Interviews
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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.
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Russia-Ukraine Panel: What Comes Next?
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On the 4th of March 2022, OPR’s Deputy Editor Fonie Mitsopoulou hosted a panel on the current conflict between Russia and Ukraine. Our panelists included: -Professor Seva Gunitsky (University of Toronto) – Professor Neil MacFarlane (University of Oxford) – Professor Timothy Garton Ash (University of Oxford) – Orysia Lutsevych (Chatham House)
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Tariq Ali Interview
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OPR’s Fonie Mitsopoulou speaks with Tariq Ali, a prolific writer and prominent activist, about his new book, The Forty Year War in Afghanistan: A Chronicle Foretold, as well as about American imperialism and wider Middle Eastern politics. December 28, 2021.
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Steven Lukes | Oxford Political Review
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Steven Lukes is a prominent social and political theorist whose name is well-known in countless different fields. He is best known for introducing the third dimension of power; an invisible form of power which manifests itself through the influence of people’s thoughts and wishes, even in cases where this is against their own self-interest. He…
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Interview with Lois McNay: The Gender of Critical Theory
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In her most recently published book, The Gender of Critical Theory, Professor Lois McNay argues that contemporary Frankfurt School critical theorists since the 1970s have increasingly failed to attend to the lived realities of oppression.
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Interview with Samuel Moyn: The Carlyle Lectures on Cold War Liberalism
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Ming Kit Wong speaks to Samuel Moyn, Henry R. Luce Professor of Jurisprudence at Yale Law School and Professor of History at Yale University, about his series of lectures on Cold War Liberalism.
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OPR Interviews John Ikenberry
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Interviews editor Fonie Mitsopoulou and Professor Ikenberry discussed topics such as the crisis of authority being faced by the US on the international stage, the rising Chinese threat to this order, as well as wider themes of liberalism and democracy.
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OPR interview with Albin Kurti, the former Prime Minister of Kosovo
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Brian Wong and Nicholas Leah, OPR’s Editor-in-Chief and Managing Editor, speak with Albin Kurti, the former Prime Minister of Kosovo. The interview was conducted live on YouTube and Facebook at 09:00 GMT on Saturday 30 January 2021. Kurti is the the president of the largest political party in Kosova, Lëvizja VETËVENDOSJE! (Movement for Self-Determination.) Kurti…
