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This book presents a theory of the politics of irony and tests this theory through readings of political theory texts and through an analysis of the politics of the contemporary anti-nuclear movement, and argues that political writing must be ironic.

La salida del Reino Unido de la Unión Europea supone un cambio muy significativo de las relaciones internacionales en el ámbito europeo con relevancia mundial. El artículo se centra en intentar analizar algunos de los efectos inmediatos que la salida británica de la Unión Europea supone para la misma, a partir de la fractura del statu quo existente, contradictoria con la tradicional política exterior británica. Para ello analiza el concepto de statu quo, y asumiendo su sentido como equilibrio de poder, se ponen ejemplos de cómo ha sido el eje rector de la política británica desde el siglo XVIII, interrumpida con el Brexit. Finalmente se analizan las consecuencias en el statu quo europeo de la salida de Reino Unido de la Unión y los posibles resultados que tal reconfiguración produce, fundamentalmente el incremento de poder de Alemania. A partir de aquí se plantea el posible incremento de la influencia rusa en el área europea, tomando como referencia el proyecto de gasoducto Nord Stream, y el perjuicio general para la influencia americana en Europa ; The departure of the United Kingdom from the European Union represents a very significant change in international relations at the European level with global relevance. The article focuses on trying to analyze some of the immediate effects that the British exit from the European Union supposes for the same, from the fracture of the existing status quo, contradictory with the traditional British foreign policy. To do this, he analyzes the concept of the status quo, and assuming its meaning as a balance of power, examples are given of how it has been the guiding axis of British politics since the 18th century, interrupted with Brexit. Finally, the consequences on the European status quo of the United Kingdom's departure from the Union and the possible results that such reconfiguration produces, fundamentally the increase in power of Germany, are analyzed. From here, the possible increase in Russian influence in the European area is proposed, taking the Nord Stream gas pipeline project as a reference, and the general damage to American influence in Europe

AbstractThroughout the past decades, the EU's agency landscape has continuously expanded in size and scope. In this article, we address the lack of longitudinal data on EU agencies' formal independence. We introduce a newly revised index to measure the formal independence of EU agencies from other EU institutions over time. Applying a rules‐as‐data approach we coded 206 regulations and amendments to develop a new dataset covering the formal independence of all 39 EU agencies from 1975 to 2022. This longitudinal overview provides first insights about the development of formal independence at the case and population levels. At the case level we identify frequent, albeit gradual reforms of EU agencies' independence. At the population level, we observe remarkable stability in overall independence, but find stark variation across different independence dimensions. Overall, EU‐level principals have shifted over time from controlling individual decisions to controlling the agencies' general decision‐making apparatus.