Britain After the Five Crises

<p>The period 2008���2022 has seen the British state/government embroiled in a number of full-blown crises each impacting the fundamental operations of the state and demanding therefore urgent responses from the government of the day. In the <i>first</i> case the 2008 near-collapse and partial nationalization of the banking system consequent upon decades of irresponsible credit creation coupled to permissive regulation; in the <i>second</i> the migration crisis of 2015 which saw waves of refugees moving through Europe provoking anxious responses from European Union member states and opening-up related political debates in Britain; thus <i>third</i> the 2016 referendum in regard to membership of the European Union which the London-based elite clearly thought they would navigate easily before to their evident shock losing an event itself precipitating further extraordinary Westminster manoeuvring; and then <i>fourth</i> the 2020 Covid- 19 pandemic met with an initial casualsangfroid before the government its actions informed by epidemiological modelling made an abrupt shift to ���lockdown��� with dramatic social and economic consequences. To these episodes whose impacts run down to the present could be added <i>fifth</i> the 2022 disaster in Ukraine where the British state/government has chosen to involve itself by supporting one set of combatants in a conflict where presently after more than a year of fighting there is little sign of a means to the resolution of the violence. This book examines the crises and tracks how each developed; how state/ government failings in one case were rehearsed in the next; and more generally how these crises have been amplified by the decades-long celebration of globalization theory; and finally at how following the most recent crisis the future might unfold hence the ideas of deglobalization resilience and more speculatively the possibilities of democratization.</p><p><br></p><p></p>