Goodbye
Britannia?
Brexit
and Britain’s Approach to International Relations
with
Dr.
Tim Oliver, London School of Economics (LSE)/NYU
Britain’s vote to leave
the European Union came as a shock to many in Europe and internationally and
raised concerns that Britain is not only heading towards isolating itself from
the rest of Europe but is also taking a more populist, inward-looking and mercantilist
view towards international relations. Supporters of Brexit counter by arguing
that in joining the EU, the UK ‘shackled itself to a corpse’ and that leaving
will allow Britain and the EU to develop a more constructive relationship,
while also allowing the UK to return to a foreign policy that is more globally
orientated, as opposed to European-focused. As Brexit unfolds, the realities
for Britain’s approaches to European security, conflict, and development are
slowly becoming apparent. In this presentation, Dr. Tim Oliver, a noted writer
on Brexit and British foreign policy, will discuss why Brexit happened, where
relations between the UK and the EU might now be headed, what Brexit could mean
for European security, and whether concerns about Britain’s isolation and
decline are justified.
Dr. Tim Oliver is a Dahrendorf Fellow at the London School
of Economics’ IDEAS – the LSE’s foreign policy think tank – and a visiting scholar
at NYU. He holds degrees from the LSE and the University of Liverpool. His
research interests focus on transatlantic relations, European politics,
British-European relations, British government and politics, and the UK’s
foreign, security, and defence policies. He spent several years as a lecturer
at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst and has also taught at the LSE and UCL.
He has worked in the House of Lords, the European Parliament, the Stiftung
Wissenschaft und Politik (Berlin), the SAIS Center for Transatlantic Relations,
and the RAND Corporation (both in Washington D.C.). His work can be found at www.timothyoliver.com
Thursday,
October 6, 2016
4:00
pm – 6:00 pm
Voesar
Conference Room
1957
E St. NW, Suite 412
Please
RSVP at http://go.gwu.edu/oliverbrexit
Institute for European, Russian, and
Eurasian Studies • IERES
The
Elliott School of International Affairs, The George Washington University
1957 E
Street, NW • Suite 412 • Washington, DC 20052
Tel
(202) 994-6340 • Fax (202) 994-5436 • ieresgwu@gwu.edu • www.ieres.org
