UK–Russia relations and the Brexit debate: advancing integration or mutual mistrust?

The Anatomy of Brexit Debate on Facebook

Nowadays users get informed and shape their opinion through social media. However, the disintermediated access to contents does not guarantee quality of information. Selective exposure and confirmation bias, indeed, have been shown to play a pivotal role in content consumption and information spreading. Users tend to select information adhering (and reinforcing) their worldview and to ignore di...

Advancing the debate on international spending comparisons.

Brexit or Bremain? Evidence from bubble analysis

We applied the Johansen-Ledoit-Sornette (JLS) model to detect possible bubbles and crashes related to the Brexit/Bremain referendum scheduled for 23 June 2016. Our implementation includes an enhanced model calibration using Genetic Algorithms. We selected a few historical financial series sensitive to the Brexit/Bremain scenario, representative of multiple asset classes. We found that equity an...

The influence of Iran and Turkey relations on the prospect of integration in the Middle East

Creating aconvergence Middle East in comparison to the European ::::union::::after the Second World War seems possible.Europe's successful experience of convergence was due to the cooperation between two allied countries of Germany and France. The prerequisite fact of replicating Europe's success in the Middle East is to identify two leading states for this region. Iran and Turkey are two non-A...

For Whom the Bell Trolls: Troll Behaviour in the Twitter Brexit Debate

In a review into automated and malicious activity Twitter released a list of accounts that they believed were connected to state sponsored manipulation of the 2016 American Election. This list details 2,752 accounts Twitter believed to be controlled by Russian operatives. In the absence of a similar list of operatives active within the debate on the 2016 UK referendum on membership of the Europ...