Global Politics
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When War and Nature Collide in Ukraine
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Russia’s invasion also represents an ecological catastrophe, depriving flora and fauna alongside human victims. Restoration may take lifetimes.
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Singapore’s ‘Invisible’ Population: The Perpetual ‘Homelessness’ of Migrant Workers
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Singapore’s pristine cityscape and reputation as a futuristic utopia is built on the labour of an ‘invisible’ workforce.
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Double Agents? How Immigrant-Origin Teens Find Belonging
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Immigrant-origin teens make friends at high rates, casting doubt on the notion that multiculturalism must be divisive.
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Space Predestined to Demise: The Making and Falling of Fragile Homes in the Calais ‘Jungle’
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The efforts of refugees in Calais to carve out spaces of memory, survival, and resistance is just defiance against expulsion and violence.
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To Live Under the Gathering Storm
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The fates of two Japanese figures with pre-WW2 connections to the US reveals much about today’s geopolitical rivalries.
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Nations without States: Catalonia’s Struggle for Recognition
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Spain’s Constitution does not see Catalonia’s nationhood. To resolve nationalist tensions, a complete reimagining of the nation is needed.
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Protected Land, Lost Homes: How China’s Farmland Protection Policies Lead to Rural Dispossession
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‘The strictest land-management system in the world’ has fueled massive growth at the expense of rural communities.
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Sheikh Hasina’s Rule in Bangladesh: The Road to Authoritarianism
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The autocratic legacy of this once-democratic icon holds back her country’s politics.
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Turning Numbers into News: the Economist’s Sondre Solstad on Data Journalism and Mapping the Ukraine War
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OPR sits down with Dr Sondre Ulvund Solstad, a senior data journalist at the Economist.
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Tangled Offerings: Modi’s Diplomatic Gifts
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More than tokens of goodwill, the Indian prime minister’s lavish presents reflect his Hindu-nationalist domestic and foreign policies.