The dynamics of de-Europeanisation in a multi-level context: Resistance and power politics in Scotland and Wales

Minto, Rachel ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0040-3198, Rowe, Carolyn and Royles, Elin 2025. The dynamics of de-Europeanisation in a multi-level context: Resistance and power politics in Scotland and Wales. Journal of Common Market Studies Item availability restricted.

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Abstract

In recent years, theoretical models which seek to capture the dynamics of European integration and Europeanisation have turned their attention to new processes of disintegration, and de-Europeanisation, presenting new understandings of where politics, policy-makers and public opinion have moved to roll back integration. In this article looking at the process of de-Europeanisation in Scotland and Wales since 2016, we take forward this scholarship by providing a nuanced assessment of the multi-level effects of these processes and their implications. We find that despite ambitions to retain agency over the speed and direction of de-Europeanisation in Scotland and Wales, their resistance to the overall UK-led direction of travel has thus far produced few results, due to the continued constitutional dominance of the UK government. We argue that this expands on current understanding of de-Europeanisation in practice as we draw attention to the prevalence of “forced de-Europeanisation” in this case which has prevented these devolved governments of the UK from substantiating their particular re-engagement preferences. Consequently, the extent of differentiation in the processes of de-Europeanisation across the territories of the UK since Brexit has been limited, contrasting sharply with the differentiated model of Europeanisation which existed during British EU membership

Item Type:	Article
Status:	In Press
Schools:	Cardiff Law & Politics
Publisher:	Wiley
ISSN:	0021-9886
Funders:	James Madison Charitable Trust
Date of First Compliant Deposit:	28 January 2025
Date of Acceptance:	20 January 2025
Last Modified:	07 Feb 2025 10:45
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/175660

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