TY - ADVS
T1 - In Varietate Concordia
T2 - How Path Dependency Affects the Brexit Negotiations
AU - Bijsmans, Patrick
AU - Kawakami, Mark
N1 - Patrick Bijsmans is an Assistant Professor in European Studies at Maastricht University. His research interests include Euroscepticism, media coverage of EU affairs and the European public sphere, as well as issues related to teaching and learning in European Studies.
Mark T. Kawakami is an Assistant Professor in Private Law at Maastricht University. His research interests include international commercial/business law, corporate social responsibility, neuroeconomics, and alternative dispute resolution.
PY - 2018/4/20
Y1 - 2018/4/20
N2 - While the EU proudly proclaims its motto to be “United in Diversity”, it is difficult to ignore the reality that various attempts at European harmonization have also engendered animosities and frustration between the EU Member States. Brexit is the most obvious manifestation of this tension. The divorce negotiations between Britain and the EU, which just have entered into their second year, are almost a self-fulfilling prophecy predicted back in the 1970s. While pointing to Brexit may seem too easy of an example to substantiate the statement above, there are some fundamental differences between the Brits and the Continental Europeans that not only have made their relationship increasingly difficult, but may make their divorce even more acrimonious.This post appears simultaneously on E-International Relations’ ‘Brexit: A European Perspective’ and Law Blogs Maastricht.
AB - While the EU proudly proclaims its motto to be “United in Diversity”, it is difficult to ignore the reality that various attempts at European harmonization have also engendered animosities and frustration between the EU Member States. Brexit is the most obvious manifestation of this tension. The divorce negotiations between Britain and the EU, which just have entered into their second year, are almost a self-fulfilling prophecy predicted back in the 1970s. While pointing to Brexit may seem too easy of an example to substantiate the statement above, there are some fundamental differences between the Brits and the Continental Europeans that not only have made their relationship increasingly difficult, but may make their divorce even more acrimonious.This post appears simultaneously on E-International Relations’ ‘Brexit: A European Perspective’ and Law Blogs Maastricht.
KW - Brexit
KW - European Union
KW - Law
KW - Politics
UR - https://www.maastrichtuniversity.nl/blog/2018/04/varietate-concordia-how-path-dependency-affects-ongoing-brexit-negotiations
M3 - Web publication/site
PB - E-International Relations Publishing
ER -