ABSTRACT A fundamental challenge for addressing ‘Brexit and Beyond’ is its multi-faceted and multi-dimensional nature. This is also reflected in the multitude of analytical accounts of its causes and potential outcomes. These accounts, however, have tended to focus on voting behaviours and a number of economic scenarios in general. This special issue makes a different contribution in focusing on four lines of enquiry that can be generalised into a critical narrative of one of the most complex issues facing social sciences for over sixty years. These lines comprise: ‘drivers of the economy - industry, trade and immigration’; ‘Brexit’s wider European context’; ‘From politics to territorial governance’; and ‘Post-Brexit rural and fisheries policy’. By setting this analysis in a brief historical reading of ‘Europe versus Empire’, the Introduction to this special issue provides a context for understanding Brexit’s deeper and wider resonance.

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英国脱欧及以后：潘多拉魔盒？

摘要解决“脱欧与超越”的根本挑战是其多面性和多维性。在其原因和潜在结果的众多分析说明中也反映了这一点。但是，这些说明通常倾向于关注投票行为和总体上的许多经济情景。本期特刊在关注四类问题上做出了不同的贡献，这些问题可以概括为对六十多年来社会科学面临的最复杂问题之一的批判性叙述。这些行包括：“经济驱动力-工业，贸易和移民”；“英国脱欧的更广泛的欧洲背景”；“从政治到领土治理”；和“脱欧后的乡村和渔业政策”。通过在“欧洲与帝国”的简要历史读物中进行这种分析，