Post-Brexit regulatory governance
How EU–UK regulatory relations are being remade after withdrawal, with empirical anchors in agri-food, chemicals, and energy.
Fellow & Tutor in Politics · Exeter College, Oxford
Dr. George Asiamah
Political economist working on regulatory governance, global political economy, and sustainability.
How do states regulate across borders after rupture—and who bears the cost of adjustment? My research follows regulation from Brussels and Westminster to farm gates in Ghana.
The back route · Chichibon → Oxford
About
Regulation is never just text. It is livelihoods.
I am a Fellow and Tutor in Politics at Exeter College, University of Oxford, where I teach political theory, comparative government, British politics, and EU politics to PPE undergraduates.
My work sits at the intersection of regulatory governance and global political economy. I study how regulatory systems adapt after institutional rupture, and how sustainability governance travels between the Global North and South.
Before academia, I worked as a Research and Policy Analyst at the SEED Centre in Ghana on rural sustainability and national agricultural policy. That practitioner grounding still shapes how I ask questions.
Research
Three strands, one question
How does regulation move after political rupture, and where do its costs land?
Global political economy of climate
Carbon border adjustment, green industrial policy, and climate finance—and what they mean for exporters and smallholders in the Global South.
Sustainability governance in Africa
Climate-smart agriculture, rural development policy, and the evidence practices linking international frameworks to national programmes.
Publications
Selected work
Regulatory adaptation, climate politics, and the practical limits of sovereignty.
Journal article · 2026
Legally Robust, Politically Fragile? The Discursive Institutional Dilution of Conservative Climate Discourse in UK Net Zero Politics (2010–2024)
with J. Jackson, P. Tobin & C. Burns · British Politics, 21(1)
Journal article · 2025
Divorced but Co-habiting: A Co-evolutionary Perspective on the EU–UK Regulatory Nexus Post-Brexit
Journal of European Integration, 47(5), 653–673
Journal article · 2025
Political Rhetoric vs Practical Reality of 'Taking Back Control': Is the UK's Agri-food Sector Ready to Break Free from EU Standards in the Global Arena?
Journal of European Public Policy, 32(6), 1492–1517
Books · Oxter Press
Writing beyond the journal article
Memoir · August 2026
The Back Route
A memoir of catastrophic failure, second chances, and rising from four Fs and three Es to an Oxford fellowship.
01Guide
Every Way In
A practical handbook for students targeting Oxbridge and fully funded scholarships, drawn from lived experience.
02Fiction
Shadows of Hope
A multigenerational pan-African novel on freedom, memory, and the long arc of independence.
03Essays
The Thrifty Borga
Literary essays on UK migrant life—money, dignity, and the economics of getting by abroad.
04Teaching
PPE at Exeter College
- Theory of Politics
- Practice of Politics
- Comparative Government
- British Politics
- EU Politics
- Comparative Political Economy
Correspondence
Get in touch
Dr George AsiamahExeter College, University of Oxford
Turl Street, Oxford OX1 3DPgeorge.asiamah@outlook.com