This book explores the potential of the Anglosphere - a transnational imagined community of the English-speaking peoples - which came to international prominence in the wake of Brexit. The volume considers how the Anglosphere is redefining global politics in the 21st century and shaping the United Kingdom's future outside of the European Union.

Ben Wellings is Senior Lecturer in Politics and International Relations at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia. His current research interests focus on the relationship between nationalism, Euroscepticism and the Anglosphere as well as the politics of war memory and commemoration. He is the author of English Nationalism, Brexit and the Anglosphere: wider still and wider (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2019).
Dr Andrew Mycock is a Reader in Politics at the University of Huddersfield. His key research and teaching interests focus on post-imperial identity politics in the UK. He has published widely on the 'Politics of Britishness', English identity politics and devolution, and Brexit. He is co-convenor of the Political Studies Association Britishness Specialist Group. His other research interests include democratic youth engagement, participation, and education. He is currently co-leading a Leverhulme Trust funded project on Lowering the Voting Age in the UK.

• List of Figures and Tables


• Notes on Contributors


• Acknowledgements


• 1: Ben Wellings and Andrew Mycock: Continuity, Dissonance and Location: an Anglosphere research agenda


• Continuity


• 2: Michael Gardiner: The Anglosphere as a Principle of Progress


• 3: Duncan Bell: Anglospheres: empire redivivus?


• 4: Tim Legrand: The Past, Present and Future of Anglosphere Security Networks: Constitutive Reduction of a Shared Identity


• 5: Srdjan Vucetic: The Anglosphere beyond Security


• Dissonance


• 6: John Ravenhill and Geoff Heubner: The Political Economy of the Anglosphere: Geography Trumps History


• 7: Carl Bridge and Bart Zielinski: The Anglosphere and the American Embrace: The End of the British Empire and after


• 8: Andrew Mycock: 'CANZUK, the Anglosphere(s) and Transnational War Commemoration: The Centenary of First World War'


• 9: Katherine Smits: The Anglosphere and Indigenous Politics


• Location


• 10: Andrew Gamble: The Anglo-American Worldview and the Question of World Order


• 11: Nick Pearce and Michael Kenny: Churchill, Powell and the Conservative 'Brexiteers': The Political Legacies of the Anglosphere


• 12: Helen Baxendale and Ben Wellings: Underwriting Brexit: The European Union in the Anglosphere Imagination


• 13: Eva Namusoke: The Anglosphere, Race and Brexit


• Index