{"id":11133,"date":"2021-10-25T19:57:46","date_gmt":"2021-10-25T23:57:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/european\/?p=11133"},"modified":"2021-11-20T19:47:59","modified_gmt":"2021-11-21T00:47:59","slug":"event-highlights-brexit-britains-international-role-and-the-english-question","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/european\/2021\/10\/25\/event-highlights-brexit-britains-international-role-and-the-english-question\/","title":{"rendered":"Event Highlights: Brexit, Britain\u2019s International Role and the \u201cEnglish Question\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Center for the Study of Europe&#8217;s October speaker series exploring Brexit and the Future of the UK continued on Friday, October 22, with a talk by <strong>T. G. Otte<\/strong>, Professor of Diplomatic History in the School of History at the University of East Anglia. Otte&#8217;s talk \u2014 \u2018Empire 2.0\u2019, \u2018Global Britain\u2019 \u2018Little England\u2019?: Brexit, Britain\u2019s International Role and the \u2018English Question\u2019 \u2014 centered around foreign policy questions and Britain&#8217;s place in the world.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Thomas Otte<\/strong> is Professor of Diplomatic History at the University of East Anglia. He is an expert on great power politics from 1500 to 2000. He has published some twenty books, including <em>July Crisis: The World\u2019s Descent into War, Summer 1914<\/em> (Cambridge UP, 2014) (Prose Merit Award European History 2015, Lowy Institute Books of the Year 2014) and <em>Statesman of Europe: The Life of Sir Edward Grey<\/em> (Allen Lane, 2020) (New Statesman Book of the Year in History category). He is currently a Leverhulme Major Research Fellow, and is completing a book on British foreign policy from 1650 to present. He is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and an elected member of the Society\u2019s Council. He has been an adviser to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/vmoqNSYcbT8\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Center for the Study of Europe&#8217;s October speaker series exploring Brexit and the Future of the UK continued on Friday, October 22, with a talk by T. G. Otte, Professor of Diplomatic History in the School of History at the University of East Anglia. Otte&#8217;s talk \u2014 \u2018Empire 2.0\u2019, \u2018Global Britain\u2019 \u2018Little England\u2019?: Brexit, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8908,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/european\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11133"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/european\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/european\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/european\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8908"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/european\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11133"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/european\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11133\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11175,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/european\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11133\/revisions\/11175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/european\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/european\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/european\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}