Brexit as the outcome of the ambivalent British policy towards European integration
2020
Based on the analysis of the political processes and challenges during the
United Kingdom’s EU membership, the author aims to depict the continued
British resistance towards EU integration deepening. The author analyzes the
hesitance towards the deepening of British-European relations through
various examples, such as the two referendums on continued EU membership,
various opt-outs, and the European agendas of various British governments.
The paper also shows that despite skepticism towards integration deepening,
the UK was constantly inclined towards EU enlargement, in part as a
reflection of the security-defense logic of its transatlantic priorities.
The author intends to demonstrate that British politicians have been using
numerous political, economical or social challenges during the past decade
in order to secure growingly Eurosceptic votes. However, such narratives
have resulted not only in greater support for Brexit but have also
contributed to the political, identity, regional and other polarization. The
above-mentioned facts lead to a twofold conclusion: by withdrawing from the
EU, the country not only loses its special status, which used to constitute
an important part of the British international role and identity, but also
devolves mutual relations and fills them with distrust. Likewise, the author
explains that the designing of sustainable and deepened transatlantic
relations in the short-term is not particularly realistic, due to
isolationist and unilateral tendencies of the current American
administration. As part of the scientific explanation, the author uses the
concepts of realist theories and intergovernmental approach. For the purpose
of an additional illustration of the UK’s resistance towards integration
deepening, the author employs the idea of British exceptionalism as a
constant political phenomenon.
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