Brexit a mere setback on integration

Proponents of an independent UK, outside the 28-member regional bloc, carried the day with over 52 per cent of votes cast. Forty-eight per cent of the voters opted to remain.

There seems to be two old age subterranean ideological forces that seek to influence and shape the direction of not only the UK, and Europe, but to an extent our perception of international relations. These two camps are basically realism and idealism. While liberalism mainly favours globalisation and to an extent regional integration, idealism has always been more inclined towards the traditional international political system, based on state sovereignty, and modelled along the 1648 Peace of Westphalia treaty.