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182 World Affs. 4 (2019)

handle is hein.journals/wrldaf182 and id is 1 raw text is: NOTE FROM THE EDITOR Welcome to our spring issue of World Affairs! As I write this editorial, talks in the British Parliament over the terms of the United Kingdom's departure from the European Union (EU), or Brexit, are heating up considerably. The U.K. House of Com- mons rejected Prime Minister Theresa May's Brexit deal by a record 432-202 votes in January 2019-the largest government defeat in Brit- ain's history. But time could run out for May to push for a workable consensus. Britain must legally leave the EU by March 29, 2019, and only agreement from the 28 countries of the EU can delay this dead- line. May has been frantically assembling a modified, more moderate version of the defeated deal with the aim of getting it through the U.K. parliament in time. However, as of this writing, she is still refusing to rule out a 'no-deal' Brexit and remains committed to implementing the 'leave' decision of the 2016 U.K. referendum rather than conduct- ing a second referendum (BBC News 2019)-which many commenta- tors believe would, if held, now lead to a 'remain' decision (see, for example, Watts 2018; YouGov 2018). Far from being a merely European affair, Brexit embodies political debates and conundrums that have a truly international reach. These include, but are not restricted to, the place of referenda in contem- porary democracies, media effects on shaping public opinion, citizen responsibility for thinking through important democratic decisions and duties, availability of political information, confirmation bias and Inter- net use in democratic polities, media responsibility for unbiased and/or emotive political coverage of the issues, how to identify and regulate fake news, consensus seeking versus political polarization, isolationism in the face of globalization, regional integration versus national sovereignty, the effects of the 'migration crisis' and border security on campaign rhetoric, and the oversimplification of key sociopolitical issues. The list could, of course, go on. Future submissions to World Affairs journal on the relation of Brexit to these topics and their broader implications for countries in other regions are very much encouraged. 4 WORLD AFFAIRS

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