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Category: Video and podcasts

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

16 October 2020 Online editor COVID-19, 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 Online 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 Online editor Foreign policy, trade and diplomacy, 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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Most read this week

  • The end of hegemony confounds the realists: the US must come to terms with its loss 25 September 2020
  • Debunking the myth of ‘Debt-trap Diplomacy’: how recipient countries shape China’s Belt and Road Initiative (Chatham House) 11 September 2020
  • What’s the role of hydrogen in the clean energy transition? (UCS) 29 December 2020
  • After 2024 America could be a less reliable ally than under Trump 24 November 2022
  • Tanks for Ukraine won’t bring war-ending negotiations any closer 27 January 2023
  • Post-liberal, post-democratic and authoritarian. Is that America’s future? 21 December 2022

Most read in the last year

  • An American theocracy: the advance of Christian nationalism 26 January 2021
  • Australia’s foreign policy: Resurgent realism or the survival of multilateralism? 5 July 2020
  • What’s the role of hydrogen in the clean energy transition? (UCS) 29 December 2020
  • The Chinese ‘Debt Trap’ Is a Myth 8 February 2021
  • National Cyber Power Index 2020: which is the world’s most powerful cyber nation? (Belfer Center) 12 September 2020
  • America’s proposed Taiwan Policy Act could be a game-changing act of provocation 20 September 2022

Latest by Mike: Climate Crisis

Facing “Hothouse Earth”, will governments continue half-a-century of inaction?

7 August 2022

About Mike Scrafton

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

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