Brexit : A Realist 's Eyes

The European Union is a group of European countries who combined together as allies after WWII for trade and peace reasons. It was established so countries in Europe would not create conflicts with each other to prevent the disaster of the two World Wars. They also signed trade deals to secure the countries in the EU would be financially stable and not go into depression and poverty like most countries did in WWII. Each country in the EU has to provide the EU with money to operate. In return, not only will they see trade with European countries, but the EU budgets will help redevelopment and regeneration of poor areas, seen in

The European Union (EU) is a unique economic and political partnership between 28 different countries. It consists of about half a billion citizens, and its combined economy represents about 20 percent of the world’s total economy (Briney, 2015). Today The European Union works as a single market, with free movement of people, goods and services from one country to another. There is a standard system of laws to be followed, and since 1999 many countries share a single currency called the Euro (Europa.eu, 2015). This essay will explore the background history of the European Union and the benefits and drawbacks of the European Union.

The European Union (EU) is economic and political union which is located in Europe in Brussels. It consists of 785 members representing the 492 million citizens of the 27 Member States of The European Union. Countries which join EU are Austria, Bulgaria, Belgium, Czech Republic, Greece, Hungary, Portugal, Cyprus, Estonia, Luxembourg, Denmark, Finland, Slovakia, France, Italy, United Kingdom, Germany, Ireland, Lithuania, Latvia, Malta, Netherlands, Poland, Spain, Romania, Slovenia and Sweden. EU is elected every 5 years throughout all the Members States.

The European Union consists of 28 member states and has a population of 503 million inhabitants, and a total surface area of over 4 million square miles. The EU has its own currency, the Euro, and the largest single market in the world. It is a global community and power and has a huge influence on our world today in many aspects, and has been slowly built up to what it is today through humanistic ideology , common interests, new structures, treaties, economic policy and the attempt of equality throughout.

In the past few months, the Brexit referendum attracted the attention from the whole world. The globalisation has made the world today far more connected than ever so that every country could be affected by this big event. The globalisation has had profound and lasting influences to UK economy. This essay will firstly focus on the pros and cons of globalisation, then discuss the UK sectors which benefited and suffered from globalisation respectively, finally analysis the overall effect of globalisation on the UK economy.

What is Brexit? Brexit is the shorten way of referring to two words which are “British” and “Exit”. The situation that British exited from European Union. So, what is European Union? According to (Hunt,A. & Wheeler,B. 2016) The European Union - often known as the EU - is an economic and political partnership involving 28 European countries. The EU has a single market which is the agreement between the countries’ member in EU to allow goods, service, money or even people to move freely within the EU. The Single market was to create job employment, increase the trade and lower the prices. Even though, the European Union has many advantages but why British wanted to leave the Union? Because there are some disadvantages that had made British

The European Union is such a large politico-economic union that it plays a major role in the whole world’s economy. Although “the process of European Integration progressed over time both in depth and in extent” (Campos, et al., 2014, p. 6), it has been working on integration for over 30 years and the results are good at present as it is now providing benefits in GDP, labour markets, trading and many other aspects for its 28 member countries, including the United Kingdom.

The EU Referendum was held on 23 June 2016 and a majority of the electorate – by 52% to 48%, voted to leave the European Union, transforming the remote idea of Brexit into a very real event for which the timer was set. Indeed, for many, Brexit was an idea that the government had been

The Brexit referendum on June 23, 2016 was an unprecedented global development. It is the decision of the UK to leave the European Union. It is expected to have considerable socio economic and political ramifications in the years ahead. It assumes greater significance in context of the changing global order, which is moving towards greater multilateralism and where countries are striving to lower their boundaries.

Officially known as The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, the UK (or simply Britain) is home to over sixty-five million diverse people. The UK has been a member of the European Union for 43 years and has seen its economy do quite well during this time. During the summer of 2016, UK citizens made a decision to leave the EU. This decision shook the entire global economy, raised many uncertainties and now leaves a number of unanswered questions surrounding the global economic landscape.

January 1st ,1973 is the day the UK became a member of the European Economic Community (EEC), (BBC.com, 1973). Which then at November 1st, 1993 became a pillar of the European Union (EU) as it is known today. The EU intends to achieve economic coordination and benefits among its members by changing regulations and laws concerning employment, EU budget, immigration, education, and culture. And Introducing agreements like free trade. Brexit is the Act of the UK leaving the EU. A referendum, which is a popular vote that aims to resolve a political issue, was made on 26th of June 2016. The UK has voted to leave the EU by 51.9% to 48.1%. This decision can have immense impact on both the UK and EU since many laws and regulations

Literature review: In September 2017 Thomas Sampson from The London School of Economics and Political Science wrote a Literature on Brexit. The title of the literature was Brexit: The Economics of International Disintegration. In this literature review I will briefly summarise the literature wrote by Thomas Sampson.

The European Union is the economic and political union, which consists of 28 democratic European countries: Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, and United Kingdom. It is based on the principles of freedom, democracy, respect of the rights and general freedom of people, as well as on the principles of the constitutional state, which are shared within the country-members. This union is considered the most developed intergovernmental organization regarding to its power, effectiveness, and capacity to influence. Although, all those members

We have set one of our research objetives as “define the different possible international trade agreements outcomes of the Brexit process”. We feel one of the first steps we will need to take is establishing the possible scenarios that will result from the Brexit, that is, what is the position the UK will be in regarding trade agreements. This is important, since depending on what conditions the UK manages to negotiate, the import and export activity will be affected in different ways (an unfavourable outcome would be, for example, the establishment of tariffs, which would adversely affect the trade flows).

The study of international relations takes a wide range of theoretical approaches. Some emerge from the discipline itself; others have been imported, in whole part from disciplines such as economics or sociology. Many theories of international relations are internally and externally contested, and few scholars believe only in one or another. A theory of international relations is a set of ideas that explains how the international system works (SparkNote on International Politics, 2010). Unlike an ideology, a theory of international studies is backed up with concrete evidence. This essay will focus on two major theories of international relations (IR), namely realism and liberalism to determine which one is more useful in the study