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Can Parliament be scared into submission over the Brexit deal?
No full textAs agreement is reached with the EU, Theresa May’s Brexit deal will come before Parliament. In this blog, Benjamin Martill (LSE) breaks down the parliamentary arithmetic and assesses her options
Puffer fish and bargaining chips: why hard bargaining harms British interests
No full textWhen it comes to Brexit, there's no doubt that UK negotiators have adopted a hard bargaining strategy. Benjamin Martill asks whether this is the best strategy for advancing British interests
G7 summit: America is back, but Britain cannot escape Brexit
No full textThrough its withdrawal from the EU, the UK diminished its overall usefulness to other actors. Little wonder, then, that efforts to demonstrate the utility of Global Britain at the G7 summit were overshadowed by the complexities of withdrawal, writes Benjamin Martill
The end of foreign policy consensus? How Remainers and Leavers view Britain's place in the world
Full text linkDrawing on data from the LSE's collection of materials from the 2016 referendum campaign, Benjamin Martill finds that the Remain and Leave camps articulated distinct views when it came to foreign affairs. The findings also suggest that the goals of British foreign policy itself are likely to be increasingly subject of political division after Brexit
What makes Britain 'Great'? The end of the postwar consensus of liberal internationalism
Full text linkThe Leave and Remain campaigns defined British 'greatness' in very different ways. The referendum reflects more than attitudes toward EU membership - it marks a new understanding of Britain's role in the world, argues Benjamin Martill (LSE). The end of the postwar consensus of liberal internationalism has important implications and needs to be taken seriously. The 'Great' in Great Britain is a geographical ..
Hard bargaining dies hard: the cultural factors behind Britain’s ill-suited Brexit negotiation strategy
No full textWhile the UK is weaker than the EU on key metrics of bargaining power, the British approach to the Brexit negotiations has been characterised by hard bargaining. Benjamin Martill writes that a number of cultural factors have influenced the UK’s decision to adopt such a sub‐optimal strategy, including the country’s weak socialisation into the EU, overstated perceptions of its own capabilities, the prevailing conservative political ideology, and a longstanding preference for ‘divide and rule’ diplomatic strategies
Microanalysis as ideology critique
Full text linkMicroanalysis – understood as the ‘zooming in’ on the details of everday social practices and situations – is an increasingly popular tool of academic study in the discipline of International Relations (IR) and beyond. However, the critical potential of so-called micro-moves is today largely ignored. This chapter seeks to revive this potential. It elaborates four different strategies for using microanalysis as a tool for criticizing theory as ideology
Europe in a multipolar world
No full textPower is diffusing from West to East and non-democratic powers are among those rising fastest. These changes have been in the offing for decades, but their effects are now increasingly manifest. Where does Europe stand within this emerging multipolar order? Is there a European ‘pole’ in the international system, and — if so — what is its contribution to the emerging order? These are important questions at the forefront of policymakers’ minds. Benjamin Martill and Lisa ten Brinke examine in more detail the position of Europe — and the EU — in a multipolar world
Book review: Brexit and beyond: rethinking the futures of Europe edited by Benjamin Martill and Uta Staiger
No full textIn Brexit and Beyond: Rethinking the Futures of Europe, editors Benjamin Martill and Uta Staiger bring together contributors to consider the possible implications of Brexit for the futures of Europe and the European Union. Available to download, the book’s interdisciplinary approach makes clear the difficulties of predicting the potential outcomes of an unfolding process while nonetheless outlining a number of different scenarios and possibilities in detail, writes Anna Nadibaidze
Book review: Brexit and beyond: rethinking the futures of Europe edited by Benjamin Martill and Uta Staiger
Full text linkIn Brexit and Beyond: Rethinking the Futures of Europe, editors Benjamin Martill and Uta Staiger bring together contributors to consider the possible implications of Brexit for the futures of Europe and the European Union. Available to download here, the book’s interdisciplinary approach makes clear the difficulties of predicting the potential outcomes of an unfolding process while nonetheless outlining a number of different scenarios and possibilities in detail, writes Anna Nadibaidze
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