Brian Wong
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The Province Provides: On the Role of Inter-provincial Competition in Climate Change Response in China
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Much of the existing literature on China’s climate change response has focussed on either the efforts of the Chinese civil society[1], or those of the central administration in Beijing[2]. Such accounts note the significant room for collaboration and conflict between the state and citizenry in tackling climate change.[3] I seek to highlight and advocate the…
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[Editor’s Words] Hong Kong, COVID-19, and the Future of Global Biotech
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It is hard to think of Hong Kong under any other light than in financial terms, especially in light of the looming US-China Cold War. After all, Hong Kong is where “East meets West”; where investors from the West enter China, and where Chinese capital flows outwards and upwards. For many, Hong Kong is the…
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In conversation with Robert O. Keohane
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Brian Wong spoke to Robert O. Keohane, Professor of International Affairs, Princeton University. He is the author of After Hegemony: Cooperation and Discord in the World Political Economy (1984) and Power and Governance in a Partially Globalized World (2002). MULTILATERAL INSTITUTIONS. I have a controversial suggestion here – that much of such resentment and backlash has to do…
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Oxford Political Review Interviews Noam Chomsky
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Editor-in-Chief Brian Wong interviews Noam Chomsky – linguist, political scientist, philosopher, writer, activist, and one of the most iconic American voices of the 20th Century.
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A Conversation with Professor Wang Gungwu
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Editor-in-Chief Brian Wong speaks with Professor Wang Gungwu, the former Vice Chancellor of University of Hong Kong and highly acclaimed historian of Chinese migrant history. Prof. Wang and Brian discuss his academic work, the past, present, future of Chinese politics, and his musings on philosophy of history. OPR: A lot of your works have focussed…
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A Conversation with Carlo Cottarelli – Italian Economist, Former Prime Minister-Designate, and IMF Executive Director
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The Oxford Political Review speaks with Carlo Cottarelli, former Executive Director of the IMF (Italy etc.) and Prime Minister-designate of Italy in 2018 during the political crisis. Cottarelli is a veteran IMF bureaucrat and Italian public economist. In the conversation, Brian and Cottarelli speak over the state and future of Italian politics, the EU and…
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An Interview with Robert Reich: On the Future of Labour
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The Oxford Political Review speaks with Robert Reich, former US Secretary of Labor during Bill Clinton’s administration, leading labour economist, and current Chancellor’s Professor of Public Policy at the University of California at Berkeley and Senior Fellow at the Blum Center for Developing Economies. In the interview, Editor-in-Chief Brian Wong and Robert Reich discuss the…
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Interview with Professor Amia Srinivasan
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I was first exposed to your wonderful works through The Aptness of Anger, about which I have two lingering questions that have always intrigued me – a) if you were to develop an aptness-centric account or defense of anger, how extensive would that account be, as compared with, say, Fanon or Sartre’s conception of violence; b)…
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A Conversation with NASA Chief Scientist, Dr. Jim Green
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The Oxford Political Review interviews Dr. Jim Green, Chief Scientist at NASA and one of planetary and space science’s leading contemporary voices. Dr. Jim Green discusses NASA’s exploration of Mars, the link between climate change and space exploration, and the future of space exploration in politically transformative times. Dr. Jim Green’s booming voice sonorously greets…
