The EU’s Influence on the Peace Process and Agreement in Northern Ireland in Light of Brexit

Bibliographic Data

ID8069370
AuthorsKen Hayward (0000-0001-7229-2653, Queen's University Belfast, corresponding author), Mary C Murphy (0000-0001-6511-498X, University College Cork)
Year2018
Volume17
Issue3
Pages276-291
Publication date2018-05-27
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueEthnopolitics (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1744-9057 • E-ISSN: 1744-9065
PublisherTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/17449057.2018.1472426
OpenAlexW2805113856
LanguageEN
Citations received27
References cited16

The UK’s withdrawal from the European Union (EU) has enormous implications for Northern Ireland. All sides to the Brexit negotiations quickly agreed that it was vitally important to protect the peace process and to uphold the 1998 Good Friday (Belfast) Agreement. However, the question of how this was to be done soon became a point over which there were very apparent differences between the two sides; such differences are manifest within Northern Ireland in differing political views regarding European integration and national sovereignty. This paper explores the effects of EU membership on the peace process and the Agreement in light of the Brexit process. It provides an overview of the difficulties and frictions in finding a common approach from Northern Ireland to the EU and explains how this is manifest in the response to the Brexit referendum of June 2016. It concludes by considering some of the ways in which the Agreement itself offers means of navigating some of the more thorny issues arising as a result of the UK's withdrawal from the EU

Agreement · Brexit · Economics · Ethnology · European union · International trade · Negotiation · Northern ireland · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Referendum · Sociology · Sovereignty · European Union Policy and Governance · Irish and British Studies · Law · Political Systems and Governance

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