Articles by Simon Sweeney

January 21, 2021

Without a strong strategic security partnership, Brexit will undermine EU and UK security

Simon Sweeney

Brexit makes policing less effective and makes developing vital defence capability more difficult, write Simon Sweeney and Neil Winn. Europe needs a strategic partnership which holds Britain close to EU security and defence-related structures, while the British government and industrial interests need strong partnerships with the EU and its member states

Simon Sweeney

Senior Lecturer in International Political Economy and Business, University of York

Simon's research and published work focuses on EU security and defence policy, foreign affairs and the European Union’s role in the Western Balkans. He has also written on Erasmus, the Bologna Process and the European Higher Education Area.

He is a Senior Fellow of the UK Higher Education Authority, and author of Europe, the State, and Globalisation (Longman, 2005; Routledge, 2016).

Europe, the State and Globalisation by Simon Sweeney

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