TY - JOUR
T1 - A stable equilibrium? Brexit, the border and the future of the UK–EU relationship
AU - Wager, Alan
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2022 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.
PY - 2022
Y1 - 2022
N2 - Inthis review, I reflect on first-hand accounts from both sides of the Brexit negotiations, as well as academic work on the past, present, and future of the Ireland/Northern Ireland border and the UK–EU relationship. What emerges is a key question: if the dispute around the future of the border can be resolved through additional forms of UK–EU integration and co-operation, then a new settlement short of membership can be imagined; if the Protocol collapses, then a series of further destabilisations are inevitable. Either way, the two deals agreed between the UK and the EU in 2019 and 2020 mark just the next stage in the Brexit process rather than a new equilibrium in UK–EU relations.
AB - Inthis review, I reflect on first-hand accounts from both sides of the Brexit negotiations, as well as academic work on the past, present, and future of the Ireland/Northern Ireland border and the UK–EU relationship. What emerges is a key question: if the dispute around the future of the border can be resolved through additional forms of UK–EU integration and co-operation, then a new settlement short of membership can be imagined; if the Protocol collapses, then a series of further destabilisations are inevitable. Either way, the two deals agreed between the UK and the EU in 2019 and 2020 mark just the next stage in the Brexit process rather than a new equilibrium in UK–EU relations.
KW - Brexit; Ireland/Northern Ireland Protocol; UK-EU relations; Theresa May; Michel Barnier
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85129142206&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1080/07036337.2022.2066268
DO - 10.1080/07036337.2022.2066268
M3 - Review article
AN - SCOPUS:85129142206
SN - 0703-6337
VL - 44
SP - 591
EP - 596
JO - Journal of European Integration
JF - Journal of European Integration
IS - 4
ER -