This inaugural edition features articles by experts like Tom Cargill, Olivia Ballantine Smith, Philip Seib, and Tom Fletcher, as well as students such as Angus Kingsley-Anderson, Ozan Somyurek, and Thomas Britton, analysing the future of diplomacy, China's growing influence in Africa, challenges faced by women diplomats, Turkey's stance on the Russia-Ukraine war under Erdogan, rethinking hard and soft power after the Ukraine conflict, the necessity of international development for Western foreign policy, and how today's Oxford students can prepare for the trends like climate change, population growth, and power shifts to the East that will shape the world by 2050.