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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.
Economy
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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.
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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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Rethinking Inequality: Branko Milanovic on Capitalism’s Contradictions
Milanovic’s latest essay collection X-rays the global capitalist system, mapping the contradictions that threaten to pull it apart.
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Too Sick and Tired to Bowl Alone? Loneliness, Inequality, and Health
Loneliness isn’t just emotional—it’s structural.
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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Repackaging Faith: Analysing the Tradwife Revival
Can the tradwife movement be understood as faith, feminism’s backlash, or a symptom of modernity itself?
Video Interviews
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