The sketchy history of international efforts to control bioweapons suggests that nations will resist cooperative monitoring of gene hacking for medical research.
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A scholar of race and racism explains what critical race theory is – and how many people get it wrong.
The recent Pentagon report has more questions than answers when it comes to UFOs. Here’s why that’s not surprising.
African identity needs a revision to move beyond current understanding of its relationship with China
Banning research ties with China, as Alberta just did, should be vetoed not only by the academic community but also the general public for its recklessness in fanning the flames of anti-Asian racism.
Researchers tried several times to have the document declassified, including in 1992, 2004 and 2016. It was initially written to help American NSA agents crack difficult coded messages.
In last week's budget, the federal government allocated money to restore the local environment around the mine. But it didn't disclose how much.
During the Cold War, the FBI boasted a ‘Judeo-Christian’ heritage in the US but also demonstrated anti-Jewish prejudice.
Just as Fidel Castro’s 2016 death did not transform US-Cuba ties, his brother Raul’s exit from politics is unlikely to do so. But Cuba itself is changing. Eventually, Havana and Washington will, too.
It’s 60 years since Gagarin’s world-first return from space. The cosmonaut never did make it to Australia, but his huge feat was celebrated here by many, despite tensions with the USSR.
Leon mulls over the Democratic Alliance’s biggest challenge: ‘how to maintain its majority support among minorities, and increase its meagre voter share among the black majority’.
Both Russia and China are signalling they will only deal with the West where and when it suits them. They are also increasingly comfortable working together as close partners.
The battle between media companies and foreign governments over who controls the news dates back some 150 years, to when European and US wire services dictated the world’s headlines.
While the world is dealing with the biggest health emergency in more than a century, the way people have reacted to the crisis is familiar and predictable.
Le Carré drew on his own experience to change public perceptions of the world of spying.
High-power microwave weapons are useful for disabling electronics. They might also be behind the ailments suffered by US diplomats and CIA agents in Cuba and China.
While we might not think of the 1950s housewife as taking an active interest in Cold War politics, a close reading of the Weekly shows its female readers were encouraged to join in the discussion.
In 1967 a Mexican reporter told the CIA he had met Lee Harvey Oswald in Mexico City just before the JFK assassination. New research and recently declassified intelligence pokes a hole in his story.
Humans have been living on the International Space Station for two full decades. So what comes next for this ailing technology, and what does it mean for future International ventures in space?
The UK government has published new guidance barring materials produced by groups opposed to capitalism from schools.
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Dean of Humanities and Social Sciences and Professor of International Relations at La Trobe University, La Trobe University
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Emeritus Fellow, Australian National University
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Reader in International Journalism, City, University of London
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Political Scientist, University of the Western Cape
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Professor of International Security, Director of Centre for War and Technology, University of Bath
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Senior Lecturer in Intelligence Studies, University of Salford
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Senior research fellow, Centre for the Advancement of Scholarship, University of Pretoria
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Programme Leader, MA Intelligence and Security Studies, University of Salford
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Lecturer in Political and Cultural Geographies, Manchester Metropolitan University
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Fellow, Clare Hall, University of Cambridge; Professor of Development Studies, University of Johannesburg
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Assistant Professor of Computer Science, North Dakota State University
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Tony Walker is a Friend of The Conversation.
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