The Impact of the Brexit on the British and American Relations

Abstract

This study investigates the Anglo-American special relationship after the WWII, and sheds the light on the British withdrawal from EU as a potential influential reason on the relationship. The study attempts to explore UK-US, UK-EU and US-EU relations before and after Brexit in order to trace its impact on the UK-US Special Relationship. Thus, the study tries to answer the question of how the Brexit will affect the Anglo-American relationship. To better understand the topic and reach the answer of the research questions, the researchers have adopted the analytical descriptive method; in which collection of corpuses of articles and reports have been qualitatively analysed. In this respect, the dissertation is divided into three chapters. The first chapter is divided into two sections; in which the first deals with Anglo-American relation and the second with the UK-EU relation before Brexit in order to explore the nature of the relations before this withdrawal. The second chapter highlights the British leaving EU process, its conditions, reasons, and consequences on UK. The third and the last chapter is devoted to examine the implications of the Brexit on UK and US relations. The study concludes that United States lost a strong supporter in the European Union; United Kingdom. In addition, the research found that Brexit has put UK in an economic crisis which would make it to enhance and strengthen its