During seemingly civilised bilateral trade talks in Beijing, the Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney sat across from Chinese president Xi Jinping and…
Michael John-Hopkins
Dr Michael John-Hopkins
Senior Lecturer in Law
School of Law and Social Sciences (LSS)
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences (HSS)
Oxford Brookes University
When does permissible strategic competition become illegitimate coercion, and when does state power begin to resemble organised crime? What is the Trump…
Reports that U.S. forces boarded and seized a large oil tanker off the Venezuelan coast on 10 December 2025 have already prompted…