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OPR Announces Launch of Issue 14: ‘Fictions and Narratives’
The issue explores the relationship between politics, fiction, and other narrative modes of communication and imagination.
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The Randomness of the World: A Review of Fluke by Brian Klaas
Do we have meaningful control over our lives and the world? An OPR editor’s take on…
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Call for Submissions – Issue 15: Home
We now invite submissions to the Oxford Political Review’s 15th issue, under the theme of…
Global Politics
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What I Wish My Family, Culture, and Friends Told Me About Srebrenica
A Macedonian woman’s perspective on exile, massacre, and multi-ethnic tolerance
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Deep Freeze: What a Second Trump Presidency Could Mean for Climate Action
A second Trump administration may find it far harder to translate his anti-climate rhetoric into actual policy.
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Why Donald Trump Has Been Calling Democrats ‘Fascists’
By demonizing his opponents, Trump is anticipating a second term that is even more authoritarian than his first.
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Inside the Spin Room: The ABC News Presidential Debate
September 10th’s highly anticipated ABC News Presidential debate saw Vice-President Harris’ debate tactics triumph over former President Trump.
Interviews
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Litigating Genocide: Attorney Kenneth McCallion on the Herero and Nama Peoples’ Legal Quest for Reparations
In 2017, the descendants of two Namibian tribes sued Germany in the U.S. federal court. Kenneth McCallion was the lead attorney representing them.
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OPR Speaks with New Yorker Investigative Journalist, Patrick Radden Keefe
The award-winning journalist sits down with OPR to discuss the press coverage of pro-Palestine student encampments, the broader role of objectivity in journalism, and a host of other topics.
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Zeynep Pamuk on Politics and Expertise: ‘It’s not just a matter of fixing the communication and educating the people’
Antoine Levie speaks to Zeynep Pamuk, Associate Professor in Contemporary Political Theory at Oxford University about her recent book ‘Politics and Expertise’.
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OPR speaks with European Commission’s Director-General for Climate Action, Kurt Vandenberghe
OPR’s Global Politics editor Marta Kąkol interviews Kurt Vandenberghe, the Director-General of the European Commission’s Directorate-General for Climate Action.
Latest Issue
OPR Issue 14: Fiction and Narratives
From the ways framing and storytelling shape on-the-ground realities to the ways political parties, social movements, and other political actors are narrated into being, this issue explores the theme of fiction and narratives in its myriad forms.
- Towards a Narrative of the Global Environment
- Who Defines Rural American Politics?
- Private Sector Firms Are Telling the Stories —and Calling the Shots — About AI
- Constructing National Narratives: The Tin Drum as Ironic History
Culture & Ideas
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The Randomness of the World: A Review of Fluke by Brian Klaas
Do we have meaningful control over our lives and the world? An OPR editor’s take on a new answer to this age-old question.
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Trump Rallies, Bruce Springsteen and America
The split between seemingly natural bedfellows – white working class Trump supporters and Springsteen – holds two competing visions for modern America.
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‘Linguistic fascism’: Was Lord Moylan right to raise the alarm on Wales?
To defeat linguistic fascism, we must realise that the true threat to liberty comes from a desire to punish others, corporally or reputationally, for not submitting to the idea that one language should be supreme over…
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Rattling The Cage of Farmed Animal Identity
Our immediate associations of ‘cow’ with ‘milk’ and ‘beef’ are rarely coupled with a recognition of the fact that an individual animal must be exploited to obtain these products.
Law
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Language and the Law: Substantive Canons and Politicised Language
In pursuing the neutral application of the law, courts must discern the meaning of statutes. What happens when a statute’s text is not clear?
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How International Law is Law: Decoding H. L. A. Hart’s Concept of Law
Acknowledging the legitimacy of international law as a legal system, rather than succumbing to pessimism, is the first step towards the pursuit of international justice.
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Maps as Weapons: Legal Implications of Territorial Claims
Nation-states often wield maps as weapons to assert territorial claims. Due to escalating tensions between China and its neighbors and a surge in their military power, the impact created by the spread of such misinformation is…
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The ‘She’ Factor: Extending Protection of Female-Specific Legislations to the Indian LGBTQIA+ Community
There remain incongruities between the popular judicial rhetoric advocating for equal rights for the LGBTQIA+ community and its real world manifestation.
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