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‘We thought we were friends!’: Franco-British bilateral diplomacy and the shock of Brexit
journal contribution
posted on 2022-01-12, 14:41 authored by Helen DrakeHelen Drake, Pauline SchnapperThe British vote to leave the European Union in 2016 shook the Franco-British bilateral relationship (FBBR) to its core and led to unexpected tensions, considering the depth of cooperation between the two countries in many fields, and their geography. In this article we analyse the impact of Brexit on the FBBR to date, including the likely aftershocks. We focus on the 2017-2020 Brexit negotiations themselves, and on the matters that escaped those negotiations but which are core to the FBBR namely: security and defence; borders and migration. We draw on a number of high-level interviews with French and British officials and on literatures of contemporary diplomacy to ask how the new environment for the FBBR challenges traditional ways of conducting bilateral diplomacy outside of the multilateral framework provided by the European Union.
History
School
- Loughborough University London
Published in
Journal of Contemporary European ResearchVolume
17Issue
4Pages
482 - 499Publisher
University Association for Contemporary European Studies (UACES)Version
- VoR (Version of Record)
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© The AuthorsPublisher statement
This is an Open Access Article. It is published by University Association for Contemporary European Studies (UACES) under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Licence (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0). Full details of this licence are available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/Acceptance date
2021-12-07Publication date
2021-12-17Copyright date
2021ISSN
1815-347XPublisher version
Language
- en