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If Canada’s political leaders want the public to trust them, they need to trust citizens with foreign interference information contained in a recent security and intelligence report.
Framing the Petrov affair as a thrilling spy drama may have helped Australians manage their anxiety about the threat posed by Soviet espionage.
ASIO is effective in defeating threats and being transparent in reporting on them, but its latest annual threat assessment leaves room to question its strategic priorities.
Australia’s allies are serious about the risk of research espionage - and one way or another, we need to catch up.
Cuba gets less attention as an espionage threat than Russia or China, but is a potent player in the spy world. Its intelligence service has already penetrated the US government at least once.
The Security Intelligence Service needs public support and trust to do its work well. Adding a degree of transparency to it’s annual threat assessment should help.
Spying was a concern from the dawn of the nuclear age, but charges that J. Robert Oppenheimer, who led the development of the first nuclear weapons, was a Soviet spy have been proved wrong.
The Snake network has been detected in more than 50 countries, including Australia.
A scholar of Russia’s legal code explains the case against the Wall Street Journal reporter accused of espionage.
The handling of US classified information received another stain as a 21-year-old Air National Guardsman stands accused of mishandling secret documents on US allies and the war in Ukraine.
Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich is far from the first American journalist to be accused of spying, a media historian explains.
What data privacy risk does TikTok pose, and what could the Chinese government do with data it collects? And is it even possible to ban an app?
International law states that states have to operate ‘due regard’ for the right of nations to fly drones above international waters. Washington claims Russia violated this standard in incident.
Australia has a complex scheme of 27 new espionage offences, but prosecuting spies is challenging in practice. Here’s why
There are thousands of sightings of UFOs – or ‘unidentified aerial phenomena’ as the US government prefers to call them – every year.
After shooting down a high-altitude Chinese balloon, the US has been on the alert for other aerial invaders.
Both of the leading manufacturers have extensive links with the Chinese Communist Party, but it’s unclear whether they’d ever send data from Australia to China.
The Chinese ‘spy balloon’ shot down over the US has brought the seemingly strange methods of surveillance and espionage into news headlines.
Espionage routinely plays out between countries like the US and China. But a public spectacle like the Chinese spy balloon can change the game.
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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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Senior Lecturer in Intelligence Studies, University of Salford
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Adjunct Research Fellow, The University of Queensland
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Professor of International Security, University of Bath
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Research Fellow, Leiden University
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Assistant Director, Applied History Project and Intelligence Project, Harvard Kennedy School
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Tony Walker is a Friend of The Conversation.
Vice-Chancellor's Fellow, La Trobe University
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Professor in Law and Co-Convener National Security Hub (University of Canberra) and Research Fellow (adjunct) - The Security Institute for Governance and Leadership in Africa, Faculty of Military Science, Stellenbosch University- NATO Fellow Asia-Pacific, University of Canberra
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Professor of Management, University of North Carolina – Greensboro
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Associate Professor of the Practice of International Relations, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
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Lecturer in Intelligence and Security Studies, Brunel University London
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Associate professor of international history, Utrecht University
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UNSW Sydney
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Senior lecturer, Northumbria University, Newcastle
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Associate Professor of Security and International Relations, Staffordshire University
