Brexit – the EU membership crisis that wasn’t
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6405509 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Waltraud Schelkle (0000-0003-4127-107X, European University Institute), Anna Kyriazi (0000-0001-8877-8658, University of Milan), Joseph Ganderson (0000-0002-5775-6349, London School of Economics and Political Science), Argyrios Altiparmakis (0000-0003-2403-7249, European University Institute) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 47 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 997-1020 |
| Publication date | 2024-07-28 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | West European Politics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0140-2382 • E-ISSN: 1743-9655 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/01402382.2024.2325780 |
| PMID | 38628814 |
| OpenAlex | W4393264138 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 9 |
| References cited | 63 |
This introduction to the special issue recalls the alarm raised in EU capitals and Brussels after the UK's in-out referendum delivered a Leave vote in June 2016. The fear was of a domino effect and the further fragmentation of an already divided EU. Seven years later, it is clear that there was rapid attrition of Eurosceptic triumphalism, and the EU-27 showed remarkable unity. This required a sustained collective effort to contain a membership crisis and maintain the EU polity. Yet, the issue contributors challenge the notion that the alarm was unfounded and explain why this counter-factual did not materialise, even though potential for future membership crises of different sorts was revealed. Theoretically, this supports an understanding of the EU as a polity that is fragile, yet able to assert porous borders, exercise authority over a diverse membership, and mobilise a modicum of loyalty when the entire integration regime is under threat
Brexit · Economics · European integration · European union · Intergovernmentalism · International trade · Law and economics · Loyalty · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Polity · Referendum · Sociology · European Union Policy and Governance · Global Financial Regulation and Crises · Law · Social Policy and Reform Studies
Membership crisis and the contested contemporary development of the European Union
What’s in a crisis? Taking contestation seriously in the study of Europe’s crisis politics
No Mass-Elite Gap on EU Matters in Britain in June 2016
Exiting after Brexit
Is crisis on the rise? An empirical study of the evolution of crisis in the European Union between 1980 and 2023
Political competition, personal ambition, and the fragility of EU membership
Framing the EU polity
Awakening the sleeping giant
From the Core to the Periphery of EU Foreign Policy
European Integration
Restructuring Europe
Politicising Europe
Euroscepticism and the Future of European Integration
European Party Politics in Times of Crisis
West European Politics in the Age of Globalization
Brexit and the Problem of European Disintegration
The Challenge from within
The Transnational Condition
Disintegration reversed
Europe’s united future after Brexit
Will the EU Disintegrate? What Does the Likely Possibility of Disintegration Tell About the Future of the World
Voices from the past
Never mind the Brexit? Britain, Europe, the world and Brexit
The European Union and the challenge of ‘independence in Europe’
An awkward partner
Exiting after Brexit
Crisis, what crisis? Conceptualizing crisis, UK pluri-constitutionalism and Brexit politics
Brexit as Britain in Decline and its Crises (Revisited)
This Time it's Different
Better Off Out? Britain and Europe
A Postfunctionalist Theory of European Integration
Leaving Europe, leaving Spain
A leader without followers
Introduction
Have we reached a tipping point? The mainstreaming of Euroscepticism in the UK
Putting Brexit into perspective
Cleavage theory meets Europe’s crises
Domestic contestation of the European Union
Introduction
The European Union's authoritarian equilibrium
Critical Europeans in an Age of Crisis
Fiscal Integration in an Experimental Union
Equivocal Euroscepticism
A Very European Way Out
European but not European enough
Globalization and the transformation of the national political space
Have your cake and eat it, too? Switzerland and the feasibility of differentiated integration after Brexit
Quiet unity
Shooting the fox? Ukip’s populism in the post-Brexit era
Losers’ consent and emotions in the aftermath of the Brexit referendum
Walking the road together? EU polity maintenance during the Covid-19 crisis
The Brexit puzzle
The short-lived hope for contagion
The Brexit vote
Getting around no
Politicization in the EU
The politics of guarding the Treaties
Brexit
Brexit
Cross‐National Solidarity and Political Sustainability in the EU after the Crisis
House United, House Divided
How the EU27 Came to Be
Agency in historical institutionalism
Why populism
| Unique citing works | 9 |
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| Citations per year | 4,5 |
| Citation span | 2024 - 2026 (3) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 9 |