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# Oxford Political Review

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## Posts

- [OPR Interviews Stephen Roach](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2023/06/20/opr-interviews-stephen-roach/) - June 20, 2023 | Our Interviews Editor Jason Chau and former Editor-in-Chief Simon Hunt sit down with Stephen Roach for a discussion on China-Russia relations, the geopolitics of technology, the Chinese domestic economy, and more.
- [Call For Original Artwork for Issue 10, 'Everything is Fine!'](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2023/06/20/call-for-original-artwork-for-issue-10-everything-is-fine/) - June 20, 2023 | The OPR is looking for some original artwork for the cover page of our 10th issue, 'Everything is Fine!'
- [The Ethics of Power, the Power of Ethics](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2026/07/02/the-ethics-of-power-the-power-of-ethics/) - July 2, 2026 | In The Triangle of Power, A. Stubb argues that the world is sliding from Helsinki back to Yalta.
- [The Ken-ification of Hungarian Politics](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2026/06/29/the-ken-ification-of-hungarian-politics/) - June 29, 2026 | What does Orbán’s defeat reveal about the limits of performative masculinity in populist politics?
- [Iran’s illiberal crusade unifies the left, the right, and the apolitical](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2026/06/25/irans-illiberal-crusade-unifies-the-left-the-right-and-the-apolitical/) - June 25, 2026 | The Islamic Republic has learned to speak every political language except liberalism.
- [Relational and Atomised: Rethinking the Chinese Issue of Meritocracy and Solidarity](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2026/06/23/relational-and-atomised-rethinking-the-chinese-issue-of-meritocracy-and-solidarity/) - June 23, 2026 | When academic worth is measured by scores and rankings, creativity gives way to calculation.
- [Beyond Putin: A Review of Jonathan Haslam’s Hubris](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2026/06/17/beyond-putin-a-review-of-jonathan-haslams-hubris/) - June 17, 2026 | In Hubris, Jonathan Haslam challenges the idea that Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine can be explained by Putin’s ambition alone.
- [The Cold War Trump Won’t Play: Former Chatham House Director on the US, China and the Future of World Order](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2026/06/10/the-cold-war-trump-wont-play-former-chatham-house-director-on-the-us-china-and-the-future-of-world-order/) - June 10, 2026 | From Trump’s refusal to play by the rules to Europe’s uncertain future between China and the Global South, Sir Robin Niblett weighs in on the new Cold War.
- [Repackaging Faith: Analysing the Tradwife Revival](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2026/05/06/repackaging-faith-analysing-the-tradwife-revival/) - May 6, 2026 | Can the tradwife movement be understood as faith, feminism’s backlash, or a symptom of modernity itself?
- [When AI Becomes the Absolute: How Our Beliefs Turn Technology into Religion ](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2026/04/09/when-ai-becomes-the-absolute-how-our-beliefs-turn-technology-into-religion/) - April 9, 2026 | Is AI replacing religion, or is it simply revealing how deeply human beings need something to believe in?
- [The Politics of Technological Pessimism](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2026/03/26/the-politics-of-technological-pessimism/) - March 26, 2026 | Ashcroft’s book reminds us that technology is never just a tool, but a political force capable of shaping the future as much as threatening it.
- [‘Lawful But Awful’: Humanising the Digital State ](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2026/04/06/lawful-but-awful-humanising-the-digital-state/) - April 6, 2026 | Today, the failure of our digital institutions is driving us backwards. When the public sphere is governed by an opaque and arbitrary algorithm, trust collapses.
- [Who Is to Blame for the Doings of the Death Machine?](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2026/03/22/who-is-to-blame-for-the-doings-of-the-death-machine/) - March 22, 2026 | Autonomous weapons may change warfare, but they should not erase accountability.
- [The Responsibility Vacuum: How Vibe Coding Breaks Legal Accountability](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2026/03/19/the-responsibility-vacuum-how-vibe-coding-breaks-legal-accountability/) - March 19, 2026 | When code is generated by AI, accepted by humans, and deployed without meaningful review, the law is left struggling to assign responsibility for the harm that follows.
- [OPR Announces Launch of Issue 19: Might Makes Right](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2026/06/08/opr-announces-launch-of-issue-19-might-makes-right/) - June 8, 2026 | Oxford Political Review is thrilled to announce the release of its 19th issue, Might Makes Right.
- [The End of Global Islam? An Interview with Faisal Devji](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2026/06/04/the-end-of-global-islam-an-interview-with-faisal-devji/) - June 4, 2026 | Have the conditions that gave Islam its political form changed?
- [It’s Never About the Gorilla](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2026/05/29/its-never-about-the-gorilla/) - The White House's Harabe tribute is a crude joke. The real target is the dignity of those who challenge racism.
- [What’s Tomorrow Worth?](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2026/05/25/whats-tomorrow-worth/) - May 25, 2026 | Through forestry, finance, and Chilean mining law, ‘Discounting the Future’ uncovers the far-reaching political consequences of valuing tomorrow through economics.
- [The Rule of Law in the Age of AI](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2026/05/19/the-rule-of-law-in-the-age-of-ai/) - May 19, 2026 | Can a legal system built on human judgment quietly hand its conscience to code?
- [The Ghost in the Machine of Modern Diplomacy: Big Tech as an Invisible Sovereign](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2026/05/15/the-ghost-in-the-machine-of-modern-diplomacy-big-tech-as-an-invisible-sovereign/) - May 15, 2026 | Is the real power in modern diplomacy the voice – or the platforms that decide who hears it?
- [Trade Unionism, Political Power, and the Future of Organised Labour in Italy](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2026/04/28/trade-unionism-political-power-and-the-future-of-organised-labour-in-italy/) - April 28, 2026 | In Conversation with Luca Stanzione, General Secretary of the Italian General Confederation of Labour (Camera Generale del Lavoro, CGIL) of Milan.
- [Reflecting on Empathy on the Occasion of My Conscription](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2026/02/18/reflecting-on-empathy-on-the-occasion-of-my-conscription/) - February 18, 2026 | When sacrifice becomes routine, it stops being recognised. And what goes unrecognised often turns into resentment.
- [Breaking Ranks: The Law’s Quiet War on Civil Servant Whistleblowing](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2026/01/26/breaking-ranks-the-laws-quiet-war-on-civil-servant-whistleblowing/) - January 26, 2026 | Whistleblowers appear to stand alone. Their sacrifice is rooted in a deeper form of solidarity.
- [Retreat as Resistance: The Weilian Discipline of Attention ](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2026/01/20/retreat-as-resistance-the-weilian-discipline-of-attention/) - January 20, 2026 | What if resistance begins with retreat?
- [From Loneliness to Narcissism: Solidarity and Solitude in the Age of Extremism](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2026/01/18/from-loneliness-to-narcissism-solidarity-and-solitude-in-the-age-of-extremism/) - January 18, 2026 | Never has belonging been so visible—and so absent.
- [From Collective to Connected: Solitude, Solidarity, and the Struggle for Chinese Feminism](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2026/01/13/from-collective-to-connected-solitude-solidarity-and-the-struggle-for-chinese-feminism/) - January 13, 2026 | How can a movement built on solidarity begin in solitude?
- [Too Sick and Tired to Bowl Alone? Loneliness, Inequality, and Health ](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2026/01/15/too-sick-and-tired-to-bowl-alone-loneliness-inequality-and-health/) - January 15, 2026 | Loneliness isn’t just emotional—it’s structural.
- [The Weaponisation of Virtue: Liberalism and Beijing’s March Towards Virtuocracy](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2026/01/07/the-weaponisation-of-virtue-liberalism-and-beijings-march-towards-virtuocracy/) - January 7, 2026 | What happens when the state decides what it means to be good?
- [The Authoritarian Apologia Industry: How Democratic Fatigue Fuels Dangerous Revisionism](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2026/04/17/the-authoritarian-apologia-industry-how-democratic-fatigue-fuels-dangerous-revisionism/) - April 17, 2026 | Is democracy being scrutinized—or slowly abandoned?
- [Governing Acceleration: Navigating AI Warfare as a Political Problem](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2026/04/13/governing-acceleration-navigating-ai-warfare-as-a-political-problem/) - April 13, 2026 | Who is in control when warfare decisions must be made at machine speed?
- [Call for Submissions – Issue 19: Might Makes Right](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2026/04/02/call-for-submissions-issue-19-might-makes-right/) - April 2, 2026 | Like no other time in recent memory, power and strength seems to trump law, ethics, and restraint. Submit by 11:59 PM April 22.
- [The Right-Wing Intellectuals Who Keep Winning ](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2026/03/31/the-right-wing-intellectuals-who-keep-winning/) - March 31, 2026 | As the New Right consolidates power in the United States, OPR speaks with one of its deftest chroniclers and antagonists.
- [Solidarity as Strategy: China’s ‘True Multilateralism’ and the Solitude of Rules](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2026/03/27/solidarity-as-strategy-chinas-true-multilateralism-and-the-solitude-of-rules/) - March 27, 2026 | China champions “true multilateralism,” yet the rules that define it increasingly stand alone.
- [Vibing over Communicating: Memeified Extremism in the Digital Age](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2026/03/24/vibing-over-communicating-memeified-extremism-in-the-digital-age/) - March 24, 2026 | When memes replace manifestos, how does extremism communicate?
- [Europe’s Defence Awakening: The Case for Federal Integration](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2026/03/20/europes-defence-awakening-the-case-for-federal-integration/) - March 20, 2026 | In the face of unprecedented geopolitical challenges, perhaps the time has come for European integration in defence?
- [AI is Replacing Therapists. Are Priests Next?](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2026/03/17/ai-is-replacing-therapists-are-priests-next/) - March 17, 2026 | Can a machine offer moral guidance? The rise of AI suggests that society may soon test whether spiritual authority can be simulated.
- [OPR Announces Launch of Issue 18: ‘Ghost in the Machine’](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2026/03/13/opr-announces-launch-of-issue-18-ghost-in-the-machine/) - March 13, 2026 | Oxford Political Review is thrilled to announce the release of its 18th issue, ‘Ghost in the Machine’. What distinguishes humans from machines? Whether it’s real connection, nuance, judgement, or even faith, the essays in this issue show that amid humanity’s existential struggle with its own technological creation, the human element endures. You can click here to read Issue
- [‘Problematising Genealogy is to History what Psychoanalysis is to the Practical Self-Relation’: An Interview with Amy Allen for the Oxford Political Review ](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2026/02/19/problematising-genealogy-is-to-history-what-psychoanalysis-is-to-the-practical-self-relation-an-interview-with-amy-allen-for-the-oxford-political-review/) - February 19, 2026 | Grappling with the most pressing political topics requires us to reflect on how we are situated in and implicated in the relations of power we are trying to understand and critique.
- [Union Without Uniformity: How Federalism Can Hold Together a Diverse People](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2026/02/17/union-without-uniformity-how-federalism-can-hold-together-a-diverse-people/) - February 17, 2026 | Unity does not require uniformity. In fact, forcing uniformity may be the surest way to destroy unity altogether.
- [OPR speaks with US diplomat Jim O’Brien](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2026/02/05/opr-speaks-with-us-diplomat-jim-obrien/) - From the lessons of the 1995 Dayton accord for a Gaza peace plan to Europe's future, a former assistant secretary of state weighs in.
- [Rethinking Inequality: Branko Milanovic on Capitalism’s Contradictions](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2026/01/19/rethinking-inequality-branko-milanovic-on-capitalisms-contradictions/) - January 19, 2026 | Milanovic’s latest essay collection X-rays the global capitalist system, mapping the contradictions that threaten to pull it apart.
- [The Weaponisation of Vetoes in EU Enlargement process: the Case of North Macedonia](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2026/01/20/the-weaponisation-of-vetoes-in-eu-enlargement-process-the-case-of-north-macedonia/) - January 20, 2026 | Unanimity was meant to protect Europe’s unity. North Macedonia’s case shows how, instead, some capitals hold EU enlargement hostage.
- [Call for Submissions – Issue 18: ‘Ghost in the Machine’](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2025/12/18/call-for-submissions-issue-18-ghost-in-the-machine/) - December 18, 2025 | There is a spectre haunting our planet: a ghost in the machine. The accelerating ‘fourth industrial revolution’ has summoned up technologies capable of transforming politics worldwide—tools with the potential to make good governance easy governance too. As the state has become larger and more complex, the machinery of state has grown too, ever more vital in guiding
- [Can Nationalism Save Democracy?](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2026/01/11/can-nationalism-save-democracy/) - January 11, 2026 | As imperial presidencies, tariffs, and friendshoring reshape global politics, might this moment also signal a revival of democracy?
- [What Remains of a Country When the Land Is Gone?](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2026/01/05/what-remains-of-a-country-when-the-land-is-gone/) - January 5, 2026 | In an age of rising seas and shifting borders, those most affected ask: what still constitutes sovereignty?
- [OPR Announces Launch of Issue 17: ‘Solidarity and Solitude’](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2025/12/09/opr-announces-launch-of-issue-17-solidarity-and-solitude/) - December 9, 2025 | Oxford Political Review is thrilled to announce the release of its 17th issue, ‘Solidarity and Solitude’. Is it better to be a part of a crowd or stand alone? Whether solitude enables solidarity, the reverse, or something in between, the essays in this issue demonstrate that the relationship between the two is complex and unexpected. You
- [A New Shield: How the Saudi-Pakistan Security Pact Seeks to Redraw Regional Power Lines](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2025/11/18/a-new-shield-how-the-saudi-pakistan-security-pact-seeks-to-redraw-regional-power-lines/) - Amidst an uncertain security order, two old partners formalised their defence ties. Could their pact transform the Middle East?
- [‘Moral Ambition’ Is Too Ambitious, and Not Ambitious Enough ](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2025/10/01/moral-ambition-is-too-ambitious-and-not-ambitious-enough/) - Bregman's latest book may be a call to action for some, but to what is dangerously unclear.
- [Overcoming Injustice: OPR in Conversation with Sally Haslanger](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2025/09/24/overcoming-injustice-opr-in-conversation-with-sally-haslanger/) - Oxford Political Review | While individuals matter, 'collective action is our best bet' for disrupting interwoven systems of oppression.
- [OPR speaks with Askold Kurov, exiled Russian Filmmaker](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2025/08/27/opr-speaks-with-askold-kurov-exiled-russian-filmmaker/) - August 27, 2025 | The director of the hit film 'Of Caravan and the Dogs' recalls the Putin regime's totalitarian turn after the invasion of Ukraine.
- [Submit to Issue 17: Solidarity and Solitude](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2025/08/25/submit-to-issue-17-solidarity-and-solitude/) - Is it better to be a part of a crowd or stand alone? Contribute to our issue on the promise and perils of individual versus group action. Due 29 Sept.
- [Lamenting the World as We Know It: Robert D. Kaplan’s Waste Land](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2025/07/22/lamenting-the-world-as-we-know-it-robert-d-kaplans-waste-land/) - July 22, 2025 | Kaplan’s historical analysis comments on the adverse effects of technological developments, demographic dynamics, resource scarcity, and climate change.
- [On Our Love of Redemption](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2025/07/22/on-our-love-of-redemption/) - July 22, 2025 | Perhaps we long for redemption not because we believe in it, but because we cannot bear a world without the possibility.
- [What Gives? The Painful Realities Europe Faces After NATO’s Pledge to Increase Military Spending](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2025/07/17/what-gives-the-painful-realities-europe-faces-after-natos-pledge-to-increase-military-spending/) - July 17, 2025 | A historic pledge to spend more on defence presents not just a financial challenge, but a political and social one too.
- [Sober, and in Search of Something More: A Pessimist’s Guide to Life](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2025/07/15/sober-and-in-search-of-something-more-a-pessimists-guide-to-life/) - July 15, 2025 | In a world of wars, famines, and crises, what does it mean to theorise and act politically? A pessimist's viewpoint can take us forward.
- [Melancholy and Hope in the Anthropocene: Keats’ Negative Capability, Barad’s Agential Realism, and the Politics of Possibilities](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2025/07/15/melancholy-and-hope-in-the-anthropocene-keats-negative-capability-barads-agential-realism-and-the-politics-of-possibilities/) - July 15, 2025 | Amid environmental crisis, rethinking our relationship to nature and resilience may provide a realistic basis for hope.
- [The Paradox of Answered Prayers: A Case for Cautious Pessimism](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2025/07/13/the-paradox-of-answered-prayers-a-case-for-cautious-pessimism/) - July 13, 2025 | In politics, what feels like deliverance may only be the beginning of the next test — as the experiences of the Soviet Union and China show.
- [AI’s Material Infrastructure: An Urban Planning Challenge for the Digital Age](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2025/07/13/ais-material-infrastructure-an-urban-planning-challenge-for-the-digital-age/) - July 13, 2025 | AI is only as competent or equitable as its supporting infrastructure. A reimagining of cities and space is needed.
- [Review: Israel-Palestine: Federation or Apartheid?](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2025/07/13/review-israel-palestine-federation-or-apartheid/) - July 13, 2025 | Shlomo Sand's newest book examines potential ends to the Israel-Palestine conflict, but not how his preference, a federation, could arise.
- [The Need for Judicial Re-equilibration after Democratic Backsliding](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2025/06/26/the-need-for-judicial-re-equilibration-after-democratic-backsliding/) - June 26, 2025 | To repair courts compromised by backsliding, leaders have to balance the costs of reform versus inaction.
- [Populism’s Achilles Heel: Spain’s Vox Party and the Fragility of the Radical Right’s Online Echo Chambers ](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2025/06/26/populisms-achilles-heel-spains-vox-party-and-the-fragility-of-the-radical-rights-online-echo-chambers/) - June 26, 2025 | Spain's populists were leading in the polls, but faltered and never recovered. This unexpected turn could prove instructive for more places.
- [Echoes of Truth: Hong Kong’s Independent Media Amidst Repression](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2025/06/26/echoes-of-truth-hong-kongs-independent-media-amidst-repression/) - June 26, 2025 | Hong Kong's independent media has faced unprecedented repression, and yet evidence of resilience abound.
- [Ghosts of the War on Terror: Perils and Promise in US Drug Policy for Latin America](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2025/06/26/ghosts-of-the-war-on-terror-perils-and-promise-in-us-drug-policy-for-latin-america/) - June 26, 2025 | A generation of US conterterrorism policy is now being (mis)applied to fighting drug cartels in Latin America.
- [Withering Procés: The Return of the Pro-Unionist Socialist Party of Catalonia and the Breakdown of Catalan Nationalism](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2025/07/05/withering-proces-the-return-of-the-pro-unionist-socialist-party-of-catalonia-and-the-breakdown-of-catalan-nationalism/) - July 5, 2025 | While many Catalans once hoped for independence, there is now disillusionment with the movement. What happened?
- [OPR Announces Launch of Issue 16: ‘Nothing Is Ever Always’](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2025/06/20/opr-announces-launch-of-issue-16-nothing-is-ever-always/) - June 20, 2025 | The issue explores instances of unexpected reversals, near-misses, and new opportunities seized amidst challenging circumstances.
- [OPR Speaks with Former President of Colombia, Ivan Duque](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2025/05/25/opr-speaks-with-former-president-of-colombia-ivan-duque/) - May 25, 2025 | The differing visions of the current president and of his predecessor, Duque, continue to define the country's polarised politics.
- [Into the New World – What do South Korean protesters really want now?](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2025/05/20/into-the-new-world-what-do-south-korean-protesters-really-want-now/) - May 20, 2025 | A collection of voices from the anti-president street rallies hints at the resolute yet diverse aspirations of the citizens.
- [Review: The Making of Public Space by Luc Boltanski and Arnaud Esquerre](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2025/05/07/review-the-making-of-public-space-by-luc-boltanski-and-arnaud-esquerre/) - May 7, 2025 | The book inquires into how certain events come to be politicised in contemporary liberal democracies by focusing on the individual and their experience of the public sphere.
- [Review of How the Heartland Went Red: Why Local Forces Matter in an Age of Nationalized Politics](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2025/04/30/review-of-how-the-heartland-went-red-why-local-forces-matter-in-an-age-of-nationalized-politics/) - April 30, 2025 | The rightward turn in America's postindustrial regions shows the role of place in partisan allegiance.
- [The Shifting Border and the Shaping of Community – Is it Time for Reclamation?](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2025/04/26/the-shifting-border-and-the-shaping-of-community-is-it-time-for-reclamation/) - April 26, 2025 |
- [New Urban Dispositions: A Review of Cities Rethought](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2025/04/26/new-urban-dispositions-a-review-of-cities-rethought/) - April 26, 2025 | A new book reimagines cities not as static entities but as fluid, dynamic spaces with possibilities to collectively address global crises.
- [Singapore’s ‘Invisible’ Population: The Perpetual ‘Homelessness’ of Migrant Workers](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2025/04/25/singapores-invisible-population-the-perpetual-homelessness-of-migrant-workers/) - April 25, 2025 | Singapore’s pristine cityscape and reputation as a futuristic utopia is built on the labour of an ‘invisible’ workforce.
- [When War and Nature Collide in Ukraine](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2025/04/25/when-war-and-nature-collide-in-ukraine/) - April 25, 2025 | Russia's invasion also represents an ecological catastrophe, depriving flora and fauna alongside human victims. Restoration may take lifetimes.
- [Double Agents? How Immigrant-Origin Teens Find Belonging](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2025/04/24/double-agents-how-immigrant-origin-teens-find-belonging/) - April 24, 2025 | Immigrant-origin teens make friends at high rates, casting doubt on the notion that multiculturalism must be divisive.
- [Space Predestined to Demise: The Making and Falling of Fragile Homes in the Calais ‘Jungle’](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2025/04/24/space-predestined-to-demise-the-making-and-falling-of-fragile-homes-in-the-calais-jungle/) - April 24, 2025 | The efforts of refugees in Calais to carve out spaces of memory, survival, and resistance is just defiance against expulsion and violence.
- [To Live Under the Gathering Storm](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2025/04/21/to-live-under-the-gathering-storm/) - April 21, 2025 | The fates of two Japanese figures with pre-WW2 connections to the US reveals much about today's geopolitical rivalries.
- [Nations without States: Catalonia’s Struggle for Recognition](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2025/04/21/nations-without-states-catalonias-struggle-for-recognition/) - April 21, 2025 | Spain's Constitution does not see Catalonia's nationhood. To resolve nationalist tensions, a complete reimagining of the nation is needed.
- [Klaus Welle: ‘The solidarity among the 27 Member States is decisive’](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2025/04/11/klaus-welle-the-solidarity-among-the-27-member-states-is-decisive/) - April 11, 2025 | OPR speaks with the former Secretary General of the European Parliament.
- [Home Is Where the Trauma Is: Artistic Explorations of Generational Trauma](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2025/04/17/home-is-where-the-trauma-is-artistic-explorations-of-generational-trauma/) - April 17, 2025 | Questions of German identity and the memories of the Holocaust intersect in Spiegelman's Maus.
- [OPR Announces Launch of Issue 15 ‘Home’ ](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2025/04/11/opr-announces-launch-of-issue-15-home/) - April 11, 2025 | This issue explores the ever-changing ideas of belonging, community, and migration in an increasingly mobile world.
- [Protected Land, Lost Homes: How China’s Farmland Protection Policies Lead to Rural Dispossession](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2025/04/17/protected-land-lost-homes-how-chinas-farmland-protection-policies-lead-to-rural-dispossession/) - April 17, 2025 | 'The strictest land-management system in the world' has fueled massive growth at the expense of rural communities.
- [Call for Submissions – Issue 16: Nothing is Ever Always](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2025/03/17/call-for-submissions-issue-16-nothing-is-ever-always/) - March 17, 2025 | We now invite submissions to the Oxford Political Review’s 16th issue, under the theme of ‘Nothing is Ever Always’.
- [Sheikh Hasina’s Rule in Bangladesh: The Road to Authoritarianism](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2025/04/04/sheikh-hasinas-rule-in-bangladesh-the-road-to-authoritarianism/) - April 4, 2025 | The autocratic legacy of this once-democratic icon holds back her country's politics.
- [Interview with Quentin Skinner](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2023/01/30/quentin-skinner-interview/) - January 30, 2023 | Quentin Skinner is an intellectual historian and currently the Barbara Beaumont Professor of the Humanities, and Co-director of the Centre for the Study of the History of Political Thought at Queen Mary, University of London.
- [Reappraising a controversial figure: Ross Carroll’s Edmund Burke](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2025/03/24/reappraising-a-controversial-figure-ross-carrolls-edmund-burke/) - March 24, 2025 | The book explores the complexities of a figure who was very much a man of his time, whilst also being out of fit with it in a number of ways.
- [Turning Numbers into News: the Economist’s Sondre Solstad on Data Journalism and Mapping the Ukraine War](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2025/02/28/turning-numbers-into-news-the-economists-sondre-solstad-on-data-journalism-and-mapping-the-ukraine-war/) - February 28, 2025 | OPR sits down with Dr Sondre Ulvund Solstad, a senior data journalist at the Economist.
- [The Power of Political Storytelling: How Framing Shapes U.S. Presidential Debates](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2025/01/24/the-power-of-political-storytelling-how-framing-shapes-u-s-presidential-debates/) - January 24, 2025 | Media and technology are revolutionising political storytelling, reshaping public debates, and intensifying concerns about bias and truth in our digital age.
- [Tangled Offerings: Modi’s Diplomatic Gifts](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2025/01/26/tangled-offerings-modis-diplomatic-gifts/) - January 26, 2025 | More than tokens of goodwill, the Indian prime minister's lavish presents reflect his Hindu-nationalist domestic and foreign policies.
- [Despite Nine Years of War, Yemeni Women Are Creating New Spaces for Empowerment](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2025/01/26/despite-nine-years-of-war-yemeni-women-are-creating-new-spaces-for-empowerment/) - January 26, 2025 | Yemen's women are charting their own path forward, regardless of economic or political constraints, pressing for new roles in the public square.
- [Towards a Narrative of the Global Environment](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2025/01/24/towards-a-narrative-of-the-global-environment/) - January 24, 2025 | Building a more sustainable society depends on upending how we talk about nature.
- [Review: Respect and Loathing in American Democracy](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2025/01/24/review-respect-and-loathing-in-american-democracy/) - January 24, 2025 | Liberals claim to welcome everybody, but struggle to tolerate conservatives. A new book aims to unpack this paradox.
- [The Political Consequences of the Politicians Who Cried Looter](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2025/01/24/the-political-consequences-of-the-politicians-who-cried-looter/) - January 24, 2025 | When lies and gross exaggerations are allowed to flourish there can be devastating consequences, particularly amid crisis.
- [Who Defines Rural American Politics? Competing Constructions of American Rurality in the 2024 U.S. Presidential Election](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2025/01/17/who-defines-rural-american-politics-competing-constructions-of-american-rurality-in-the-2024-u-s-presidential-election/) - January 17, 2025 | What it means to be 'country' defined the vice-presidential campaigns and is transforming American politics.
- [Constructing National Narratives: The Tin Drum as Ironic History](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2025/01/17/constructing-national-narratives-the-tin-drum-as-ironic-history/) - January 17, 2025 | The far-right has soured on Germany's self-critical view of its history in place since the end of the Second World War.
- [Private Sector Firms Are Telling the Stories — And Calling the Shots — About AI](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2025/01/13/private-sector-firms-are-telling-the-stories-and-calling-the-shots-about-ai/) - January 13, 2025 | Corporate narrative power is not new, but has thrived ever more in the artificial-intelligence boom
- [The Politics of Climate Fiction: Why We Don’t Talk About What Is Killing the Planet](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2025/01/13/the-politics-of-climate-fiction-why-we-dont-talk-about-what-is-killing-the-planet/) - January 13, 2025 | Plenty of post-apocalyptic climate fictions are quiet are the cause of disaster. This oversight has real-life consequences for our planet's future.
- [Aesthetic Engagement and the Politics of Affiliation: The Case of Allusion in Autumn](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2025/01/11/aesthetic-engagement-and-the-politics-of-affiliation-the-case-of-allusion-in-autumn/) - January 11, 2025 | Does literature intrinsically have any political and ethical import? Not directly, but it can help inspire political action.
- [The First Jewish Republic: Yiddish Literature and Jewish Politics](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2025/01/06/the-first-jewish-republic-yiddish-literature-and-jewish-politics/) - January 6, 2025 | A prescient observer of Jewish politics in his day, Sholem Aleichem and his work hold much insight into present Jewish political, social, and cultural life.
- [Review: Globalisation and the Importation of Literature in Jameson’s Inventions of a Present](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2025/01/11/review-globalisation-and-the-importation-of-literature-in-jamesons-inventions-of-a-present/) - January 11, 2025 | The globalisation of literature merely marks a new type of narrative consumption, where novelists become goods rather than goods-producers.
- [Richard Haass: ‘This has not been a golden age of American foreign policy’](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2025/01/04/richard-haass-this-has-not-been-a-golden-age-of-american-foreign-policy/) - January 4, 2025 | OPR Speaks with President Emeritus of the Council on Foreign Relations.
- [Ireland and the US: A Growing, Special Geoeconomic Relationship Worthy of Protection](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2024/12/21/ireland-and-the-us-a-growing-special-geoeconomic-relationship-worthy-of-protection/) - December 21, 2024 | A tax windfall from Apple gives Ireland a can't-miss opportunity to invest in its lagging defense and relationship with the US.
- [OPR Announces Launch of Issue 14: ‘Fictions and Narratives’](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2024/12/16/opr-announces-launch-of-issue-14-fictions-and-narratives/) - December 16, 2024 | The issue explores the relationship between politics, fiction, and other narrative modes of communication and imagination.
- [The Randomness of the World: A Review of <em>Fluke</em> by Brian Klaas ](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2024/12/13/the-randomness-of-the-world-a-review-of-fluke-by-brian-klaas/) - December 13, 2024 | Do we have meaningful control over our lives and the world? An OPR editor's take on a new answer to this age-old question.
- [Call for Submissions - Issue 15: Home](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2024/12/08/call-for-submissions-issue-15-home/) - December 8, 2024 | We now invite submissions to the Oxford Political Review’s 15th issue, under the theme of ‘Home’.
- [Interview with Samuel Moyn: The Carlyle Lectures on Cold War Liberalism](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2022/04/07/interview-with-samuel-moyn-the-carlyle-lectures-on-cold-war-liberalism/) - April 7, 2022 | 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.
- [What I Wish My Family, Culture, and Friends Told Me About Srebrenica](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2024/11/17/what-i-wish-my-family-culture-and-friends-told-me-about-srebrenica/) - November 17, 2024 | A Macedonian woman’s perspective on exile, massacre, and multi-ethnic tolerance
- [Deep Freeze: What a Second Trump Presidency Could Mean for Climate Action](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2024/11/05/deep-freeze-what-a-second-trump-presidency-could-mean-for-climate-action/) - November 5, 2024 | A second Trump administration may find it far harder to translate his anti-climate rhetoric into actual policy.
- [Trump Rallies, Bruce Springsteen and America ](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2024/11/02/trump-rallies-bruce-springsteen-and-america/) - November 2, 2024 | The split between seemingly natural bedfellows – white working class Trump supporters and Springsteen – holds two competing visions for modern America.
- [Why Donald Trump Has Been Calling Democrats ‘Fascists’](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2024/10/24/why-donald-trump-has-been-calling-democrats-fascists/) - October 24, 2024 | By demonizing his opponents, Trump is anticipating a second term that is even more authoritarian than his first.
- [Inside the Spin Room: The ABC News Presidential Debate](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2024/09/16/inside-the-spin-room-the-abc-news-presidential-debate/) - September 16, 2024 | September 10th’s highly anticipated ABC News Presidential debate saw Vice-President Harris’ debate tactics triumph over former President Trump.
- [‘Linguistic fascism’: Was Lord Moylan right to raise the alarm on Wales?](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2024/09/18/linguistic-fascism-was-lord-moylan-right-to-raise-the-alarm-on-wales/) - September 18, 2024 | To defeat linguistic fascism, we must realise that the true threat to liberty comes from a desire to punish others, corporally or reputationally, for not submitting to the idea that one language should be supreme over others.
- [Speaking of Magic Bullets…and the Case for Being Moderate](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2024/09/05/speaking-of-magic-bulletsand-the-case-for-being-moderate/) - September 5, 2024 | Our political discourse has become dominated by references to quick fixes and simple solutions. Such discourse doesn’t match reality.
- [Censor the Language, Curtail the People: An Analysis of Kurdish Linguistic Erasure Across the Nation-states on Kurdish Land](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2024/09/05/censor-the-language-curtail-the-people-an-analysis-of-kurdish-linguistic-erasure-across-the-nation-states-on-kurdish-land/) - September 5, 2024 | While ethnic groups like the Kurds are often defined by their nationality, language can serve as an even more specific marker of an ethnic group, expressing its identity through specialised terminology relevant to the group’s experience.
- [Rattling The Cage of Farmed Animal Identity](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2024/08/30/rattling-the-cage-of-farmed-animal-identity/) - August 30, 2024 | Our immediate associations of ‘cow’ with ‘milk’ and ‘beef’ are rarely coupled with a recognition of the fact that an individual animal must be exploited to obtain these products.
- [Language and the Law: Substantive Canons and Politicised Language](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2024/08/29/language-and-the-law-substantive-canons-and-politicised-language/) - August 29, 2024 | In pursuing the neutral application of the law, courts must discern the meaning of statutes. What happens when a statute’s text is not clear?
- [A History of National Language Policies in Singapore](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2024/08/28/a-history-of-national-language-policies-in-singapore/) - August 28, 2024 | As Singapore grapples with an increasingly complex and intercultural demographic, policymakers must continually reassess language policies to better reflect the lived realities of its citizens.
- [How International Law is Law: Decoding H. L. A. Hart’s Concept of Law](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2024/08/27/how-international-law-is-law-decoding-h-l-a-harts-concept-of-law/) - August 27, 2024 | Acknowledging the legitimacy of international law as a legal system, rather than succumbing to pessimism, is the first step towards the pursuit of international justice.
- [Review: A New Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere and Deliberative Politics by Jürgen Habermas](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2024/08/26/review-a-new-structural-transformation-of-the-public-sphere-and-deliberative-politics-by-jurgen-habermas/) - August 26, 2024 | Habermas solutions concerning the protection of the political public sphere from fragmentation and exclusion dynamics in the digital age may not be sufficient to uphold its inclusivity and discursivity.
- [The Colonial Hangover: How French Words Perpetuate a Continuity of Colonial Attitudes Against Algerians ](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2024/08/25/the-colonial-hangover-how-french-words-perpetuate-a-continuity-of-colonial-attitudes-against-algerians/) - August 25, 2024 | The long climb to expel divisions and resurrect equality starts with rooting out the discrimination embedded in one particular place: language.
- [When Words Are Action: China’s Slogans and Global Ambition](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2024/08/24/when-words-are-action-chinas-slogans-and-global-ambition/) - August 24, 2024 | Peering into the thought process behind China's slogans provides a pertinent window into Chinese politics, and politics in general, for that matter.
- [Politics of the Hostage](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2024/08/24/politics-of-the-hostage/) - August 24, 2024 | Rather than clinging to the innocent or victimary subjectivity of the hostage, Israel and its supporters are implored to ‘undo’ the all-too comfortable sense of being unquestionably ‘at-home,’ and ‘dwell’ on the ‘moral dubiousness’ of what has been done.
- [The Strategic Dilemmas of UN Transitional Administration in Gaza](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2024/08/24/the-strategic-dilemmas-of-un-transitional-administration-in-gaza/) - August 24, 2024 | While a UN TA holds promise, the historical record from Kosovo and elsewhere suggests such an institution would face perilous strategic dilemmas which will threaten its security and legitimacy.
- [Valencian Road Signs](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2024/08/14/valencian-road-signs/) - August 14, 2024 | In Valencia, language invokes politics, not just identity. Road signs are a part of this political story.
- [Cameroon’s Anglophone Crisis: The Dangers of Language Conflict on Display](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2024/08/14/cameroons-anglophone-crisis-the-dangers-of-language-conflict-on-display/) - August 14, 2024 | Linguistic discrimination has repeatedly developed into humanitarian crises. It’s time the UN starts paying attention.
- [OPR Announces Launch of Issue 13: ‘Language’](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2024/08/14/opr-announces-launch-of-issue-13-language/) - August 14, 2024 | The Oxford Political Review is thrilled to announce the release of its 13th issue, ‘Language.’ From the challenges of cultural diversity to the emergence of a new digital public sphere, and from the discourse of animal ethics to the linguistic politics of hostage, this issue explores the theme of language in its myriad forms. You
- [Language: The Last Major Conflict in Northern Ireland](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2024/08/13/language-the-last-major-conflict-in-northern-ireland/) - August 13, 2024 | Though guns have been mostly silent for twenty-six years, the conflict continues in new forms. Weapons were stored away, but words gained more power.
- [Litigating Genocide: Attorney Kenneth McCallion on the Herero and Nama Peoples’ Legal Quest for Reparations](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2024/08/06/litigating-genocide-attorney-kenneth-mccallion-on-the-herero-and-nama-peoples-legal-quest-for-reparations/) - August 6, 2024 | In 2017, the descendants of two Namibian tribes sued Germany in the U.S. federal court. Kenneth McCallion was the lead attorney representing them.
- [How to Do Things with Swords, or the Performativity of Violence](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2024/08/04/how-to-do-things-with-swords-or-the-performativity-of-violence/) - August 4, 2024 | A Review of Lee Ann Fujii’s Book ‘Show Time’
- [Changing Tides: The Future of Indo-Chinese Engagement in the Indian Ocean](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2024/07/28/changing-tides-the-future-of-indo-chinese-engagement-in-the-indian-ocean/) - July 28, 2024 | The Indian Ocean Region (IOR) is steadily developing into the next major theatre of military competition between the Asian monoliths.
- [Economic Courting Game in Southeast Asia: Can the United States Keep Pace?](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2024/07/29/economic-courting-game-in-southeast-asia-can-the-united-states-keep-pace/) - July 29, 2024 | Despite the calls for the US to adopt an all-out economic strategy amid China’s increasing influence in Southeast Asia, there are weak incentives for Washington to do so.
- [Call for Submissions - Issue 14: Fictions & Narratives](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2024/07/07/call-for-submissions-issue-14-fictions-narratives/) - July 7, 2024 | We now invite submissions to the Oxford Political Review’s 14th issue, under the theme of ‘Fictions & Narratives’.
- [West Papua’s Shifting Signifiers: Across History of Colonialism and Nationalism in Indonesia](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2024/07/05/west-papuas-shifting-signifiers-across-history-of-colonialism-and-nationalism-in-indonesia/) - July 5, 2024 | A silent war of narratives and symbols rages within the shadowed forests and contested borders of West Papua.
- [The Betrayal: Why the Far Right Abandoned Action on Climate Change](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2024/06/18/the-betrayal-why-the-far-right-abandoned-action-on-climate-change/) - June 18, 2024 | During the 1980s, traditional conservatives, like Reagan and Thatcher, were keen on addressing environmental issues. What has changed?
- [OPR Speaks with New Yorker Investigative Journalist, Patrick Radden Keefe](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2024/05/25/opr-speaks-with-new-yorker-investigative-journalist-patrick-radden-keefe/) - May 25, 2024 | The award-winning journalist sits down with OPR to discuss the press coverage of pro-Palestine student encampments, the broader role of objectivity in journalism, and a host of other topics.
- [Two Sides of the Same Coin: The Dualistic Origins of America’s China Threat Narrative](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2024/04/25/two-sides-of-the-same-coin-the-dualistic-origins-of-americas-china-threat-narrative/) - April 25, 2024 | In a time where it seems popular and almost commonsensical to bash on China, we should step back and consider how we got to this point. Why has China become an existential threat to American democracy?
- [OPR Announces Launch of Issue 12: ‘Utopia’](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2024/04/21/opr-announces-launch-of-issue-12-utopia/) - April 21, 2024 | The Oxford Political Review is thrilled to announce the release of our 112h issue, ‘Utopia.’
- [Turkish Political Scene Shaken as CHP’s ‘Red Wave’ Dominates Local Elections](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2024/04/20/turkish-political-scene-shaken-as-chps-red-wave-dominates-local-elections/) - April 20, 2024 | Local elections on 31 March heralded a momentous victory for the opposition’s secular Republican People’s Party, marking a pivotal change in the country’s political dynamics.
- [Cultural Hegemony and Social Media: Why We Need to Keep up with the Kardashians](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2024/04/15/cultural-hegemony-and-social-media-why-we-need-to-keep-up-with-the-kardashians/) - April 15, 2024 | As more of our interactions shift online, Gramsci’s work provides a useful lens to understand how social media is employed by modern-day elites to manipulate the masses.
- [Time in the Anthropocene](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2024/04/13/time-in-the-anthropocene/) - April 13, 2024 | The tempo of the Anthropocene is multiple, plural, and full of opportunities, both dangerous and salvific.
- [90 Seconds to Midnight: The Inconsistencies of Time in International Relations](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2024/04/13/90-seconds-to-midnight-the-inconsistencies-of-time-in-international-relations/) - April 13, 2024 | In the intricate dance between time, understanding, and action, the Doomsday Clock's hands continue to tick, urging us to consider not just the spatial dimensions of international relations but also the profound dimension of time.
- [Hegel and History](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2024/04/13/hegel-and-history/) - April 13, 2024 | The point of studying Hegel, and by extension the purpose of contextualising historical thinkers, should concern itself less with relating his circumstances to our own and more with identifying the discrepancies and continuities between different historical eras. The past was past, but it still weighs, in the words of Marx, ‘like a nightmare on the brain of the living.’
- [Timelessness in Pre-Modern Politics](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2024/04/13/timelessness-in-pre-modern-politics/) - April 13, 2024 | A de-temporalized politics is, then, not only imaginable—it was, to some extent, once a reality. For the scholastic, a week was most certainly not a long time in politics—nor indeed was a year or a century. Only in the modern time regime, governed by the politics of the particular, can such an utterance be considered banal.
- [A Reflection on the Confucian Utopian Vision of Society](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2024/04/07/a-reflection-on-the-confucian-utopian-vision-of-society/) - April 7, 2024 | According to Confucius, humans had already achieved a utopia in the ancient Chinese world, and he called for a revival of the angelic human nature to go back to the ‘Golden Age’ of humankind.
- [Does Time Legitimate Territorial Claims? Reflections on the Plights of the Palestinian and Indigenous American Peoples](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2024/04/08/does-time-legitimate-territorial-claims-reflections-on-the-plights-of-the-palestinian-and-indigenous-american-peoples/) - April 8, 2024 | The passage of time may serve to bury the crime, but it does not permit an international ‘statute of limitations’ in the case of either the Palestinians or Indigenous Americans.
- [No Country for Old Men? Why We Shouldn’t Worry about Biden and Trump’s Old Age](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2024/04/08/no-country-for-old-men-why-we-shouldnt-worry-about-biden-and-trumps-old-age/) - April 8, 2024 | It is understandable that so many are keen to blame the malaise that afflicts American politics on the age of its leaders. But there is little reason to think that youth is a prerequisite for this kind of leadership.
- [Language in the Realm of Techno-Utopianism](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2024/04/07/language-in-the-realm-of-techno-utopianism/) - April 7, 2024 | In The Future of Language: How Technology, Politics and Utopianism are Transforming the Way we Communicate, linguist Phillip Seargeant attempts to unravel the intricacies of what lies ahead in human communication.
- [“What’s missing?”](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2024/04/07/whats-missing/) - April 7, 2024 | Conflating both strands in the term “utopia”, No Other Planet: Utopian Visions of a Climate-Changed World argues that this yearning for an alternative world operates as a valuable foil to console, critique or even change the status quo.
- [The Utopia of Democratic Socialism: An Alternative to Capitalism](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2024/04/07/the-utopia-of-democratic-socialism-an-alternative-to-capitalism/) - April 7, 2024 | Without a positive vision of utopia, capitalism seems insurmountable, and the Left will remain unable to present a coherent counterpoint to the current market system. In fact, it might be said that the lived reality of oppression is what necessitates utopian theory: to offer respite from the otherwise seemingly inescapable present.
- [The Real-Life Casualties of the Attention Wars](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2024/04/04/the-real-life-casualties-of-the-attention-wars/) - April 4, 2024 | World leaders are forced to view international politics as a zero-sum attention game, in which they are engaged in a Sisyphean struggle to keep their country’s plights relevant. For Ukraine this means fighting on two fronts: a battle of attrition against Russia and a battle for international coverage.
- [Against ‘Postliberalism’](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2024/04/04/against-postliberalism/) - April 4, 2024 | In contrast with the postliberal mind and its Romantic obsession with self-deceptive ideas about the ‘recovery’ of past ages, liberalism must ask itself such complicated questions. It requires empathy, solidarity, thought, and action, independent from the great power structures of the modern world.
- [Resistance in the Black Box Society](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2024/04/02/resistance-in-the-black-box-society/) - April 2, 2024 | The role that algorithms have increasingly taken on as intermediaries between humankind and the world not only highlights their transformative potential, but also brings to the forefront the social, political and ethical implications of these systems.
- [Cognitive Utopia or Dystopia? Brain-Computer Interface Enhancement and the Technological Singularity](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2024/04/02/cognitive-utopia-or-dystopia-brain-computer-interface-enhancement-and-the-technological-singularity/) - April 2, 2024 | Futurists anticipate that technological advances in brain computer interface devices (BCIs) could revolutionize human cognitive enhancement. However, the more likely reality is that of BCIs as contributors to a dystopian rather than utopian near-technological singularity.
- [Lessons for Utopians from Anthropologists](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2024/04/01/lessons-for-utopians-from-anthropologists/) - April 1, 2024 | With its emphasis on the importance of the residents’ collective action in the creation of their community, The Good Enough Life provides a necessary corrective for utopian theorising that consistently ignores the foundational role of agency within a given utopia.
- [Towards Humane Utopias](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2024/04/01/towards-humane-utopias/) - April 1, 2024 | Protopian thinking represents a careful and reasoned approach to changing the world: it focuses on tomorrow and looks into the far future without prescribing what the future is.
- [‘Disney Land with the Death Penalty’: Singapore and the Price of Utopia](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2024/03/31/disney-land-with-the-death-penalty-singapore-and-the-price-of-utopia/) - March 31, 2024 | Yes, Singapore might look like paradise. But it is not. If there is anything the Singapore Model can teach us, it is not the sanctity of free markets or even the virtues of government intervention, as many have incorrectly claimed.
- [A Libertarian Utopia in Political Practice: Will Anarcho-Capitalism Take Root in Argentina? ](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2024/03/31/a-libertarian-utopia-in-political-practice-will-anarcho-capitalism-take-root-in-argentina/) - March 31, 2024 | Understanding the intellectual tenets of this extreme political ideology, how they have shaped Milei’s thinking, and the extent that he will govern according to these libertarian ideals will have critical implications for the future of South America’s second largest economy.
- [Interview with Lois McNay: The Gender of Critical Theory](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2022/05/15/interview-with-lois-mcnay-the-gender-of-critical-theory/) - May 15, 2022 | 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.
- [An Idiosyncratic Memoir](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2022/05/03/not-thinking-like-a-liberal-review/) - May 3, 2022 | Not Thinking Like a Liberal is precisely Geuss’s attempt to explain why liberalism continues to sit uncomfortably with him.
- [Interview with Gregory Claeys: Utopianism for a Dying Planet](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2022/09/25/interview-with-gregory-claeys-utopianism-for-a-dying-planet/) - September 25, 2022 | Gregory Claeys is Professor of History of Political Thought at Royal Holloway, University of London.
- [The Roman Emperor](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2023/09/28/the-roman-emperor/) - September 28, 2023 | In Emperor of Rome, Beard’s concern is not to narrate the rise and fall of individual emperors but to explain ‘what it meant to be a Roman emperor.’
- [Maps as Weapons: Legal Implications of Territorial Claims](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2024/03/30/maps-as-weapons-legal-implications-of-territorial-claims/) - March 30, 2024 | Nation-states often wield maps as weapons to assert territorial claims. Due to escalating tensions between China and its neighbors and a surge in their military power, the impact created by the spread of such misinformation is a serious issue and it needs to be addressed by the tribunals or by countries collectively.
- [Climate COPs and the Art of ‘Muddling Through’ the Ecological Crisis](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2024/03/24/climate-cops-and-the-art-of-muddling-through-the-ecological-crisis/) - While an incremental approach to global climate governance is surely frustrating and limited, it is not an absurd and blind ‘everything-is-fine’ way of dealing with the current ecological crisis.
- [The ‘She’ Factor: Extending Protection of Female-Specific Legislations to the Indian LGBTQIA+ Community ](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2024/03/24/the-she-factor-extending-protection-of-female-specific-legislations-to-the-indian-lgbtqia-community/) - There remain incongruities between the popular judicial rhetoric advocating for equal rights for the LGBTQIA+ community and its real world manifestation.
- [Adrift in a Shifting Sea: Navigating America’s Role in Enforcing Nuclear Non-Proliferation Amidst Global Multipolarity](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2024/03/24/adrift-in-a-shifting-sea-navigating-americas-role-in-enforcing-nuclear-non-proliferation-amidst-global-multipolarity/) - This multipolar reality demands a reevaluation of traditional non-proliferation enforcement strategies.
- [Disinformation, Misinformation Labelling, and the War in Ukraine: A New Information Cold War](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2024/03/24/disinformation-misinformation-labelling-and-the-war-in-ukraine-a-new-information-cold-war/) - The war in Ukraine has become an information Cold War, with disinformation and misinformation labelling becoming an important and inflammatory weapon for both sides.
- [Zeynep Pamuk on Politics and Expertise: ‘It’s not just a matter of fixing the communication and educating the people’](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2024/03/24/zeynep-pamuk-on-politics-and-expertise-its-not-just-a-matter-of-fixing-the-communication-and-educating-the-people/) - Antoine Levie speaks to Zeynep Pamuk, Associate Professor in Contemporary Political Theory at Oxford University and Professorial Fellow at Nuffield College, about her recent book ‘Politics and Expertise’.Antoine Levie speaks to Zeynep Pamuk, Associate Professor in Contemporary Political Theory at Oxford University and Professorial Fellow at Nuffield College, about her recent book ‘Politics and Expertise’.
- [Call for Submissions - Issue 13: Language](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2024/03/09/call-for-submissions-issue-13-language/) - March 9, 2024 | We now invite submissions to the Oxford Political Review’s 13th issue, under the theme of ‘Language’.
- [The Temporal Turn in Historiography](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2024/01/02/the-temporal-turn-in-historiography/) - January 2, 2024 | Review of Time, History, and Political Thought by John Robertson (ed.) This article was originally published in OPR’s Issue 11: Time. Among the many ‘turns’ by which historians like to signify developments within their discipline, one of the most significant is the rise of ‘time’ or ‘temporality’ as a subject unto itself. Its viability as
- [OPR Announces Launch of Issue 9: 'Power & Perception'](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2023/04/30/opr-announces-launch-of-issue-9-power-perception/) - April 30, 2023 | The Oxford Political Review is thrilled to announce the release of our 9th issue, 'Power & Perception.'
- [Navigating Turbulent Waters: Shipping Routes as Key Geopolitical Battlegrounds](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2024/01/14/navigating-turbulent-waters-shipping-routes-as-key-geopolitical-battlegrounds/) - January 14, 2024 | With a perception in the West that Iran, China, Russia, and perhaps the Middle East could align globally in an economic war against the West, shipping routes are back in play as proxies of war. If the conflicts in Gaza and Ukraine continue, global supply chains are likely to remain disrupted.
- [OPR speaks with European Commission’s Director-General for Climate Action, Kurt Vandenberghe](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2024/01/03/opr-speaks-with-european-commissions-director-general-for-climate-action-kurt-vandenberghe/) - January 3, 2024 | OPR’s Global Politics editor Marta Kąkol interviews Kurt Vandenberghe, the Director-General of the European Commission’s Directorate-General for Climate Action.
- [Economic and Political Implications of Extending Daylight Saving Time](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2024/01/02/economic-and-political-implications-of-extending-daylight-saving-time/) - January 2, 2024 | Dorkina Myrick discusses the economic and political implications of the recent proposal to make Daylight Saving Time (DST) permanent.
- [OPR Speaks with Romanian Minister of Energy, Sebastian Burduja](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2023/12/18/opr-speaks-with-romanian-minister-of-energy-sebastian-burduja/) - December 18, 2023 | Reporting from the COP28 summit in Dubai, Marta Kąkol, Global Politics Editor, interviews the Romanian Minister of Energy, Sebastian Burduja.
- [Algeria and Palestine: Parallels and Differences](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2023/12/11/algeria-and-palestine-parallels-and-differences/) - December 11, 2023 | As demands for a ceasefire in Gaza gain global political momentum, it is worth critically exploring Albert Camus’s thoughts on the French colonial history in Algeria for parallels and breaking points with the present moment.
- [OPR Announces Launch of Issue 11: 'Time'](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2023/12/10/opr-announces-launch-of-issue-11-time/) - December 10, 2023 | The Oxford Political Review is thrilled to announce the release of our 11th issue, ‘Time.’
- [Back by Popular Demand: Authoritarianism in El Salvador](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2023/12/07/back-by-popular-demand-authoritarianism-in-el-salvador/) - December 7, 2023 | On 9 February 2020, Salvadoran president Nayib Bukele, flanked by soldiers, stormed the Legislative Assembly. Although Bukele’s actions that day could have easily triggered massive demonstrations and ended presidencies in other countries, they were only the beginning of a new normal in El Salvador.
- [Lithuania v. China: Reading into Post-Soviet Hyper-Westernization](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2023/12/05/lithuania-v-china-reading-into-post-soviet-hyper-westernization/) - December 5, 2023 | The Lithuanian outlook in international relations is built on its Hyper-Westernised values. The heavy involvement in expressing hostility towards China, and support for Taiwan, countries that are thousands of miles away, is an example of such an outlook.
- [Call for Submissions – Issue 12: Utopia](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2023/12/04/call-for-submissions-issue-12-utopia/) - December 4, 2023 | We now invite submissions to the Oxford Political Review’s 11th issue, under the theme of ‘Utopia’.
- [Shaking the Foundations of ‘Forgotten Morocco’: How the Earthquake Threatens the Survival of the Ishelhayn](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2023/11/29/shaking-the-foundations-of-forgotten-morocco-how-the-earthquake-threatens-the-survival-of-the-ishelhayn/) - November 29, 2023 | The Amazight people are resilient: they have faced hardship and marginalisation for centuries and endured. Now, more than ever before these people need support. As Morocco rebuilds and recovers, the people of the Atlas must not be forgotten.
- [China’s Quest for Blockbuster Soft Power](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2023/11/24/chinas-quest-for-blockbuster-soft-power/) - November 24, 2023 | With mounting pressures domestically, a lot of thought goes into ensuring the right films for domestic audiences are produced, rather than considering global viewership. Only time will tell if they can break America’s hold on global hegemony through their own soft power, even if it is done a blockbuster at a time.
- [Russia’s Tax Treaty Gambit: Political Manoeuvring in an Economic Arena](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2023/11/11/russias-tax-treaty-gambit-political-manoeuvring-in-an-economic-arena/) - November 11, 2023 | Amid Russia-Ukraine war, Russia suspended double tax treaties with nations that had imposed economic sanctions on it; this has produced ripple geopolitical effects extending beyond fiscal matters.
- [Call for Submissions - Issue 11: Time](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2023/10/16/call-for-submissions-issue-11-time/) - October 16, 2023 | We now invite submissions to the Oxford Political Review’s 11th issue, under the theme of ‘Time’.
- [Is South Korean culture ‘Dynamite’ for the country?](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2023/11/01/is-south-korean-culture-dynamite-for-the-country/) - November 1, 2023 | The impact that South Korean culture exports have on the country itself is rarely considered. What may seem like mere cultural assets have pivotal political and economic consequences, profoundly shaping the country, despite pressing challenges to these assets’ longevity.
- [Two ‘Unequal’ Policies on ‘Equality’ of Opportunity: Comparing USA’s Affirmative Action Policy with the Indian Reservation System](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2023/10/22/two-unequal-policies-on-equality-of-opportunity-comparing-usas-affirmative-action-policy-with-the-indian-reservation-system/) - October 22, 2023 | These recent lawsuits in the US and India, respectively, offer a preliminary insight into the present status of US affirmative action and the Indian reservation system. This article aims to provide a more thorough explanation of the backgrounds, key distinctions, and impacts of both programmes.
- [Modi and Biden: True Love or Arranged Marriage?](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2023/10/11/modi-and-biden-true-love-or-arranged-marriage/) - October 11, 2023 | Why does Biden choose to disregard Modi's human rights records? The answer lies in a shorter-term strategy aimed at furthering American economic and political interests.
- [What Does a Statue Mean? Notes on Rhodes Must Fall](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2020/06/27/what-does-a-statue-mean-notes-on-rhodes-must-fall/) - June 27, 2020 | Edward Colston was obviously an awful man: no one whose actions lead to the deaths of 19,000 people, actions motivated by (at best) a desire for profit, can be called anything except evil. At least, if evil is here understood as being broadly understood, as “deserving of widespread moral condemnation”. The same goes for Cecil
- [Capital as Fiction](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2019/05/11/capital-as-fiction/) - May 11, 2019 | “Now, what I want is, Facts. Teach these boys and girls nothing but Facts. Facts alone are wanted in life. Plant nothing else, and root out everything else. You can only form the minds of reasoning animals upon Facts: nothing else will ever be of any service to them. This is the principle on which
- [​​The Moral Economy of Banditry in Northwest Nigeria](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2023/09/29/the-moral-economy-of-banditry-in-northwest-nigeria/) - September 29, 2023 | Banditry is one of the greatest challenges facing the Nigerian state. Over 30,000 bandits are active across the northwest region of the country, the majority of whom are from pastoral communities, and over 8000 banditry-related deaths have been reported since 2010. Over 200,000 people have been forced to leave places across the northwest and the phenomenon threatens to plunge millions more people into a state of critical food insecurity. The situation is at boiling point.
- [How Unrestrained Financial Power Dragged Lebanon into the Abyss](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2023/09/20/how-unrestrained-financial-power-dragged-lebanon-into-the-abyss/) - September 20, 2023 | Millions of Lebanese people have been pushed into poverty as the country’s economy has been devastated by the collapse of its currency, hyperinflation, and mass unemployment.
- [Blackshirts and Subfuscs](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2023/09/16/blackshirts-and-subfuscs/) - September 16, 2023 | Infiltrated by far-right agitators spurred by illusive conspiracies, the protests were a curious sight to behold in the city of dreaming spires.
- [Welcome to the Nostalgia Doom Loop](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2023/09/18/welcome-to-the-nostalgia-doom-loop/) - September 18, 2023 | We seem to be trapped in a ‘doom loop’ of nostalgia. Why is this the case?
- [En Passant: Chinese-American ‘Pawns’ Are Speaking Up and Shifting Right](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2023/09/13/en-passant-chinese-american-pawns-are-speaking-up-and-shifting-right/) - September 13, 2023 | Last month’s Affirmative Action decision marks the extent of divergence between Chinese and other Asian American voters.
- [Clearing the Air: Erbil-Baghdad Reconciliation in Northern Iraq’s Air Pollution Fight ](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2023/09/11/clearing-the-air-erbil-baghdad-reconciliation-in-northern-iraqs-air-pollution-fight/) - September 11, 2023 | Air pollution is a transboundary challenge. It cares little for geographical or political frontiers and can spread its pall far beyond any initial point of origin.
- [OPR Speaks with Former Foreign Minister of Indonesia, Dr. Marty Natalegawa](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2023/08/22/opr-speaks-with-former-foreign-minister-of-indonesia-dr-marty-natalegawa/) - August 22, 2023 | Dr. Brian Wong, Co-founder of the Oxford Political Review, speaks with former Minister for Foreign Affairs of Indonesia Dr. Marty Natalegawa.
- [Prigozhin’s Ancestors: The Wagner Coup and Historical Comparisons](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2023/08/14/prigozhins-ancestors-the-wagner-coup-and-historical-comparisons/) - August 14, 2023 | is the Kornilov Affair an accurate or useful comparison? Might there be more apt historical analogies to understand the fate of Putin’s regime? And most importantly of all, why has Putin has invoked this period and what role do historical allusions play in upholding the Putin autocracy?
- [“In Germany, We're Constantly Overestimating Putin and Underestimating Our Own Capabilities”: Franziska Brantner on the War in Ukraine and German Democracy](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2023/05/17/in-germany-were-constantly-overestimating-putin-and-underestimating-our-own-capabilities-franziska-brantner-on-the-war-in-ukraine-and-german-democracy/) - May 17, 2023 | "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.
- ["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](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2023/05/18/if-i-can-advance-climate-protection-ill-do-it-even-if-its-not-perfect-franziska-brantner-on-the-path-towards-a-greener-future/) - May 18, 2023 | "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.
- ["The World Would be Plunged into a Manufacturing Crisis Unseen Since 1929": Chris Miller on Chip War and Taiwan](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2023/03/19/the-world-would-be-plunged-into-a-manufacturing-crisis-unseen-since-1929-chris-miller-on-chip-war-and-taiwan/) - March 19, 2023 | 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.
- [“Growing the Labour Force Doesn't Just Require Increasing the Retirement Age”: Prof. Jane Gingrich on Pension Reforms and the Politics of Education](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2023/05/28/growing-the-labour-force-doesnt-just-require-increasing-the-retirement-age-prof-jane-gingrich-on-pension-reforms-and-the-politics-of-education/) - May 28, 2023 | The Oxford Political Review sat down with Gingrich earlier this year to discuss the global landscape of education policies today, the sharp political divisions in society around the welfare state, and some of the broader changes and crises in our political economy.
- [Is Democracy Worth Fighting For? Republican Party Foreign Policy in the Age of Donald Trump](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2023/07/14/is-democracy-worth-fighting-for-republican-party-foreign-policy-in-the-age-of-donald-trump/) - July 14, 2023 | The Russian invasion of Ukraine is shaping up to be a key issue as Republican presidential candidates cultivate campaign platforms for what will undoubtedly be a fiercely fought process for the nomination over the coming months.
- [Interview with Lisa Hofmann-Kuroda and Allison Markin Powell on Ryunosuke Akutagawa’s Kappa](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2023/06/24/interview-with-lisa-hofmann-kuroda-and-allison-markin-powell-on-ryunosuke-akutagawas-kappa/) - June 24, 2023 | In this interview, the two translators talk to us about the book, its political prescience, and the world of Japanese-English literary translation.
- [China’s Two Trade-Offs in Xi’an](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2023/07/12/chinas-two-trade-offs-in-xian/) - July 12, 2023 | It is no doubt that China won a resounding victory in Xi’an, but her triumph was not without ills, especially when considered in the broader diplomatic context.
- [OPR Speaks with Prime Minister of Montenegro, Dritan Abazović](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2023/07/11/opr-speaks-with-prime-minister-of-montenegro-dritan-abazovic/) - July 11, 2023 | The Oxford Political Review speaks with the Prime Minister of Montenegro, Dritan Abazović.
- [The Weaponization of Water: Water Politics in the Middle East](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2023/06/24/the-weaponization-of-water-water-politics-in-the-middle-east/) - June 24, 2023 | This article examines the phenomenon of water weaponization- using water to gain leverage over an adversary, with a focus on the Middle East. It will then argue that water weaponization’s current manifestation in the Middle East is a crime against humanity.
- [The Power & Perception of Political Caricatures in Light of Recent Cross-Border Controversies by Charlie Hebdo](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2023/06/24/the-power-amp-perception-of-political-caricatures-in-light-of-recent-cross-border-controversies-by-charlie-hebdo/) - June 24, 2023 | Can political caricatures be too controversial? Who gets to decide? And which side prevails in the inevitable clash between decriers of hate speech and defenders of freedom of expression?
- [Arriving in Style: The Importance of Public Transit Design](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2023/05/30/arriving-in-style-the-importance-of-public-transit-design/) - May 30, 2023 | Brits, and es­pecially Londoners, have be­come well ­acquainted with the value of well­-designed public spaces, including eco­nomic, political, and well-be­ing benefits.
- [The Right Identity: What the Tories Can Tell Us About Liberation Politics](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2023/05/17/the-right-identity-what-the-tories-can-tell-us-about-liberation-politics/) - May 17, 2023 | The claims made by the Tory party and much of the right-wing press, as well as the focus on the surface-level diversity of these candidates demonstrate, reveal a fundamentally individualist understanding of what identity and liberation politics look like and aim to achieve. In this essay, I want to demonstrate how the Tories are shifting the way we think and talk about oppression, what that means materially, and how we might combat it.
- ['Japa' Syndrome: Legitimacy Crisis, Emigration and Public Discontent in Nigeria](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2023/05/08/japa-syndrome-legitimacy-crisis-emigration-and-public-discontent-in-nigeria/) - May 8, 2023 | Given the nationalisation of ‘Japa’ syndrome in Nigeria, this article aims to understand public discontent in Nigeria as a symptom of the legitimacy crisis facing the Nigerian state.
- [“Green Growth is Incredibly Dangerous and Deeply Morally Irresponsible”: Kate Raworth on the Need for a Post-Growth World](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2023/04/19/green-growth-is-incredibly-dangerous-and-deeply-morally-irresponsible-kate-raworth-on-the-need-for-a-post-growth-world/) - April 19, 2023 | 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.
- [Call for Submissions – Issue 10: 'Everything is Fine!'](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2023/04/02/call-for-submissions-issue-10-everything-is-fine/) - April 2, 2023 | We invite submissions to the Oxford Political Review’s 10th issue, under the theme of ‘Everything is Fine!’
- [Rousing A Giant: Reconfiguring Germany’s Defence Policy in the New Age of Expansionism](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2023/04/01/rousing-a-giant-reconfiguring-germanys-defence-policy-in-the-new-age-of-expansionism/) - April 1, 2023 | The Chancellor’s proposed programme, if successful, will negate half a century of the Germany’s foreign policy strategy.
- [The ‘Unjust War’ Trap: Why We Should Not Rethink Civilian Non-Liability in Conflict](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2023/04/01/the-unjust-war-trap-why-we-should-not-rethink-civilian-non-liability-in-conflict/) - April 1, 2023 | While it is correct that non-combatants hold crucial relevance during a conflict, the risks posed by including them as lawful targets are overwhelming. I argue that this moral understanding of civilian liability risks justifying some expansive interpretations of the ‘military objective’ notion.
- [Climate Debt: What Do Wealthy Nations Owe Their Poorer Counterparts?](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2023/03/16/climate-debt-what-do-wealthy-nations-owe-their-poorer-counterparts/) - March 16, 2023 | Climate change should be considered an issue of imbalanced power. The three main conditions of distributive justice show why rich nations owe poor nations for their climate misconduct. Furthermore, a crop of international legislation obligates rich nations to pay climate debt.
- [The Strategic Impetus and Geopolitical Consequences of India's Deniability Outlook towards China](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2023/03/15/the-strategic-impetus-and-geopolitical-consequences-of-indias-deniability-outlook-towards-china/) - March 15, 2023 | 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.
- [Mad Max, Fury Road: Imagining Redemption in a Dystopian Representation of the Present](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2023/03/14/mad-max-fury-road-imagining-redemption-in-a-dystopian-representation-of-the-present/) - March 14, 2023 | Mad Max: Fury Road not only reproduces capitalist realism in its representation of a dystopian future, but also attempts to confront such realism, and spectral subjects play the role of protagonist in such confrontation.
- [Money Machine: A Riveting Read From One of Private Equity's Very Best](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2023/03/14/money-machine/) - March 14, 2023 | 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).
- [Interview with Avi Shlaim on upcoming book: "Three Worlds: Memoir of an Arab-Jew"](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2023/03/12/interview-with-avi-shlaim-on-upcoming-book-three-worlds-memoir-of-an-arab-jew/) - March 12, 2023 | 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.
- [Freedom, not Fear; Truckers, Not Trudeau: Why Right-Wing Populism is Going Mainstream in Canada](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2023/03/07/freedom-not-fear-truckers-not-trudeau-why-right-wing-populism-is-going-mainstream-in-canada/) - March 7, 2023 | 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.
- [Rolling Forward the Frontiers of the State: State Capacity Expansion and Preservation of Individual Agency](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2023/03/06/rolling-forward-the-frontiers-of-the-state-state-capacity-expansion-and-preservation-of-individual-agency/) - March 6, 2023 | The success stories of the Nordics, therefore, hold the key to the reinvigoration of the argument for state capacity expansion in today’s world.
- [Interview with Mantas Adomėnas: Lithuanian Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2023/03/07/interview-with-mantas-adomenas-lithuanian-vice-minister-of-foreign-affairs/) - March 7, 2023 |
- [Taiwan is a Piece of Cake: US-China Relations on the Brink](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2023/03/08/taiwan-is-a-piece-of-cake-us-china-relations-on-the-brink/) - March 8, 2023 | 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.
- [When Private Military Operations Fail: the Case of Mozambique](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2023/03/06/when-private-military-operations-fail-the-case-of-mozambique/) - March 6, 2023 | 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.
- [Dispatches from Vienna - Economist Francisco Zanetti on Economic Uncertainties in Times of War](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2023/02/21/dispatches-from-vienna-economist-francisco-zanetti-on-economic-uncertainties-in-times-of-war/) - February 21, 2023 | "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.
- [Why Work? On AI and Automation](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2023/02/22/why-work-on-ai-and-automation/) - February 22, 2023 | Any modern conversation about the future of work would be incomplete without considering the looming prospect of greater automation
- [Debunking the Economic and Political Myths of Deglobalization](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2023/02/20/debunking-the-economic-and-political-myths-of-deglobalization/) - February 20, 2023 | 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.
- [Small Groups, Large Hurdles: the Struggle of Getting Money to the Climate Frontlines (Live from COP27 Series) ](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2022/12/24/small-groups-large-hurdles-the-struggle-of-getting-money-to-the-climate-frontlines-live-from-cop27-series/) - December 24, 2022 | COP, a venue teeming with environmentally-oriented groups, was fertile ground for representatives from organisations to connect with any potential donors they might encounter. Fonie Mitsopoulou reports on the organisations in the heat of the climate crisis trying to gain funding at COP27.
- [World Cup: A Divisive Competition Unites the Middle East ](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2023/01/13/world-cup-a-divisive-competition-unites-the-middle-east/) - January 13, 2023 | "National team footballers carry more than just the weight of their country’s expectations, they also bear the pressure of an opportunity to show-up countries where decades—if not centuries—old entrenched rivalries transcend the field." Fonie Mitsopoulou reports on the significance and reception of the World Cup in the Middle East, and discusses the role of Qatar in cultivating a pan-Arab sentiment.
- [Temple-Mosque Rows in India Show that Laws Enable Communal Tension](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2023/01/30/temple-mosque-rows-in-india-show-that-laws-enable-communal-tension/) - January 30, 2023 | "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.
- [“This is an issue that makes me very nervous”: John Mearsheimer on the US-China Rivalry](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2023/01/12/this-is-an-issue-that-makes-me-very-nervous-john-mearsheimer-on-the-us-china-rivalry/) - January 12, 2023 | "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.
- ["I’ve been attacked... not with facts and logic, but personally": John Mearsheimer on the War in Ukraine](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2023/01/12/ive-been-attacked-not-with-facts-and-logic-but-personally-john-mearsheimer-on-the-war-in-ukraine/) - January 12, 2023 | "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 Russia-Ukraine conflict, and responds to the backlash his commentary received.
- [India's Quest for Minilaterals in the Indo-Pacific](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2023/01/12/indias-quest-for-minilaterals-in-the-indo-pacific/) - January 12, 2023 | Apart from the flexibility, countries like India feel that minilateral groupings act as practical alternatives to traditional alliances, often perceived as sclerotic.
- [The New-Old Europe: European Medievalism in the 21st Century](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2023/01/10/the-new-old-europe-european-medievalism-in-the-21st-century/) - January 10, 2023 | Divided sovereignty along functional and territorial lines, porous borders, and security directives justified by norms and values point not to a modern European superstate but a system reminiscent of the Middle Ages.
- [Building Future Cities for Those Who Can Afford To Save the Environment](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2022/11/11/building-future-cities-for-those-who-can-afford-to-save-the-environment/) - November 11, 2022 | 'New wonders for the world.' The vague promise emblazoned on the top of the NEOM website is not elaborated upon in the equally nebulous subheading: 'A revolution in civilization.’ It is not clear from this promotional material what NEOM, a high tech, ‘smart city’ region being built in Saudi Arabia, will ultimately look like. The
- [Political Pragmatism in Age of Ideologues: An Interview with Kevin Rudd](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2019/02/28/political-pragmatism-in-age-of-ideologues-an-interview-with-kevin-rudd/) - February 28, 2019 | Political Pragmatism in Age of Ideologues: An Interview with Kevin Rudd, ex-Australian Prime Minister and president of the Asia Society Policy Institute.
- [Robot Dialectics: Western Revolutionaries versus Japanese Companions](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2019/03/22/robot-dialectics-western-revolutionaries-versus-japanese-companions/) - March 22, 2019 | In the opening scene of I, Robot, a terrifying car crash throws Chicago police detective Del Spooner (played by Will Smith) and a 12 year-old girl into the nearby ocean. A passing robot, through a brute calculation of odds, dives in to save Del’s life at the expense of the child’s. The experience instils Del with
- [All The Terrorism We Cannot See: misogyny, whiteness, and radicalisation in the digital age](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2019/03/22/all-the-terrorism-we-cannot-see-misogyny-whiteness-and-radicalisation-in-the-digital-age/) - March 22, 2019 | From Parkland to the Toronto van attacks, elements of a simmering hatred toward women lie just below the surface. But, in a country where Supreme Court justices hold credible accusations of sexual assault and the President himself boasts about grabbing women “by the pussy”, these connections are either overlooked or downplayed. Contrary to conventional wisdom, an
- [In Defence of Identity Politics](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2019/03/22/in-defence-of-identity-politics/) - March 22, 2019 | Identity politics is a term that attracts bifurcated responses and invokes starkly distinct imagined connotations. On the one hand, it appears to be at the forefront of progressive activism, a connecting bridge between intersectionality analysis and large-scale student movements; on the other hand it appears to be associated with the insular, exclusionary tendencies of politics
- [In Defiance of Authoritarianism, the Liberal Warrior: Leni Robredo](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2019/04/03/in-defiance-of-authoritarianism-the-liberal-warrior-leni-robredo/) - April 3, 2019 | You are one of the most prominent and outspoken defenders of liberal and egalitarian politics in the Philippines. Given how difficult this has been in light of the political context of the country, what motivated you in the first place to become an activist, and what continues to motivate her to persevere? One instance that
- [Australia’s Revolving Door Prime Ministership](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2019/04/03/australias-revolving-door-prime-ministership/) - April 3, 2019 | Since 2010, Australia has changed its leader on five separate occasions: in 2010, twice in 2013, in 2015, and in 2018. Only one of these was at a general election, the rest were the handiwork of MPs and Senators. As a result, Canberra has earned the nickname ‘the coup capital of the western world’. While
- [Interview with Joseph Nye: A Scholar of Peace, An Expert on Power](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2019/04/13/interview-with-joseph-nye/) - April 13, 2019 | Brian: How does the internet, or more specifically, the rise of cultural phenomena across social media platforms (e.g. Instagram, Twitter, Facebook) reshape – if at all – our understanding of soft power? We’ve seen how big a role Twitter played during the Arab Spring, but would you say that, in light of the increasing prevalence
- [A Stake outside the Political: an interview with Sir Tim Hitchens](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2019/04/14/a-stake-outside-the-political-an-interview-with-sir-tim-hitchens/) - April 14, 2019 | In her seminal essay “Truth and Politics”, Hannah Arendt argued that politics naturally lends itself to the distortion of truth. She suggested that in order to combat the inveterate lies of the political world, we must adopt the perspective of one who is “outside the political realm”. If politicians are confined solely to Arendt’s political
- [A True Believer in Internationalist Liberalism: A Dialogue with Jeffrey Sachs](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2019/04/19/a-true-believer-in-internationalist-liberalism-a-dialogue-with-jeffrey-sachs/) - April 19, 2019 | In the age of Trumpian politics, nationalistic jingoism in the West, and intermittent escalation in the Xi-Trump wrestle for global power, Jeffrey Sachs stands out as amongst the most vocal public intellectuals on the subject of US-China relations and economic development. His latest work, A New Foreign Policy: Beyond American Exceptionalism (2018), offers a brief glimpse into
- [What is in a name? A response to Jordan Peterson’s critiques of pronoun regulations and free speech laws](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2019/04/21/what-is-in-a-name-a-response-to-jordan-petersons-critiques-of-pronoun-regulations-and-free-speech-laws/) - April 21, 2019 | In 2016, academic Jordan Peterson rose to prominence by opposing Canada’s C-16 Bill:a Bill he erroneously claimed would compel speech from citizens by forcing them to address transgender students by their preferred pronouns. Of great angst to Peterson was a piece of advice from Toronto University that, should he fail to address transgender students by their preferred
- [The Catalan dispute underlines the EU’s limited understanding of democracy](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2019/04/27/the-catalan-dispute-underlines-the-eus-limited-understanding-of-democracy/) - April 27, 2019 | The world’s eyes have turned away from Madrid. Nobody expected that international interest would be maintained throughout the trial of the Catalan independence campaigners, especially now the procedurally complex case is approaching its fiftieth day. But that should not make believers in the European project forget what is at stake there, in what is perhaps
- [On the Politics of Grieving](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2019/05/02/on-the-politics-of-grieving/) - May 2, 2019 | The recent backlash over the ostensibly selective mourning and sympathy over the burning-down of the Notre Dame has instigated me to consider a particular question – do we have obligations and rights to grieve, to not grieve, to grieve universally and indiscriminately, or to grieve in a way that correlates with our nationalistic or personal
- [The Great Moral Panic: A Response to Tom Nichols's Article on The Atlantic](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2019/05/11/the-great-moral-panic-a-response-to-tom-nicholss-article-on-the-atlantic/) - May 11, 2019 | Tom Nichols’ recent piece understandably reflects many variants of ongoing concerns and criticisms towards universities and the perceived overreaching of students. Whilst his argument undoubtedly has grounding in certain facts and events that have transpired over the past decade, his overarching conclusion emerges from a great leap – some would say, one deeply uncharitable to
- [The Importance of European Citizens in the Democratic Legitimacy of the European Union](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2019/05/11/the-importance-of-european-citizens-in-the-democratic-legitimacy-of-the-european-union/) - May 11, 2019 | 1. Introduction The history of the European Union has frequently been punctuated by spats over sovereignty between Brussels and member states. It is also apparent that these have become more serious as the union has evolved towards a quasi-federal super state and is currently reaching what is described by several of its leaders as “an
- [The Levellers' Agreement: A Preview from the Author of "The Levelling: What's Next After Globalization"](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2019/05/12/the-levellers-agreement-a-preview-from-the-author-of-the-levelling-whats-next-after-globalization/) - May 12, 2019 | 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
- [An Interview with Sir Paul Collier](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2019/05/13/an-interview-with-sir-paul-collier/) - May 13, 2019 |
- [There is a Logical Fallacy at the Heart of the Case Method](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2019/05/14/there-is-a-logical-fallacy-at-the-heart-of-the-case-method/) - May 14, 2019 | Since the late 1800s, the best law schools in common law countries have taught law by way of the case method. Invented by Professor Christopher Columbus at Harvard Law School, the case method is based on the idea that law can be understood by reading cases. Langdell saw law as a science that could be
- [On Truth-telling in Age of Truthlessness: An Interview with Alan Rusbridger](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2019/05/20/on-truth-telling-in-age-of-truthlessness-an-interview-with-alan-rusbridger/) - May 20, 2019 | Our Editor-in-Chief, Brian Wong, speaks to Alan Rusbridger, former Editor-in-Chief of The Guardian (1995-2015) and Principal of Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford.
- [An Interview with Prof. Jonathan Wolff](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2019/05/27/an-interview-with-prof-jonathan-wolff/) - May 27, 2019 |
- [The Stalwart of the Liberal Democrats - A Conversation with Sir Vince Cable](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2019/06/13/the-stalwart-of-the-liberal-democrats-a-conversation-with-sir-vince-cable/) - June 13, 2019 | Oxford Political Review speaks with Sir Vince Cable, twice and current Leader of the Liberal Democrats, former Secretary of State for Business, Innovation, and Skills, and notable proponent of a People’s Vote in the ongoing Brexit negotiations. Sir Vince Cable is a man with many stories to tell, with an equal number of illustrious titles
- [Defiance in Solidarity: An Interview with Pussy Riot](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2019/06/22/defiance-in-solidarity-an-interview-with-pussy-riot/) - June 22, 2019 | Editor-in-Chief of the Oxford Political Review, Brian Wong, interviews Olya Kurachyova and Veronika Nikhulshina, two members of the Russian activist group Pussy Riot. Founded in August 2011, the collective is one of the leading protesting groups and political rock bands in Russia, particularly for their opposition to Russian President Vladimir Putin and their advocacy of
- [A New Take on Freedom: An Interview with Philip Pettit](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2019/06/27/a-new-take-on-freedom-an-interview-with-philip-pettit/) - June 27, 2019 | Professor Philip Pettit is one of the most distinguished political theorists and thinkers of our generation, with his political philosophy has been applied and adopted by regimes wholesale such as the Zapatero cabinet in Spain. Pettit's neo-Republican conception of freedom as non-dominion has played a substantial role in shaping contemporary discussions on freedom, liberty, as
- [Effective Altruism, Utilitarianism, and Objectivism: An Interview with Peter Singer](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2019/06/27/effective-altruism-utilitarianism-and-objectivism-an-interview-with-peter-singer/) - June 27, 2019 | Editor-in-Chief, Brian Wong, interviews acclaimed philosopher, Peter Singer, for the Oxford Political Review. From Effective Altruism to utilitarianism, the political status of animals to whether objective morals exist, Brian and Prof. Singer explore issues that Prof. Singer has hitherto rarely commented on; check this out for the full interview!
- [What is a Society of Equals?: An Interview with Jonathan Wolff](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2019/06/27/what-is-a-society-of-equals-an-interview-with-jonathan-wolff/) - June 27, 2019 | Prof. Jonathan Wolff, the Blavatnik Chair Professor in Public Policy at Oxford, is a leading public intellectual on subjects ranging from equality, disadvantage, social justice and poverty, as well as applied topics such as public safety, disability, gambling, and the regulation of recreational drugs. In this interview with the OPR, Editor-in-Chief Brian Wong interviews Professor Wolff
- [50 States of Mind – What Americans could learn from a visit to all 50 states](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2019/07/02/50-states-of-mind-what-americans-could-learn-from-a-visit-to-all-50-states/) - July 2, 2019 | After the stunning victory of Donald Trump in 2016, the world is watching to see how Americans will vote in 2020. America is made up of 50 culturally unique states, each so nuanced and multilayered that no magic bullet could explain the vicissitudes of that election cycle. As pundits conjectured on the mood of America
- [How Australia Became a Conservative Nation](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2019/07/13/how-australia-became-a-conservative-nation/) - July 13, 2019 | 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
- [Predictions: On Boris Johnson's New Cabinet](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2019/07/23/predictions-on-boris-johnsons-new-cabinet/) - July 23, 2019 | With the Tory leadership race essentially over (barring a stunning upset in the final results announcement), thoughts have turned to who the presumed winner, Boris Johnson, might put in his Cabinet. Different choices could have significant implications for government policy and for the future of the UK, as this article will explore. Those positions where
- [Democracy in Crisis, Authoritarianism on the Rise: A Conversation with Larry Diamond](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2019/07/24/democracy-in-crisis-authoritarianism-on-the-rise-a-conversation-with-larry-diamond/) - July 24, 2019 | Brian Wong, Editor-in-Chief of The Oxford Political Review, speaks to Larry Diamond, political scientist and activist renowned for his analysis of and defense of democracy in his writings. As a prolific advisor to dissidents and democratic politicians around the world, Larry Diamond's "Ill Winds: Saving Democracy from Russian Rage, Chinese Ambition, and American Complacency" (2019)
- [On the Democracy of Equals: An Interview with Prof. Elizabeth Anderson](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2019/07/25/on-the-democracy-of-equals-an-interview-with-prof-elizabeth-anderson/) - July 25, 2019 | Brian Wong, the Editor-in-Chief of the Oxford Political Review, speaks to Elizabeth Anderson, political theorist renowned for a diverse range of works, including her theorisation of relational egalitarianism and an institutionalist approach to epistemic justice. Elizabeth is both a highly prominent feminist and political philosopher, and an activist-author who writes on issues intersecting social justice,
- [A Conversation with Anand Giridharadas: Dismantling the Structure](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2019/07/27/a-conversation-with-anand-giridharadas-dismantling-the-structure/) - July 27, 2019 | Oxford Political Review (Special Correspondent Daniil Ukhorskiy and Editor-in-Chief Brian Wong) speaks with Anand Giriharadas, author of Winners Take All, editor-at-large of Time and former correspondent for the New York Times. He is known for his writing on wealth inequality and his critique of elite power structures and the philanthropic industry. When we first sat
- [A Universal Basic Income for Indigenous Australians](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2019/08/09/a-universal-basic-income-for-indigenous-australians/) - August 9, 2019 | 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
- [Is AI Safety ‘Rather Speculative Long-Termism’?](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2019/08/25/is-ai-safety-rather-speculative-long-termism/) - August 25, 2019 | When asked if the Effective Altruism (EA) movement has deviated from what he originally intended for it to look like, Peter Singer told Oxford Political Review: ‘I do think that the EA movement has moved too far and, arguably, there is now too much resources going into rather speculative long-termism.’ [1] ‘I think if we
- [Israeli Elections 2019, Part II. What’s Next?](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2019/09/20/israeli-elections-2019-part-ii-whats-next/) - September 20, 2019 | 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
- [Posturing for Symmetry](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2019/09/24/posturing-for-symmetry/) - September 24, 2019 | 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
- [The Reluctantly Liberated: Reassessing Russia sympathisers in Ukraine](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2019/09/25/the-reluctantly-liberated/) - September 25, 2019 | 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
- [A Conversation with Hindol Sengupta](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2019/09/28/a-conversation-with-hindol-sengupta/) - September 28, 2019 | Brian Wong, Editor-in-Chief, speaks to Hindol Sengupta, Indian historian and journalist, and an Editor-at-Large at Fortune India. Hindol and Brian converse over the future of global politics, India under Modi, and Hindol's personal path. Global Politics In our previous conversation we discussed the problems that seem to be proliferating amongst the self-anointed ‘ruling Establishment’ in
- [Why Brexit must happen](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2019/09/30/why-brexit-must-happen/) - September 30, 2019 | More than three years on from the 2016 referendum, Britain is still no closer to determining its future relationship with the European Union. This has led increasing numbers of people to advocate—or come out as supporters of—cancelling Brexit entirely either by directly revoking the Article 50 notification or staging a second referendum with the aim
- [International Relations: Backstage. The Viennese Volksoper and Its International Activities](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2019/09/30/international-relations-backstage-the-viennese-volksoper-and-its-international-activities/) - September 30, 2019 | The following article provides a vivid example of international interconnectedness, ‘backstage’. I examine how one of Vienna’s largest opera houses, the ‘Vienna People's Opera’ (Volksoper) works together with operas and theatres in other countries and parts of the world through international performances, maintaining international links both in and outside of Europe. I suggest that such ‘behind the
- [The Case for Hope in Resisting Climate Change: A Conversation with Michael Mann](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2019/10/05/the-case-for-hope-in-resisting-climate-change-a-conversation-with-michael-mann/) - October 5, 2019 | Brian Wong, Editor-in-Chief of the Oxford Political Review, sits down with Michael Mann, leading climate change scientist and theorist, recipient of Tyler Prize, and perhaps most famously known for his exposition of the existential threat confronting humanity through his “Hockey Stick Graph” in his 1999 article. A Fellow of the American Meteorological Society and the
- [The Sinking Ship of Capitalism: Towards the New Path of Ecosophy](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2019/10/14/the-sinking-ship-of-capitalism-towards-the-new-path-of-ecosophy/) - October 14, 2019 | ‘I am too young to watch pornography. Why am I seeing the planet getting fucked?’. This sentence blazed on a banner held by a 15-year-old during a march for climate change I attended in my home town of Brussels. ‘Climate Change’: not only does this term capture the rise of global average temperatures, predominantly caused
- [Is British democracy really under threat?](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2019/10/14/is-british-democracy-really-under-threat/) - October 14, 2019 | What’s been going on? In late September 2019, the UK Supreme Court ruled that the government acted unlawfully in proroguing, i.e. suspending, parliament for 5 weeks. The supposed reason for this prorogation – to prepare for a Queen’s speech – was deemed by the courts to be insufficient to justify such a long period of
- [A Conversation with NASA Chief Scientist, Dr. Jim Green](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2019/10/26/a-conversation-with-nasa-chief-scientist-dr-jim-green/) - October 26, 2019 | The Oxford Political Review interviews Dr. Jim Green, Chief Scientist at NASA and one of planetary and space science’s leading contemporary voices. Dr. Jim Green discusses NASA’s exploration of Mars, the link between climate change and space exploration, and the future of space exploration in politically transformative times. Dr. Jim Green’s booming voice sonorously greets
- [Try Again, Fail Again, Learn Nothing – The Nauseating Repetition of Britain’s Justice Reforms](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2019/10/29/try-again-fail-again-learn-nothing-the-nauseating-repetition-of-britains-justice-reforms/) - October 29, 2019 | Right wing political parties live and die less on the basis of specific policy outcomes than on their ability to cultivate a general image as the ‘sensible’ option, the ‘common sense’ option and the ‘hard but fair’ option. The most recent changes to policing and prisons policy announced last month by the British government, which
- [An Interview with Saeb Erekat: Leading Diplomat and Spokesperson for the PLO](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2019/10/30/an-interview-with-saeb-erekat/) - October 30, 2019 | Guest Contributor Samuel Blanes Targett speaks to Saeb Erekat, Palestinian diplomat who serves as one of the most prominent spokespersons and foreign policy experts for Palestine. At the time of the interview, he serves as the chief of the Negotiations Department of the PLO. Q: Since your earliest days as a public figure, you have
- [The Age of Impunity: A Review of David Miliband's Fulbright Lecture](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2019/11/11/the-age-of-impunity/) - November 11, 2019 | In its most basic description, it is a thoroughly unremarkable photograph: heads of state shaking hands at the G20 Summit last autumn. But for those who have seen the striking image, a basic description could not do it justice. The man on the right wears the dark suit favored by intelligence operatives the world over,
- ["The Chinese Dream" - Discourses of Opportunity and the Realities of Racism in Modern China](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2019/11/20/the-chinese-dream-discourses-of-opportunity-and-the-realities-of-racism-in-modern-china/) - November 20, 2019 | 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
- [In Defense of Debate](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2019/11/20/in-defense-of-debate/) - November 20, 2019 | by Gabe Rusk and Numair Razzak This year’s Presidential primaries present us with such a heavily packed stage that candidates seem to primarily mine them for Tweetable moments in order to break from the pack. This problem will surely compound as it becomes harder and harder to qualify for the preceding debates. As the rhetoric
- [Interview with Professor Amia Srinivasan](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2020/01/07/interview-with-professor-amia-srinivasan/) - January 7, 2020 | I was first exposed to your wonderful works through The Aptness of Anger, about which I have two lingering questions that have always intrigued me – a) if you were to develop an aptness-centric account or defense of anger, how extensive would that account be, as compared with, say, Fanon or Sartre’s conception of violence; b)
- [Australia's Bushfire Crisis](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2020/01/12/australias-bushfire-crisis/) - January 12, 2020 | 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 the
- [On the Citizenship Amendment Act 2019 - And How It Began](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2020/01/12/the-citizenship-amendment-act-2019-and-how-it-began/) - January 12, 2020 | 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’).
- [An Interview with Robert Reich: On the Future of Labour](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2020/01/17/an-interview-with-robert-reich-on-the-future-of-labour/) - January 17, 2020 | The Oxford Political Review speaks with Robert Reich, former US Secretary of Labor during Bill Clinton's administration, leading labour economist, and current Chancellor's Professor of Public Policy at the University of California at Berkeley and Senior Fellow at the Blum Center for Developing Economies. In the interview, Editor-in-Chief Brian Wong and Robert Reich discuss the
- [The Hong Kong Riots: A Comparative Account of Media Coverage in Hong Kong and the UK](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2020/01/30/the-hong-kong-riots-a-comparative-account-of-media-coverage-in-hong-kong-and-the-uk/) - January 30, 2020 | 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.
- [A Conversation with Carlo Cottarelli - Italian Economist, Former Prime Minister-Designate, and IMF Executive Director](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2020/02/05/a-conversation-with-carlo-cottarelli-italian-economist-former-prime-minister-designate-and-imf-executive-director/) - February 5, 2020 | The Oxford Political Review speaks with Carlo Cottarelli, former Executive Director of the IMF (Italy etc.) and Prime Minister-designate of Italy in 2018 during the political crisis. Cottarelli is a veteran IMF bureaucrat and Italian public economist. In the conversation, Brian and Cottarelli speak over the state and future of Italian politics, the EU and
- [Iowa: A Tale of Two Mayors](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2020/02/11/iowa-a-tale-of-two-mayors/) - February 11, 2020 | Going into the Iowa caucus, Democrats were largely optimistic. Sanders and Biden led the pack, providing a strong option for both moderate and progressive voters. A week later, official results are yet to be announced and the debacle has rocked the credibility of the Democratic party. Once more, Democrats have shown that they will stop
- [Buttigieg and Sanders Take the Lead – Lessons from “The Shitshow in Iowa”](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2020/02/11/buttigieg-and-sanders-take-the-lead-lessons-from-the-shitshow-in-iowa/) - February 11, 2020 | The official start of the US presidential election cycle in Iowa does not bode well for observers who worry about the decreasing trust in American electoral democracy. Critics have for years pointed to the disproportionate influence that this small, rural, and mainly white state has in either breaking a presidential campaign, or propelling it to
- [A Conversation with Professor Wang Gungwu](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2020/02/12/a-conversation-with-professor-wang-gungwu-former-vice-chancellor-of-hku-and-renowned-historian/) - February 12, 2020 | Editor-in-Chief Brian Wong speaks with Professor Wang Gungwu, the former Vice Chancellor of University of Hong Kong and highly acclaimed historian of Chinese migrant history. Prof. Wang and Brian discuss his academic work, the past, present, future of Chinese politics, and his musings on philosophy of history. OPR: A lot of your works have focussed
- [Warren’s Woes](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2020/02/15/warrens-woes/) - February 15, 2020 | Anatomy of A Disaster Warren performed poorly on Tuesday. She did not deny it in her final speech in New Hampshire, nor did her supporters or surrogates. Poor showing, however, is an understatement. To claim that Warren’s campaign is experiencing anything short of an existential crisis would be delusional. Since her hyacinth days in late
- [Student Politics and the Birth and Death of Bangladesh](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2020/02/18/student-politics-and-the-birth-and-death-of-bangladesh/) - February 18, 2020 | Abrar Fahad was a second-year student of the Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET), the prime engineering university in Bangladesh. He was tortured inside his own residential hall and killed by leaders of the Chhatra League—the student-wing of the ruling party of Bangladesh, the Awami League—on October 7, 2019, for allegedly being critical on
- [Fight Night in Vegas](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2020/02/20/fight-night-in-vegas/) - February 20, 2020 | For the first time in this primary season, the gloves came off for the Democratic candidates. Personal attacks, quips, and zingers dominated the Vegas showdown. Warren took no prisoners, Bloomberg floundered and flailed, Sanders emerged largely unscathed. In the last debate before Nevada, South Carolina, and, crucially, Super Tuesday, progressive candidates and ideas dominated, while
- [Has the rule of law been replaced by the rule of politics?](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2020/02/23/has-the-rule-of-law-been-replaced-by-the-rule-of-politics/) - February 23, 2020 | Introduction There are few doctrines more sacrosanct to the sphere of international human rights law than that of the rule of law. Its fundamentality is demonstrated by its inclusion in an array of mission statements and supranational bodies, ranging from the United Nations (which associates the principle with its basic functions,)[1] to the African Union
- [Panic at the DNC – Sanders Sweeps Nevada](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2020/02/24/panic-at-the-dnc-sanders-sweeps-nevada/) - February 24, 2020 | Top of the pack Bernie Sanders has won a resounding victory in Nevada – the Democratic primary is his to lose. Where previous results were far from decisive, this win is an undeniable show of strength moving forward. With a narrow win in New Hampshire, critics were quick to point out that Sanders won the
- [Oxford Political Review Interviews Noam Chomsky](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2020/02/28/oxford-political-review-interviews-noam-chomsky/) - February 28, 2020 | Editor-in-Chief Brian Wong interviews Noam Chomsky - linguist, political scientist, philosopher, writer, activist, and one of the most iconic American voices of the 20th Century.
- [Labour Leadership Race - The Road to Power](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2020/02/28/labour-leadership-race-the-road-to-power/) - February 28, 2020 | This marks the beginning of a series on the Labour leadership race. I’m kicking off by discussing what choosing the right leadership team means, and why it matters. A Conservative led government first came into power when I was nine years old. The Left in this country has torn itself apart and put itself back
- [The Final Barriers of Colonialism](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2020/02/29/the-final-barriers-of-colonialism/) - February 29, 2020 | In 1947, the Crown in the Jewel of the British Empire finally broke free to shine on its own, as the Indian Subcontinent won its independence from British rule and the current geopolitical map of the region was created. 73 years on, while the days of foreign occupation and unwanted flags fluttering in Indian lands
- [The Success Condition for Protests](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2020/02/29/the-success-condition-for-protests/) - February 29, 2020 | One type of argument for the justification of protest activities has appealed to pragmatic considerations.1 Guided by the principle ‘the means should prefigure the end,’ defenders of what I call ‘the success condition for protests’ have argued that protests—and particular forms of it—are permissible only by virtue of their success2 in bringing forth practical results
- [The Great Alignment](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2020/03/03/the-great-alignment/) - March 3, 2020 | In the wake of Biden’s result in South Carolina, it is safe to assume that Democratic establishment has been busy. Less than two days after the primary and just two days before Super Tuesday, Biden’s main centrist contenders – Pete Buttigieg and Amy Klobuchar – have dropped out of the race and endorsed the former
- [How can armchair ethicists help fight pandemics?](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2020/03/05/how-can-armchair-ethicists-help-fight-pandemics/) - March 5, 2020 | The popular prefix ‘armchair’ to ‘ethicists’ perhaps implies a false notion of ease with what ethicists do. Mathematicians work similarly to ethicists in many ways – an inquiry of truths by sitting in libraries with pen and paper. Yet few scold them for being ‘armchair mathematicians’.
- [The Guests of Nero](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2020/03/06/the-guests-of-nero/) - March 6, 2020 | In his poignant film Nero’s Guests,1 historian P. Sainath describes Tacitus’ account of the burning of Rome in 64 A.D. As Rome was engulfed in civil unrest, Emperor Nero opened his gardens to throw the grandest party the ancient world had seen, as a distraction for those who wielded both power and influence. There was
- [Book Review: Genealogies of Capitalist Realism](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2020/03/06/book-review-genealogies-of-capitalist-realism/) - March 6, 2020 | Eugene McCarraher (2019), The Enchantments of Mammon: How Capitalism Became the Religion of Modernity. Harvard University Press.Thomas Piketty (2020), Capital and Ideology. Harvard University Press. ‘It’s easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism’. Such was the strange malaise of our times as captured by the late Mark Fisher’s notion
- [The Moderates Strike Back](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2020/03/09/the-moderates-strike-back/) - March 9, 2020 | The resurrection of the Biden campaign is poised to be the most consequential development of the 2020 Democratic nomination process. Within a little more than a week Joe Biden went from running a struggling campaign in a crowded Democratic race, to become the sole moderate candidate left standing to oppose Bernie Sanders. It was always
- [OPR Podcast Series: A Conversation with Jeh Johnson](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2020/03/19/opr-podcast-series-a-conversation-with-jeh-johnson/) - March 19, 2020 |
- [Beyond the GDP: How the African Development Bank could grow Africans](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2020/03/19/beyond-the-gdp-how-the-african-development-bank-could-grow-africans/) - March 19, 2020 | OXFORD, England - While tracking the trajectory of African economies, the African Development Bank (AfDB) must be wary of overlooking the most essential constituent of Africa’s economic potential, a healthy African. It is cliché that the youthful African population promises a brighter future for the continental economy. But it must be remembered that it is
- [The Case for Humility in Our COVID-19 Response](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2020/03/19/the-case-for-humility-in-our-covid-19-response/) - March 19, 2020 | As of mid-March 2020, the United Kingdom’s strategy for battling the COVID-19 pandemic is markedly different from that of virtually every other Western country. While the UK government’s more relaxed policy is provoking controversy among scientists and policymakers around the world, there is a subtle irony that we should not lose amidst the chaos –
- [Can Those from Bangladesh’s Long-silent Tea Gardens Speak?](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2020/03/19/can-those-from-bangladeshs-long-silent-tea-gardens-speak/) - March 19, 2020 | To design development projects to transform the lives of thousands of tea-pickers in Sreemangal, Bangladesh, state and non-state actors must critically engage with local ideas and culture. Perhaps this morning too, you were energised by the stimulating effect of tea, the most widely consumed drink around the world after water. The increasingly widespread aroma of this
- [Can anyone lead Labour back into power?](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2020/04/03/can-anyone-lead-labour-back-into-power/) - April 3, 2020 | Never has a major party leadership election felt so insignificant. Whereas the race which followed Labour’s 2015 defeat felt like a battle for the soul of the party, the 2020 equivalent has nowhere near the same sense of urgency. This partly reflects the severity of Labour’s defeat in last year’s general election, and the Covid-19
- [Refugees in Camp Moria and COVID-19](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2020/04/03/refugees-in-camp-moria-and-covid-19/) - April 3, 2020 | Around the world, COVID-19 has forced countries into a sudden reckoning with their most primary fragilities. It cannot be beaten by drone strikes or intimidated by economic prowess. The bold virus seems undaunted by the rhetoric of world leaders or the size of their armies. So as COVID-19 spreads, many comment on the apparently rare
- [The U.S. Needs A Reinvigorated National Service Program](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2020/04/03/the-u-s-needs-a-reinvigorated-national-service-program/) - April 3, 2020 | With the 2020 Democratic Primary drawing to a mundane close, it seems fitting to look back at the exciting race that was. In a crowded field where many once-promising candidates and touted “front-runners” failed to catch a footing, others made their impact known. Some candidates garnered headlines as champions of a specific cause. Andrew Yang,
- [Interview: David Estlund](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2020/04/04/interview-david-estlund/) - April 4, 2020 | In times of harsh political realities, sometimes we lose sight of the shape of the society we want to live in. Political philosopher David Estlund's new book Utopophobia offers a defence of ideal theory political philosophy, suggesting that failure to explore utopianist conceptions of justice risks the "marginalization of inquiries and insights without demonstrating any
- [Is expertise as contagious as COVID-19?](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2020/04/09/is-expertise-as-contagious-as-covid-19/) - April 9, 2020 | By Jan Eijking In 2017 a book with a well-timed title landed on bookseller’s shelves across the UK: “The Death of Expertise.” Written by US Naval War College professor Tom Nichols, and published only shortly after Michael Gove’s now-infamous declaration that “Britain’s had enough of experts,” this little manifesto bemoaned a growing threat to expertise
- [Banks are now an arm of the state](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2020/04/10/banks-are-now-an-arm-of-the-state/) - April 10, 2020 | The Covid-19 pandemic that is gripping the nation has been frequently compared to the 2008 financial crisis, as both have had devastating impacts on our livelihoods, wellbeing and sense of security. On a global scale there have been many crises since 2008 that have had an equally destressing impact on certain groups, but most of
- [Can you put a price on saving a life from coronavirus?](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2020/04/11/can-you-put-a-price-on-saving-a-coronavirus-life/) - April 11, 2020 | The novel Coronavirus pandemic has stopped the world in its tracks. In particular, the onslaught of cases and community spread in the United States has sent the Federal Government into a full-blown panic. After poo-pooing the virus for weeks as something less dangerous than the common Flu, the government has begun to roll out plans
- [COVID-19 and the American States: Why State Government Matters](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2020/04/14/covid-19-and-the-american-states-why-state-government-matters/) - April 14, 2020 | By Eric Connelly and Nikita Gryazin COVID-19 has quickly come to dominate media attention throughout the world, and for good reason. The US Presidential election feels like an afterthought. State government, an area of American life that is typically ignored, has risen in the minds of many Americans as they apply for unemployment insurance and
- [The future of International Cooperation Dynamics, post COVID-19](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2020/04/14/the-future-of-international-cooperation-dynamics-post-covid-19/) - April 14, 2020 | A clear parallel between the coronavirus pandemic and climate change is emerging. Both highlight the need for a coordinated response. Both present implications for the rise or demise of globalisation. And in both cases, the effectiveness of response measures depends on the modernisation of international cooperation dynamics. For decades Official Development Assistance (ODA) agencies have
- [Interview with Dr. Samir Saran](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2020/04/17/interview-with-dr-samir-saran/) - April 17, 2020 | OPR interviews Dr. Samir Saran, President of Observer Research Foundation, a New Delhi based think tank. Over the years, through its intensive international collaborations and the Annual Raisina Dialogue, the ORF, under Dr. Saran’s leadership has emerged as a leading institution shaping debates on Foreign Policy, new technologies and public policy. In February 2020, The
- [New Labour Shadow Cabinet: What Does It Say About Future UK Foreign Policy?](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2020/04/17/new-labour-shadow-cabinet-what-does-it-say-about-future-uk-foreign-policy/) - April 17, 2020 | ‘What we can’t do is go back to business as usual’ Keir Starmer The Labour Party now has a new leader and a new Shadow Cabinet. As the opposition takes shape for the foreseeable future, should we expect visible shifts in foreign policy and efforts to influence the government’s own strategy? And if this Shadow Cabinet
- [Afghan Peace Deal: Bracing for an Uncertain Future](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2020/04/18/afghan-peace-deal-bracing-for-an-uncertain-future/) - April 18, 2020 | Almost 18 years after launching the “War on Terror”, the United States finally negotiated a peace deal with the Taliban in February 2020 to end the conflict; the key highlights being the withdrawal of foreign forces within fourteen months and the recognition of the Taliban as a legitimate stakeholder in Afghanistan with a rightful share
- [The dangers of masculinity contests in a time of pandemic](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2020/04/18/the-dangers-of-masculinity-contests-in-a-time-of-pandemic/) - April 18, 2020 | Sharmila Parmanand is a PhD candidate in Gender Studies at the University of Cambridge and a Gates Scholar. Pandemics are political. Decisions around framing the problem, prioritising solutions, and increasing state powers need scrutiny. I contribute to the conversation on the politics of public health emergencies by using a feminist lens to examine the performance
- [The Chloroquine Conundrum and Herd Immunity in Pakistan](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2020/04/19/the-chloroquine-conundrum-and-herd-immunity-in-pakistan/) - April 19, 2020 | Pakistan has had a questionable engagement with the COVID–19 pandemic with analysts terming the state’s response as complacent, supplemented by a refusal to follow social–distancing guidance by congregating for prayers and living in densely populated regions with shared communal spaces. With the lack of sufficient healthcare infrastructure, Pakistan should be teetering on the edge of
- [A Western Delusion: Narratives Surrounding Neocolonialism in Africa](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2020/04/23/a-western-delusion-narratives-surrounding-neocolonialism-in-africa/) - April 23, 2020 | Ever since Chinese President Xi Jinping’s announcement of the ‘Belt and Road Initiative’ in 2013 raised disapproving (or perhaps jealous?) eyebrows in the west, an insidious trend has emerged in relation to reporting on China within western media circles. Scaremongering articles, complete with ominous headlines such as ‘What China is really up to in Africa’, have rushed
- [[China Series #1] The Communist Party of China and the Idea of `Evil’](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2020/04/24/china-series-1/) - April 24, 2020 | The Oxford Political Review is conducting a series of contributions from field experts and academics studying China. We are looking to platform a diversity of voices and opinions. This piece is written by Prof. Kerry Brown, Professor of Chinese Studies and Director of the Lau China Institute. Over the last quarter of a century or
- [Oxford Political Review Interviews PTR Palanivel Thiagarajan](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2020/04/27/oxford-political-review-interviews-ptr-palanivel-thiagarajan/) - April 27, 2020 |
- [The Law and the Wisconsin Election](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2020/04/28/the-law-and-the-wisconsin-election/) - April 28, 2020 | The April 7th election in the U.S. state of Wisconsin shocked democracies everywhere. Harrowing footage of voters invoked notions of fear and injustice as elderly and disabled were shown waiting in in lines amidst this international health crisis. Even more, individuals were only able to vote at five (of what had been thirty-four) polling stations. Between
- [The mystery of Finals classifications](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2020/05/10/the-mystery-of-finals-classifications/) - May 10, 2020 | Four of the United Kingdom’s five most recent Prime Ministers graduated from the University of Oxford. And quite a few British voters could tell you with what class of degree. It would be unthinkable to write Wikipedia page or biography without including such a basic fact, up there with school attended. For public figures, past and
- [Hype, Hope, Repeat: Cryptocurrency and Symbolic Value](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2020/05/11/hype-hope-repeat/) - May 11, 2020 | Cryptocurrencies. Virtual currencies. Digital coins. Studies from ING and St Andrews University reveal that, “while most of us now know something about these terms, many of the details are still a little sketchy.” Cryptocurrency is defined as virtual or digital money which takes the form of tokens or coins. Investopedia explains that the ‘crypto’ in cryptocurrency as a
- [Locked down in Uganda](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2020/05/13/locked-down-in-uganda/) - May 13, 2020 | Irene, a 56-year-old Ugandan, sat on the side of the road in a colourful dress, attempting to sell fruits, biscuits and candies to the empty street in Kampala. In efforts to curb the spread of Covid-19, most people in the Ugandan capital have been confined to their houses for the past weeks, rendering streets deserted
- [Coronavirus and the expanding state](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2020/05/14/coronavirus-and-the-expanding-state/) - May 14, 2020 | In response to the coronavirus crisis, governments across the developed world have expanded beyond anything seen in peacetime. In Britain, a Conservative Government has forcibly shut down almost the entire economy. In what was unthinkable three months ago, welfare payments have substantially increased, the state is guaranteeing business loans, and even paying the wages of furloughed workers.
- [In conversation with Robert O. Keohane](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2020/05/18/in-conversation-with-robert-o-keohane/) - May 18, 2020 | Brian Wong spoke to Robert O. Keohane, Professor of International Affairs, Princeton University. He is the author of After Hegemony: Cooperation and Discord in the World Political Economy (1984) and Power and Governance in a Partially Globalized World (2002). MULTILATERAL INSTITUTIONS. I have a controversial suggestion here – that much of such resentment and backlash has to do
- [Culture during Covid-19: A Conversation with Vienna’s Kunsthistorisches Museum, Belvedere Museum, Jewish Museum, and Albertina Museum](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2020/05/24/culture-during-covid-19-a-conversation-with-viennas-kunsthistorisches-museum-belvedere-museum-jewish-museum-and-albertina-museum/) - May 24, 2020 | Culture during Covid-19: A Conversation with Vienna’s Kunsthistorisches Museum, Belvedere Museum, Jewish Museum, and Albertina Museum. By Julia Vassileva The Covid-19 times brought many governance measures, but the closure of all museums and cultural institutions in Austria in early March 2020 was a particularly sad one. In a city usually vibrant with visitors, a European
- [Conservative climate policy: where are we heading?](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2020/05/26/conservative-climate-policy-where-are-we-heading/) - May 26, 2020 | Harvey Phythian analyses the government's record on the environment After 10 years in government, the Conservatives have recently tried to represent their environmental policy – and its supposes success – as a natural extension of Conservative thinking. While climate change, sustainability and environmental issues are not generally the focus when the Conservatives talk about the
- [How Nationalist Russia Navigates the Global Market](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2020/05/26/how-nationalist-russia-navigates-the-global-market/) - May 26, 2020 | Russia is a post-apocalyptic state, enduring mass metanarrative collapse and total industrial failure in the aftermath of the USSR’s dissolution. In less than three decades, the Federation returned as a major world power. Russia’s continuing revitalization has been fueled, rather than hindered, by its many crises. The Federation’s antifragile tax, currency, and trade policies, the
- [Three tests in a week: two passes and a (major) fail for Boris Johnson](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2020/05/27/three-tests-in-a-week-two-passes-and-a-major-fail-for-boris-johnson/) - May 27, 2020 | Boris Johnson has faced three important tests in the last week: over his government’s coronavirus bereavement scheme; over a visa surcharge applicable to overseas NHS staff and care workers, and over Dominic Cummings. The first two he passed, but the third he failed, and spectacularly so. His decisions to extend the Home Office’s bereavement scheme
- [Coronavirus and the meaning of fake news](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2020/06/01/coronavirus-and-the-meaning-of-fake-news/) - June 1, 2020 | Since the start of the coronavirus pandemic, journalists and authors in the media have routinely been using the term “fake news” to refer to the deep and dynamic flows of misleading, malicious, conspiratorial and divisive coronavirus-related online content. Characterised as an ‘infodemic’by the WHO,the coronavirus era has seen high volumes of both non-state and state-backed coronavirus-centric “fake news.”
- [Can politics ever be free from violence?](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2020/06/03/can-politics-ever-be-free-from-violence-in-both-political-theory-and-practice-the-question-is-as-relevant-as-ever/) - June 3, 2020 | Discussions about violence are perhaps more prominent than ever before, and we are constantly bombarded with depictions of violence in films, the news, books, and a variety of other cultural mediums. We are living in an era which is sometimes described as the bloodiest on record, sometimes as the most peaceful[1]. Lively and fierce debates
- [Clinical Economics](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2020/06/03/clinical-economics/) - June 3, 2020 | The first thing that almost any student from my university will tell you, when pressed about the Return Service Agreement (RSA), is that service shouldn't be for sale. One of the most contentious issues of UP Manila life is how every student of a health sciences program who has lost sleep over an exam the
- [Bangladesh’s constitutionally pragmatic response to COVID-19](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2020/06/05/bangladeshs-constitutionally-pragmatic-response-to-covid-19/) - June 5, 2020 | Bangladesh’s official response to the coronavirus pandemic started on 22 January by putting the airport authorities on alert and initiating screening processes at Dhaka and Chittagong Airport. This took place long before the confirmation of the first case of COVID-19 on 8 March. Full lockdown measures were then put in place on 26 March to suspend all water, rail, and
- [[Editor's Words] Hong Kong, COVID-19, and the Future of Global Biotech](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2020/06/10/hong-kong-covid-19-and-the-future-of-global-biotech/) - June 10, 2020 | It is hard to think of Hong Kong under any other light than in financial terms, especially in light of the looming US-China Cold War. After all, Hong Kong is where “East meets West”; where investors from the West enter China, and where Chinese capital flows outwards and upwards. For many, Hong Kong is the
- [If pregnancy was a symptom of coronavirus and labor a pandemic, paid  maternity leave would be a universal policy #StayAtHome](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2020/06/10/if-pregnancy-was-a-symptom-of-coronavirus-and-labor-a-pandemic-paid-maternity-leave-would-be-a-universal-policy-stayathome/) - June 10, 2020 | The Covid-19 pandemic has fostered Global Health Governance. Implementing maternity leaves should be easier than ever before. As of the 5th of June 2020, the total global death toll due to coronavirus is 396,267[1]. Coronavirus information has engulfed every news channel, every social media account gaining immense coverage. Unsurprisingly, considering these numbers and the fact
- [Disasters of Neoliberalism and Hindutva Fascism in India](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2020/06/10/disasters-of-neoliberalism-and-hindutva-fascism-in-india/) - June 10, 2020 | Neoliberalism as an ideology emerged in central Europe during early 20th century in opposition to socialism as an alternative to imperial, colonial and capitalist plunder, war and economic crisis. The Department of Economics at the University of Chicago shaped neoliberalism as a strategy to shift the power from workers to the owners of capital by
- [The struggle for freedom – Birth of a nation](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2020/06/12/the-struggle-for-freedom-birth-of-a-nation/) - June 12, 2020 | Imagine yourself in a world, where the officials of the Pakistan Military Forces are enjoying scrumptious Sindhi delicacies, and just on the very opposite corner of the street, an impoverished Bengali child whose parents were mercilessly murdered by the Pakistan Army, is struggling to find a handful of rice for his only meal of the
- [THE BATSMAN’S RESPONSIBILITY: CHINA’S LIABILITY FOR ITS WET MARKETS UNDER INTERNATIONAL LAW](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2020/06/13/the-batsmans-responsibility-chinas-liability-for-its-wet-markets-under-international-law/) - June 13, 2020 | Background and Introduction Between Covid-19 being dubbed as the “Chinese virus” and the Chinese being vilified for their traditional food habits, the People’s Republic of China has witnessed countless controversies over the recent pandemic. Several studies including the World Health Organisation have shown how the virus originally bred in bats and snakes and have attempted
- [Clocking off during coronavirus: why capitalism won’t wait any longer](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2020/06/14/clocking-off-during-coronavirus-why-capitalism-wont-wait-any-longer/) - June 14, 2020 | In normal times, the slightest dip in productivity is enough to bring even the most stoic of billionaires to tears. But when public health measures threatened to suspend the productive process altogether, the floodgates opened. As calls to re-open schools, shops, and workplaces were heeded, it became clear that the cost of billionaire counselling was
- [How the Indian State of Andhra Pradesh is purging opposing voices](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2020/06/15/how-the-indian-state-of-andhra-pradesh-is-purging-opposing-voices/) - June 15, 2020 | The one-year performance of the new Andhra Pradesh administration - led by the YSR Congress Party (YSRCP) under Chief Minister, YS Jagan Mohan Reddy - allows us a glimpse into the state of affairs. Characterised by quasi-authoritarian measures, repression of dissidents, and subversion of democratic institutions, the state's condition is a cause of concern. When
- [The Hobson's Choice to Detention in European Transit Zones](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2020/06/20/the-hobsons-choice-to-detention-in-european-transit-zones/) - June 20, 2020 | While Europe deals with what will soon turn out to be the worst refugee crisis in history, the ghastly sight of the three-year old Syrian refugee’s corpse washed ashore a beach on the Mediterranean Sea while attempting to enter Europe still reminds us of the futility of our efforts. The vast influx of refugees into
- [The Creeping Influence of populism on Indian Foreign Policy](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2020/06/20/the-creeping-threat-of-populism-to-indian-foreign-policy/) - June 20, 2020 | On 16th of June, New Delhi woke up to the shocking news of the brutal killing of 20 soldiers of the Indian Army in a border clash with the Peoples Liberation Army (PLA). The recent tensions surrounding India’s borders with China, Nepal and Pakistan took no time in being subjected to emotional debates on India’s
- [The UK Strikes Back: Similarities and Differences of the Brexit Negotiations](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2020/06/22/the-uk-strikes-back-similarities-and-differences-of-the-brexit-negotiations/) - June 22, 2020 | At first glance, the current UK-EU negotiations remark a new step forward towards 'a fully independent Britain' from the European law and institutions. But looking deeper we can find that they reflect the previous Brexit negotiations in 2017-2018 when the UK was still a part of the EU. Same contradictions, rhetoric, strategy from both sides.
- [Major Transformative Technologies and the Five Dimensions of Security](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2020/06/23/major-transformative-technologies-and-the-five-dimensions-of-security/) - June 23, 2020 | Cyberattacks and data theft have received a rating between 3.5 and 4 out of 5 in the 2020 World Economic Forum Global Risks report. Our societies’ ubiquitous reliance on technologies naturally comes with downsides. It is now commonplace to refer to new technologies as transformative forces in the 21st century – with the attendant discussions of opportunities and
- [The Alternative for Germany Representation Claiming: Failure or Success?](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2020/07/02/the-alternative-for-germany/) - July 2, 2020 | The results of the German federal election of 2017 demonstrate the success of the radical right populist party (RRPP) the Alternative for Germany (AfG). Elections led to the creation of a six-party system including this strong RRPP which managed to become the third largest political force and the real opposition to the mainstream parties. The
- [Fact, Power and Covid-19](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2020/07/03/fact-power-covid/) - July 3, 2020 | ‘We’re following the science’ has been the constant chorus of the UK government. Unfettered by tired ideologies, their response to the Covid-19 pandemic has been determined by nothing but the very latest advances in public health and data-driven virus modelling. Or so if they are to be believed. This essay will contest the claim that
- [“End of the world, end of the month, same struggle”: class and climate protest in France and the UK](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2020/07/06/end-of-the-world-end-of-the-month-same-struggle-class-and-climate-protest-in-france-and-the-uk/) - July 6, 2020 | Since climate protests first hit front pages across Europe around two years ago, the question of reconciling social and environmental justice has gone increasingly mainstream. Many on the left rightly point out that transition to a green economy must simultaneously tackle inequality (an idea to which even organisations like the OECD now pay lip service[1]),
- [Why the DFID - FCO Merger Must Be Opposed](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2020/07/12/why-the-dfid-fco-merger-must-be-opposed/) - July 12, 2020 | Make no mistake: this is the abolition of DFID, not the combination of two departments. Those arguing for this merger will inevitably say - and have already begun saying - that it will foster more ‘coherence’, more ‘joined up’ foreign policy, better coordination, alignment, and a way to consolidate resources. However, the realpolitik is, functionally,
- [The New Ottoman: Turkish Foreign Policy, Erdoğan’s Libyan Adventure, and the Ideal US Response](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2020/07/19/the-new-ottoman-turkish-foreign-policy-erdogans-libyan-adventure-and-the-ideal-us-response/) - July 19, 2020 | Introduction Known as the sick man of Europe in its dying days, the Ottoman Empire, a Muslim polity that straddled the entirety of the Middle East at its zenith, was long heralded as a bridge between the East and the West dating back to the Seljuk conquest of Constantinople. Although not nearly as powerful or
- [The Bizarre Role of Gangs During the Coronavirus Outbreak](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2020/07/19/the-bizarre-role-of-gangs-during-the-coronavirus-outbreak/) - July 19, 2020 | The coronavirus pandemic has placed extraordinary strain on governments - especially states which have historically faced difficulty in effectively controlling their territory. For this reason, among others, Latin America is swiftly becoming the global hotspot for coronavirus cases. Throughout this crisis, responses to this epidemic have come from an unusual source. Latin America’s narcotrafficers -
- [Review of Nick Timothy’s ‘Remaking One Nation’](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2020/07/23/review-of-remaking-one-nation/) - July 23, 2020 | In June 2017, Nick Timothy left Downing Street for the last time: disgraced and demoralised, in a few short months Timothy – with his co-Chief of Staff Fiona Hill – had steered Theresa May from an exalted status as the new Iron Lady to a vanishingly slim victory over a Labour leader she had been
- [Dude or Dud? An assessment of Boris Johnson’s first year in office](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2020/07/28/dude-or-dud-an-assessment-of-boris-johnsons-first-year-in-office/) - July 28, 2020 | Last Friday marked the anniversary of when Boris Johnson walked proudly into Number 10 Downing Street as Prime Minister. He had thumped his chief competitor Jeremy Hunt in the Conservative Party leadership election, securing just over 66% of the vote, and immediately set about announcing major changes to the Cabinet. In the process, Johnson dismissed
- [OPR interviews David Gauke](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2020/07/29/opr-interviews-david-gauke/) - July 29, 2020 | Nicholas Leah, OPR Managing Editor, interviews David Gauke - the former Conservative MP for South West Hertfordshire (2005 - 2019), Lord Chancellor (2018 - 2019), Secretary of State for Work and Pensions (2017 - 2018), and the holder of various ministerial positions in HM Treasury (2010 - 2017). They discuss the UK government's spending commitments
- [It’s time we destigmatise forced displacement. After all, we are all victims of it today](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2020/07/30/its-time-we-destigmatise-forced-displacement-after-all-we-are-all-victims-of-it-today/) - July 30, 2020 | Since the 2015 European Migrant Crises, stateless individuals, refugees and migrants alike have constantly been at the forefront of toxic narratives and stigma that arbitrarily characterise them as “economic leeches” and “swarms”. Anti-refugee stances and propaganda rarely seek the root causes behind mass displacement and merely focus on the fact that masses of people are
- [Democracy in China: Why Justice for George Floyd Matters](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2020/07/30/democracy-in-china-why-justice-for-george-floyd-matters/) - July 30, 2020 | The United States must acknowledge how racial prejudice contours the China challenge it faces today.
- [On the Lives That Matter](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2020/07/31/on-the-lives-that-matter/) - July 31, 2020 | Without a doubt, we live in a more connected and shared existence. Perhaps not spiritually, but definitely in the sense that we have a broader access to the world. From this, we gain perspective to various opinions or experiences, echoing similar voices, or seeking comparatively different views. For some, this is beneficial, for others, it
- [OPR interviews Lord Mervyn King](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2020/08/01/opr-interviews-lord-mervyn-king/) - August 1, 2020 | Nicholas Leah, OPR Managing Editor, and Brian Wong, OPR Editor-in-Chief, interview Lord Mervyn King - a British economist, the former Governor of the Bank of England (2003 -2013), and a crossbench peer in the House of Lords. They discuss HM Treasury's response to COVID-19, the role of central banks in the recovery, Brexit, and Lord
- [On The Hagia Sophia Decision: The Hagia Sophia Decision: Does it stand the test of 'Rule of Law'?](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2020/08/03/the-hagia-sophia-decision/) - August 3, 2020 | The complex spread of religions around the world has often been the core reason behind major disputes. Whether it be the possession of territory or dispute regarding religious monuments, some of the longest and the deadliest conflicts have seen religion as their core perpetrator. On similar lines falls the Hagia Sophia dispute; a well-known dispute
- [From the Simla Convention to the Galwan Valley: Four Propositions on the Sino-Indian border conflict](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2020/08/03/from-the-simla-convention-to-the-galwan-valley-four-propositions-on-the-sino-indian-border-conflict/) - August 3, 2020 | De-escalation efforts continue over the clash that captured the attention of the globe in June. Resulting in the deaths of over 20 Indian and an unreleased number of PLA combatants, the Galwan Valley melee has by now been well-documented.[1] During a recent closed Hudson Institute briefing under Chatham House Rules, Indian civil society leaders and
- [Scrutinizing the Role of Religion in Ineffective Social Distancing in South Asia](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2020/08/07/scrutinizing-the-role-of-religion-in-ineffective-social-distancing-in-south-asia/) - August 7, 2020 | The globally prescribed social distancing measure is still envisaged as the prime option for all nations to curb the spread of novel coronavirus. The level of maintaining of the social distancing by people of any state or region around the world varies with its overall social, political, economic and religious conditions. While it was earlier predicted that South Asia, a highly populated region comprising one quarter of
- [Security and post-conflict reconstruction in Bangsamoro: Achieving Sustainable Change through Community-based Policing](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2020/08/07/security-and-post-conflict-reconstruction-in-bangsamoro-achieving-sustainable-change-through-community-based-policing/) - August 7, 2020 | Michaela Espenschied is a Consultant currently working with the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) and other international organizations. The opinion’s expressed are the author’s own and do not reflect the views of UNODC. Varied levels of civil unrest continue within the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region of Muslim Mindanao (BARMM), with the current
- [Are Human Rights Claims Mechanisms an adequate Social Justice tool to Address Inequality?](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2020/08/15/are-human-rights-claims-mechanisms-an-adequate-social-justice-tool-to-address-inequality/) - August 15, 2020 | Introduction: Equality, as a concept, is not necessarily complex or abstract. It is grounded in the idea that ‘everyone counts as one and none is more than one’.1 Extrapolating from this idea, inequality exists where needs of some are disproportionately emphasised over others. This could be a result of numerous factors.2 It is likely that
- [Southeast Asia has a synthetic drug problem, China has key stake in fixing it.](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2020/08/15/southeast-asia-has-a-synthetic-drug-problem-china-has-key-stake-in-fixing-it/) - August 15, 2020 | Barrels of precursor chemicals seized by Myanmar police and military in Shan State. Photograph: Myanmar Police/UNODC/via Reuters Beijing has gained momentum in its bid for regional dominance in Southeast Asia. Fuelled by notions of Chinese largesse, high-tech industrial and infrastructure development, and an ongoing surge of tactical investments pouring into the region in recent years,
- [Why are young men obsessed with discipline?](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2020/08/16/why-are-young-men-obsessed-with-discipline/) - August 16, 2020 | My male peers are becoming more concerned with discipline — with their own discipline, and with the discipline with others. They are referring to a kind of rigour they deem necessary for mental and/or physical excellence, a volitional tautness that goes into being a healthy adult. But I have had my suspicions that their concern
- [On Cyberattacks and Electoral Intervention: How to Tame the Elephant in the Room?](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2020/08/17/on-cyberattacks-and-electoral-intervention-how-to-tame-the-elephant-in-the-room/) - August 17, 2020 | In a recent interview with Marc A. Thiessen, President Donald J. Trump acknowledged that the U.S. carried out a cyberattack on Russian agencies in 2018. According to the President, the cyberattack forms part of a broader policy of confronting Russia and was designed to frustrate Moscow's attempts to interfere with the U.S. mid-term elections. It
- [What COVID-19 Teaches Us About Big Tech](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2020/08/23/what-covid-19-teaches-us-about-big-tech/) - August 23, 2020 | In April, I published the following blog post here on my personal blog New Intrigue and on the Oxford Political Review. A few months later, I was told to take down the post or get fired from my then job as a public servant in the Australian Federal Government. Although the post had no criticism of the government
- [An Interview with Prof. Catharine MacKinnon](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2020/08/24/interview-with-catharine-mackinnon/) - August 24, 2020 | The editors of the Oxford Political Review recently sat down with Professor Catharine MacKinnon, one of the foremothers of feminist legal theory. Her seminal book, The Sexual Harassment of Working Women, published in 1979, cleared the path for the legal recognition of harassment in the workplace as a case of sex discrimination. We discussed a
- [The Lorax and Legal Standing](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2020/08/25/the-lorax-and-legal-standing/) - August 25, 2020 | The year before publication of Christopher Stone’s seminal article ‘Should Trees have Standing?’ in the Southern California Law Review, another American environmentalist made an important, if overlooked, contribution to the debate on public interest litigation. “I am the Lorax…I speak for the trees, for the trees have no tongues.” Apart from a recent US Court
- [Founding Bangladesh: OPR-DULPR Joint Panel on Sheikh Mujibur Rahman](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2020/08/26/founding-bangladesh-opr-dulpr-joint-panel-on-sheikh-mujibur-rahman/) - August 26, 2020 | Nicholas Leah from the Oxford Political Review and Md Azhar Uddin Bhuiyan from the Dhaka Law and Politics Review jointly host a panel event titled "Founding Bangladesh: Centenary Reflection on Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the Father of the Nation". 2020 marks the 100th year anniversary of the birth of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the first President of
- [Seasonality and Policymaking in Sub-Saharan Africa](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2020/09/01/seasonality-and-policymaking-in-sub-saharan-africa/) - September 1, 2020 | By Parth Ahya and Justin Graham Ahmadu is a farmer in northeastern Nigeria. His life is shaped by seasons. The best time of the year is October. In October, Ahmadu can sell several bags of his newly harvested grains for a small profit. Over the following 2–3 months, Ahmadu can afford to pay his children’s
- [The Saudi Trail in Yemen’s Quandary](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2020/09/03/the-saudi-trail-in-yemens-quandary/) - September 3, 2020 | Yemen might just be on the brink of an irreversible collapse. The country is grappled in a perverse storm of difficulties along with a catastrophic humanitarian crisis. With an ill-timed war, coronavirus, extensive human rights violations, famines, regional oil conflicts, and a crumbling health care system, Yemen has now become what the UN calls “exceptionally
- [Bostock v Clayton County, Georgia: [Only] One small step forward for LGBTQI+ rights](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2020/09/03/bostock-v-clayton-county-georgia-only-one-small-step-forward-for-lgbtqi-rights/) - September 3, 2020 | Bostock v Clayton County, Georgia: [Only] One small step forward for LGBTQI+ rights By Joshua Taylor and Alice Taylor-Kirby Last month, the US Supreme Court handed down its decision in Bostock v Clayton County, Georgia. Hailed as ‘a triumph for both the country and the court’ and ‘a simple and profound victory for L.G.B.T. civil
- [Safeguarding Sexual Minorities from Conversion Therapy in India: Judiciary as the Custodian of Constitutional Rights](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2020/09/04/safeguarding-sexual-minorities-from-conversion-therapy-in-india-judiciary-as-the-custodian-of-constitutional-rights/) - September 4, 2020 | September 2020 will mark the two-year anniversary of decriminalization of homosexuality in India. This progressive realisation of human rights was achieved by the Supreme Court of India (SC) in the landmark case of Navtej Singh Johar v Union of India and has since then been celebrated as a win against homophobia – a colonial inheritance
- [Dignity in Life and Death](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2020/09/12/dignity-in-life-and-death/) - September 12, 2020 | It takes within its (right to life) fold some of the “finer graces of human civilization, which makes life worth living"… P. Rathinam v. Union of India Despite the Supreme Court of India’s emphasis on the dignified treatment of human beings, the COVID 19 has exposed several instances where human lives were treated without dignity,.
- [Intercepting China's old Deceits](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2020/09/23/intercepting-chinas-old-deceits/) - September 23, 2020 | The growing strains of the Trade War and international upheavals of the United States and other nations with China extend to its competitor in Asia itself. Countries that are dissatisfied with China's supremacy are closely watching for developments on the Ladakh border conflict between India and China. The intriguing facet of the Sino-Indian tussle that
- [The Crumbling Pillar of Opposition Parties](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2020/09/23/opposition-parties/) - September 23, 2020 | Democracy in the post-world war era is understood as a form of government which permits rotation of power. For democracy to thrive, it requires incumbents to lose elections from time to time. When reelection is guaranteed, ruling parties do not see any incentives to respond to public opinions or ensure the general welfare. Such structures even witness
- [Uncovering patriarchal undercurrents in the quest for the ‘genuine rape victim’: A feminist legal theory narrative of the gendered perceptions on consent.](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2020/09/24/uncovering-patriarchal-undercurrents-in-the-quest-for-the-genuine-rape-victim-a-feminist-legal-theory-narrative-of-the-gendered-perceptions-on-consent/) - September 24, 2020 | Status of Indian rape laws: The harsh statistics The persistent growth of sexual atrocities in India has led to the formulation of seemingly uncompromising rape laws. However, increasing number of rapes and decreasing conviction rates paint a contrary picture regarding the efficacy of current rape law. In 2001 16,075 rape cases were reported, which more
- [A Right to Life amidst COVID-19: non-existent for Palestinian prisoners in Israel](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2020/09/29/a-right-to-life-amidst-covid-19-non-existent-for-palestinian-prisoners-in-israel/) - September 29, 2020 | Deeksha Sharma and Tirtharaj Chaudhary are both penultimate year law students at National Law University, Lucknow, India The Israeli Supreme Court (SC) recently ruled that Palestinian prisoners have no right to physical distancing protection against COVID-19, prima facie ignoring the outbreak in the overcrowded Gilboa Prison.The Palestinian legal advocacy group, Adalah, had petitioned the court to
- [Deconstructing the ‘Latino Voting Bloc’ in the American 2020 Presidential Election](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2020/10/02/deconstructing-the-latino-voting-bloc-in-the-american-2020-presidential-election/) - The consensus among political experts is that the Democrats haven’t done enough for Latinos. Many hold a grudge against the Democratic establishment, and former President Barack Obama in particular, due to the record number of deportations during his term and his inability to pass an immigration reform bill. Janet Murguía, president of UnidosUS, called President Obama the “deporter in chief,”, and Vice-President Joe Biden didn’t leave the administration unsullied.
- [China’s impact on South Asia: A discourse on India, Pakistan, and Nepal](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2020/10/04/chinas-impact-on-south-asia-a-discourse-on-india-pakistan-and-nepal/) - October 4, 2020 | China's influence continues to shape the conflict dynamics as well as the prospects for sustainable peace and development in South Asia. The elements of Chinese foreign policy take into account China’s geostrategic rivalry with India, economic expansion within the sub-continent and situation at the Sino-Indian border. This article looks into China's influence on the Indian subcontinent
- [Australians Are Quietly Losing Their Right to Free Speech](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2020/10/08/australians-are-quietly-losing-their-right-to-free-speech/) - October 8, 2020 | In September, more than half of Australia’s environmental scientists working for the federal and state governments reported that they had been "prohibited from communicating scientific information” to the general public. Research on climate change, the extinction of animal species and pollution was all being suppressed. Despite the potential for scientific research to shape national elections,
- [Liberal Theory's Neglect of Environmentalism](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2020/10/09/liberal-theorys-neglect-of-environmentalism/) - October 9, 2020 | It is no exaggeration to say that climate change is the most pressing issue facing the world today. This is a strong claim to make, but the scientific evidence is more or less incontrovertible.[1] Barring the emergence of an imminent nuclear war, an alien invasion, or a deadly coronavirus mutation, climate change will remain the
- [Restitution of Conjugal Rights: An Anathema to Human Rights](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2020/10/14/restitution-of-conjugal-rights-an-anathema-to-human-rights/) - October 14, 2020 | In March 2019, the Honourable Supreme Court of India admitted a writ petition[1] (Ojaswa Pathak v. Union of India) challenging the constitutionality of the remedy of restitution of conjugal rights present under multiple family laws including Section 9 of Hindu Marriage Act, 1955 (hereafter the Act). The question of law i.e. constitutionality of the remedy
- [David Graeber (1961-2020): a take on his legacy as challenger of political common sense](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2020/10/26/david-graeber-1961-2020-a-take-on-his-legacy-as-challenger-of-political-common-sense/) - October 26, 2020 | Beginning of this month, David Graeber, a thinker fitting many labels, passed away. “It might be said that all my work has been exploring the relation between anthropology as an intellectual pursuit, and practical attempts to create a free society, free, at least of capitalism, patriarchy, and coercive state bureaucracies”. These words highlight the dualism
- [The Problem of Facial (Mis)Recognition](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2020/10/27/the-problem-of-facial-misrecognition/) - October 27, 2020 | In the past five years, facial recognition systems have frequently misrecognised the faces of minority groups. For instance, Amazon’s Rekognition API, during an experiment, failed to recognize 11 persons-of-colour who are members of US Congress, and misidentified them with criminal mug shots[1]. It does not stop there, with multiple instances reported around the world of
- [Biden vs. Trump: OPR's US Presidential Election Panel](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2020/10/27/biden-vs-trump-oprs-us-presidential-election-panel/) - October 27, 2020 | On the day of the final presidential debate between Joe Biden and Donald Trump, the Oxford Political Review hosted a panel event on the 2020 election. Chairing the panel was OPR Managing Editor Nicholas Leah, and he was joined by Brian Stelter (CNN’s Chief Media Correspondent), Molly Ball (TIME’s National Political Correspondent), Dr Yoni Appelbaum
- [The Nagorno-Karabakh Region Conflict: Are We Underestimating the Escalating Tensions?](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2020/10/28/the-nagorno-karabakh-region-conflict-are-we-underestimating-the-escalating-tensions/) - October 28, 2020 | “All war is a symptom of man's failure as a thinking animal.” - John Steinbeck It has been a century since the First World War ended. Beginning as a relatively small conflict in South-eastern Europe, it escalated into a war between European empires and shook the very core of humanity. Probably, history seems to be
- [Yanis Varoufakis Interview](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2020/10/28/yanis-varoufakis-interview/) - October 28, 2020 | OPR Editor-in-Chief Brian Wong and Managing Editor Nicholas Leah speak with Professor Yanis Varoufakis - a former Minister of Finance in the Greek Government, a leading economist and philosopher, Member of Parliament in Greece, and the author of several high-acclaimed books. They discuss COVID-19, Brexit, the Eurozone, Austerity, Greek/European politics and Professor Varoufakis's new book.
- [Why Slogans Like “I Will Never Understand, But I Stand” Undermine the Fight for Racial Equality](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2020/10/30/why-slogans-like-i-will-never-understand-but-i-stand-undermine-the-fight-for-racial-equality/) - October 30, 2020 | At least since Ancient Greece, humans have recognized that they are not always rational. One of the major legacies of the Ancient Greek intellectual tradition (most famously articulated in Aristotle’s Rhetoric) is the three-layered theory of persuasion: logos-pathos-ethos. In this school of thought, reason (logos) was only one of three–often equally important–modes of human persuasion, alongside with credibility
- [Vote For The Courts: An 11th Hour Appeal To Young People](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2020/11/01/vote-for-the-courts-an-11th-hour-appeal-to-young-people/) - November 1, 2020 | King George III chided revolutionaries in the hit Hamilton show that “oceans rise, empires fall.” But little did he know while monarchies are not forever, Article III judges would be. No matter if you consider the economy, race relations, crime, reproductive rights, climate change, or even the coronavirus as your “single voting issue” come the
- [Dominic Grieve Interview](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2020/11/01/dominic-grieve-interview/) - November 1, 2020 | Nicholas Leah, OPR Managing Editor, interviewed Dominic Grieve live on Facebook/YouTube on Friday 30 October at 17:30 GMT. Dominic is the former MP for Beaconsfield (1997 – 2019), Attorney General for England and Wales (2010 – 2014) and Chair of the Intelligence and Security Committee (2015 – 2019). They discussed, amongst other things, UK-EU negotiations,
- [No Haste, No Hurry: The Dangers of Court-Packing the Federal Judiciary](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2020/11/06/no-haste-no-hurry-the-dangers-of-court-packing-the-federal-judiciary/) - November 6, 2020 | When confronted with FDR’s legislative proposal to expand and pack the Supreme Court with more sympathetic, pro-New Deal justices, U.S. Senator Henry F. Ashurt, the chair of the Senate Judiciary committee, replied “No haste, no hurry, no waste, no worry” and delayed the hearings, marking an essential check by Congress on the Roosevelt White House’s
- [Hanoi is increasingly worrying about its regime security](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2020/11/06/hanoi-is-increasingly-worrying-about-its-regime-security/) - November 6, 2020 | For one-party states like Vietnam, regime security is one of the indispensable components constituting national security, meaning that the ruling parties see this as their vital interest. Besides economic and territorial integrity, Vietnam sees regime security, as its core security interests. With the current domestic socio-political and economic landscapes, it behooves the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV) to
- [Anthony Scaramucci Interview](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2020/11/08/anthony-scaramucci-interview/) - November 8, 2020 | Nicholas Leah, Managing Editor of the Oxford Political Review, speaks with Anthony Scaramucci ("The Mooch") two days after the US Presidential Election. The Mooch is an American Financier and Founder of investment firm SkyBridge Capital. He served as the White House Communications Director to President Donald Trump for 10 days in July 2017, the shortest-serving
- [Poland’s Abortion Ruling: What’s Happened So Far](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2020/11/10/polands-abortion-ruling-whats-happened-so-far/) - November 10, 2020 | On October 22nd 2020, the Constitutional Tribunal of Poland (‘Tribunal’) restricted the legality of abortions in Poland. Citing harm to the foetus and irreversible birth effects, the Tribunal held that abortions are unconstitutional in nature. This ruling is the result of a request submitted by a group of 119 members of the parliament to the
- [Bolsonaro’s Supreme Court pick baffles political commentators and supporters alike](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2020/11/13/bolsonaros-supreme-court-pick-baffles-political-commentators-and-supporters-alike/) - November 13, 2020 | As the United States was embroiled in debates about Donald Trump’s supreme court nominee, tensions ran high in Brazil where Bolsonaro nominated a judge to the Supreme Federal Court (the ‘Supremo Tribunal Federal’ also known as the STF). However, while Trump’s pick, Judge Amy Coney Barrett, was criticized for her hard-liner conservatism, Bolsonaro’s, Judge Kássio
- [Emerging Opportunities and Challenges in India’s Foreign Policy strategy in the Indo-Pacific](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2020/11/14/emerging-opportunities-and-challenges-in-indias-foreign-policy-strategy-in-the-indo-pacific/) - November 14, 2020 | Introduction Throughout the history of civilizations, the maritime domain has played a crucial role in establishing global and regional powers, and security architecture of geographical regions. The security umbrella established at the end of the Second World War in Indian and Pacific oceans remained unchallenged throughout the Cold War. However, the rise of China and
- [Is the Left really Right?](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2020/11/14/is-the-left-really-right/) - November 14, 2020 | As we set sail in writing a piece that we have wanted for long, we feel the inescapable need to begin with a disclaimer. Neither of us has been paid, neither in cash nor in kind, by the BJP, the Republicans, the Conservatives or any of their supporters. The title of this article may instinctively
- [Yazidis in Northern Iraq: A human rights crisis within the pandemic](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2020/11/14/yazidis-in-northern-iraq-a-human-rights-crisis-within-the-pandemic/) - November 14, 2020 | The coronavirus pandemic has affected nations and communities across the world, with cases nearing 50 million and deaths over a million and increasing globally. In Iraq, cases and deaths are rising exponentially every day, with close to 500,000 cases and 11,000 deaths in total. The situation is even worse in Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) camps
- [The Nagorno-Karabakh Conflict: A Win for Great Power Politics](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2020/11/16/the-nagorno-karabakh-conflict-a-win-for-great-power-politics/) - November 16, 2020 | The dust has barely settled on the battlefields and the ink has hardly dried on the recent ceasefire agreement, but the clear winner of the brief, but bloody, conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan over the disputed territory of Nagorno-Karabakh is already apparent: great power politics. Certainly, political and military victory clearly belong to Azerbaijan. Their
- [Death from Below: Anti-Satellite Weapons and the Current Outer Space Security Crisis](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2020/11/17/death-from-below-anti-satellite-weapons-and-the-current-outer-space-security-crisis/) - November 17, 2020 | Outer space infrastructure forms the foundation of modern civilian and military life. From a civilian perspective, the industry is valued at nearly $360 billion and enables everything from ATM transactions to navigation. From a military perspective, global reliance on space assets is even more alarming. Space infrastructure supports virtually all warfighting efforts, including intelligence, surveillance,
- [The US Election 2020: What Happened?](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2020/11/19/the-us-election-2020-what-happened/) - November 19, 2020 | The second panel in the Oxford Political Review's US election series took place on Tuesday 10 November. Chairing the panel is OPR Managing Editor Nicholas Leah, and he is joined by Rick Wilson (Founder of the Lincoln Project), Professor Adam Smith (Director of the Oxford University Rothermere American Institute), Sabrina Siddiqui (National Politics Reporter for
- [Reexamining the Formula of "One Country, Two Systems", with Reference to Hong Kong](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2020/11/26/reexamining-the-formula-of-one-country-two-systems-with-reference-to-hong-kong/) - November 26, 2020 | Yuhan Hu is an MPhil Candidate in Politics (Comparative Government) at the University of Oxford. She completed her master’s degree in China in Comparative Perspective with distinction at the London School of Economics and Political Science. Before coming to the UK, she obtained her bachelor’s degree in political science in Hong Kong. In the early
- [Is There a Right to Exclude Migrants in a Post-Colonial World?](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2020/11/26/is-there-a-right-to-exclude-migrants-in-a-post-colonial-world/) - November 26, 2020 | February 2014, somewhere on the Mediterranean Sea, between Turkey and Greece: two gunshots ring out from a Greek coastal guard vessel. Passengers on a smuggler's boat headed for the Greek island of Chios begin to panic. Through loudspeakers a Greek coastal guard screams "Stop!" repeatedly, like a mantra. But the smuggler doesn't stop the boat.
- [Crisis in the Making: The Indian Government’s Move to Regulate Digital Media](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2020/11/27/crisis-in-the-making-the-indian-governments-move-to-regulate-digital-media/) - November 27, 2020 | The ruling BJP Government in India, has sent out a notification, which was issued by President Ram Nath Kovind, stating that “films and audio-visual programmes made available by online content providers” and “news and current affairs content on online platforms” would be brought under the heading Ministry of Information and Broadcasting (I&B) in the Second
- [How a Biden Presidency Could Enact an Enduring Climate Agenda](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2020/11/28/how-a-biden-presidency-could-enact-an-enduring-climate-agenda/) - November 28, 2020 | Heading into the 2022 midterm elections and beyond, the Republican voter base will likely count among the most impassioned and indignant voting blocs in recent memory. This suggests that the Biden administration’s climate policy efforts, however bold and progressive, must be able to withstand potential regressive efforts by future Republican legislative majorities and administrations. I
- [Influx of Rohingya Refugees: UN Resolution and Diplomatic Endeavour of Bangladesh Government](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2020/12/01/influx-of-rohingya-refugees-un-resolution-and-diplomatic-endeavour-of-bangladesh-government/) - December 1, 2020 | A resolution has been adopted by the United Nations, calling for an urgent solution to the protracted Rohingya crisis that has affected Bangladesh adversely. In total, 132 countries voted in favor of the resolution, while 9 countries voted against it, and 31 countries abstained on 18 November 2020. The resolution “The Situation of Human Rights
- [Biden Should Deepen Ties with Vietnam in Resetting China Policy](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2020/12/03/biden-should-deepen-ties-with-vietnam-in-resetting-china-policy/) - December 3, 2020 | When Joe Biden assumes the presidency in January 2021, American foreign policy will undergo a reset. This will include returning to diplomatic norms, reestablishing America’s unwavering commitment to democracy, underscoring US fidelity to NATO, and strategically reengaging China. With more than four decades of foreign policy experience, Biden will bring a level of reassurance to
- [Where is a new UK post-Brexit foreign policy, a Global Britain?](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2020/12/10/where-is-a-new-uk-post-brexit-foreign-policy-a-global-britain/) - December 10, 2020 | This partly rhetorical question came to me when I heard that the UK’s post-Brexit trade deal with Singapore is officially signed but ‘mirrors Singapore’s deal with the EU’. This and other instances of the widely used repetitions in dealing with other countries attract my attention more and more as, at first glance, it does not seem right: did
- [Post-Trump Partisanship: Biden’s Challenge to Unify a Divided America](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2020/12/22/post-trump-partisanship-bidens-challenge-to-unify-a-divided-america/) - December 22, 2020 | One of the most overused moral tropes, the eternal battle between the dark and the light, served as the overarching theme during Joe Biden’s speech at the Democratic National Convention (DNC) and continued through his victory speech. Biden employed religious iconography, often associated with the evangelical right, to paint America as “shaped by the constant
- [Are national lockdowns justified? A moral assessment](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2021/01/01/are-national-lockdowns-justified-a-moral-assessment/) - January 1, 2021 | The Covid-19 pandemic is and has been quite brutal, especially in hospitals. But it is not only the direct effects of the Covid-19 pandemic which have been tough in 2020. What’s also hit us hard are the lockdowns imposed by governments across the world. As we are writing these lines a second lockdown has been
- [Making sense of the UK-EU Trade Agreement with David Henig](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2021/01/03/making-sense-of-the-uk-eu-trade-agreement-with-david-henig/) - January 3, 2021 | OPR Managing Editor Nicholas Leah discusses the recently agreed UK-EU trade deal with David Henig. David is one of the UK's foremost trade experts. He is the Director of UK Trade Policy at the European Centre for International Political Economy and the Co-Founder of the UK Trade Forum. He has also served in the UK
- [Too Big to Fail, Surveil or Jail: Big Tech as Blueprint for Institutional Power](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2021/01/05/too-big-to-fail-surveil-or-jail-big-tech-as-blueprint-for-institutional-power/) - January 5, 2021 | Introduction: Beyond Borders, Bodies and Law In the aftermath of the 2008 global financial crisis, 'too big to fail' became a viral catchphrase to indicate that modern corporations overwhelmingly operated at a scale that made them institutions in the modern political economy with one important caveat. Their market functions, roles and operations were beyond the
- [China's vaccine soft power play](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2021/01/11/chinas-vaccine-soft-power-play/) - January 11, 2021 | Western vaccines have made headlines across the world with Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna leading the way. Yet their Chinese counterparts have gone largely unnoticed. There are four main producers working on five separate vaccines in China who all face the same issue: that China, using swift and strict lockdowns, among other measures, has effectively dealt with
- [It’s Like Playing a Game of Chess: Russia’s Nuclear Modernization Program Threatens Nuclear War](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2021/01/17/its-like-playing-a-game-of-chess-russias-nuclear-modernization-program-threatens-nuclear-war/) - January 17, 2021 | Handling a nuclear-armed Russia is like playing a game of chess. It is rarely void of faultless moves: each player carries the consequences of difficult decisions. It is emphatically a game of risk, but what it takes to win is unclear in this case. While the fall of the Berlin Wall saw politicians shelving nuclear
- [Lessons of Administrations Past: President-Elect Biden and the Management of U.S. Foreign Policy](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2021/01/20/lessons-of-administrations-past-president-elect-biden-and-the-management-of-u-s-foreign-policy/) - January 20, 2021 | Introduction In the wake of the Presidential inauguration on January 20th, the Biden Administration will have a critical opportunity to shape U.S. foreign policy. Whether or not this opportunity is fully realized, however, will depend on the President-Elect’s management process. When approaching the management of foreign policymaking, the President-Elect should strive to build a collaborative
- [The UK presidency of the UN Security Council: A decisive return to the global stage?](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2021/02/01/the-uk-presidency-of-the-un-security-council-a-decisive-return-to-the-global-stage/) - February 1, 2021 | The UK assumed the presidency of the United Nations Security Council today, as it continues to search for a global role post-Brexit. While the country’s 2021 G7 and COP26 climate conference presidencies receive most of the media coverage concerning “Global Britain”, the opportunity to preside once every 15 months is also an important privilege of
- [OPR interview with Albin Kurti, the former Prime Minister of Kosovo](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2021/02/01/opr-interview-with-albin-kurti-the-former-prime-minister-of-kosovo/) - February 1, 2021 | 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
- [Conflict in Kashmir: Looking back as a warning for future](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2021/02/05/conflict-in-kashmir-looking-back-as-a-warning-for-future/) - February 5, 2021 | The 6th of February 2021 marks the 37th anniversary of the murder of Ravindra Mhatre, an Indian diplomat killed in Birmingham, UK. His killing set the scene for the violent insurgencies in India-administered Kashmir from the late 80s onwards. The legal status of Kashmir has been at the heart of the Indian-Pakistan dispute since 1947 as a result of the countries’ shared colonial
- [Caliberating the moral contours of Indian religious freedom](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2021/02/08/caliberating-the-moral-contours-of-indian-religious-freedom/) - February 8, 2021 | On 27th November 2020, the Governor of the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh promulgated an anti-religious-conversion ordinance. This ordinance prohibits all unlawful conversions from one religion to another which take place by employment of any one or more than one of the following methods – misrepresentation, force, undue influence, allurement or by any fraudulent means
- [History in the Hands of the Shrewd Strategist](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2021/03/01/history-in-the-hands-of-the-shrewd-strategist/) - March 1, 2021 | Amidst the mammoth article inventories of think tanks and geopolitical institutes, one can quickly find writings tackling almost any global issue. The most constructive of these proposals offer tangible strategies with which governments may pursue a variety of foreign policy objectives and it is here where the most cunning, successful strategists apply one of the
- [Crowdsourcing Fact-Checking Undermines Democracy](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2021/03/05/crowdsourcing-fact-checking-undermines-democracy/) - March 5, 2021 | Last month, Twitter unveiled Birdwatch, a fact-checking feature aimed at inoculating citizens against misinformation through a novel experiment in classic crowdsourcing. Twitter’s new initiative has a proactive and sparkling appeal, but there are prominent cracks in its foundation and ‘community-based’ approach to fact-checking. Birdwatch aims to crowdsource the fact-checking process, taking cues from the model
- [America and Japan Should Prepare for a Contingency with China over Taiwan](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2021/03/05/america-and-japan-should-prepare-for-a-contingency-with-china-over-taiwan/) - March 5, 2021 | Talk about China’s predatory behavior has echoed insistently in the halls of the White House.The Communist Party under President Xi Jinping is more aggressive and coercive, yet has a veneer of approachability and humility. It is a foreign policy projection that is as intriguing as it is unstable and dangerous. With continuing racial targeting in
- [Reflecting upon the history of Sino-Australian trade, what do we know?](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2021/03/21/reflecting-upon-the-history-of-sino-australian-trade-what-do-we-know/) - March 21, 2021 | By comparison with the Sino-Australian political downturn from 2016, the development of bilateral economic ties has generally improved across these years. To some extent, Sino-Australian economic cooperation can be regarded as the cornerstone of their bilateral relations. That said, it is interesting to ask what is the nexus between political relations and trade? Do poor
- [Artificial Intelligence: Implications for human dignity and governance](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2021/03/27/artificial-intelligence/) - March 27, 2021 | Nayef Al-Rodhan Recent years have seen a surge in discussions about the impacts of artificial intelligence (AI). These debates have predominantly featured issues related to autonomy in driverless cars, or the moral dilemmas of deploying ‘killer robots’, though the reach and impact of AI-based technologies is, of course, far more widespread. AI is a widely
- [Is China’s Constitution a Dead Letter?](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2021/04/02/is-chinas-constitution-a-dead-letter/) - April 2, 2021 | While Chinese Communist Party (CCP) officials met for their annual two sessions, discussing the upcoming economic Five-Year Plan, international coverage routinely described the National People’s Congress (NPC) as a “rubber stamp” parliament. The characterization of a parliament with no substantive role fits broadly with the notion that legal processes in China are but a performative
- [The Rohingya and the Democratic Uprising in Myanmar](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2021/04/22/the-rohingya-and-the-democratic-uprising-in-myanmar/) - April 22, 2021 | In the aftermath of Myanmar's military coup on 1 February 2021, hundreds of thousands of people - from almost every ethnic group, including people from the Rohingya community - have marched in the streets nationwide in opposition to the military’s power grab. Some activists hope that the protests present a turning point for the persecuted
- [A Positive Reading of Sovereignty is Key to Europe’s Future](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2021/05/11/a-positive-reading-of-sovereignty-is-key-to-europes-future/) - May 11, 2021 | The past year has highlighted the importance of possessing a stable supply chain of essential healthcare supplements in most countries as nations scrambled to purchase the necessary face masks, hand sanitizers, or even more complex medical machinery on a global market where everyone else was vying for the same goods. Similarly, discussions around procurement of
- [What Bipartisanship Can Be](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2021/05/14/what-bipartisanship-can-be/) - May 14, 2021 | The legacy of Franklin Delano Roosevelt looms large in Joe Biden’s White House. Biden invoked the New Deal repeatedly during his presidential campaign and has even hosted talks with historians analyzing the impact of F.D.R.’s reforms. On face, the two resemble each other: both were moderates elected president amidst unprecedented crises succeeding historically unpopular Republicans and eyeing
- [Decoding Techno-Nationalist Tendencies in India-China Relations](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2021/06/13/decoding-techno-nationalist-tendencies-in-india-china-relations/) - June 13, 2021 | Techno-nationalism has been rising with an increase in political as well as technological fragmentation of countries in the post-globalization era. This has become the norm in the new era, which has been transitioning from techno-globalization to techno-nationalism. High-end or frontier technologies like artificial intelligence, 5G technology, and big data have become an integral link for
- [A Democracy in Crisis: A critique of India’s Judiciary and State Machinery’s response to the Indian Labour Migrant Crisis](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2021/06/13/a-democracy-in-crisis-a-critique-of-indias-judiciary-and-state-machinerys-response-to-the-indian-labour-migrant-crisis/) - June 13, 2021 | Introduction India is a democracy in crisis. The last decade has seen a steady decline in the democratic institutions in India. This decline has coincided with constant efforts to undermine the rights of citizens through policy decisions, despite overwhelming opposition by interest groups and civil society, and has been exacerbated by a populist majoritarian government
- [Unfolding China’s vaccine diplomacy in Sri Lanka](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2021/06/15/unfolding-chinas-vaccine-diplomacy-in-sri-lanka/) - June 15, 2021 | After a rocky start, China reached a triumph in its economic growth amid the COVID 19 crisis that encompassed the rest of the world last year. Unlike what other countries encountered, the geopolitical nexus that Beijing has been planning through its most gigantic project, the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), has not been shaken by
- [Despite Netanyahu’s Ouster, the Israeli Right Is Here to Stay. Does This Mean the End of the Two-State Solution?](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2021/06/22/despite-netanyahus-ouster-the-israeli-right-is-here-to-stay-does-this-mean-the-end-of-the-two-state-solution/) - June 22, 2021 | The recent flare-up of violence throughout Israel, Gaza and the West Bank coincides with yet another tense period in Israeli politics. After acting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu failed to form a new government, the torch was passed to centrist Yair Lapid, who has successfully managed to cobble together a loose anti-Netanyahu coalition made up
- [The Revenant of a Thawing Arctic: What’s in it for Russia](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2021/06/25/the-revenant-of-a-thawing-arctic-whats-in-it-for-russia/) - June 25, 2021 | Considering the uncertain times, we are in, climate change and the actualities of an equivocal future are circling the Arctic region at a faster pace than any other place in the world. Irreversible changes like escalating sea levels, climate feedback loops, geopolitical shifts, ecological alterations, new prospects for resource mining, and a myriad of other
- [The Politics of Place – Why Proximity Makes Progressives](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2021/06/28/the-politics-of-place-why-proximity-makes-progressives/) - June 28, 2021 | Across cultures and times, areas of higher population density have been associated with more culturally progressive attitudes. Consider also that a good estimate of the strength of support for Left-leaning parties throughout a democratic country can be made using only a satellite photograph of the nation at night-– with brighter areas, indicating greater population density,
- [The G7 Summit is vital, but not yet enough](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2021/07/02/the-g7-summit-is-vital-but-not-yet-enough/) - July 2, 2021 | Being held in-person for the first time since the outbreak of COVID-19, the most recent G7 summit is highly praised thanks to its comprehensive agenda which covers most of pressing issues for Western countries. Indeed, this summit is vital for the Group of Seven and the West in general to reform their plagued system. Nonetheless,
- [What does it mean to be Singaporean? Reconstructing migrant worker identities in a neoliberal COVID-19 world](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2021/07/05/what-does-it-mean-to-be-singaporean-reconstructing-migrant-worker-identities-in-a-neoliberal-covid-19-world/) - July 5, 2021 | AbstractIn discussing the role of immigration in policy formulation in Singapore, this article uses conceptions of Singaporeanism to explore how identities of migrant workers* have been moulded and reconstructed by Singapore’s colonial past and the neoliberal economic present. Post-COVID-19, where structural inequalities affecting minorities such as migrant workers will require address, the dearth of academic
- [The Power of Memes in Political Campaigning](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2021/07/11/the-power-of-memes-in-political-campaigning/) - July 11, 2021 | “Make America Great Again”, “America #1”, “Build the Wall and Crime will Fall” – these are all phrases that Donald Trump deployed to win votes in his political campaigns. Even those who have little sympathy for the departing American president have often engaged in conversations that are similar in tone: “I don't like him but
- [From Annexation to self-defense: Prelude to the eleven day Gaza Conflict](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2021/07/11/from-annexation-to-self-defense-prelude-to-the-eleven-day-gaza-conflict/) - July 11, 2021 | Introduction Israel has seen four inconclusive Knesset elections in the past two years. In April 2019, struggling to rally right-wing voters, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed to annex parts of the West Bank in a throwaway remark. This suggestion was later bolstered by the Trump administration’s seeming openness to the provocative move, and reversal
- [Afghanistan and the EU as a Peace Mediation Actor: Achievements and Value Added - Can It Complete/Complement the Peace Process?](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2021/07/13/3238/) - July 13, 2021 | The following article aims to analyse the involvement of the European Union (EU) as a peace mediation actor in Afghanistan. I argue that given the difficult conditions on the ground, the EU has made considerable achievements in its engagement in complementing the process, but that a completion of the Afghan peace process is yet not
- [Safeguarding Women’s Rights in Afghanistan](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2021/07/15/safeguarding-womens-rights-in-afghanistan/) - July 15, 2021 | “Afghan women are America's (and the world's) staunchest allies in creating a stronger, more secure Afghanistan”, wrote a recent CNN commentary. Yet, America seems to be abandoning them amidst its urgency to exit the country. While it cannot be refuted that the spate of events may not portend well for women, what is more discouraging
- [How the Eurozone’s History Undermined its Response to COVID-19](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2021/07/16/how-the-eurozones-history-undermined-its-response-to-covid-19/) - July 16, 2021 | As of this moment, Europe has over 181 million confirmed cases of the novel COVID-19 virus, and over 3.91 million deaths. Amid the coronavirus-induced panic-selloff in global equities in March of 2020, regional benchmarks like the DAX lost over half a decades-worth of gains in a month. Markit PMI for the same month printed record-breaking
- [A Discourse on the Rohingya Crisis: Concerns over Human Security, Geopolitics, Democracy](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2021/08/11/a-discourse-on-the-rohingya-crisis-concerns-over-human-security-geopolitics-democracy/) - August 11, 2021 | Since the inception of Myanmar as a military-run state in the 1960s, this discourse has been a prominent symbol of Rakhine. The Tatmadaw has had a significant effect on the Burmese government, resulting in a high level of discrimination against the Rohingya population and near-complete marginalization in terms of resource allocations and growth. The Rohingya
- [How Muslim Women Can Save Indian Secularism](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2021/08/16/how-muslim-women-can-save-indian-secularism/) - August 16, 2021 | Muslim Women have occupied a peculiar position in the mainstream Indian imagination. Through their (inaccurate) perception as a homogenous category, Indian Muslim Women have invoked either imagery of communal normativity through the visible invisibility of the black burqa within the public sphere, or fetishized as mysterious suffering figures who need saving. Beyond these narrative constructions,
- [Identity Crisis under the Big Tent: Canada’s Conservative Party in Turmoil](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2021/08/20/identity-crisis-under-the-big-tent-canadas-conservative-party-in-turmoil/) - August 20, 2021 | In 2013, prominent Canadian political commentators John Ibbitson and Darryl Bricker famously declared the end of the Liberal Party’s dominance over Canadian politics through the collapse of its coalition, the “Laurentian Consensus.” In its place, they heralded an era defined by a new Conservative coalition that would grow in strength over the coming years. Yet,
- [Call for Submissions: October Issue](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2021/08/23/call-for-submissions-october-issue/) - August 23, 2021 | We are now accepting submissions for our fifth issue, to be published in October. The focus of this issue will be on the topic of "new beginnings" -- reflecting how much of economics and domestic and international politics has had to reinvent itself to adapt to new circumstances over the last 18 months. We are
- [Covid, Polarisation and Democracy](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2021/09/08/covid-polarisation-and-democracy/) - September 8, 2021 | The threat posed by Covid-19 briefly brought unity and decreased polarisation. However, the increased sense of community might prove short-lived as certain political leaders sowed disagreement and the pandemic wreaked havoc on people’s lives and increased inequality. Historically, threats such as ones during the Cold War have united domestic polities and reduced polarisation. When touring
- [Returning to the State of Nature: The Hidden Deviousness within the Texas Abortion Law](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2021/09/22/returning-to-the-state-of-nature-the-hidden-deviousness-within-the-texas-abortion-law/) - September 22, 2021 | Since the Supreme Court ordered to uphold the New Texas Abortion Law last week – making abortion after the sixth week of pregnancy practically illegal – opponents have been concerned not only with the law’s unconstitutional content and its implications for women’s rights all over the country, but also with how the law successfully bypassed
- [The Real Pandemic: Strawmen & Worsening Sino-Western Relations](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2021/10/01/the-real-pandemic-strawmen-worsening-sino-western-relations/) - October 1, 2021 | Edward Ludwick defined Great Power Autism as the “lack of situational awareness of the world around them (in large countries) natural in small countries of equal advancement.” This condition seems to have not only taken a firmer hold in both China and the U.S. since the Trump administration, but has infected middle powers like Canada
- [The Taliban Takeover: Implications for South Asian Security](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2021/10/07/the-taliban-takeover-implications-for-south-asian-security/) - October 7, 2021 | The Taliban regime recently announced the formation of a caretaker government in Afghanistan. It has since gained notoriety for its inclusion of terrorists wanted by America and exclusion of ethnic minorities and women. The US expressed strong condemnations over the move. But at the same time, it and other countries in the West and beyond
- [A Renewed Space: Rural Communities and the Countryside](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2021/10/08/a-renewed-space-rural-communities-and-the-countryside/) - October 8, 2021 | 21st Century political wisdom has been invested in a city-based future for most of the world. City-life is seen as the future of the world. Paul Collier in 2010 espoused that ‘as populations grow and the Southern climate deteriorates due to global warming, the South will necessarily urbanize. The future of populations will live not
- [Xi Jinping’s Egalitarian Education Reform](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2021/10/08/xi-jinpings-egalitarian-education-reform/) - October 8, 2021 | Wealth inequality is a serious issue in China. According to data published by Shijiazhuang University of Economics, the top 20 percent of the population earns roughly 30 times more than the bottom 20 percent (Jia Hua, Qingxia, Mengnan Zhang, 2015), and the first month Covid-19 lockdown caused low-skill migrant workers’ income to lose 100 billion
- [Theorizing Chinese Investment In Peripheral & Semi-Peripheral Nation States](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2021/10/10/3126/) - October 10, 2021 | The rise and fall of powers is founded in their economic influence, which is furthered by strategic and diplomatic capabilities. The People’s Republic of China has proliferated an aggressive diplomatic endeavour across the globe through supply-chain penetration and investment. A stark example of the same is the Belt and Road Initiative, the responses to which
- [Why on Earth Did Shatner Go to Space?](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2021/10/20/what-on-earth-is-the-point-of-sending-shatner-into-space/) - October 20, 2021 | Despite what Amazon's PR department almost desperately tried to make us believe, neither Jeff Bezos nor even William Shatner, Captain Kirk himself, really reached the final frontier. The Kármán Line is, rather, the lowest common denominator of space, a definition based on the ratio of air lift versus Keppler force for the legal purpose of
- [An Interview with Dr Lorna Finlayson](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2021/11/02/dr-lorna-finlayson/) - November 2, 2021 | Political Philosophy & Critique Q: The Value of Political Philosophy. In your 2020 article ‘If This Isn’t Racism, What Is?’, you offer a searing critique of the state of contemporary political philosophy. Drawing on recent debates around immigration, abortion, and the marketisation of higher education, you write that “it seems to me that philosophers vacate the
- [OPR Announces Release of Issue 5](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2021/11/20/opr-announces-release-of-issue-5/) - November 20, 2021 | Click here to view our latest issue. When Covid-19 first struck, all our knowledge of the outside world seemed to reach us through data. Charts, graphs, tables and visualisations were the new language of global politics, with analysis of different countries boiling down to a scorecard of their pandemic performance. Where were cases highest? Where
- [Who’s Really Working from Home? Re-evaluating Housework in a New Virtual Era](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2021/11/25/whos-really-working-from-home-re-evaluating-housework-in-a-new-virtual-era/) - November 25, 2021 | For the past 18 months, the COVID-19 pandemic has transformed virtually every aspect of our lives. With the onset of stay-at-home orders and the closures of schools and office buildings, millions of employees shifted to remote work, which has quickly become a fixture of modern life. However, the transition to remote work for parents and online learning for children has placed new burdens on families. At the same time, the increasing numbers of mothers and fathers working at home may open new possibilities for the division of household labour. Has the value of housework changed in the wake of increasing numbers of at-home workers?
- [Why There Might Be No Long Game for China](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2021/11/26/why-there-might-be-no-long-game-for-china/) - November 26, 2021 | In light of China’s skyrocketing economic and military capabilities, nothing seems to be more urgent than a balanced strategy for China’s geopolitical influence. Chinese hegemony, in Asia at least, had been previously presumed to be slow in coming. This rapid growth has therefore raised tremendous concerns for the United States and its allies, triggering a perceived need to adjust principal priorities in preparation for long-term strategic competition of an American-centered coalition with this restless superpower-in-the-making.
- [The Wisdom of Grameen: A Discourse on How Social Business is Pioneering a New Economy](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2021/12/01/the-wisdom-of-grameen-a-discourse-on-how-social-business-is-pioneering-a-new-economy/) - December 1, 2021 | Our current economic system is focused only on profit maximization. This has not only created an insatiable appetite for growth but has given rise to systemic inequalities and the overexploitation of the environment. The pandemic and recent climate disasters have exposed these problems and call for the need for a new economy. Nobel Laureate Prof. Muhammad Yunus suggests an alternative model to this system: a concept called Social Business.
- [Hyperlegality And Criminal Justice: How India Strips its Dissenters of their Human Rights and Constitutional Protections](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2021/12/02/hyperlegality-and-criminal-justice-how-india-strips-its-dissenters-of-their-human-rights-and-constitutional-protections/) - India continues to build its legal framework to define the limits and bounds of citizenry with negative constitutional implications.
- [Call for Submissions: Issue 6](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2021/12/04/call-for-submissions-issue-6/) - December 4, 2021 | For the first two decades of this century, it was widely thought that new technologies would deliver a tangible and inexorable rise in wellbeing for everyone. Technology promised us new ways to learn and to be entertained; to find new relationships and to strengthen existing ones. It offered a means to make our working lives
- [The Province Provides: On the Role of Inter-provincial Competition in Climate Change Response in China](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2021/12/12/the-province-provides-on-the-role-of-inter-provincial-competition-in-climate-change-response-in-china/) - December 12, 2021 | Much of the existing literature on China’s climate change response has focussed on either the efforts of the Chinese civil society[1], or those of the central administration in Beijing[2]. Such accounts note the significant room for collaboration and conflict between the state and citizenry in tackling climate change.[3] I seek to highlight and advocate the
- [China and Taliban-Led Afghanistan: Opportunities and Challenges](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2021/12/21/chinas-interests-and-investment-in-taliban-led-afghanistan-opportunities-and-challenges/) - December 21, 2021 | For the past 20 years, Afghanistan has heavily relied on international aid and investment to finance its economy and state activities. About 75% of the government’s non-military budget was supported by the United States and other international donors. Once the Taliban ascended to power, however, most of the foreign aid and investment disappeared along with
- [OPR Interviews John Ikenberry](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2021/12/23/john-ikenberry-oxford-political-review/) - December 23, 2021 | 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.
- [OPR Interviews Raewyn Connell](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2021/12/31/opr-interviews-raewyn-connell/) - December 31, 2021 |
- [The Downplayed Role of the Asian Theatre in WWII](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2022/01/13/the-downplayed-role-of-the-asian-theatre-in-wwii/) - January 13, 2022 | Despite the acknowledgement that the Second World War was composed of three major theatres (Europe, Asia, and the Pacific), the Asian battlefield remains a marginalized topic outside of Asia. Here, I argue that it is problematic to downplay the role of the Asian battlefield, and that wars in mainland Asia and the Pacific should be considered as a continuum.
- [The Politics of Subscriptions](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2022/01/17/the-politics-of-subscriptions/) - January 17, 2022 | If you are a reader of the Oxford Political Review, you may have noticed that as you scroll through your newsfeed you are being invited to subscribe to a variety of periodicals: The Economist will run you £10 per month; The London Review of Books will set you back £12 for 12 issues; and The New Yorker is going for the low, low
- [Biden's First Year in Review](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2022/01/25/bidens-first-year-in-review/) - January 25, 2022 | When Joe Biden took office from Donald Trump on 20 January 2021, he promised a return to normalcy in America. Yet, as Biden marked his first year in the White House this past week, his administration has been beset by slumping poll numbers and is reportedly planning a “reset.” What’s gone wrong for the US president, and where has he
- [The Excess of Big Tech Power](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2022/02/01/the-excess-of-big-tech-power/) - February 1, 2022 | If there is one issue that can unite the Divided States of America, it is the threat of big tech. Politicians from Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez to Governor Ron DeSantis have advocated for more public scrutiny of Big Tech companies that have ‘undermined democracy’. However, the expansion and explosive growth of these companies seems to be
- [The History of Orientalism and the Rise of British Nationalism](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2022/02/09/the-history-of-orientalism-and-the-rise-of-british-nationalism/) - February 9, 2022 | As never-ending wars and resilient dictatorships plague the Middle East, coupled with the destabilizing aftershocks of Western colonialism, refugees are fleeing the region by the thousands, seeking shelter and opportunity behind the walls of the European fortress. In response, nationalist parties across the U.K., most prominently Britain’s Independence Party (UKIP), have pushed back on their
- [Trudeau’s Big Gamble](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2022/02/16/trudeaus-big-gamble/) - February 16, 2022 | Yesterday, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau declared he would be invoking the Emergencies Act for the first time ever in Canadian history. This decision was justified as addressing the need to quell protests by a far right-wing group of truckers demanding an end to all COVID-19 mandates and restrictions. The truckers’ “Freedom Convoy” has occupied the
- [What Transhumanism Means for Our Future](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2022/02/21/what-transhumanism-means-for-our-future/) - February 21, 2022 | What if we could easily cure all diseases and disabilities? How about being able to run 100m in less than 2 seconds? Could we make human beings indestructible or even immortal? Some of these changes may be within our reach, thanks to human enhancement and transhumanism. I’ll consider what the possible implications are. What are
- [OPR Announces Issue 6 Launch Event](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2022/02/22/opr-announces-issue-6-launch-event/) - February 22, 2022 | The Oxford Political Review is delighted to announce the launch of our sixth issue, Beyond Tech, the first issue to be run in print. We will be joined by guest speaker Hal Hodson, Asia Technology Correspondent for the Economist. Join us at Balliol College for an evening of drinks and political discussion, and to collect
- [In the Ukrainian Crisis, The West Is Complicit](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2022/02/27/in-the-ukrainian-crisis-the-west-is-complicit/) - February 27, 2022 | What are we, the West, as the self-anointed vanguards of democracy, doing in the aftermath of the tiger's charge beyond empty pontification?
- [OPR Announces Ukraine-Russia Panel Discussion](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2022/03/01/opr-announces-ukraine-russia-discussion-panel/) - March 1, 2022 | The Oxford Political Review is to host a panel on the current conflict between Russia and Ukraine. Our panelists include: -Professor Seva Gunitsky (University of Toronto) -Professor Neil MacFarlane (University of Oxford) -Professor Timothy Garton Ash (University of Oxford) Date: Friday 4th March Time: 5:15 PM (GMT) Location: Online Free Join Zoom Meeting https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81311106273 Thank you all for
- [Why the Indian State Cannot Meet the Russian Eye](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2022/03/02/why-the-indian-state-cannot-meet-the-russian-eye/) - March 2, 2022 | In the midst of the powerful, vocal critiques of Russian actions, India’s relative silence is loud.
- [OPR Releases Sixth Issue](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2022/03/11/opr-announces-issue-6-launch/) - March 11, 2022 | OPR is delighted to announce the launch of our sixth issue, Beyond Tech. You can browse the issue below or view it on our issuu page: issuu.com/oxfordpoliticalreview/docs/opr_issue_6_final_print This is the first issue we have printed, and earlier this week we marked the occasion with a launch event at Balliol College, Oxford. We'd like to thank
- [The New Normal of Myanmar's Old Regime](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2022/03/16/the-new-normal-of-myanmars-old-regime/) - Nevertheless, the Tatmadaw has managed to stay in power since the 1962 military coup and maintain considerable political influence even after democratisation attempts. This affirms the prospects of the Tatmadaw’s continual military dominance into the future, albeit behind the veneer of constitutional restoration.
- [Call for Submissions: Issue 7](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2022/04/06/opr-announces-issue-7-theme/) - April 6, 2022 | We invite you to contribute to the Oxford Political Review’s 7th print issue, on the theme of Looking South. In this issue, the OPR encourages writers to take on a more regional focus on the Global South, including Central and South America, Africa, the Pacific Islands, the Caribbean, and Asia, and those regions which generally
- [Cyber Weapons and the Fifth Domain](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2022/04/17/cyber-weapons-and-the-fifth-domain/) - The advent of the digital age ushered in what has come to be known as the Fourth Revolution; a fundamental change in the way societies function as a result of information and communications technologies (ICT).
- [Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Doge? On India's Proposed Crypto Bill](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2022/04/27/whos-afraid-of-the-big-bad-doge-on-indias-proposed-crypto-bill/) - Does currency have morality? And does its decentralization erode this character? The Indian state seems to think so.
- [Is AI Making Us (Artificially) Equal?](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2022/05/10/is-ai-making-us-artificially-equal/) - May 10, 2022 | The growing use of internet technologies in human livelihoods has an ambiguous impact upon the notions of human equality and social status. Internet technologies, with an emphasis on Artificial Intelligence (AI), are more likely to widen the inequality gaps due to existing socio-cultural barriers in the physical sphere.
- [The UK's Pension Bill Amendment is an Attack on Democratic Dialogue](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2022/05/12/the-uks-pension-bill-amendment-is-an-attack-on-democratic-dialogue/) - May 12, 2022 | The UK government's amendment to the Pensions Bill empowers the Secretary of State to issue guidance to administrators of public sector pension schemes to ensure that their investment decisions will not conflict with the government’s foreign and defence policy. None of the government's justifications are convincing.
- [Mental Autonomy and the Internet: A Reflection on Digital Propaganda in India](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2022/05/20/mental-autonomy-and-the-internet-a-reflection-on-digital-propaganda-in-india/) - In light of Indian political parties utilizing their online presence as a tool to polarize communities, radicalize internet users and canvass votes, it has become especially pertinent to explore the right of mental autonomy in India.
- [The Politics of Fiction: A Case for Radical Imagination](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2022/05/23/the-politics-of-fiction-a-case-for-radical-imagination/) - May 23, 2022 | Under these circumstances, the very idea of in any way moving “beyond tech” may seem enticing, but must invariably appear foolish; and yet, there has never been a time when pondering humanity, society, the human condition, the social world – or however you may want to call the real practice of life we share – beyond the singular lens of technological progress has been more necessary. Especially as scepticism towards technology’s ever-increasing hold on our lives and our politics grows, and technology seems positively inescapable, alternatives are sorely needed. Perhaps we can rely on a somewhat unlikely candidate: imagination.
- [The Civil Serpent: On Meta's Regulation of Free Speech](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2022/05/26/the-civil-serpent-on-metas-regulation-of-free-speech/) - May 26, 2022 | How should governments respond to the regulatory challenges presented by private companies that increasingly perform state-like functions?
- [Debating Privacy in Public in the Age of Surveillance](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2022/05/29/debating-privacy-in-public-in-the-age-of-surveillance/) - May 29, 2022 | Renewed attention to the meaning of privacy in the context of widespread surveillance suggests that conventional understandings of privacy are decidedly insufficient. Yet, is it even possible for us to recognize something occurring in public as private?
- [What Could a Progressive Alliance Mean For the Labour Party?](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2022/05/30/what-could-a-progressive-alliance-mean-for-the-labour-party/) - May 30, 2022 | There has been a rise in calls for a ‘Progressive Alliance’ (PA) for a number of years, wherein Labour and the Lib Dems would have a pre-election agreement to streamline the centre-left choice in Tory-safe seats.
- [Social Media, Democracy and the Fall of Fallibilism](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2022/06/05/social-media-democracy-and-the-fall-of-fallibilism/) - June 5, 2022 | 'I like democracy' – proclaimed a meme which had been circulating on social media for a couple of months after the 2016 US presidential election but is now near impossible to find – 'provided that my candidate wins'. Squeezed between the two lines of text was a picture of a group of people holding various
- [Don't Let Concerns over Xi's China Trump Vital Language Learning](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2022/06/16/dont-let-concerns-over-xis-china-trump-vital-language-learning/) - June 16, 2022 | Teaching Chinese the right way today is an essential investment in Britain’s foreign policy future.
- [Denmark’s Zero Asylum Policy and the Plight of Syrian Women Refugees](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2022/06/25/denmarks-zero-asylum-policy-and-the-plight-of-syrian-women-refugees/) - June 25, 2022 | Denmark, which is considered as the frontrunner in gender equality, has thus paradoxically created a harsh and inhospitable environment for Syrian refugees, and especially women refugees.
- [Barack Obama & St. Paul: Two Great Preachers Teaching Democracy](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2022/06/27/barack-obama-st-paul-two-great-preachers-teaching-democracy/) - June 27, 2022 | My personal reflections on the health of our democracy have been inspired by both contemporary insights as well as historical spiritual advice.
- [Explaining the Endurance of the ‘Holy Trinity’ in United Nations Peacekeeping](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2022/06/29/explaining-the-endurance-of-the-holy-trinity-in-united-nations-peacekeeping/) - June 29, 2022 | Since its conception in 1956, three core principles have guided the deployment and undertakings of UN peacekeeping operations.
- [Call For Original Artwork for Issue 7: "Looking South"](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2022/07/03/call-for-original-artwork-for-issue-7-looking-south/) - July 3, 2022 | The OPR is looking for some original artwork to accompany our 7th issue; “Looking South”. Artwork is needed for the cover page and for the specific articles. Artists will have extensive freedom in this, as long as the product is somewhat consistent with the issue theme. We are also looking for artists to work with
- [Can Cryptocurrency Rejuvenate Terrorism Financing in Small and Medium States?](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2022/07/03/can-cryptocurrency-rejuvenate-terrorism-financing-in-small-and-medium-states/) - July 3, 2022 | Negligence in policymaking to evaluate cryptocurrency as a viable operational strategy for transnational terrorist networks might spell more trouble than we can handle.
- [And They All Came Tumbling After](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2022/07/07/and-they-all-came-tumbling-after/) - July 7, 2022 | After the pressure on Boris Johnson to resign grew, No 10 dug in his heels and attempted to retain control of the abandoned ship.
- [Steven Lukes | Oxford Political Review](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2022/07/07/steven-lukes-oxford-political-review/) - July 7, 2022 | 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
- [Tariq Ali Interview](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2022/07/07/tariq-ali-interview/) - July 7, 2022 | 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.
- [Failing Westminster, Not Britain, Is What Forced Johnson Out](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2022/07/07/failing-westminster-not-britain-is-what-forced-johnson-out/) - July 7, 2022 | It’s clear Johnson has failed Britain on multiple fronts. Yet, curiously, his downfall was ultimately triggered by his failing of Westminster and, more specifically, his own Tory MPs within the Conservative Party.
- [Inside the Bipartisan Fight to Revitalize America's Historically Black Colleges and Universities](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2022/07/10/inside-the-bipartisan-fight-to-revitalize-americas-historically-black-colleges-and-universities/) - July 10, 2022 | If passed, the bill will support HBCUs in obtaining historic investments to repair, modernize, and build new facilities on their campuses.
- [Will Taxpayers' Money Sustain Prisoners for Eternity at Guantánamo Bay?](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2022/07/11/will-taxpayers-money-sustain-prisoners-for-eternity-at-guantanamo-bay/) - July 11, 2022 | Here, we analyse the problems concerning the continuation of operations at Guantánamo Bay, specifically with regard to the cost-effectiveness of running it over the past two decades.
- [How Religion Trumps Health in Zimbabwe](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2022/07/20/how-religion-trumps-health-in-zimbabwe/) - July 20, 2022 | Over the years, the practice of Christianity has continued to raise major concerns regarding the health security of varied ministries’ adherents in Zimbabwe.
- [To Win, Not to Govern: An Institutional View of Johnson’s Premiership](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2022/07/22/to-win-not-to-govern-an-institutional-view-of-johnsons-premiership/) - July 22, 2022 | The story of Johnson’s premiership is, from an institutional viewpoint, of such a decision made unacceptably close to the side of a purely election-winning government.
- [Demoralization and Destabilization: The Cost of EU Membership for North Macedonia](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2022/07/23/demoralization-and-destabilization-the-cost-of-eu-membership-for-north-macedonia/) - The cost of membership for North Macedonia has the propensity to be an existential demoralizer (and destabilizer) to its polity. Serious political consideration is required in Skopje.
- [How Sri Lanka Went Bankrupt](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2022/07/30/how-sri-lanka-went-bankrupt/) - Sri Lanka is now a living hell for its inhabitants with rolling power cuts, shortages of staples, essential medicine, fuel, and growing political instability.
- [Russia-Ukraine Panel: What Comes Next?](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2022/08/12/russia-ukraine-panel-what-comes-next/) - August 12, 2022 | 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)
- [Call for Submissions: Issue 8](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2022/08/14/call-for-submissions-issue-8/) - August 14, 2022 | We invite you to contribute to the OPR's 8th issue, on the theme of 'On the Brink.' The deadline for submissions is Friday, 9th September.
- [Good Uranium, Bad Uranium](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2022/08/19/good-uranium-bad-uranium/) - August 19, 2022 | Yet amidst the abundant critical discourse on nuclear security, the NPT’s questionable distinction between supposedly ‘peaceful’ and ‘non-peaceful’ nuclear uses has largely been overlooked.
- [Equality and Efficiency in the Economics of Insurance](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2022/08/24/equality-and-efficiency-in-the-economics-of-insurance/) - August 24, 2022 | Can sex be used as a risk classifier to set insurance premium rates if there is an indisputable statistical correlation?
- [How Bangladesh's NGO-Driven Development Model Compares to Authoritarian Alternatives](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2022/08/26/how-bangladeshs-ngo-driven-development-model-compares-to-authoritarian-alternatives/) - August 26, 2022 | The Bangladesh development model has two layers—both of which serve as critical counterweights to authoritarian development models which belittle democratization.
- [China Should Not Over-Rely On Its Anti-Foreign Sanctions Law](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2022/08/30/china-should-not-over-rely-on-its-anti-foreign-sanctions-law/) - August 30, 2022 | The AFSL is unlikely to be an effective tool as its enforcement would discourage Western companies from continually operating their businesses in China.
- [Peace Without A Peace Treaty: How Four Small Islands Keep WWII Alive](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2022/09/01/peace-without-a-peace-treaty-how-four-small-islands-keep-wwii-alive/) - September 1, 2022 | It is perhaps ironic to suggest that the Russian invasion of Ukraine amounts to the biggest military conflict in Europe since World War II, when World War II itself has not yet officially been concluded.
- [Can Data Save American Democracy?](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2022/09/18/can-data-save-american-democracy/) - September 18, 2022 | Are big data platforms a lifeline for American democracy? Or is the solution premised on a misdiagnosis of the issues plaguing US politics?
- [India's Criminal Identification Act: A Human Rights Critique](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2022/09/30/indias-criminal-identification-act-a-human-rights-critique/) - September 30, 2022 | The Act allows excessive administrative discretion and provides a shield to the non-observance and potential violation of basic human rights of life and liberty.
- [Reconnecting Afghanistan to Central Asia through Micro-Projects](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2022/10/05/how-micro-projects-are-reconnecting-afghanistan-to-central-asia/) - October 5, 2022 | Despite an ongoing history of incessant setbacks and an unprecedented political transition that has ushered in a new era of social and political unrest, it is urgent to revisit the Afghan-Central Asian borderscape.
- [OPR Announces Launch of Issue 8](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2022/10/15/opr-announces-launch-of-issue-8/) - October 15, 2022 | Click here to read issue 8 The latest copy of The Economist sparked a flurry of discussion upon its release this past week. On the cover, UK Prime Minister Liz Truss stands grinning at the bow of a boat labelled “Great Britain” as it tips stern-side into the water, moments away from sinking. Similarly, last week’s Guardian cover, captioned
- [Understanding the Congolese Crisis Through Land Rights Regimes](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2022/10/24/understanding-the-congolese-crisis-through-land-rights-regimes/) - October 24, 2022 | With intense competition for the limited resources, and because these minerals are an extension of the land, understanding how land rights are accessed, controlled, and distributed sheds light on the Congolese crisis.
- [Lest We Forget: The Impact of Austerity on Pre-Pandemic Inequality in the UK](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2022/10/25/lest-we-forget-the-impact-of-austerity-on-pre-pandemic-inequality-in-the-uk/) - October 25, 2022 | The inequalities we saw in and after the pandemic really began a decade before the outbreak of COVID-19. Discussions of inequality in the UK today, therefore, must begin with austerity.
- [A Play in Two Acts: The Duality of Ideas Influencing the Peruvian Pension System](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2022/10/27/a-play-in-two-acts-the-duality-of-ideas-influencing-the-peruvian-pension-system/) - October 27, 2022 | Considering Fujimori’s initial lack of ideological commitments, was the implementation of the private pension scheme in Peru in the early 1990s truly a response to neoliberal ideals?
- [A Geopolitical Restructuring: How Russia's War in Ukraine is Reshaping Central Asia](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2022/10/31/a-geopolitical-restructuring-how-russias-war-in-ukraine-is-reshaping-central-asia/) - October 31, 2022 | Troubling to Putin, both China and Turkey are poised and ready to fill the geopolitical and economic void that waning Russian influence in Central Asia presents.
- [Revitalized Friendships or Colonial Irrelevance? The Commonwealth and Britain's Relationship with the Global South](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2022/10/31/revitalized-friendships-or-colonial-irrelevance-the-commonwealth-and-britains-relationship-with-the-global-south/) - October 31, 2022 | Is the Commonwealth really an opportunity for Britain to forge new relationships with the Global South?
- [Don’t Fear, Truss’s Resignation Proves UK Democracy is Alive and Well](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2022/11/01/dont-fear-trusss-resignation-proves-uk-democracy-is-alive-and-well/) - November 1, 2022 | The prime minister’s resignation should reassure us that, amid political chaos, the safeguards of UK parliamentary democracy will kick in.
- [Commodity Supercycles and the World System](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2022/11/04/commodity-supercycles-and-the-world-system/) - November 4, 2022 | The trappings of a new commodity supercycle—a sustained period of commodity inflation—presage a world economy increasingly impacted by the relative scarcity of raw materials.
- [Book Review: Invisible China by Scott Rozelle and Natalie Hell](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2022/11/10/book-review-invisible-china-by-scott-rozelle-and-natalie-hell/) - November 10, 2022 | Invisible China shines a light on various weaknesses in the Chinese economy that have come about due to the government’s failure to pursue public health and education reform in rural areas with the same vigour as it has in the cities.
- [Reflections on Failed Democratization and Civil War in Algeria](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2022/11/19/reflections-on-failed-democratization-and-civil-war-in-algeria/) - November 19, 2022 | Both the failed democratization and the outbreak of civil war in Algeria were the unintentional outcomes of political actors’ mistaken decisions.
- [On the Forced Conversion of Minorities in Pakistan](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2022/11/22/on-the-forced-conversion-of-minorities-in-pakistan/) - November 22, 2022 | The ambiguities built into the legal system in Pakistan have created perfect conditions to easily victimize minorities in the state.
- [Latin American Perspectives on the War in Ukraine](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2022/11/22/latin-american-perspectives-on-the-war-in-ukraine/) - November 22, 2022 | While the West has pursued significant actions against Russia for its invasion of Ukraine, the vast majority of countries outside of the West, such as those within Latin America, have not followed suit.
- [The Rhodes Scholarship and Disgorgement Principles for Historical Injustices](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2022/11/23/the-rhodes-scholarship-and-disgorgement-principles-for-historical-injustices/) - November 23, 2022 | Is it ethical for a Rhodes Scholar to keep the lump sum they receive from the foundation?
- [Why Chinese Diplomacy Isn't All 'Wolf Warriors': On China's Economic Statecraft](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2022/11/28/why-chinese-diplomacy-isnt-all-wolf-warriors-on-chinas-economic-statecraft/) - November 28, 2022 | ‘Wolf warrior diplomacy’—a common description of China’s combative diplomacy—does not wholly capture China’s economic diplomacy. Rather, China’s economic diplomacy reflects nuance.
- [Call for Submissions - Issue 9: ‘Power and Perception’](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2022/11/30/call-for-submissions-issue-9-power-and-perception/) - November 30, 2022 | Politics, for better or worse, is all about image. From the choices politicians make about their outfits to the colours with which a political party brands itself or the image a speech projects to the public, perceptions frequently dominate over reality. We invite you to contribute to the Oxford Political Review’s 9th issue, on the
- [How the G7 Should Execute its $600 Billion Answer to China’s Belt and Road Initiative](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2022/12/28/how-the-g7-should-execute-its-600-billion-answer-to-chinas-belt-and-road-initiative/) - December 28, 2022 | To realize its $600 billion PGII plan, G7 leaders must look beyond its economic dimension and execute the grand plan multidimensionally, particularly in security and political dimensions.
- [Pelosi, Biden, and the Middle East](https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2022/12/28/pelosi-biden-and-the-middle-east/) - In light of escalated US-China tensions over Taiwan, Biden’s tour to the Middle East becomes even more significant for maintaining regional balances of power.

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