Ian Cooper (DCU Brexit Institute) This will be the first Christmas in five years that is not accompanied by some kind of high-stakes Brexit drama. In December 2017, a key…
Sebastian Ludwicki-Ziegler (University of Stirling) The debate on how to address the border question in Northern Ireland is much older than Brexit. However, since the Brexit referendum, this fight over…
Oliver Garner (Bingham Centre for the Rule of Law, BIICL) Resolution of the Northern Irish border problem was a key objective of the EU-UK Withdrawal Agreement. However, nearly 18 months…
Brian Gormally (Committee on the Administration of Justice) Violent political conflict always means a bonfire of human rights. Conflict on this island has been no exception. Amidst many atrocities committed…
Patricia Mindus (Uppsala University) Brexit impacted ‘one of the major achievements of EU integration’: the citizenry of the Union. It shrunk in size, changed in composition, with some of its…
Mary C. Murphy (University College Cork) Since the early days of the Troubles, the US has maintained a keen interest in Northern Ireland affairs and US soft power arguably played…
Francesco Carbonero (Fondazione CRC/University of Turin), Jeremy Davies (East Village Consultants), Ekkehard Ernst (ILO), Sayantan Ghosal (Adam Smith Business School), and Leaza McSorley (University of Sunderland) Shocks and uncertainty are…
Rory Montgomery (Queen’s University Belfast/ Trinity College Dublin) The Ireland/Northern Ireland Protocol remains deeply contentious in Northern Ireland, though fortunately since April opposition to it has not contributed to violence.…
Lee McGowan (Queen’s University Belfast) Bonfire season across Northern Ireland is almost upon us. Bonfires are lit every 11th July night to commemorate the victory of William III over his…
Willem Maas (York University) From the earliest days of European integration in the postwar period, free movement – of goods, services, capital and people – has been one of the…