Examining Brexit: Britain, Europe and the World
The United Kingdom left the European union at the end of January 2020, as a result of the referendum result in favour of Brexit in June 2016. During the Transition Period until December 2020, the two parties negotiated a free trade agreement (FTA) and other institutional arrangements. With the conclusion of the Trade and Cooperation Agreement (TCA) between the EU and the UK, the process of Brexit finally came to be completed. Negotiating Brexit with the EU and building a consensus within the country, however, proved to be much more difficult than many Brexiteers had expected. The purpose of this course is to explore the problems that the process of Britain's leaving the EU has raised and put Brexit in a wider context of the EU and the World.