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After the 2016 Brexit referendum, commentators opposed to Britain’s desire to regain its sovereignty often asserted that Britain’s decision to leave the European Union (EU) was motivated by isolationist impulses. These supposed concerns were always groundless: It was the EU, a customs union with an inbuilt institutional hostility to NATO, that emphasized controlling and limiting Europe’s trade and security connections with the wider world.

As policymakers look ahead, they must find a way to balance the need for inclusive resilience with the imperative for meaningful reform.

Our parliamentarians should be focusing on the situation in Ukraine, not wasting time trying to silence newspapers

“But in this region taken as a whole, new and old fears and recriminations combine with the challenges represented by the gigantic growth of trade with China.”

The U.K. still needs to identify how it will attain its ambitious goals and demonstrate its ability to provide collective goods to a region that for the most part remains skeptical.