Global Politics
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The Hong Kong Riots: A Comparative Account of Media Coverage in Hong Kong and the UK
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Stuart Ashcombe and guest author Ryan Cheung analyse developments in press attitudes towards the protests in Hong Kong, tracing lines of division and convergence across major media outlets in Hong Kong and the UK.
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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’)….
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Australia’s Bushfire Crisis
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It is difficult to talk about the current bushfire crisis facing Australia with anything close to the objectivity required of a journalistic article. As my home, I have struggled to come to grips with the scope of the disaster that has occurred here. For a long time, we have had the benefit of sitting on…
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“The Chinese Dream” – Discourses of Opportunity and the Realities of Racism in Modern China
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This year’s G20 summit had no shortage of tense and exciting moments. Discussions pertaining to the global climate crisis, the US-China trade war, and Putin’s fatalistic remarks on the modern liberal project dominated headlines globally. Amidst this diplomatic flurry, one leader’s voice went relatively unnoticed. Bearing the heat of Osaka’s summer sun, surrounded by a…
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The Reluctantly Liberated: Reassessing Russia sympathisers in Ukraine
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In Donbass, Pro-Russian sentiments run deeper than the conventional narrative of a Russian propaganda campaign In July I travelled to the Luhansk region of Ukraine and visited the only crossing point to the so called ‘Luhansk People’s Republic’. I was given an excursion by a guide and a Ukrainian army officer who gave me the…
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Posturing for Symmetry
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This time last month, protestors had demonstrated outside the Indian High Commission in London, where a large crowd turned up to resist the impact of Indian aggression in Kashmir. Pakistan critiqued Modi’s cabinet revoking Kashmir’s special status on the 5th of August as a violation of international law – while New Delhi struggled with maintaining…
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Israeli Elections 2019, Part II. What’s Next?
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Israel headed to the polls on Tuesday for the second time in 2019. The contest was widely seen as a referendum on Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel’s longest-serving prime minister. After a fraught election, neither Netanyahu nor his main challenger, former IDF commander Lt. Gen. Benny Gantz, have an easy path to form a coalition government. The…
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A Universal Basic Income for Indigenous Australians
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Imagine a debit card without the ability to withdraw cash. The card cannot be used to buy gambling products, alcohol, cigarettes or other drugs. At the same time, every purchase is tracked and collected by the government, to be stored and monitored at a later date. It sounds like a science fiction dystopian novel but…
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How Australia Became a Conservative Nation
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The year is 2014 and Tony Abbott, the Australian Prime Minister, announces a series of cuts to public spending across healthcare, education and unemployment benefits. Modeled off of the austerity programs sweeping Europe at the time, the cuts aimed to balance the federal budget and privatize public services. The UK, Greece, Spain and Portugal have…
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The Levellers’ Agreement: A Preview from the Author of “The Levelling: What’s Next After Globalization”
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It is likely that many Oxford students have not heard of The Levellers. More may have heard of the Putney Debates. The Debates have recently been acknowledged as one of the most important moments in English history and as the crucible of modern constitutional democracy. More than a year earlier, King Charles I had lost…