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Brexit: An Introduction

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This section examines the consequences of the United Kingdom (UK)’s decision to leave the EU. Though chapters acknowledge that most will depend on the outcome of the UK–EU negotiations as Brexit will be an unpredictable case of differentiated disintegration. This section offers contributions that aim at stimulating the debate on how Brexit might be understood and analyzed. Will Brexit cause breakdown, heading forward or merely continuous muddling through? The case of Brexit serves as a research laboratory in which we can test existing theories of European integration. Are they able to explain patterns of disintegration equally to integration, or do we need new theoretical and conceptual toolboxes in order to explain European integration in reverse gear.

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Authors and Affiliations

  1. Department of Political Science and Management, University of Agder, Kristiansand, Norway

    Jarle Trondal

  2. ARENA - Centre for European Studies, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway

    Jarle Trondal

  3. Inland School of Business and Social Sciences, Inland University, Rena and Lillehammer, Norway

    Marianne Riddervold & Akasemi Newsome

  4. Institute of European Studies, University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA

    Marianne Riddervold & Akasemi Newsome

  5. The Norwegian Institute of International Affairs (NUPI), Oslo, Norway

    Marianne Riddervold

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  1. Inland School of Business and Social Sciences, Inland University, Rena and Lillehammer, Norway

    Marianne Riddervold

  2. Inland School of Business and Social Sciences, Inland University, Rena and Lillehammer, Norway

    Jarle Trondal

  3. Department of Political Science and Management, University of Agder, Kristiansand, Norway

    Akasemi Newsome

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Trondal, J., Riddervold, M., Newsome, A. (2021). Brexit: An Introduction. In: Riddervold, M., Trondal, J., Newsome, A. (eds) The Palgrave Handbook of EU Crises. Palgrave Studies in European Union Politics. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-51791-5_28

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