Global Politics
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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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Reexamining the Formula of “One Country, Two Systems”, with Reference to Hong Kong
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Yuhan Hu is an MPhil Candidate in Politics (Comparative Government) at the University of Oxford. She completed her master’s degree in China in Comparative Perspective with distinction at the London School of Economics and Political Science. Before coming to the UK, she obtained her bachelor’s degree in political science in Hong Kong. In the early…
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Death from Below: Anti-Satellite Weapons and the Current Outer Space Security Crisis
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Outer space infrastructure forms the foundation of modern civilian and military life. From a civilian perspective, the industry is valued at nearly $360 billion and enables everything from ATM transactions to navigation. From a military perspective, global reliance on space assets is even more alarming. Space infrastructure supports virtually all warfighting efforts, including intelligence, surveillance,…
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The Nagorno-Karabakh Conflict: A Win for Great Power Politics
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The dust has barely settled on the battlefields and the ink has hardly dried on the recent ceasefire agreement, but the clear winner of the brief, but bloody, conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan over the disputed territory of Nagorno-Karabakh is already apparent: great power politics. Certainly, political and military victory clearly belong to Azerbaijan. Their…
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Bolsonaro’s Supreme Court pick baffles political commentators and supporters alike
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As the United States was embroiled in debates about Donald Trump’s supreme court nominee, tensions ran high in Brazil where Bolsonaro nominated a judge to the Supreme Federal Court (the ‘Supremo Tribunal Federal’ also known as the STF). However, while Trump’s pick, Judge Amy Coney Barrett, was criticized for her hard-liner conservatism, Bolsonaro’s, Judge Kássio…
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Poland’s Abortion Ruling: What’s Happened So Far
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On October 22nd 2020, the Constitutional Tribunal of Poland (‘Tribunal’) restricted the legality of abortions in Poland. Citing harm to the foetus and irreversible birth effects, the Tribunal held that abortions are unconstitutional in nature. This ruling is the result of a request submitted by a group of 119 members of the parliament to the…
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Hanoi is increasingly worrying about its regime security
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For one-party states like Vietnam, regime security is one of the indispensable components constituting national security, meaning that the ruling parties see this as their vital interest. Besides economic and territorial integrity, Vietnam sees regime security, as its core security interests. With the current domestic socio-political and economic landscapes, it behooves the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV) to…
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China’s impact on South Asia: A discourse on India, Pakistan, and Nepal
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China’s influence continues to shape the conflict dynamics as well as the prospects for sustainable peace and development in South Asia. The elements of Chinese foreign policy take into account China’s geostrategic rivalry with India, economic expansion within the sub-continent and situation at the Sino-Indian border. This article looks into China’s influence on the Indian subcontinent…
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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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Intercepting China’s old Deceits
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The growing strains of the Trade War and international upheavals of the United States and other nations with China extend to its competitor in Asia itself. Countries that are dissatisfied with China’s supremacy are closely watching for developments on the Ladakh border conflict between India and China. The intriguing facet of the Sino-Indian tussle that…