Small States of the European Union and Brexit

Laura C. Ferreira-Pereira

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2024
• ISBN:
  9781040085769
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Politics & International Relations
• Subtopic: International Relations
• Index: Politics & International Relations

This book seeks to offer a better understanding of the strategic responses to Brexit from ten small European Union (EU) member states: Croatia, Czech Republic, Estonia, Finland, Ireland, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Portugal and Slovakia.

Inspired in an intersection of different streams of research, it examines the extent and the ways Brexit has impacted these countries, analysing their coping strategies to deal with the challenges raised by such a disruptive development, as well as considering the implications of their reactions to Brexit for patterns of national foreign policy Europeanization. In so doing, this volume enhances the comprehension of smaller EU member states' foreign and security policies, offering a systematic and comparative analysis of how political and diplomatic elites in ten countries positioned themselves domestically and within the EU vis-à-vis the Brexit process. A combination of conceptual insights, valuable empirical accounts and updated knowledge on contemporary issues from such interesting set of case studies provides room for debate on the comparability of the way(s) in which different small countries have approached their Brexit strategies. All these aspects are explored with respect to states that have been relatively neglected and underexplored in the small states literature.

This edited volume will be of great value to upper-level students, academics, and researchers interested in European politics, foreign policy and international relations. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of Journal of Contemporary European Studies.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• Notes on Contributors
• Citation Information
• Introduction: small EU member states and Brexit
• 1 Coping with an EU and domestic crisis: Ireland’s approach to Brexit
• 2 Portugal's strategic response to Brexit: enduring Europeanisation?
• 3 Finland's responses to Brexit: seeking shelter while hedging against changing risks
• 4 Brexit and Malta's coping strategies: diverging shelters
• 5 Coping, struggling, or just getting by? Brexit and its implications for Czech and Slovak security and defence policies
• 6 Brexit coping strategies of the Baltic states
• 7 A small state finding its way in the EU: Croatia and its approach to Brexit
• Epilogue—Responses to Brexit: insights from small EU member states and lessons for exits from other regional organizations
• Index