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Brexit : the EU membership crisis that wasn't?
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0140-2382; 1743-9655
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West European politics, 2024, Vol. 47, No. 5, pp. 997-1020
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SCHELKLE, Waltraud, KYRIAZI, Anna, GANDERSON, Joseph, ALTIPARMAKIS, Argyrios, Brexit : the EU membership crisis that wasn’t?, West European politics, 2024, Vol. 47, No. 5, pp. 997-1020 - https://hdl.handle.net/1814/77500
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This introduction to the special issue recalls the alarm raised in EU capitals and Brussels after the UK’s in-out referendum delivered a Leave vote in June 2016. The fear was of a domino effect and the further fragmentation of an already divided EU. Seven years later, it is clear that there was rapid attrition of Eurosceptic triumphalism, and the EU-27 showed remarkable unity. This required a sustained collective effort to contain a membership crisis and maintain the EU polity. Yet, the issue contributors challenge the notion that the alarm was unfounded and explain why this counter-factual did not materialise, even though potential for future membership crises of different sorts was revealed. Theoretically, this supports an understanding of the EU as a polity that is fragile, yet able to assert porous borders, exercise authority over a diverse membership, and mobilise a modicum of loyalty when the entire integration regime is under threat.
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Published online: 28 March 2024
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This research was supported by the project SOLID: 'Policy Crisis and Crisis Poli-tics, Sovereignty, Solidarity and Identity in the EU Post-2008' financed by the European Research Council under the grant agreement 810356 (ERC-2018-SYG)