Globalization unleashed trends such as the free movement of capital, people, and goods; trickle-down economics, and diminished stature of nation-states. While largely embraced by most countries in the WTO, a growing tension within the European Union to push back went largely ignored until recently. Britain’s exit represents such a push back, a rejection of a single banking system, a single budget, and a single political entity. This article examines the historic 2016 British referendum that saw 52 percent of voters favor England leaving the EU. This research serves four purposes: one, to identify the origins of this important referendum as well as the positions of both its supporters and detractors; two, to analyze the fallout of the vote and its impact on other European nations; three, to correlate the results of this referendum and the rise of populist parties on the left and right in the EU; and four, to discuss briefly what the future holds for globalism.

全球化释放了诸如资本，人员和货物自由流动的趋势。滴滴滴答的经济学，以及民族国家的地位下降。尽管世贸组织大多数国家都普遍接受直到最近，欧盟内部越来越强烈的要求推迟的压力一直被忽略。英国的退出代表着这样的后退，拒绝单一的银行体系，单一的预算以及单一的政治实体。本文研究了具有历史意义的2016年英国公投，该公投中有52％的选民赞成英国退出欧盟。这项研究有四个目的：第一，确定这一重要公投的起源，以及其支持者和反对者的立场；第二，分析投票的后果及其对其他欧洲国家的影响；第三，将本次公投的结果与欧盟左右两侧民粹主义政党的兴起联系起来；第四，简要讨论全球化的未来。