Hard bargaining dies hard: the cultural factors behind Britain’s ill-suited Brexit negotiation strategy

Martill, Benjamin (2020) Hard bargaining dies hard: the cultural factors behind Britain’s ill-suited Brexit negotiation strategy. British Politics and Policy at LSE (19 Oct 2020). Blog Entry.

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Abstract

While the UK is weaker than the EU on key metrics of bargaining power, the British approach to the Brexit negotiations has been characterised by hard bargaining. Benjamin Martill writes that a number of cultural factors have influenced the UK’s decision to adopt such a sub‐optimal strategy, including the country’s weak socialisation into the EU, overstated perceptions of its own capabilities, the prevailing conservative political ideology, and a longstanding preference for ‘divide and rule’ diplomatic strategies.

Item Type:	Online resource (Blog Entry)
Official URL:	https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandpolicy/
Additional Information:	© 2020 The Author(s)
Divisions:	LSE
Subjects:	J Political Science > JN Political institutions (Europe) > JN101 Great Britain
Date Deposited:	13 Nov 2020 00:22
Last Modified:	19 Oct 2023 14:16
URI:	http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/107345

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