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Beyond the Carney Moment: Middle Powers at a Juncture
The world’s middle powers may have found their moment – but what about their strategy?
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The Clash of Masculinities and the Remaking of the World War
Before Europe’s lamps went out, its leaders were already stumbling in the dark corridors of…
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The Algorithmic Apologia: How Technological Might is Recoding Legal Restraint
The new doctrine of “might makes right” is not written in treaties or shouted by…
Global Politics
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Beyond the Carney Moment: Middle Powers at a Juncture
The world’s middle powers may have found their moment – but what about their strategy?
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The Clash of Masculinities and the Remaking of the World War
Before Europe’s lamps went out, its leaders were already stumbling in the dark corridors of masculine insecurity.
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The Algorithmic Apologia: How Technological Might is Recoding Legal Restraint
The new doctrine of “might makes right” is not written in treaties or shouted by strongmen; it is embedded in code.
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The Ethics of Power, the Power of Ethics
In The Triangle of Power, A. Stubb argues that the world is sliding from Helsinki back to Yalta.
Interviews
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The Cold War Trump Won’t Play: Former Chatham House Director on the US, China and the Future of World Order
From Trump’s refusal to play by the rules to Europe’s uncertain future between China and the Global South, Sir Robin Niblett weighs in on the new Cold War.
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The End of Global Islam? An Interview with Faisal Devji
Have the conditions that gave Islam its political form changed?
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Trade Unionism, Political Power, and the Future of Organised Labour in Italy
In Conversation with Luca Stanzione, General Secretary of the Italian General Confederation of Labour (Camera Generale del Lavoro, CGIL) of Milan.
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The Right-Wing Intellectuals Who Keep Winning
As the New Right consolidates power in the United States, OPR speaks with one of its deftest chroniclers and antagonists.
Latest Issue
OPR Issue 19: Might Makes Right
To interrogate the relationship between power and principle also means examining who wields that authority. The powerholder’s identity, location, and their stated reasons for control shape the nature, extent, and uses of power. The essays in this issue examine not only whether power exists without ethics, or ethics without power, but also who holds that authority – across arenas as diverse as AI, pop culture, great power conflict, and more.
Culture & Ideas
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The Heated Rivalry Between Boys’ Love and Traditional Masculinity
Can a genre built on male romance change how we understand strength?
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The Ken-ification of Hungarian Politics
What does Orbán’s defeat reveal about the limits of performative masculinity in populist politics?
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Relational and Atomised: Rethinking the Chinese Issue of Meritocracy and Solidarity
When academic worth is measured by scores and rankings, creativity gives way to calculation.
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What’s Tomorrow Worth?
Through forestry, finance, and Chilean mining law, ‘Discounting the Future’ uncovers the far-reaching political consequences of valuing tomorrow through economics.
Economy
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Equality and Efficiency in the Economics of Insurance
Can sex be used as a risk classifier to set insurance premium rates if there is an indisputable statistical correlation?
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Southeast Asia has a synthetic drug problem, China has key stake in fixing it.
Barrels of precursor chemicals seized by Myanmar police and military in Shan State. Photograph: Myanmar Police/UNODC/via Reuters Beijing has gained momentum in its bid for regional dominance in Southeast Asia. Fuelled by notions of Chinese largesse,…
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Are Human Rights Claims Mechanisms an adequate Social Justice tool to Address Inequality?
Introduction: Equality, as a concept, is not necessarily complex or abstract. It is grounded in the idea that ‘everyone counts as one and none is more than one’.1 Extrapolating from this idea, inequality exists where needs…
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The Batsman’s Responsibility: China’s Liability for its Wet Markets under International Law
Background and Introduction Between Covid-19 being dubbed as the “Chinese virus” and the Chinese being vilified for their traditional food habits, the People’s Republic of China has witnessed countless controversies over the recent pandemic. Several studies…
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