Authors: HE Qingqian, Daniel Naurin
Source: Chinese Journal of European Studies, Vol.38, No.1, 2020
Abstract: Brexit，as a “black swan” event in global politics in 2016，is considered to be one of the major destabilizing factors threatening the economic and social development in Europe．As a global power，Britain’ s departure from the EU will undoubtedly cause shocks to the EU and global politics．This paper is aimed at analyzing the impact of Brexit on the redistribution of decision-making power within the EU．Based on the 2015 and 2018 survey data from the “Cooperation and Negotiations in the Council of the European Union Dataset”，this study establishes networks of EU decision-making power in order to investigate the possible influences of Brexit on the changing balance of power between different member states within important policy areas as well as on the structural transformation of the decision-making power within the Council．The findings of this paper are not only helpful to understand the influence of Brexit on international politics，but in a more general sense， the network analysis of decision-making power employed by this paper will provide a new perspective for studying the distribution and change of power in international organizations and global governance．
Editor: Huang Dong
Editor in charge: Liao kai