Alayna Su Yi Yap
Alayna Yap is a MPhil International Relations candidate at the Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Oxford. Her research decodes Chinese and Russian political communications through combining computational social science methods and cybersecurity tools, with a focus on authoritarian informationalism, algorithmic manipulation, cyber warfare, and Foreign Information Manipulation and Interference tactics. Her thesis work examines the prevalence of coordination, automation, and disinformation in foreign communications towards African states.
Nagi Koriki
I am a DPhil student in International Relations at the University of Oxford, supervised by Professor Edward Keene. Having initially commenced my doctoral studies in the Faculty of Law, I transferred to the Department of Politics and International Relations (DPIR) in 2025. My research sits at the intersection of international political theory, the history of international law, and socio-legal studies, with a particular focus on sovereignty, status, and the spatiality of law. Originally from Japan, I moved to Germany at the age of eighteen to pursue higher education.
Foreign Policy
After Trump, Partisanship Will Still Undermine US Credibility
Sai Prakash Leo Muthu
Is This Andy Burnham's moment?
OxPo Network workshop: The State, Bureaucracy, and Policy in Contemporary Pakistan
Orban’s Defeat Punctures Europe’s Far Right, but Also Offers It a Road Map
Julian Corbett and the British Way of War: Exploring the Principles for a European Naval Strategy
Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine has fundamentally altered European security, exposing the vulnerability of NATO’s eastern flank. The accession of Finland and Sweden may have strengthened the Alliance, but it also expands the maritime battlespace deep into the Baltic Sea. Meanwhile, U.S. defense planning is increasingly dominated by the Indo-Pacific and competition with China.
How can Europe collectively defend the Nordic-Baltic region—even in a scenario of constrained U.S. support? To answer this question, the paper turns to strategic theory and maritime history.