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Introduction The 2019 General Election in the United Kingdom produced a remarkable result for the Conservative Party. It won 365 out of 650 seats and around 44% of votes, which represented its high...

Introduction A decade ago, Brexit emerged as the most salient, divisive, and transformative issue in British politics. Having gathered strength since the early 1990s both within the Conservative pa...

Emerging scholarship on the EU and Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine on 24 February 2022 has predominantly focused on explaining the unprecedented strength of the EU’s response, especially it...

Turkey’s relations with the European Union depend on extensive legal instruments, drivers of interdependence and voluntary compliance to the EU rules. With an Association Agreement dating back to 1...

Despite the stalling of enlargement countries’ accession to the EU, these countries have been recurrently involved in EU policies. There is, however, little knowledge about their participation in E...

The article examines the relationship between the UK and the EU after Russia’s aggression of Ukraine, discussing options to deepen cooperation post-Brexit. The article outlines the current framewor...

For three decades Switzerland has been pursuing an approach of sectoral bilateralism, resulting in an intricate pattern of external differentiated integration with the European Union (EU). This art...

Perceptions of the ‘wriggle room’ within the framework of European integration might have significant implications for both public opinion and policy choices, as exemplified by the Brexit process. ...

The EU’s trade agreements with third countries exhibit varying degrees of alignment with intra-EU rules. What factors explain this external differentiation? This article answers this question by re...

This article contributes to the emergent scholarship on European Union (EU) external differentiated integration (EDI). Zooming in on aviation and trade, two of the most salient sectors of cooperati...

The article investigates standards of democracy and accountability in external differentiated integration. It focuses on the area of freedom security and justice as a highly differentiated EU polic...

The external relations of the European Union (EU) are complex. Existing research has handled this complexity by approaching the EU’s external relations from a variety of distinct perspectives. The ...

External Differentiation: A New Trajectory after Brexit and Ukraine? Guest Editors: Paolo Chiocchetti, Stefan Telle and Brigid Laffan. Volume 48, Issue 5 of West European Politics

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The external relations of the European Union (EU) are complex. Existing research has handled this complexity by approaching the EU’s external relations from a variety of distinct perspectives. The ...

On the one hand, Brexit has repatriated key competences from the EU to the UK, broadening the scope for political decisions which respond to national democratic preferences. On the other hand, it has ...