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. My research lies at the intersection of international relations theory, international law, and socio-legal studies. It examines how the international legal principle of sovereign equality has been reconstructed by actors in semi-peripheral status positions within international society.

Foreign Policy

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.
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