Books on Brexit

‘Books on Brexit’ is a podcast for anyone interested in the UK and the EU. Our guest authors represent a range of views on how we got here, and future prospects for the UK and UK-EU relations. They include: Michel Barnier, Philip Cunliffe, Stefaan De Rynck, Peter Foster, Brigid Laffan, Mary C. Murphy and Jonathan Evershed, and Robert Tombs.

Peter Foster, Public Policy Editor of the Financial Times, is author of 'What went wrong with Brexit', published by Canongate Books. 

Offering a clear-eyed discussion of the practical effects of Brexit on UK businesses, this book outlines the steps – political, economic, and diplomatic –the UK could follow if it is to address the problems he has identified.

Books On Brexit: Peter Foster

‘Books on Brexit’ is a podcast for anyone interested in the UK and the EU. Our guest authors represent a range of views on how we got here, and future prospects for the UK and UK-EU relations. They include: Michel Barnier, Philip Cunliffe, Stefaan de Rynck, Peter Foster, Brigid Laffan, Mary C. Murphy and Jonathan Evershed, and Robert Tombs.

Stefaan de Rynck, Head of the EU Representation in Belgium, and former senior advisor to Michel Barnier, is author of 'Inside the Deal: How the EU got Brexit done', published by Columbia University Press.

Noting the distance between perceptions of the negotiations in the UK and the EU, this book gives an unvarnished account of the EU approach in the face of a constantly changing cast of actors on the UK side.

Books On Brexit: Stefaan de Rynck

‘Books on Brexit’ is a podcast for anyone interested in the UK and the EU. Our guest authors represent a range of views on how we got here, and future prospects for the UK and UK-EU relations. They include: Michel Barnier, Philip Cunliffe, Stefaan de Rynck, Peter Foster, Brigid Laffan, Mary C. Murphy and Jonathan Evershed, and Robert Tombs.

Philip Cunliffe, Associate Professor, the Institute of Risk and Disaster Reduction, University College London, is co-author with George Hoare, Lee Jones, and Peter Ramsay of 'Taking Control: Sovereignty and Democracy After Brexit', published by Polity.
"Leaving the EU was a necessary but insufficient step for building democratic sovereignty", this book argues, then sets out its proposals for building a democratic nation.

Books On Brexit: Philip Cunliffe

‘Books on Brexit’ is a podcast for anyone interested in the UK and the EU. Our guest authors represent a range of views on how we got here, and future prospects for the UK and UK-EU relations. They include: Michel Barnier, Philip Cunliffe, Stefaan De Rynck, Peter Foster, Brigid Laffan, Mary C. Murphy and Jonathan Evershed, and Robert Tombs.

Michel Barnier, French politician, former European Commissioner, and EU chief negotiator, is author of 'My Secret Brexit Diary: A Glorious Illusion', translated by Robin Mackay, and published by Polity. From Brussels to London, from Dublin to Nicosia, Michel Barnier’s secret diary gives an insider’s account of the hidden world of Brexit and those who made it happen.

This episode was recorded in early July 2023.

Books on Brexit: Michel Barnier

‘Books on Brexit’ is a podcast for anyone interested in the UK and the EU. Our guest authors represent a range of views on how we got here, and future prospects for the UK and UK-EU relations. They include: Michel Barnier, Philip Cunliffe, Stefaan De Rynck, Peter Foster, Brigid Laffan, Mary C. Murphy and Jonathan Evershed, and Robert Tombs.

Brigid Laffan, Emeritus Professor and former Director of the Robert Schuman Centre, European University Institute, is co-author with Stefan Telle of 'The EU’s Response to Brexit: United and Effective', published by Palgrave Macmillan. The first detailed analysis of the EU’s response to the UK referendum result, this book recounts how the EU was able to create and preserve its unity, and protect the polity.

Books on Brexit: Brigid Laffan

‘Books on Brexit’ is a podcast for anyone interested in the UK and the EU. Our guest authors represent a range of views on how we got here, and future prospects for the UK and UK-EU relations. They include: Michel Barnier, Philip Cunliffe, Stefaan De Rynck, Peter Foster, Brigid Laffan, Mary C. Murphy and Jonathan Evershed, and Robert Tombs.

Robert Tombs, Emeritus Professor of French History and Fellow of St John’s College, Cambridge, is author of 'This Sovereign Isle: Britain In and Out of Europe', published by Allen Lane. In this succinct book, Robert Tombs shows that the decision to leave the EU is historically explicable by Britain's very different historical experience, especially in the twentieth century, and because of our more extensive and deeper ties outside Europe. He challenges the orthodox view that Brexit was due solely to British or English exceptionalism: in choosing to leave the EU, the British, he argues, were in many ways voting as typical Europeans.

Books on Brexit: Robert Tombs

‘Books on Brexit’ is a podcast for anyone interested in the UK and the EU. Our guest authors represent a range of views on how we got here, and future prospects for the UK and UK-EU relations. They include: Michel Barnier, Philip Cunliffe, Stefaan De Rynck, Peter Foster, Brigid Laffan, Mary C. Murphy and Jonathan Evershed, and Robert Tombs.

Mary C. Murphy, Jean Monnet Chair in European Integration, University College Cork and Jonathan Evershed, Newman Fellow, University College Dublin, are authors of 'A Troubled Constitutional Future: Northern Ireland after Brexit, published by Agenda Publishing. Mary and Jonathan examine the factors, actors and dynamics that are most likely to be influential, and potentially transformative, in determining Northern Ireland's constitutional future. This book offers an assessment of how Brexit and its fallout may lead to constitutional upheaval, and a cautionary warning about the need to prepare for it.

Books on Brexit: Mary C. Murphy and Jonathan Evershed

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