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Forum on British Studies (NO.49)
讲座人：Richard Sanders
讲座题目：“Brexit: the implications for Britain”
时间： 2017年3月23日星期四， 上午8:00-9:50
地点：英语楼302教室
讲座人
Dr Richard Sanders is Emeritus Professor of Contemporary Chinese Studies at the University of Northampton, UK, teaching and researching on political economy and Asian globalization. He got his PhD degree in 1998 writing a thesis entitled “Prospects for Sustainable Development in the Chinese Countryside: the Political Economy of Chinese Ecological Agriculture”. From 1991 to 1993 Prof. Sanders was employed by the British Council in Beijing to work as a foreign expert and lecturer in economics in the English Department of Beijing Foreign Studies University, contributing a great deal to the founding and the development of the British Studies MA programme here. He has published richly, including one authored book entitled Prospects for Sustainable Development in the Chinese Countryside: the Political Economy of Chinese Ecological Agriculture (Ashgate, 2000) and 2 edited books, one of which is entitled China’s Post-Reform Economy: Achieving Harmony, Sustaining Growth (Routledge, 2007). He has also published numerous articles in academic journals and chapters in edited books and has presented research papers at many conferences throughout the world.
讲座简介： “Brexit: the implications for Britain”
“On 23 June 2016, the British people shocked even themselves by voting to withdraw from the European Union. Most people, to include the government, thought that the referendum would result in Britain staying in the EU and consequently there was almost no planning for what would happen should the result be to withdraw. There was no Plan B.
“Thus, nine months later, at the current moment when the British government are about to trigger Article 50 of the Lisbon Treaty, signalling to its partners in the EU of Britain’s intention to leave, there is still huge uncertainly about what is in store for the UK. What kind of a divorce will it be? Will it be a relatively ‘soft Brexit’ or a ‘hard Brexit’, the latter involving withdrawal from both the Single Market and the Customs Union? What implications are there for Britain’s future trading relations, for the status of the City of London as the world’s pre-eminent financial centre, for the British economy in general?
“The talk will discuss various possible outcomes, not only with regard to economic issues, but also with regard to Britain’s internal politics, international relations and status in the world”.
