Up until yesterday, Id never heard of the Norths. (Thank heavens it was a wet day with bugger all on the telly) but this is what I dug out.
Moravcsik, is a Professor of Politics and Director of the European Union Program at Princeton University.
Moravcsik's research has been supported by the National Science Foundation, Ford Foundation, Columbia University, Harvard University, German Marshall Fund, International Institute for Strategic Studies (London), Centre d'Etudes et Relations Internationales (Paris), and many other organizations. During the academic year 2011–2012, he was visiting fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ.
Moravcsik served in policy positions for governments on three continents. He was international trade negotiator at the US Department of Commerce, special assistant to South Korean Deputy Prime Minister Lee Hahn-Been, and press assistant at the Commission of the European Communities, as well as an editor of a Washington-based foreign policy journal. He has subsequently served as a member and in leadership positions on policy commissions organized by the Council on Foreign Relations, the Brookings Institution, the Carnegie Endowment, the Commission of the European Communities, Princeton University and other organizations.
He piqued my interest, and I gave him the respect to read a couple of his articles. A man like that, IMO, is entitled to have his view read.
Peter North, I think Ive discovered, is a blogger from Bristol. Who I cant find has done anything else, apart from then being son of a Richard North. He has 5000 followers on twitter, and an apparently, from what you tell us here, has a huge following of remain supporters interested for some apparent reason in his views.
Richard North, I gather, was a food safety officer with a phd in food safety from Leeds Met, and a former member of UKIP. He was research director for some political groupings Ive never heard of for 5 years, and apparently shared an office with Farage in Strasbourg. He wrote a theory paper called Flexit, (over 400 pages long, Ive not read) that apparently Aaron Banks adopted in the early days when vying to represent the Leave campaign. Both Banks, Farage and North, failed.
This 'Flexit' thing was dismissed academically by pretty much anyone who read it. I dont think he has twitter, but today, he too describes himself as a blogger.
I think Ive learned loads 😀