UM Star Lecture: After the Brexit Decision: What Can History Tell Us?
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The United Kingdom is likely to become the first full-fledged member state ever to leave the European Union. But it would not be the first country to do so: Greenland left the European Community in 1985 and Algeria soon after its independence from France in 1962. Is there anything we can learn from the past for the situation today? Patel’s answer is yes. In his lecture, he will try to draw such lessons. In doing so, he will also introduce his audience to the intricacies of Algerian wine, Greenland cod, amongst other things. Moreover, he will explain why UM alumni can consider themselves particularly fortunate.
Welcome Collection
Kiran Klaus Patel is professor of European and global history at the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at Maastricht University. He holds a Jean Monnet Chair and is currently also the faculty’s associate dean for research. Patel has been a visiting senior research fellow/professor at (inter alia) the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris, Freiburg University, FU Berlin, Harvard University, the London School of Economics and the University of Oxford. He mainly works on the history of the EU and of the United States in a global perspective. Recent publications include: The New Deal: A Global History, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2016; European Integration and the Atlantic Community in the 1980s, New York: Cambridge University Press, 2013 (ed. with Kenneth Weisbrode); The Historical Foundations of EU Competition Law, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013 (ed. with Heike Schweitzer). Patel is currently working on a monograph on European integration history that also discusses question of disintegration.