Category: MIL OSI
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The Pacific’s united front on climate action is splintering over deep-sea mining
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – Global Perspectives – By Kolaia Raisele, PhD Candidate in Anthropology, La Trobe University DrPixel/Getty In recent years, Pacific island nations have earned global credibility as champions of climate action. Pacific leaders view sea level rise as an existential threat. But this united front is now under strain as some…
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How we tricked AI chatbots into creating misinformation, despite ‘safety’ measures
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – Global Perspectives – By Lin Tian, Research Fellow, Data Science Institute, University of Technology Sydney Bart Fish & Power Tools of AI / https://betterimagesofai.org, CC BY When you ask ChatGPT or other AI assistants to help create misinformation, they typically refuse, with responses like “I cannot assist with creating…
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Local journalists and fixers are dying at unprecedented rates in Gaza. Can anyone protect them?
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – Global Perspectives – By Simon Levett, PhD candidate, public international law, University of Technology Sydney Journalist Mariam Dagga was just 33 when she was brutally killed by an Israeli airstrike in Gaza on August 25. As a freelance photographer and videographer, she had captured the suffering in Gaza through…
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Trump isn’t the first US politician to pick a fight with the Smithsonian. But this time could be different
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – Global Perspectives – By Kylie Message, Professor of Public Humanities and Director of the ANU Humanities Research Centre, Australian National University United States President Donald Trump first signalled his intention to target the Smithsonian Institution in March, when he signed an executive order titled Restoring Truth and Sanity to…
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How can the International Criminal Court achieve justice for women?
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – Global Perspectives – By Olivera Simic, Professor in Law, Griffith University Some say the law / ought not to bend. // That it should be a neutral, / certain thing. // But there are reasons / judgement and interpretation / are bequeathed / to human / – humane –…
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Islamic State massacres in eastern DRC: who are the insurgents and why are they killing civilians?
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – Africa (2) – By Stig Jarle Hansen, Professor of International Relations, Norwegian University of Life Sciences More than 100 civilians have perished in a spate of attacks by Islamic State-backed rebels in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo in mid-2025. The Islamic State’s Central African Province – known locally as…
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Cameroon’s election risks instability, no matter who wins
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – Africa (2) – By Manu Lekunze, Lecturer, University of Aberdeen Cameroonians will vote in presidential elections on 12 October 2025. The incumbent, Paul Biya, who has been in office for nearly 43 years, will be a candidate. In 2025, as in the last election in 2018, and in all…
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The banality of state violence: Why the Indonesian police have become a public enemy
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – Indonesia – By Aniello Iannone, Indonesianists | Research Fellow at the research centre Geopolitica.info | Lecturer, Universitas Diponegoro Hashtag #PolisiMusuhBersama (Police are the common enemy) has gone viral among Indonesian social media users, as the Indonesian Police have, once again, sparked public anger due to a series of violent…
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How tariff wars are reshaping migration and raising the risk of human rights abuses in supply chains
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Milda Žilinskaitė, Senior Scientist, Competence Center for Sustainability Transformation and Responsibility, Vienna University of Economics and Business, and Founding Co-Director of Migration, Business & Society, Vienna University of Economics and Business Arturo Almanza K/Shutterstock The tariff wars between the US and its trade partners have rarely…
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Sex, Stalin and Shostakovich: the story of the 1934 opera the Soviet leader walked out of
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Pauline Fairclough, Professor of Music, University of Bristol At the BBC Proms in September, the Albert Hall will stage a concert performance of Dmitri Shostakovich’s controversial 1934 opera, Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District. Based on Nikolai Leskov’s 1865 novella, it tells the story of the…