Interpreting Brexit

Mark Bevir is Professor of Political Science in the Department of Political Science and Center for British Studies, University of California at Berkeley, USA.Matt Beech is Reader in Politics and Director of the Centre for British Politics, University of Hull, UK.

• 1. Brexit and the Myth of British National Identity (Richard T. Ashcroft & Mark Bevir).- 2. Political Community and the New Parochialism: Brexit and the Reimagination of British Liberalism and Conservatism (Mark I. Vail).- 3. Brexit and the Labour Party: Europe, Cosmopolitanism and the Narrowing of Traditions (Matt Beech).- 4. The Dilemma of Brexit: Hard Choices in the Narrow Context of British Foreign Policy Traditions (Jamie Gaskarth & Nicola Langdon).- 5. Ironic Inversions and Stable Purposes: Reimagining Political Traditions in Ireland After the EU Referendum 2016 (Cathy Gormley-Heenan & Arthur Aughey).- 6. The Deep Story of Leave Voters Affective Assemblages: Implications for Political Decentralisation in the UK (Joanie Willett).