IS has claimed a wave of deadly bombings and shootings in Jakarta, but its long-feared Asian campaign is yet to materialise in earnest.
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What is the landscape of Indonesia’s terror groups? And what threat does the country face following Thursday’s deadly attacks in Jakarta?
Tensions at home and abroad make the latest attack by Islamic State particularly difficult to bear.
Listening to the thinking process and justification of potential terrorists is critical to finding a path to defeat terrorism.
We increasingly depend on algorithms applied to big data, but even algorithms make mistakes that could label us in worrying ways
The movie Suffragettes shows the occasionally violent and sensational tactics used by militant suffragettes. Were these justified?
Though the perpetrators of the mass shooting in California appear to have acquired their guns legally, the vast majority used in violent crimes are obtained illegally.
This has been a remarkably violent year – and many of the worst threats to human security are no less a problem than they were a year ago.
2015 started as it finished, with terrorist atrocities, intractable conflicts and political upheavals that toppled several leaders, including Australia’s prime minister, Tony Abbott.
Detaining persons convicted of terrorist offences for lengthy periods after they have served their time could risk radicalising a section of the community who see the measure as unjust.
The root cause of our vulnerability is the structure of the global economy: highly interconnected, complex and filled with turbulence.
State and federal leaders seem as far away as ever from an agreement on the direction of tax reform.
The Mafia’s reported promise of protection from Islamic State might seem like an offer you can’t refuse. Wrong.
Australian society has become dangerously accustomed to our politicians using “national security” as an excuse for the obfuscation of sticky truths.
Winston Churchill famously suggested that: You can always count on Americans to do the right thing – after they’ve tried everything else. Speaking with his characteristic mix of the compassionate and cerebral…
France was prepared to be on the world stage in late 2015. But not like this. As the Paris climate summit reached its halfway mark on Saturday, the local media was still largely preoccupied with the terrorist…
It is probably not a surprise that a terror attack can have a major impact on people’s mental health. But what sort of effects are common, and how long do they last?
A frank debate about the causes of extremism and terrorism would acknowledge uncomfortable issues like the alienating impacts of racism, Islamophobia and Western military actions and foreign policy.
We must improve religious literacy among politicians. They should look to universities for more insight.
The group believes that it represents a religion – denying that won’t get us anywhere.
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