Brexit: Where next for the UK?

On the eve of the UK's departure from the EU, Professor Whitman will untangle the intricacies of the Brexit process, look at the state of play in the UK's relationship with the EU and offer an assessment of the UK's future place in Europe.

The UK plans to leave the European Union on 29th March 2019, nearly three years after the referendum vote in June 2016. Negotiating Brexit has been a major preoccupation for the UK over the last two years. It has caused major political dislocation in the UK and divided the government, parliament, political parties and the public.

The UK has been a participant in the European integration process since 1973 and over the last 45 years its politics, economy, society and place in the world have been increasingly tied to Europe. Brexit is a major point of departure for the UK.

Professor Richard G. Whitman is Director of the Global Europe Centre and Professor of Politics and International Relations at the University of Kent. He is also an Associate Fellow and former Head of the Europe Programme at the Royal Institute of International Affairs (Chatham House).

His current research interests include Brexit and especially the future foreign and security and defence policies of the UK and the EU.

He is the author and editor of eleven books, published over sixty articles and book chapters, on European integration and UK foreign and security policy. He is a lead editor of the Journal of Common Market Studies (JCMS) – the longest established international academic journal covering the politics and economics of European integration. He was elected as an Academician of the UK Academy of Social Sciences in 2007 and is the 2017-2018 elected Chair of the British International Studies Association (BISA). He has also been appointed as an Academic Fellow of the European Policy Centre (EPC).

Professor Whitman is a regular international media commentator. Recent coverage has included BBC radio and television, Sky, ITV, CNN, Bloomberg, CNBC and he has been quoted by print publications including The Economist, The Financial Times, Newsweek, Reuters, the International Herald Tribune and the Wall Street Journal. He has regularly been called to give evidence to the UK Parliament on UK and EU foreign and security issues.

Share

execute-photography-reference.jpg

execute_photography

Icon / Small / Calendar Created with Sketch. 01 Mar 2024 - 04 May 2024
wanderings-about-history-the-photography-of-ulrich-wust-reference.jpg

Wanderings About History – The Photography of Ulrich Wüst

Icon / Small / Calendar Created with Sketch. 01 Mar 2024 - 20 Apr 2024
what-the-machines-saw-and-remembered-reference.jpg

To See is to Change

Icon / Small / Calendar Created with Sketch. 01 Mar 2024 - 27 Apr 2024
RMIT's Swanston Academic Building

Campus tour for high school students in Australia - City campus

Icon / Small / Calendar Created with Sketch. 08 Apr 2024
Icon / Small / Location Created with Sketch. Melbourne City
Bundoora campus, RMIT

Campus tour for high school students in Australia - Bundoora campus

Icon / Small / Calendar Created with Sketch. 09 Apr 2024
Icon / Small / Location Created with Sketch. Bundoora
Students walking in RMIT's Bowen Street

Campus tour for high school students in Australia - City campus

Icon / Small / Calendar Created with Sketch. 11 Apr 2024
Icon / Small / Location Created with Sketch. Melbourne City
aboriginal flag
torres strait flag

Acknowledgement of Country

RMIT University acknowledges the people of the Woi wurrung and Boon wurrung language groups of the eastern Kulin Nation on whose unceded lands we conduct the business of the University. RMIT University respectfully acknowledges their Ancestors and Elders, past and present. RMIT also acknowledges the Traditional Custodians and their Ancestors of the lands and waters across Australia where we conduct our business - Artwork 'Luwaytini' by Mark Cleaver, Palawa.

aboriginal flag
torres strait flag

Acknowledgement of Country

RMIT University acknowledges the people of the Woi wurrung and Boon wurrung language groups of the eastern Kulin Nation on whose unceded lands we conduct the business of the University. RMIT University respectfully acknowledges their Ancestors and Elders, past and present. RMIT also acknowledges the Traditional Custodians and their Ancestors of the lands and waters across Australia where we conduct our business.