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After he earned his doctor of philosophy in government from the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, David Dessler started his decades-long career at the Department of Government at the College of William & Mary (W&M) in Williamsburg, Virginia. During his professorial tenure at W&M, David Dessler traveled across Europe. The Eurosceptic movement is a prominent topic in contemporary European politics. The political doctrine revolves around the ideology of advocating disengagement from the European Union (EU).
With the intention of ending the centuries of war between neighboring nations and kingdoms on the continent, European leaders from six countries established a policy of economic and political integration in the 1950s. This effort led to the EU’s creation in the 1990s through the Treaty of Maastricht, which unified membership countries under a single governing entity. The EU requires member countries to adhere to a set of rules and regulations regarding industry, human rights, economy, and other factors.
The Eurosceptic movement emerged as an opposition to the integration and the EU’s overarching political power. Eurosceptic political parties can be broadly categorized as hard or soft. Hard parties reject integration entirely and push for withdrawal from the EU. Soft Eurosceptic parties call for more national autonomy over policy areas such as trade or immigration laws while remaining in favor of the European Union.
