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Image Description: President Joe Biden and President Xi Jinping applaud ‘The Thucydides’ Trap refers to the natural, inevitable discombobulation that occurs when a rising power threatens to displace a ruling power… the resulting structural stress makes a violent clash the rule, not the exception’, was American political scientist Graham T. Allison’s definition of his influential […]
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Image description: The flag of the United States on the left, and the Union Flag on the right with a black and white handshake in the foreground The shadow on Boris Johnson’s congratulatory tweet to Joe Biden reflected the reality that the 2020 US presidential election has been close, and bitterly-fought to the last ballot. […]
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Image description: flag of the United States of America against a blue sky. Jamie Slagel: a clear win for Biden It’s not a take I want to air publicly for fear of jinxing it, but my prediction is simple: Biden is going to wipe the floor with Trump. I know, it’s hardly a popular belief. […]
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Image Description: Plane taking-off during a sunset As a visiting third-year student from the United States, you might be wondering one of three things: 1. Why are you here? 2. Do you have issues with your country and Trump too? 3. What was your experience of moving to Oxford like? In short, I am studying […]
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Image Description: Elizabeth Warren speaking at event. At what point does a company seem more like a country? In San Francisco in 1932, Franklin Delano Roosevelt presented his vision of America during his presidential campaign in a speech now known as the Commonwealth Club Address. He noted that concentrations of economic power were not to […]
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It’s difficult being an American in Britain. Every British movie or TV show I watch, from A Fish Called Wanda the to the Oxford classic Inspector Morse, is sure to include at least one stereotypical American, who is without exception overweight, loud, and characteristically rude. These Americans fail to appreciate the subtlety of British habit […]
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As an American studying abroad this term, following the past month of presidential primaries has felt like watching the culmination of a long, slow-burning dumpster fire. Despite months of polls and pundits claiming Donald Trump could not and would not win the Republican nominations, the recent concessions of the two remaining candidates – Senator Ted […]
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