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OPR Issue 16: Nothing Is Ever Always

How does one think about hope in a breaking world? Refusing both despair and wishful thinking, this issue explores instances of unexpected reversals, near-misses, disasters-overturned, and new opportunities seized amidst challenging circumstances.

  • The Need for Judicial Re-equilibration after Democratic Backsliding
  • Populism’s Achilles Heel: Spain’s Vox Party and the Fragility of the Radical Right’s Online Echo Chambers
  • Ghosts of the War on Terror: Perils and Promise in US Drug Policy for Latin America
  • On Our Love of Redemption


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International Relations Scholar John Mearsheimer

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