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Open Journal of Political Science (OJPS) is an international journal dedicated to the latest advancements in political science. The goal of this journal is to provide a platform for scientists and academicians all over the world to promote, share, and discuss various new issues and developments in different areas of p…
Theodoros Gouveris, Maria Zisiopoulou
This study examines the extent to which one state may legitimately enforce the criminal law of another, a question that sits at the intersection of territorial sovereignty, democratic legitimation, and the structural imperatives of transnational criminal just…
Qun Gai
This paper proposes a theoretical framework for the united front work of the emerging social groups. This framework is based on the important and unique role that space construction plays in this kind of work. In terms of nature, the space aligns with the int…
Ji Li
Since the launch of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) in 2013, China-EU economic relations have entered a new stage characterised by deeper trade connectivity, increasing investment cooperation, and growing geopolitical competition. Although several EU membe…
Miyar Ezekiel De’Nyok
Africa’s vast natural resources present significant opportunities alongside ongoing challenges. Although the continent holds 30 - 50 percent of the world’s mineral reserves, hydrocarbons, forests, arable land, and renewable energy potential, many African nati…
Carlos Junquera Rubio
From 1850 onwards, the need to modernize agriculture was first raised in Spain. The politicians of the time realized that to achieve this objective, it was necessary to have more water available to reduce the dry land areas and allocate them to production. So…
Kim Liah, 1 1
This paper examines the contested historical development of self-determination in South Sudan, with particular emphasis on Riek Machar’s pivotal role in transforming the movement’s aspirations into an explicit and negotiable political right. By analyzing colo…
Luca Martignani
This study examines the contentious discourses surrounding Sergio Ramelli, a young right-wing militant killed in 1975, as a case study for understanding why a shared collective memory of Italy’s Years of Lead has failed to form. Drawing on Jeffrey C. Alexande…
Xiaoqing Zhang
This paper analyzes the intervention mechanisms and strategic consequences of U.S. artificial intelligence (AI) companies in U.S. government foreign, military, and diplomatic decision-making during the Trump administration’s second term. It argues that AI fir…
Espina-Baeza Imanol, Lasala-Blanco Narayani
Do voters with negative attitudes toward undocumented immigrants moderate their views once a candidate or a party running on an anti-immigrant platform wins? Using American National Election Studies (ANES) panel data spanning the 2016 and 2024 U.S. presidenti…
Mujinga Pathou Petipeti
The formation of the State in the Democratic Republic of the Congo cannot be reduced to the colonial sequence or to the legal arrangements that emerged from the Berlin Conference of 1885. Rather, it must be understood within a much longer historical trajector…
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Open Journal of Political Science (OJPS) is an international journal dedicated to the latest advancements in political science. The goal of this journal is to provide a platform for scientists and academicians all over the world to promote, share, and discuss various new issues and developments in different areas of p… All articles are open access under a CC BY 4.0 licence, with authors retaining copyright.
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