Survival of the European (Dis) Union Responses to Populism, Nativism
The European Union (EU) has reached crisis point. Populist and Nativist forces are militating against years of austerity economics, distant elites, and a rising tide of migration. Despite the EU's shortcomings, this book seeks to determine the future of t
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Survival of the European (Dis) Union
John Theodore
Survival of the European (Dis) Union Responses to Populism, Nativism and Globalization
John Theodore Manchester, UK
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Foreword
The European Union has transfixed and divided the right of British politics for a generation—a virus that has now infected the whole nation with the narrow Leave victory in the 2016 referendum. The EU is the talismanic bogeyman that has propelled the rise of Nigel Farage, his UKIP and now his Brexit party and in response forced a broad church Conservative party to transmute into a narrow right-wing English nationalist sect. It has exposed the unwritten British constitution as too weak a vessel to manage and contain the intense tensions aroused by trying to fashion an exit from the EU that is not self-defeatingly painful. Beyond all of that, there is the prospect of leaving the EU without any form of deal—becoming a third country sundering the multiple relationships built up over 42 years and triggering a major recession. How did it ever come to this? The EU has been portrayed by the British right as something it is not—a triumph of crooked ideology in search of enemies to justify itself over reality. As this book explains, it is not an aspirant superstate robbing its members of political autonomy, locking them in a Brussels devised straightjacket. It is not the locus of a suffocating regul
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