Abstract
Whether sovereignty is a ‘real’ or an ‘imagined’ concept, it is fair to say that it captured the public imagination in a very real way during the 2016 referendum on European Union (EU) membership. A commonly cited reason for leaving the EU was ‘the principle that decisions about the UK should be made in the UK’. It is unpacking the potency of sovereignty–as a longstanding form of ‘democratic nostalgia’ within UK politics in opposition to a ‘failure of democratic internationalism’, and as a proxy for the rational desire for political control in a changing world–on which the present authors feel they can add some reflections to Professor John Agnew’s valedictory lecture.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 279-284 |
Number of pages | 6 |
Journal | Territory, Politics, Governance |
Volume | 8 |
Issue number | 2 |
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Publication status | Published - 14 Mar 2020 |
Keywords
- Brexit
- British politics
- Euroscepticism
- sovereignty