{"id":685,"date":"2021-01-01T14:59:22","date_gmt":"2021-01-01T14:59:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kei-case-studies\/?p=685"},"modified":"2023-06-30T10:18:15","modified_gmt":"2023-06-30T09:18:15","slug":"britains-place-after-brexit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kei-case-studies\/2021\/01\/01\/britains-place-after-brexit\/","title":{"rendered":"Britain&#8217;s place after Brexit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"lead\">Professor Richard Whitman\u2019s research investigates how Britain\u2019s foreign policy is changing as a consequence of leaving the EU and how that impacts on external relationships with third countries in Europe.<\/p>\n<p><div class=\"kent-video-wrapper\"><span class='embed-youtube' style='text-align:center; display: block;'><iframe class='youtube-player' type='text\/html' width='1140' height='672' src='https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/YhUuEq3Hvrs?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;fs=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;wmode=transparent' frameborder='0' allowfullscreen='true'><\/iframe><\/span><\/div><br \/>\nUnable to escape the position geographically, or the historically tricky relationship with Europe, Whitman stated that\u00a0<em>\u201cSince leaving the EU Britain is finding its place in the world, not isolated by leaving but becoming a \u2018Global Britain.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/politics-international-relations\/people\/2271\/whitman-richard-g\">Professor Richard Whitman<\/a> is based in the School of Politics and International Relations. Through ongoing direct engagement with parliamentary committees and foreign policy-making communities in the UK and overseas, Whitman\u2019s work has informed governments\u2019 understanding of the implications of Brexit for EU-UK foreign, security and defence policy collaboration.<\/p>\n<p>Whitman has directly contributed to the government\u2019s understanding of the implications of Brexit by assisting Parliament in its inquiry work on Brexit and by briefing civil servants, both in the UK and overseas. Whitman has advised on the challenges posed by detaching the UK from EU foreign, security and defence policy arrangements and institutions. He has also explained the limitations of existing third country arrangements (such as with Canada and Norway) as future models for the UK.<\/p>\n<p>Whitman has been commissioned to deliver master classes to the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office, Ministry of Defence and House of Commons staff committee. Internationally, he was invited to provide briefings on his research to the U.S. State Department, the Ministries of Foreign Affairs and Trade in Australia (simulcast from the Australian Diplomatic Academy to all overseas diplomatic missions) and New Zealand; and to provide a specialist briefing for state government in Australia and lectures to specialist public-policy making audiences delivered in Australia, New Zealand and Japan.<\/p>\n<p>Leading on from Whitman\u2019s current research he has applied for a \u00a31 million grant from the Economic Social Research Council (ESRC) to enable a systematic analysis of the positioning of the UK diplomatically .<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Professor Richard Whitman\u2019s research investigates how Britain\u2019s foreign policy is changing as a consequence of leaving the EU and how that impacts on external relationships &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kei-case-studies\/2021\/01\/01\/britains-place-after-brexit\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":74795,"featured_media":693,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[275481,256079],"tags":[280932,259572,79492],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kei-case-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/685"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kei-case-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kei-case-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kei-case-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/74795"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kei-case-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=685"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kei-case-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/685\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":789,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kei-case-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/685\/revisions\/789"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kei-case-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kei-case-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kei-case-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kei-case-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}