The UK has voted to leave the European Union, 51.9 to 48.1 percent Prime Minister David Cameron announced early Friday that he will step down in three months time.Unwinding the union will be a messy process that will take months, if not years, and have broad political and financial impacts.The pound dropped in value on the London exchange early Friday morning.Presumptive Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump called the Brexit “a great thing.”We asked three American scholars of the EU to tell us what Americans should know about the vote.Mabel Berezin, Cornell University: Brexit: Neo-Nationalism wins, Europe losesBritain voted to leave …read more
Source: The New Republic
