The UK in a Changing Europe

Books on Brexit: John Erik Fossum, Christopher Lord and Merethe Dotterud Leiren

‘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. In this eposide, we are joined by John Erik Fossum, Christopher Lord and Meretge Dotterund Leiren who are co-authors, with a number of other colleagues, of the book ‘Norway’s EU Experience and Lessons for the UK - On Autonomy and Wriggle Room, published by Routledge. This book examines Norway’s affiliation to the EU and assesses the potential suitability of this arrangement for the UK post-Brexit. It also looks at the relationship between Norway and the UK.The book’s framework is the broader European context. Through an in-depth assessment of the Norway case, the authors ask how much autonomy and room for manoeuvre non-member states have when dealing with the EU. In doing so, the book provides insights about the post-Brexit European political order. And the books analytical framework of autonomy under complex interdependence has relevance well beyond the confines of the Norway case, including the UK, not least since the EU–UK Trade and Cooperation Agreement (TCA) leaves considerable uncertainty.

Books on Brexit: Mary C. Murphy and Jonathan Evershed

‘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: 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. 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: 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. 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: Michel Barnier

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.