Brexit and the EU Constitutional Order: A Three Act Tragedy

A ‘thick’ Constitutional Patriotism for the Eu

With the apparent failure of the European Constitution (at least on the first try...), the search for a pan-European civic ‘identification mechanism’ is as likely to be intensified as it is to be abandoned. Given that most political theorists are reluctant to formulate a liberal pan-European nationalism, a ‘thicker’ version of constitutional patriotism might seem an attractive (and relatively m...

Brexit, EU Area-based Policies, and the Devolved Governments

Possible impacts of Brexit on EU development and humanitarian policies

Brexit could have a major impact on EU development and humanitarian policies. However, although Brexit is highly likely to happen, there are still uncertainties about the UK’s new foreign policy approach and its repercussions on aid. The UK may act under three different scenarios (nationalist, realist, cosmopolitan) with different consequences for EU aid. The UK’s leaving would challenge the EU...

Brexit? Analyzing Opinion on the UK-EU Referendum within Twitter

We present a demonstrator that visualizes the Twittersphere debate on whether the UK should remain in or leave the European Union. Data is collected using three strategies: hashtag search terms, extraction from the full stream and following specific users. The demonstrator can be used to show the different discussion topics identified by the different search strategies.

a comparative pragmatic analysis of the speech act of “disagreement” across english and persian

the speech act of disagreement has been one of the speech acts that has received the least attention in the field of pragmatics. this study investigates the ways power relations, social distance, formality of the context, gender, and language proficiency (for efl learners) influence disagreement and politeness strategies. the participants of the study were 200 male and female native persian s...