As Libya falls further into chaos, the US has agreed to back the new government’s request to lift an arms embargo against it.
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Over the years the words Sykes-Picot have taken on two meanings – one significant, the other less so.
The country’s actual offensive cyber capabilities remain shrouded in the classified world. But what is public is enough to discuss potential cyber weapons and how they might be used.
Geography matters. Whether countries are rich or poor or safe or vulnerable still has more to do with physical geography than we usually acknowledge. Even in age that is routinely described as “global…
Throwaway phones are just one piece of the ever-widening technological arsenal of extremists and terror groups of all kinds.
A model Palmyra’s Arch of Triumph, made in Italy from Egyptian marble, has been installed in London’s Trafalgar Square. Is this such a good thing?
The Obama administration likes to say it won’t put “boots on the ground” in Iraq – but that’s increasingly at odds with reality.
Since 2011, Libya has been trying to fashion itself into a functioning democratic state – but instead, it’s still mired in violent chaos.
Islamic State has been spreading its influence beyond the Middle East – and Central Asia could be in the firing line.
Dirty bombs are relatively easy for a terrorist organisation to make. So how do we tackle the threat?
Ashraf Ghani has accused citizens of abandoning their country under the ‘slightest pressure’.
Evidence suggests that the threat is not being taken seriously enough.
News from Syria that the ancient town has been taken back from Islamic State is good news – but especially for Putin and Assad.
The seeds of radicalisation were being sown long before Islamic State came along.
It’s going to take time and money, but the country must act on its terrorism problem.
Terrorist attacks that are locally sourced and financed are very hard to detect.
Violent Islamist extremism appears to have reached a crisis point in Europe with a “perfect storm” of circumstances, Malcolm Turnbull has said.
Although not an intuitive conclusion, the Brussels attacks are actually indicative of Islamic State’s growing decline and desperation.
Scholars specializing in extremism are beginning to unravel how people – including a higher number of Americans than one might expect – become radicalized to embrace political violence.
It is impossible to know for sure what a Trump presidency would be like. But there are sensible reasons to suspect it could be disastrous – not only for the US but also for Australia.
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Professor of Peace Studies, University of Bradford
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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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Professor of International Politics, Clinton Institute, University College Dublin
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Director of the Curtin Extremism Research Network (CERN), Curtin University
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Chair in Global Islamic Politics, Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation, Deakin University
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Professor of International Relations, Lancaster University
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Honorary Senior Fellow, The University of Melbourne
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Professor in the Department of Government, University of Essex
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Lecturer in Translation Studies, Cardiff University
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Research Fellow, Middle East Studies, Deakin University
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Sessional Academic, School of Social Sciences, Macquarie University
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Visiting Fellow, Department of Political and Social Change, The Philippines Institute, Australian National University
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Professor of International Relations, Norwegian University of Life Sciences
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Professor of International Politics, Deakin University
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Senior Lecturer, School of Social Sciences, UNSW