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In a new study, Australians do not fully understand what’s at stake if Taiwan’s democracy is threatened by China.
The mainstream media doesn’t simply cover far-right politics from a critical distance, it also helps to define what counts as politically acceptable.
The request is shining a light on broader questions around the independence of the Israeli legal system.
Once again, Trump has proven he is more interested in long-term deals with autocrats than achieving just and lasting resolutions to security crises.
Facing dire approval ratings and Republican discontent, Trump is fuming – and threatening political violence.
Under the legal doctrine of ‘universal jurisdiction’, any country can prosecute allegations of war crimes, regardless of the nationality of the perpetrator or victims.
More than half of respondents in a new survey said they were concerned about US interference in Australia, a jump of nearly 20 points since 2021.
A UN-backed resolution is crucial to the peace plan moving ahead, but questions remain about the finer details.
The EU is not abandoning Ukraine, but it is recalibrating its risk exposure. There is growing doubt that Ukraine can win – even if EU leaders won’t say so aloud.
The relationship between the countries has gone up and down over the years, but trust and confidence has perhaps never been higher.
Trump’s world order: praising Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa as an ‘attractive guy’, while disparaging the first Muslim mayor of New York as a ‘lunatic communist’.
The Democrats won recent elections with a laser focus on cost of living. Now comes the hard part: getting the left and centre to agree on a vision for America’s future.
Given the more conservative configuration of the Supreme Court today, the court decision that legalised same-sex marriage cannot be taken for granted.
Tropical cyclones can be even more deadly – and for a wider range of reasons – than we ever thought.
The Republicans have tried to blame Democrats for the shutdown. But in US politics, the president owns the economy, for better or worse.
A mass train stabbing in the UK has spurred a vigorous debate about releasing the racial and nationality details of suspects of crimes.
Israel may be isolated now, but Arab leaders understand the need to keep the peace, maintain US support, and expand economic ties with Israel.
US interventions in the region have led to coups, revolutions and what some analysts are now calling illegal extrajudicial killings.
All of the nine nuclear-armed nations are investing huge sums in new weapons. And the numbers of nuclear weapons “available for use” is climbing again.
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Emeritus Professor of Middle Eastern Studies, Australian National University; The University of Western Australia; Victoria University
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Senior Lecturer in International Studies in the School of Society and Culture, Adelaide University
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Research Fellow, Middle East Studies, Deakin University
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Associate Professor (Adj), Griffith Asia Institute; and Fellow, Strategic and Defence Studies Centre, Australian National University
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Director of Research, US Studies Centre, University of Sydney
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Malcolm Smith Professor of Asian Law and Director of the Centre for Indonesian Law, Islam and Society, The University of Melbourne