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What Negotiation Theory Tells us About How the EU has Handled Article 50

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AuthorSimon Usherwood
Published date01 June 2018
Date01 June 2018
DOI10.1177/2041905818779317
4 POLITICAL INSIGHT • JUNE 2018
What Negotiation
Theory Tells us About
How the EU has
Handled Article 50
The negotiations on the UK’s withdrawal from the European Union has
dominated the political agenda. Simon Usherwood examines how the
EU has approached and managed its side of the Article 50 negotiations.
Much of the British debate
about leaving the European
Union has centred on the
process whereby the country
makes up its mind about what kind of
outcome it wants, or what the impacts will
be on various parts of the domestic political
system. Important as these are, they often
miss the somewhat more consequential
issue of agreeing this with the EU itself.
Put dierently, many in the UK see
the Brexit process like ordering food in a
restaurant: you chose from the menu, pay
and consume, before walking out the door.
Actually, it is more like being a teenager,
bargaining with your parents about your
evening’s plans: there’s give-and-take, and
you will have to deal with them the next day
on something else. In short, the other lot get
a say too.
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Political Insight June 2018 NEW.indd 4 02/05/2018 15:39

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