Oxford Political Review
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Is There a Right to Exclude Migrants in a Post-Colonial World?
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February 2014, somewhere on the Mediterranean Sea, between Turkey and Greece: two gunshots ring out from a Greek coastal guard vessel. Passengers on a smuggler’s boat headed for the Greek island of Chios begin to panic. Through loudspeakers a Greek coastal guard screams “Stop!” repeatedly, like a mantra. But the smuggler doesn’t stop the boat….
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Yazidis in Northern Iraq: A human rights crisis within the pandemic
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The coronavirus pandemic has affected nations and communities across the world, with cases nearing 50 million and deaths over a million and increasing globally. In Iraq, cases and deaths are rising exponentially every day, with close to 500,000 cases and 11,000 deaths in total. The situation is even worse in Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) camps…
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Emerging Opportunities and Challenges in India’s Foreign Policy strategy in the Indo-Pacific
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Introduction Throughout the history of civilizations, the maritime domain has played a crucial role in establishing global and regional powers, and security architecture of geographical regions. The security umbrella established at the end of the Second World War in Indian and Pacific oceans remained unchallenged throughout the Cold War. However, the rise of China and…
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The Crumbling Pillar of Opposition Parties
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Democracy in the post-world war era is understood as a form of government which permits rotation of power. For democracy to thrive, it requires incumbents to lose elections from time to time. When reelection is guaranteed, ruling parties do not see any incentives to respond to public opinions or ensure the general welfare. Such structures even witness…
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Are Human Rights Claims Mechanisms an adequate Social Justice tool to Address Inequality?
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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 of some are disproportionately emphasised over others. This could be a result of numerous factors.2 It is likely that…
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Review of Nick Timothy’s ‘Remaking One Nation’
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In June 2017, Nick Timothy left Downing Street for the last time: disgraced and demoralised, in a few short months Timothy – with his co-Chief of Staff Fiona Hill – had steered Theresa May from an exalted status as the new Iron Lady to a vanishingly slim victory over a Labour leader she had been…
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The Chloroquine Conundrum and Herd Immunity in Pakistan
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Pakistan has had a questionable engagement with the COVID–19 pandemic with analysts terming the state’s response as complacent, supplemented by a refusal to follow social–distancing guidance by congregating for prayers and living in densely populated regions with shared communal spaces. With the lack of sufficient healthcare infrastructure, Pakistan should be teetering on the edge of…
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Can you put a price on saving a life from coronavirus?
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The novel Coronavirus pandemic has stopped the world in its tracks. In particular, the onslaught of cases and community spread in the United States has sent the Federal Government into a full-blown panic. After poo-pooing the virus for weeks as something less dangerous than the common Flu, the government has begun to roll out plans…
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Can Those from Bangladesh’s Long-silent Tea Gardens Speak?
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To design development projects to transform the lives of thousands of tea-pickers in Sreemangal, Bangladesh, state and non-state actors must critically engage with local ideas and culture. Perhaps this morning too, you were energised by the stimulating effect of tea, the most widely consumed drink around the world after water. The increasingly widespread aroma of this…
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On the Citizenship Amendment Act 2019 – And How It Began
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Jointly authored by: Harsh Bajpai, Ahmed Shafquat Hassan, Shreya Khandelwal The 2019 winter session of the Indian Parliament saw discussion, debate and disagreements surrounding the Citizenship Amendment Bill which – after receiving the President’s assent on 12th December, 2019 – has now become the Citizenship (Amendment) Act 2019 (henceforth referred to as ‘the said act’)….