Articles by Kai Oppermann

November 30, 2021

What is the future for EU referendums post-Brexit?

Kai Oppermann

Post-Brexit, support for EU referendums persists in the party systems of most EU member states. Kai Oppermann finds that this support mainly comes from Eurosceptic opposition parties, often on the populist far-right, and that the Brexit effect on party positions has been relatively weak and uneven

Kai Oppermann

Professor of International Politics, Chemnitz University of Technology

Kai has previously held positions at the University of Sussex, King’s College London and the University of Cologne.

His research centres on the domestic sources of European integration and foreign policy, with a focus on British and German European and foreign policy.

Kai won a Marie Curie Fellowship for a research project on EU referendums and worked as a specialist advisor to the House of Lords External Affairs Sub-Committee in the UK.

His work has been published in international journals such as European Journal of International Relations, West European Politics, Foreign Policy Analysis, Journal of European Public Policy, and British Journal of Politics and International Relations.

Kai is a co-editor at German Politics and an associate editor of the Oxford Encyclopedia of Foreign Policy Analysis (2018).

Follow him on Twitter @OppermannIB

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