All in this Together? Communities of Practice in UK–EU Cybersecurity Relations Post‐Brexit and Differentiated Re‐engagement
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6281065 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Helena Carrapico (0000-0003-4623-9482, Department of Social Sciences Northumbria University Newcastle, corresponding author), George Christou (0000-0003-3964-6645, Department of Politics and International Studies University of Warwick Coventry) |
| Year | 2026 |
| Volume | 64 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 413-430 |
| Publication date | 2026-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | JCMS Journal of Common Market Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0021-9886 • E-ISSN: 1468-5965 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/jcms.13717 |
| OpenAlex | W4405530003 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 26 |
Whilst formative work on characterising UK‐EU cybersecurity cooperation points to re‐engagement rather than disengagement, we seek to take this as our starting point in order to build a more complex picture on how Brexit has impacted practitioners at policy and operational levels. The article argues that while UK‐EU collaboration in cybersecurity has historically been robust, the politics of withdrawal/ Brexit have had varying effects on engagement at the level of the everyday: (1) business as usual in the domain of national security and information sharing; (2) re‐engagement in the law enforcement realm; and (3) a formal partial disengagement in the policy and institutional realm. We therefore highlight in this article a more nuanced and differentiated impact relating to Brexit and cybersecurity cooepration and show how established communities of practice have been able to uilise mechanisms of resistance to achieve their goals in a time of political turbulence
Brexit · Business · Computer security · Disengagement theory · European union · International trade · Law and economics · Order (exchange · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Public relations · Realm · Sociology · Computer Science · Cybersecurity and Cyber Warfare Studies · European Criminal Justice and Data Protection · European Union Policy and Governance · Law · Public Administration
Ever Looser Union?
Communities of Practice
The Europeanization of Public Policy
Conceptualizing International Practices
From Habits to Social Structures
World Ordering
Theorising the EU in crisis
UK’s withdrawal from Justice and Home Affairs
Post-Brexit Europeanization
Discursive continuity and change in the time of Covid-19
Europeanization and De‐europeanization in Uk Employment Policy
Cybersecurity Trends in the European Union
When politics trumps strategy
UK environmental policy and Brexit
Differentiated de-Europeanisation
New Directions in EU Foreign Policy Governance
De-Europeanising or disengaging? EU environmental policy and Brexit
Situated Learning
| Unique citing works | 2 |
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| Citations per year | 2 |
| Citation span | 2025 - 2026 (2) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |