Maja Kluger Rasmussen fra tænketanken Europa analyserer dynamikkerne i den britiske folkeafstemning om EU, der reelt kan betyde, at EU for første gang i sin histo- rie risikerer, at et medlemsland forlader EU.
Societies and communities with relevant number of immigrants are subjected in the long-term to deep structural re-organization processes which might provide for the re-distribution of power at both local and central levels, to a re-organization of existing elites and their influence and the emergence of new elites, as well as for the emergence of new order. Our approach has been inspired by the Brexit scenario as a key complexity context of how the issue of immigrants has been involved in the political party competition in UK. The history of the rise and decay of the UKIP party (Allchorn and Evans, 2018; Evans, Gould and Norman, 2019) for almost two decades since 1993 when it has been founded (Hunt, 2014), has been therefore considered as a typical scenario for the emergence of relevant changes in the UK society and polity as a host for immigrants. UK model of immigrant integration has been considered for decades as the best amongst the integration models in several other countries of Europe like France, Germany and Netherlands which are immigration target countries. Nonetheless, UK has shocked the world when a majority of the British people voted Brexit and revealed deep concerns with immigration. Our approach is aimed at modelling the changes induced by the immigration issues when involved in elections and party competition as a means to reveal the role played by the immigration in the emergence of complex changes in the host polity. Such complex changes emerge as a long-term side-effect of political power (re)distribution in a host society and polity and reveal the dimensions of society and polity structural change and re-organization processes because of political party competition, elections, political power distribution in the Government and political elites' dynamics. The Artificial Polity Model is employed in the simulation of the political organizations facing deep structural changes. Simulation modelling has been based on the case studies of UKIP history and Brexit.
Intro -- Title -- Dedication -- Acknowledgements -- Foreword -- Contents -- Preface -- Coronavirus and the Strange Death of Truth -- Introduction -- Part 1: Coronavirus and Globalisation -- Coronavirus and Globalisation -- The Plague -- Apocalypse Now: The Evolution of Viruses -- Animal Farm: China and 'Zoonotic Transfer' -- Will Modern Society Collapse? -- The Dark Age Dawns: Existential Threats -- Future Days -- The Environment, Development, and Technology -- Responses to Problems: Coronavirus, Brexit, and the Pareto Dilemma -- The End of Democracy -- Populism and the Economy -- Part 2: The Strange Death of Truth -- The History of Truth -- The Engineer of Human Souls: How the Media Shapes Modern Man -- The Madness of Reason -- The End of Globalisation and the New Westphalian System -- The Strange Death of Liberalism -- Syncretism: Community and Spirit -- The Eclipse of the Enlightenment -- The Owl of Minerva Takes Off -- Happy Trails -- The Next Renaissance -- Index -- Appendix -- Bibliography -- Notes -- Copyright.