler-Nissen, Charlotte Galpin, Ben Rosamond

+ Legislative language and judicial politics: The effects of changing parliamentary language on UK immigration disputes by Matthew Williams

+ Military videogames and the future of ideological warfare by Marcus Schulzke

• Primary Source

Blog: UK in a Changing Europe, 22.09.17: Brexit: causes and consequences http://ukandeu.ac.uk/brexit-causes-and-consequences/

ESO: In Focus: Brexit - The United Kingdom and the European Union http://www.europeansources.info/record/brexit-the-united-kingdom-and-the-european-union/

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