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dc.contributor.authorholden, patrick
dc.date.accessioned2019-10-09T13:50:28Z
dc.date.available2019-10-09T13:50:28Z
dc.date.issued2019-09-12
dc.identifier.issn0962-6298
dc.identifier.issn1873-5096
dc.identifier.other102063
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10026.1/14978
dc.description.abstract

The decision of the UK to withdraw from the EU's political and legal structures can be understood as a form of regional dis-integration. This had the potential to revive territorial power politics and geo-economic rivalry within Europe. In particular, it implied a major change to the status quo on the island of Ireland, where the existing border had been rendered invisible, partly due to European integration. This paper analyses how the Irish government framed this as a threat and how it was able to set the agenda in the crucial phase 1 of the negotiations. It applies a content analysis and a qualitative framing analysis to study how the government framed issues of territory and power in its language on Brexit. It considers in particular how it enacts different discourses of liberal internationalism, nationalism and Europeanism with reference to the multi-scalar power dynamics of Brexit. The Irish reaction was not to echo the nationalism and populism reverberating throughout Europe. Rather it asserted its place as an EU member and aligned itself with EU discourse and interests to protect the all-Island socio-economic space. Its eventual proposal to keep Northern Ireland aligned with the EU customs union and single market was politically controversial. It stressed that this was not a national territorial claim but if anything a transnational territorial claim (‘claiming’ Northern Ireland as a part of the integrated pan-European space). However as the negotiations developed the dispute took on some of the forms of a classic territorial dispute. Within a year Irish-UK relations had been transformed.

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dc.languageen
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherElsevier
dc.subjectTerritory
dc.subjectBrexit
dc.subjectGeoeconomics
dc.subjectFraming
dc.titleTerritory, geoeconomics and power politics: The Irish government's framing of Brexit
dc.typejournal-article
dc.typeJournal Article
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plymouth.volume76
plymouth.publication-statusPublished
plymouth.journalPolitical Geography
dc.identifier.doi10.1016/j.polgeo.2019.102063
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dcterms.dateAccepted2019-08-20
dc.rights.embargodate2021-9-11
dc.identifier.eissn1873-5096
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