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De Ville, Ferdi and Siles-Brügge, Gabriel (2019) The impact of Brexit on EU trade policy. Politics and Governance, 7 (3). pp. 7-18. doi:10.17645/pag.v7i3.2102 ISSN 2183-2463.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.17645/pag.v7i3.2102
Abstract
There has been increased interest in trade policy following the UK’s EU membership referendum. However, relatively little scholarly analysis has been produced on how Brexit will affect EU trade policy. Instead, the received wisdom has been that Brexit will shift the EU’s trade policy position in a less liberal direction. This is based on a ‘static’ analysis where the UK variable is simply removed from the figurative ‘function’ determining EU trade policy. We argue that this neglects the potential role of more ‘dynamic’ effects. First, the negotiations to determine the nature of the EU–UK future economic partnership are likely to involve a lengthy process with a still uncertain, and possibly evolving, destination. The outcome and process of arriving there will influence how economic operators and policymakers adapt their preferences and behaviour, including through possible relocation and the formation of new alliances. This will shape EU trade policy in potentially counterintuitive ways. Second, the absence of clear material structures from which actors can ‘read’ their interests highlights the importance of considering the role of ideas and political framing. How the vote for and consequences of Brexit are interpreted will likely shape what is considered an appropriate policy response. Examining EU trade policy since the Brexit vote, the article finds that rather than push the EU in a more illiberal direction, the referendum result has been used to reinforce the European Commission’s external liberalisation agenda. The Commission’s discursive response to Brexit and Donald Trump has been to portray the EU as a champion of free trade in an era of global populism.
Item Type: | Journal Article | |||||||||
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Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HC Economic History and Conditions | |||||||||
Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Politics and International Studies | |||||||||
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | European Union -- Great Britain, European Union -- Great Britain -- Commerce, European Union -- Great Britain -- Economic aspects, European Union countries -- Commercial treaties, Foreign trade regulation -- European Union countries | |||||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Politics and Governance | |||||||||
Publisher: | Cogitatio Press | |||||||||
ISSN: | 2183-2463 | |||||||||
Official Date: | 16 September 2019 | |||||||||
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Volume: | 7 | |||||||||
Number: | 3 | |||||||||
Page Range: | pp. 7-18 | |||||||||
DOI: | 10.17645/pag.v7i3.2102 | |||||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | |||||||||
Publication Status: | Published | |||||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Open Access (Creative Commons) | |||||||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 17 July 2019 | |||||||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 17 July 2019 | |||||||||
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