The School of Law and Government at Dublin City University invites applications for its four-year fully funded PhD programme, starting in September 2024. Outstanding PhD candidates will be offered fee waiver…
Federico Fabbrini (DCU Brexit Institute) 2021 has been a year of passage for Brexit – the process of the United Kingdom (UK) withdrawal from the European Union (EU) – but the…
Anand Menon (UK in a Changing Europe) What was Brexit for? There are myriad plausible answers. For some, it was about democracy. For others, giving a black eye to the…
Barry Colfer (Cambridge University, European University Institute) John O’Brennan (Maynooth University) Covid-19 arrived in Ireland in late February 2020 when the first infection was confirmed and within three weeks had…
Richard G. Whitman (University of Kent) The decision by the UK Government not to negotiate on formal terms for an EU-UK foreign, security and defence policy relationship means that the…
Paul Copeland (Queen Mary University of London) The EU has a relatively limited competence in employment and social policy, but over the last three decades has managed to harmonise policy…
Lisa Claire Whitten (Queen’s University Belfast) Signatories to the Belfast/Good Friday Agreement pledged to “firmly dedicate” themselves” to the pursuit of “reconciliation, tolerance and mutual trust” in the hope of…
Lee McGowan (Queen’s University Belfast) Over Easter 2021 Northern Ireland witnessed in its centenary year some of its worst cases of sustained street violence in many loyalist areas of Greater…
Emma McEvoy and Delia Ferri (Maynooth University) Last month we witnessed the escalation of the EU-UK row over vaccine supplies, namely regarding the distribution of the AstraZeneca vaccines, which was…
Andrew Glencross (Aston University) The rollout of a variety of effective vaccines against COVID-19 is an incredible scientific success story, but one that is currently overshadowed by an unseemly EU-UK…