This book dissects the complex social, cultural and political factors which led the UK to take its decision to leave the EU and examines the far-reaching consequences of that decision.
Developing the conceptual framework of securitization, Ryder innovatively uses primary sources and a focus on rhetoric to examine the ways that political elites engineered a politics of fear, insecurity and Brexit nationalism before and after the Brexit vote. He situates Brexit within a wider shift in international political ideas, traces the resurgence in popularity of far-right politics and explores how Britain and Europe now face a choice between further neoliberal reform or radical democratic and social renewal.
Table of Content
Introduction: Paradigm shift, reflexivity and securitisation
Brexit Nationalism: History, Crisis and Identity
The Road to Brexit
Politics in Focus: The Conservatives
Politics in Focus: Labour
The Nationalists: Exclusionary and Civic
Brexit: Views from Europe
Boris Johnson: Getting Brexit done?
Antidotes to Brexit
About the author
Andrew Ryder FRSA is Director of the Institute for Political and International Studies at Eötvös Loránd University, Hungary.
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