Oxford Political Review | Interviews

May 24 2023 13 ep. 50 mins 7

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Join the OPR team as they interview influential political, cultural, economic and social thinkers and theorists. (Brian Wong, Fonie Mitsopoulou, Ming Kit Wong, and Simon Hunt)

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Stephen Roach | Is tech moving from China to India?

May 24 2023 51 mins

Stephen Roach is senior fellow at Yale University’s Jackson Institute for Global Affairs and former chief economist at Morgan Stanley. He speaks to the OPR's Simon Hunt and Jason Chau about US-China relations, UK-China relations and the strength of China's post-Covid economic recovery.

John Dunn | Utopianism as self-denunciation, his career and influences, and Locke

Mar 27 2023 52 mins

OPR's Ming Kit Wong speaks to John Dunn, Emeritus Professor of Political Theory at the University of Cambridge. An eminent intellectual historian and political theorist, Professor Dunn is known for his work on the thought of John Locke, the theory of modern revolutions, and the history of democracy. 19 March, 2023

Avi Shlaim | Between three worlds: an Arab-Jew living in the UK

Mar 06 2023 46 mins

OPR's Managing Editor, Fonie Mitsopoulou, interviews Avi Shlaim, Emeritus Professor of International Relations at the University of Oxford. Professor Shlaim is well-known for his work on the Arab-Israeli conflict, exemplified by his influential book, The Iron Wall: Israel and the Arab World. The OPR speaks to Professor Shlaim about his upcoming memoir, Three Worlds: Memoir o

Charles Taylor | Contemporary democracy, his intellectual development, and hermeneutics

Jan 30 2023 21 mins

OPR Senior Editor Ming Kit Wong interviews Charles Taylor, the Professor Emeritus in the Department of Philosophy at McGill University. He is the author of A Secular Age (2007), The Ethics of Authenticity (1991), Sources of the Self (1989), and Hegel (1975), to list a few examples, and he has received numerous prestigious honours for his work such as the Kyoto Prize, the Templeton

Mantas Adomėnas | The war in Ukraine, perceiving and understanding Russia, and foreign policy of small states

Dec 26 2022 48 mins

Dr Mantas Adomėnas is the Lithuanian Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs, an academic, and a former Member of Parliament. On the 181st day of Russia’s war in Ukraine, he speaks to OPR’s Justas Petrauskas about the prospects of the conflict, the response of the EU’s and the West, as well as past strategic mistakes, sanctions, and wider implications for global foreign policy deve

Rashid Khalidi | settler colonialism, "Judaizing" Palestinian areas, competing narratives

Dec 24 2022 60 mins

OPR's Zoe Lambert interviews Professor Rashid Khalidi; Edward Said Professor of Modern Arab Studies at Columbia University and co-editor of the Journal of Palestine Studies, to discuss his most recent book "The Hundred Years War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonial Conquest and Resistance, 1917-2017". 14th November 2022.

Quentin Skinner | History of Political Thought, the genre of autobiography, and historical contextualism

Aug 26 2022 47 mins

OPR's Ming Kit Wong speaks to Professor Quentin Skinner, the former Regius Professor of Modern History at the University of Cambridge, and current Barber 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. In this wide-ranging interview, Skinner discusses the history of th

Raewyn Connell | emphasised femininity, sexism towards ex-PM Julia Gillard, working with the UN

Aug 13 2022 52 mins

Raewyn Connell is a prominent sociologist and gender theorist, best known for her work on hegemonic masculinity and southern theory. She is currently the Professor Emerita at the University of Sydney. OPR's Fonie Mitsopoulou and Professor Raewyn Connell discussed topics including sociology, masculinity in politics, universities, and the capacity of international organi

ASEAN Series: Nazir Razak

Jul 10 2022 54 mins

OPR's Brian Wong interviews Nazir Razak, one of Malaysia's most influential bankers and financiers, to discuss Malaysia's recent political crisis and ethnic and sectarian fractionalisation in Malaysia.

Tariq Ali | Afghanistan, women in the Middle East, and the Western imperialist modus operandi

Jul 07 2022 61 mins

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.