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Historian and philosopher Yuval Noah Harari urges the world to trust science

16 October 2020 Editor Governance, rights and society, Video and podcasts

In a 14 minute program from France24’s The Interview, Professor Harari talks about coronavirus and other crises confronting humankind, including the need for multilateral action on climate change and re-establishing trust in science.

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Cultures of expertise and politics of behavioral science: A conversation with Erik Angner (Cambridge)

12 May 2020 Editor COVID-19, Video and podcasts

Governments point to scientific advice. Who gets included in powerful expert groups, who gets sidelined and why? Why is epidemiology dominant? What values are implicit in behavioural science techniques like ‘nudging’?

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Chatham House: Liu Xiaoming on China’s foreign policy and 2020 international agenda

10 March 2020 Editor Video and podcasts

In this Chatham House (UK) video presentation, Liu Xiaoming, China’s ambassador to the United Kingdom discusses his country’s current foreign policy and provides an outlook for China’s international agenda for 2020.

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In the news

  • First test flight of Australia’s ‘Loyal Wingman’ autonomous aircraft
    3 March 2021
  • Diplomatic efforts intensify as protestors are killed in Myanmar
    2 March 2021
  • First US military action under Biden targets militia in Syria
    26 February 2021
  • US to ask 17 biggest emitters, including Australia, for net zero emissions by 2050
    24 February 2021
  • Biden at Munich Security Conference: America and NATO are back
    20 February 2021
  • India joins Iran-Russia Indian Ocean navy drill; China also to take part
    16 February 2021

Research & Commentary

Did Trump gift Biden a more stable Middle East?

3 March 2021
BAE Systems Type 26 Frigate

‘Bloat and warfare’: the trend toward ever-more complicated and expensive weapons

25 February 2021

How should the EU handle Russia’s Grand Strategy?

22 February 2021

Biden’s top foreign policy challenge: avoiding a cold war with China

14 February 2021

The Chinese ‘Debt Trap’ Is a Myth

8 February 2021

What explains COVID’s east-west divide? (John Feffer)

1 February 2021

Document Daze: Understanding Trump’s “Indo-Pacific Strategic Framework” (James Curran)

27 January 2021

A China strategy to reunite America’s allies (Chatham House)

16 January 2021

What’s the role of hydrogen in the clean energy transition? (UCS)

29 December 2020

About Mike Scrafton

Mike Scrafton is a regularly-published writer on Australian and international affairs. Read more about Mike here.

Most read this week

  • The pandemic and the limits of realism (Seth A Johnston) 3 July 2020
  • The warning that wasn’t: Robert Gottliebsen’s warning to the Australian nation on the Future Submarines 19 February 2020
  • Russia’s President Putin approves new naval facility in Sudan 18 November 2020
  • Defence Strategic Update 2020: A first assessment (James Goldrick) 30 July 2020
  • The Chinese ‘Debt Trap’ Is a Myth 8 February 2021
  • Australia’s strategic quandary: political leadership and the abandonment of strategy 15 April 2020

Most read in the last year

  • This time it’s the end of democracy: Fukuyama and big-tech 30 November 2020
  • Australia’s foreign policy: Resurgent realism or the survival of multilateralism? 5 July 2020
  • What is the end game of US-China competition? (Andy Zelleke) 3 November 2020
  • National Cyber Power Index 2020: which is the world’s most powerful cyber nation? (Belfer Center) 12 September 2020
  • 1776 Commission versus 1619 Project: will Trump’s rejection of history divide America? 22 September 2020
  • Yuval Noah Harari: the world after coronavirus 27 April 2020

Latest posts

  • First test flight of Australia’s ‘Loyal Wingman’ autonomous aircraft
    3 March 2021
  • Did Trump gift Biden a more stable Middle East?
    3 March 2021
  • Refreshingly, Biden’s Middle East diplomacy looks strategic
    3 March 2021
  • Diplomatic efforts intensify as protestors are killed in Myanmar
    2 March 2021
  • The persistence of American authoritarianism should worry Australia
    28 February 2021
  • First US military action under Biden targets militia in Syria
    26 February 2021

10 most recent articles by Mike

  • Refreshingly, Biden’s Middle East diplomacy looks strategic
    3 March 2021
  • The persistence of American authoritarianism should worry Australia
    28 February 2021
  • ASEAN: central to whose vision for the Indo-Pacific?
    24 February 2021
  • Biden embraces science and facts, but falls short on climate action
    5 February 2021
  • Taiwan: a ‘wicked’ strategic problem for Australia
    1 February 2021
  • The curious case of the ‘United States Strategic Framework for the Indo-Pacific’
    27 January 2021
  • An American theocracy: the advance of Christian nationalism
    26 January 2021
  • Is Trump’s 1776 Commission Report an extremist manifesto?
    25 January 2021
  • What should Australia want from a Biden National Security Strategy?
    20 January 2021
  • Preparing for a 3°C warmer future: the ideological shift and institutions Australia will need
    12 January 2021

Disclaimer

Mike’s writing is not published with his permission on any profit-making websites, blogs or forums associated with profit-making business entities. Mike has no current association with any commercial organisation. He is a completely independent writer, derives no income from his writing, and does not endorse the products or services of any business entity.

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