international relations
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90 Seconds to Midnight: The Inconsistencies of Time in International Relations
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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.
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Adrift in a Shifting Sea: Navigating America’s Role in Enforcing Nuclear Non-Proliferation Amidst Global Multipolarity
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This multipolar reality demands a reevaluation of traditional non-proliferation enforcement strategies.
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Disinformation, Misinformation Labelling, and the War in Ukraine: A New Information Cold War
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The war in Ukraine has become an information Cold War, with disinformation and misinformation labelling becoming an important and inflammatory weapon for both sides.
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Lithuania v. China: Reading into Post-Soviet Hyper-Westernization
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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.
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Russia’s Tax Treaty Gambit: Political Manoeuvring in an Economic Arena
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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.
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OPR Interviews Stephen Roach
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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.
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Debunking the Economic and Political Myths of Deglobalization
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Looking at the contemporary global economy, many assumptions about deglobalization make the mistake of looking at globalization as a political ideology, and interpreting any deviation from its ‘deterministic’ trajectory, as an existential moment.
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“I’ve been attacked… not with facts and logic, but personally”: John Mearsheimer on the War in Ukraine
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“As my mother taught me when I was a little boy, if you can’t beat them with facts and logic, you get down in the gutter, and this is by and large what’s happened to me.” In the second installation to this series, Jason Chau and Andrew Wang speak to Professor John Mearsheimer about the…
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“This is an issue that makes me very nervous”: John Mearsheimer on the US-China Rivalry
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“The Chinese are never the aggressors, always the victims. It sounds a lot like American exceptionalism: Americans also like to think that they are the good guys.” Jason Chau and Andrew Wang speak to University of Chicago professor and famous international scholar, John Mearsheimer, about the US-China rivalry.
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The New-Old Europe: European Medievalism in the 21st Century
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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.