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Vladimir Putin may have swerved away from a full conscription policy because of what we know about how if affects political support.
Russia and other countries and political regimes have a long history of forcing people to move, mostly for security and economic gains.
Russia’s annual Victory Day parade is being seen as a symbol of how well the Ukraine war is going.
There is a long history shaping the recent pact between China and the Solomons- and it should jolt Australia into rethinking its relationships in the Pacific region.
Seizing Kharkiv or Kyiv is going to take time and heavy use of artillery— called ‘the God of War’ by Joseph Stalin — if it happens at all.
Ukraine is the epicentre of a clash of global ideologies – which is exactly what happened in the 1930s.
The history of a humble chapel created by Ukrainian prisoners reminds us of our duty to those refugees now fleeing Putin’s war.
Attacking your own side and blaming your foe has a long history and a firm grip on the popular imagination. But the internet makes it difficult to pull off – and less desirable.
The surprise attack on Hawaii brought unimaginable suffering and led to further horror. Eight decades later, we must never forget.
The Communist Party draws most of the members from South Africa’s mainly young, unemployed people, a group that keeps growing.
Australia has sent help to its nearest neighbour to deal with its COVID crisis. But to really forge the next chapter in that relationship, we need to understand the history between the two countries.
Some of our coastal defences are in desperate need of preservation and could be transformed into tourist attractions.
Comparisons with the second world war are usually unhelpful – but the crisis changed UK nursing for the better. The pandemic offers a similar chance to rethink nursing is provided.
In the 1980s, CSIRO and its university collaborators set into motion a chain of events that would lead to the production of relenza, the first drug to successfully treat the flu.
The second world war offers a possible blueprint for confronting the ventilator challenge.
The Never Again Education Act is meant to make Holocaust education more prominent in America’s schools. A scholar of Holocaust studies explains why that’s necessary.
A Disney Hitler comedy by the director of Hunt for the Wilderpeople tests the line between funny and Führer.
New research suggests people from Germany, Russia, the UK and US all think their own country was the most important in World War II.
It’s one of the largest prison escapes in world history and it’s through fiction we can understand the tragedy, from both an Australian and Japanese perspective.
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Faculty Member, Asian Studies Program, Georgetown University; Visiting Fellow, Department of Pacific Affairs, Australian National University., Georgetown University
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Lecturer, Art & Design, Australian National University
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Professor of Innovation Studies, Swinburne University of Technology
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Emeritus professor, University of Warwick
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Distinguished Professor of Anthropology; Director, Center for the Study of Genocide and Human Rights, Rutgers University - Newark
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Professor of History, Western Michigan University
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Professor of Behavioural Science, Warwick Business School, University of Warwick
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