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Semester: Wintersemester 2017

3.02.220 Brexit, the island nations, and the shape of things to come -  


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Studienbereiche

  • Studium generale / Gasthörstudium

SWS
2

Lehrsprache
englisch

Anzahl der freigegebenen Plätze für Gasthörende
2

Für Gasthörende / Studium generale geöffnet:
Ja

Hinweise zum Inhalt der Veranstaltung für Gasthörende
The Brexit referendum of June 23, 2016 and the helter skelter general election of June 8, 2017, have revealed far-reaching social, regional and cultural divisions in British society. Two examples: In Cambridge, seat of a university known throughout the world and center of a major hightec R&D area, 73.8 per cent voted to remain in the EU. In Sunderland in the Northeast, where the car manufacturer Nissan, by far the largest employer in the region, has made the future of its plant dependent on what Brexit deal the May administration will be able to cinch from Brussels, there was a 61.3 majority for ‘leave’. In a Deutschlandfunk feature on Aug 16, 2016, people interviewed in Sunderland stated they’d rather ‘go it alone’ and not have those foreigners from Eastern Europe get jobs while more than a million Brits are unemployed. They blamed this on Brussels! But it was the British PM Tony Blair who pushed hard for the EU’s eastern enlargement in 2004 and who opened the British labour market for workers from the new member states straightaway, although Britain could have done that gradually over seven years as other EU member states did. Many interviewees - feeling economically and socially left behind - claimed they simply wanted to make themselves heard in faraway Westminster where politicians seem to think anything north of Manchester is in Scotland and not to care that jobs in the region are far and few between and wages have stagnated for at least a decade. The same mixture of political frustration and xenophobic insecurity plus misconceptions about the implications of the United Kindom’s EU membership has backfired on PM Theresa May when she held a ‚snap‘ election only a few weeks ago. Rather than gaining a larger majority in Parliament, which might have muzzled the pretty vocal eurosceptic faction of her Tory party she lost her absolute majority of seats and now has to rely on the hardcore nationalist Northern Irish DUP for a tenuous hold on power. Meanwhile the clock keeps ticking, after PM May has triggered Brexit by formally giving notice to the president of the EU council Donald Tusk at the end of March 2017. Whatever ‚hard‘ or ‚soft‘ Brexit deal she might be able to negotiate, the Brexit drama is far from over, in fact, it may not even have reached its climax yet. From the perspective of Britain’s forever ambivalent relationship with the continent this class will try to understand the political, economic and social meanderings of Britain’s belated entry into the EC and her precipitous exit from the EU. Watch this space for more news (preliminary schedule, reading material & assignments etc) by mid-August!

Hinweise zur Teilnahme für Gasthörende
classroom language is English!

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