Global Politics
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Call for Submissions – Issue 10: ‘Everything is Fine!’
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We invite submissions to the Oxford Political Review’s 10th issue, under the theme of ‘Everything is Fine!’
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Rousing A Giant: Reconfiguring Germany’s Defence Policy in the New Age of Expansionism
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The Chancellor’s proposed programme, if successful, will negate half a century of the Germany’s foreign policy strategy.
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The Strategic Impetus and Geopolitical Consequences of India’s Deniability Outlook towards China
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India’s policy should instead be seen as rooted in “strategic deniability,” which aims to foster border deterrence. While India faces many compulsions and incentives to adopt this policy stance, it is ultimately infeasible in the long-term for how it may exacerbate regional tensions, positioning India on the brink of a confrontational future.
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Money Machine: A Riveting Read From One of Private Equity’s Very Best
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In Money Machine, Shan, the first China Tsar for JP Morgan and a Co-Managing Partner of Newbridge Capital, recounts his experience in leading an unprecedented takeover and restructuring by a foreign private equity firm of a Chinese national bank, the Shenzhen Development Bank (SDB).
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Taiwan is a Piece of Cake: US-China Relations on the Brink
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A looming military confrontation between the United States and the People’s Republic of China over the status of Taiwan endangers the future of both superpowers and the rest of the world.
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Freedom, not Fear; Truckers, Not Trudeau: Why Right-Wing Populism is Going Mainstream in Canada
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Canada’s position as the darling child of liberal democracy is facing its greatest challenge yet. Although not as extreme as his European or American counterparts, Pierre Poilievre is folding right-wing populism into the mainstream of Canadian politics.
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When Private Military Operations Fail: the Case of Mozambique
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What started as raids against small villages and police installations in Northeastern Mozambique quickly became a terrorist insurgency linked to the Islamic State’s Central African Province (ISCAP), characterized by brutal violence against civilians and devastation to the region.
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Rolling Forward the Frontiers of the State: State Capacity Expansion and Preservation of Individual Agency
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The success stories of the Nordics, therefore, hold the key to the reinvigoration of the argument for state capacity expansion in today’s world.
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Debunking the Economic and Political Myths of Deglobalization
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Looking at the contemporary global economy, many assumptions about deglobalization make the mistake of looking at globalization as a political ideology, and interpreting any deviation from its ‘deterministic’ trajectory, as an existential moment.
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Temple-Mosque Rows in India Show that Laws Enable Communal Tension
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“Local and mythological contests acquired the character of legal disputes to be settled by armies of historians, judges, politicians, bureaucrats and godmen,” Sanya Dhingra writes about how laws were weaponised in Hindu-Muslim disputes in India.