Insights
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Biden’s Win Creates a New Global Trade Challenge – Delivering Results
By: David HenigPresident Biden will enter the White House to considerable goodwill from an international community mostly relieved that they don’t have to put up...
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At Last Brexit Enters Endgame
Research Areas: EU Single Market, Institutions, and Governance Trade, Globalisation and Security UK Trade Policy ProjectBy: David HenigAfter a rather strange few days in which the UK government threatened to halt EU trade talks because of conditions either already agreed, such as...
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The UK Traps Itself in EU Relationship Problems
By: David HenigThe Brexit saga keeps going, now reaching the point where the UK government has stated that the Withdrawal Agreement reached in October, which became...
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A Biden Win Won’t Fix the World Trade System
By: David HenigA US Presidential election always exerts quite a hold on the political world’s attention, but not often with personal stakes as high as they seem...
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September Song – EU-UK Talks Approach Decision Time
By: David HenigWe are around halfway through the time allocated for UK-EU future relationship talks. It is four months since the UK finally left the EU, and four...
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Coronavirus Does Not Mean the End of Globalisation
By: David HenigThe world of trade will change for ever. Globalisation is dead. Supply chains will become shorter, and less complex. The nation state is back. Except...
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Coronavirus and Trade – Reflecting Today’s Messy Globalisation
By: David HenigIntroduction The bravest prediction in the midst of a crisis is that nothing will change as a result. Typically at such times, the optimists hope...
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Government and Coronavirus
By: David HenigI’m not a coronavirus expert. Trade, economics and politics is my field. I had to look up the spelling of epidemiologist for this article and I’m...
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UK Election 2019 – What it Means for Brexit and Future UK-EU Relations
By: David HenigIntroduction The result of the UK General Election means that the UK will leave the EU at the end of January 2020, ending at least four years of...
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Brexit Extension Shows the UK Continues to Struggle with the Basics of International Negotiations
Research Areas: EU Single Market, Institutions, and Governance Trade, Globalisation and Security UK Trade Policy ProjectBy: David HenigYet again Brexit has been delayed. The EU has reluctantly granted another extension, this time of three months. It remains uncertain as to what might...
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Isolation or Integration: Why the EU Free Trade Agreement the Brexiters Want Is Not Deliverable
Research Areas: EU Single Market, Institutions, and Governance Trade, Globalisation and Security UK Trade Policy ProjectBy: David HenigIn the race to be the next UK Prime Minister there is a strong narrative that the country’s future economic relationship with the EU can be simply...
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UK Brexit Direction Awaits New Conservative Party Leader
Research Areas: UK Trade Policy ProjectBy: David HenigA new series of everyone’s favourite UK show, Brexit, has kicked off in dramatic style with the resignation as Conservative Party leader,...