The European Union After Brexit

Session Submission Type: Roundtable

Session Description

Brexit raises critical questions about the politics and future of the European Union. How will the EU operate without one its key diplomatic and international military powers? What will happen to its priorities, internal balance of power, and legislation without the reliably liberal and Eurosceptic United Kingdom? What will be the effects of the Brexit negotiations themselves on the EU? In general, what happens when an "ever closer union" founded on a virtuous circle of economic, social and political integration is called into question?

This roundtable is focused on the EU broadly, not on the UK and its domestic politics. We examine the EU after Brexit, meaning both the effects of the Brexit process and what we can discern about the post-UK politics of the EU; we avoid scenarios and policy advice and instead focus on the larger patterns and trends that Brexit reveals or shapes; and we ground the work in comparative politics rather than bespoke theories of European integration. Contributions from the roundtable participants will examine questions in comparative political economy, the politics of citizenship, social policy, trade policy, and comparative foreign policy. Participants have all contributed to a forthcoming volume edited by Scott L. Greer and Janet Laible.

Roundtable participants will be:
Mark Vail (Tulane University), on economic citizenship and the perils of neo-liberalism; Michelle Egan (American University), on Brexit and the Single Market of the European Union; Scott Greer (University of Michigan), on the impact of Brexit on the political economy of 'social Europe'; Willem Maas (York University), on European citizenship and free movement after Brexit; Holly Jarman (University of Michigan), on EU trade policy after Brexit; and Federiga Bindi (University of Rome – Tor Vergata), on Brexit and EU foreign policy.

Sub Unit

• Theme Panel

Cosponsor

• DIVISION 11: Comparative Politics

Chair

• Janet M. Laible Lehigh University

Presenters

• Mark I. Vail Tulane University

• Michelle P. Egan

• Scott L. Greer University of Michigan

• Willem Maas York University

• Holly Jarman University of Michigan

• Federiga M. Bindi Center for Transatlantic Relation at SAIS Johns Hopkins