"A behind-the-scenes classic makes its public debut. ... It was well worth the wait." Harvard International Review
Long available only to the hand selected scholars, world leaders, and community change agents who were invited to contribute to its compilation, Oxford International Review is now being released into the public domain. The general public can now benefit from the unique balance of in-depth research, exclusive interviews and intelligence, and timely analysis that has characterized each edition of OIR for almost two decades.
Our intergenerational and global team approaches ensure that we ask the right questions to the right people, and deliver our findings in intelligent context.
Most media outlets employ generalists, who cover topics throughout a region, if not throughout the world. Contributors to academic journals often possess theoretical knowledge of one isolated topic area, untempered by firsthand exposure to dynamics on the ground.
We hand pick our Scholar-Editors through a rigorous process of nomination, invitation, and final selection. Our contributors have often lived on the ground for sustained periods. They speak local languages and possess robust local networks. These emerging scholars are then teamed with established academics, journalists, and community and governmental leaders who expand their frames of reference and network bases. Additional scholars from far-flung regions and disparate areas of expertise are then added to round out each team, thus ensuring that each topic is approached from diverse cultural and substantive perspectives.
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OIR is non-partisan. Our editors and board members represent diverse political, cultural, and regional perspectives and hail from varied fields of endeavor ranging from government, civil society, business, and academia to religious and tribal leadership roles. We incorporate editors, contributors, and interviewees representing various age cohorts and levels of influence. Our editorial teams place promising young academics and journalists into collaboration with world-renowned experts and political leaders.
OIR puts the full gamut of opinion on the record. We feature heads of state alongside lesser known, but increasingly influential, community leaders. We juxtapose the statements of those characterized as "liberators" alongside those characterized as "oppressors" and "aggressors." The positions of a population's youth appear alongside those of its venerable elders. We include the voices of citizens and community members alongside those of their elected representatives. We seek to provide a comprehensive representation of the full gamut of action and opinion, and we do so in considerable depth.
OIR benefits from unprecedented access. OIR has a reputation for objectivity and thoroughness. Our Scholar-Editors are not looking for their "big break" in the form of a sensational story and our coverage is not driven by the need for eye-catching headlines and sound bites. Our commitment to long-term investigative research, combined with the first-hand involvement of community and national leaders of every political stripe and the contributions of luminaries from diverse fields of endeavor, results in our gaining access to those who eschew all contact with the media. We are invited to attend meetings unannounced and are engaged by change agents not yet widely known.
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OIR generates exclusive primary resource material. Before we assess a situation, we allow readers to review the primary resource material we have compiled for themselves. We publish lengthy interviews in their entirety, documenting in detail the positions of those on the ground. Rather than providing readers access only to those brief excerpts that serve one particular editorial message, we make available hours of discussion transcripts with those experiencing and shaping events as they unfold.
OIR provides smart analysis and actionable policy recommendations. Our editorial analysis is the culmination of extensive internal debates among intergenerational and international teams representing various political inclinations and areas of expertise. Our policy recommendations integrate the innovations of an emerging generation of leaders with the seasoned insights of incumbents and statesmen in opposition. We don't simply synthesize information or dilute findings in pursuit of a lowest common denominator. We bring the greatest minds together, present them with exclusively generated primary source material, and leave them to fight it out. In many cases, several conflicting editorial pieces advocating competing policy responses appear in tandem.
Harvard International Review predicts that OIR is "destined to act as a cornerstone that grounds and enhances the monthly and quarterly journals that now populate the landscape of foreign affairs discourse," thus "gain[ing] in the public domain the influence it has long enjoyed in narrower circles."
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