Taking Control: Sovereignty and Democracy After Brexit

by Philip Cunliffe, Lee Jones, George Hoare, et al.

Book Overview

Taking Control argues that neither side in the Brexit debate really understood the European Union or what was involved in reclaiming Britain's sovereignty. The EU is neither a supranational nanny state, nor an internationalist peace project. It is the means by which Europe's elites transformed their own states in order to rule the void where representative politics used to be. Leaving the EU is a necessary but not sufficient step towards...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1509553207
• ISBN13: 9781509553204
• Release Date: June 2023
• Publisher: Polity Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.5" x 8.6"