Across Britain and Ireland: A new blog series from the Centre on Constitutional Change

Twenty-eight years after the Belfast/ Good Friday Agreement and on the eve of the elections for the Scottish Parliament and Wesh Senedd, it is time to bring new thinking to the changing constitutional order across Britain and both parts of Ireland. The national questions in Scotland, Wales, Ireland north and south and even England are unresolved. The UK Government is seeking to reverse the most damaging effects of Brexit without actually rejoining the EU or its central pillars. The British party system no longer serves to unite the Union the way it did in the past. Global turbulence puts in question the UK’s role as a medium-sized economic and military power with internal divisions. Demands for secession referendums are loud in Northern Ireland, Scotland and even Wales. Fundamental questions about sovereignty and borders remain to be answered.

The blog posts will reflect original thinking and new research on these issues. The project is led by scholars in Britain and Ireland as well as the United States. The posts will reflect the best of work being done across these islands as well as Europe, North America and beyond.

Blog proposals are welcomed. Guidance can be found here. 

Editors:

Coree Brown Swan is Lecturer in Politics at the University of Stirling and former post-doctoral Fellow at the Centre on Constitutional Change: coree.brownswan@stir.ac.uk

Shelley Deane is Assistant Professor Security and International Relations at Dublin City University and at the DCU Conflict Unit: shelley.deane@dcu.ie

Paul Gillespie is a columnist and former foreign policy editor, The Irish Times and directed the Constitutional Futures project at UCD 2020-25: pegillespie@gmail.com

Michael Keating is Emeritus Professor of Politics at the University of Aberdeen and was founding Director of the Centre on Constitutional Change: m.keating@abdn.ac.uk

Mary Murphy is Professor and Director of the Irish Institute at Boston College and led the Northern Ireland part of the Between Two Unions project at the CCC: mary.murphy.12@bc.edu

Blog proposals should be sent to Centre.Constitutional.Change@ed.ac.uk or any of the editors.