Interviews
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“If I Can Advance Climate Protection, I’ll Do It Even If It’s Not Perfect”: Franziska Brantner on the Path towards a Greener Future
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“Instead of emphasising competition, countries should create joint markets with joint standards and joint supply chains, and this should include the Global South. ” The OPR’s Jason Chau interviews Franziska Brantner, the Parliamentary State Secretary at the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action, at the Munich Security Conference.
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“In Germany, We’re Constantly Overestimating Putin and Underestimating Our Own Capabilities”: Franziska Brantner on the War in Ukraine and German Democracy
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“Brantner comes across as someone unlikely to mince her words, a quality which journalists have found to be rare among Germany’s governing class.” Jason Chau interviews Franziska Brantner, the Parliamentary State Secretary at the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action, at the Munich Security Conference.
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“Green Growth is Incredibly Dangerous and Deeply Morally Irresponsible”: Kate Raworth on the Need for a Post-Growth World
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For Raworth, what’s problematic about mainstream economics is the framing of the market as the center of our economic thinking. To her, it is a deliberately political move, placing price as the metric of concern above others.
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“The World Would be Plunged into a Manufacturing Crisis Unseen Since 1929”: Chris Miller on Chip War and Taiwan
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In our interview, we talked about the state of technological competition between the West and China, the development of microchips in the past decades, and the global reliance on Taiwan, a place situated at the very center of the most consequential geopolitical divide of our time.
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Interview with Avi Shlaim on upcoming book: “Three Worlds: Memoir of an Arab-Jew”
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The OPR speaks to Professor Shlaim about his upcoming memoir, Three Worlds: Memoir of an Arab-Jew, due to be published in June of 2023.
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Dispatches from Vienna – Economist Francisco Zanetti on Economic Uncertainties in Times of War
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“If recession looms and unemployment persists, ‘making the labour market a little more dynamic might help.'” Jason Chau speaks with Professor Francisco Zanetti in Vienna about the economic uncertainties Europe faces at the moment.
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“I’ve been attacked… not with facts and logic, but personally”: John Mearsheimer on the War in Ukraine
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“As my mother taught me when I was a little boy, if you can’t beat them with facts and logic, you get down in the gutter, and this is by and large what’s happened to me.” In the second installation to this series, Jason Chau and Andrew Wang speak to Professor John Mearsheimer about the…
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“This is an issue that makes me very nervous”: John Mearsheimer on the US-China Rivalry
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“The Chinese are never the aggressors, always the victims. It sounds a lot like American exceptionalism: Americans also like to think that they are the good guys.” Jason Chau and Andrew Wang speak to University of Chicago professor and famous international scholar, John Mearsheimer, about the US-China rivalry.
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Interview with Gregory Claeys: Utopianism for a Dying Planet
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Gregory Claeys is Professor of History of Political Thought at Royal Holloway, University of London.
