by Francesca Robinson (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign) This blog post was written for the course "Current Issues in Global and EU Affairs", which took place from February 11-May 9, 2019. Image Credit: Christoph Scholz, via Wikimedia Commons Brexit has been quite a hot topic since Britain decided its fate in 2016. Most of the literature on this British EU exit focuses on the impact that Brexit will have on EU institutions and member states. However, Brexit does not just affect European countries. Brexit will have significant impacts not only on the relationship between the UK and the US, but also on the relationship between the US and the EU. The potential future economic consequences of Brexit are of great concern . Within the UK itself, there are fears that a hard Brexit deal, in which the UK will be denied access to the EU common market, would bring economic hardships to the UK. There are es...