Tim Oliver - Understanding Brexit: A Concise Introduction

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Dr Tim Oliver is a Senior Lecturer at Loughborough University London, a Jean Monnet Fellow at the European University Institute in Florence and an Associate of LSE IDEAS, the foreign policy think tank of the London School of Economics and Political Science. For several years he was a senior lecturer at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst and he has also taught at LSE and UCL. He has worked in the House of Lords, the European Parliament and held research and visiting positions at New York University, the SAIS Center for Transatlantic Relations (Washington DC), the RAND Corporation (Washington DC) and the Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik (Berlin).

This book began as a series of lectures given while I was a Visiting Scholar at New York University in the autumn and winter of 2016. My thanks to Professor Mike Williams, head of the NYU Program in International Relations, for the chance to talk Brexit in New York. My time at NYU was part of a Dahrendorf Fellowship at the London School of Economics, where I was working on transatlantic relations. This book was completed while a Jean Monnet Fellow at the European University Institute, Florence. Thanks to my research assistant, Alex Boyles. Thanks also to those who reviewed earlier drafts of the book, not least the anonymous reviewers. Their comments and feedback improved the book immensely. Finally, my thanks to Stephen Wenham and Jamie Askew at Policy Press for their immense patience as I finished this book.

The publisher and author would like to thank the following for permission to reproduce copyright material: Biteback Publishing for Figures 4.4 and 4.7; NatCen Social Research for Figure 4.6; Lord Ashcroft for Figures 4.8 and 4.9; and the European Commission for Figure 6.3. Figures 3.1 and 5.1 were reproduced under Open Parliament Licence v 3.0.