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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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Australia’s climate policy: The widening reality gap

7 November 2023

Nations continue to develop climate policies within a framework that prioritises economic growth, despite the starkly evident failure of this approach to achieve emissions reduction. Surely we must now recognise that the timetable for getting to net zero cannot be left to the hope that private capital and markets will prove to be up to saving millions of lives?

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Palestine

‘Shared values’ on show in Jerusalem

7 February 2023

International Criminal Court says it has jurisdiction in Palestinian territories

6 February 2021

Sovereignty and self-determination: The wider implications of Israel and the West Bank

10 June 2020

Climate Crisis

Australia’s climate policy: The widening reality gap

7 November 2023

The intergenerational report – a climate fairy tale

26 August 2023

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

7 August 2022

Ukraine

Postwar Ukraine will pose the hardest problems

13 March 2023

Past experience suggests that the postwar outcome in Ukraine could be a destabilised and failing state. Win, lose or stalemate, the postwar environment in Ukraine is likely to pose significant challenges for the EU and NATO.

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About Mike Scrafton

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

Most read this month

  • America: the frailty of the hegemon revealed 1 November 2023
  • Are we paying enough attention to Trump’s Gleichschaltung-like ‘Project 2025 Mandate for Leadership’? 27 September 2023
  • Western leaders must acknowledge Israel’s rights are not untrammelled 17 November 2023
  • ‘Shared values’ on show in Jerusalem 7 February 2023
  • Extent of former US officials’ role in AUKUS submarines decision called into question 24 October 2022

Most read in the last year

  • 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
  • An American theocracy: the advance of Christian nationalism 26 January 2021
  • Will Australia always follow the innocent nation into war? 25 March 2023
  • Post-liberal, post-democratic and authoritarian. Is that America’s future? 21 December 2022

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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