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Who Defines Rural American Politics? Competing Constructions of American Rurality in the 2024 U.S. Presidential Election
What it means to be ‘country’ defined the vice-presidential campaigns and is transforming American politics.
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Constructing National Narratives: The Tin Drum as Ironic History
The far-right has soured on Germany’s self-critical view of its history in place since the…
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Private Sector Firms Are Telling the Stories — And Calling the Shots — About AI
Corporate narrative power is not new, but has thrived ever more in the artificial-intelligence boom
Global Politics
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Who Defines Rural American Politics? Competing Constructions of American Rurality in the 2024 U.S. Presidential Election
What it means to be ‘country’ defined the vice-presidential campaigns and is transforming American politics.
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Private Sector Firms Are Telling the Stories — And Calling the Shots — About AI
Corporate narrative power is not new, but has thrived ever more in the artificial-intelligence boom
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Ireland and the US: A Growing, Special Geoeconomic Relationship Worthy of Protection
A tax windfall from Apple gives Ireland a can’t-miss opportunity to invest in its lagging defense and relationship with the US.
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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
Interviews
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Richard Haass: ‘This has not been a golden age of American foreign policy’
OPR Speaks with President Emeritus of the Council on Foreign Relations.
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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’.
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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Constructing National Narratives: The Tin Drum as Ironic History
The far-right has soured on Germany’s self-critical view of its history in place since the end of the Second World War.
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The Politics of Climate Fiction: Why We Don’t Talk About What Is Killing the Planet
Plenty of post-apocalyptic climate fictions are quiet are the cause of disaster. This oversight has real-life consequences for our planet’s future.
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Aesthetic Engagement and the Politics of Affiliation: The Case of Allusion in Autumn
Does literature intrinsically have any political and ethical import? Not directly, but it can help inspire political action.
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Review: Globalisation and the Importation of Literature in Jameson’s Inventions of a Present
The globalisation of literature merely marks a new type of narrative consumption, where novelists become goods rather than goods-producers.
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.
Video Interviews
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