AUTHOR: BINOY KAMPMARK

Warring Against Encryption: Australia is Coming for Your Communications

Apr 24, 2024 | Feature Article

On April 16, Australia rsquo;s eSafety commissioner, Julie Inman Grant, issued with authoritarian glee legal notices to ...

Censorship Wars: Elon Musk, Safety Commissioners and Violent Content

Apr 23, 2024 | Feature Article

The attitudes down under towards social media have turned barmy. While there is much to take Elon Musk to task for his w ...

Universities for AUKUS: The Social License Confidence Trick

Apr 21, 2024 | Feature Article

ldquo;Can we still see universities as places to learn and produce knowledge that, at the risk of sounding na iuml;ve, ...

The Australian Defence Formula: Spend! Spend! Spend!

Apr 19, 2024 | Feature Article

The skin toasted Australian Minister of Defence, Richard Marles, who resembles, with each day, the product of an overly ...

Faulty Assurances: The Judicial Torture of Assange Continues

Apr 17, 2024 | Feature Article

Only this month, the near comatose US President, Joe Biden, made a casual, castaway remark that his administration was ...

Suspending the Rule of Tolerable Violence: Israel’s Attack and Iran’s Retaliatio...

Apr 16, 2024 | Feature Article

The Middle East has, for some time, been a powder keg where degrees of violence are tolerated with ceremonial mania and ...

Flicker of Hope: Biden’s Throwaway Lines on Assange

Apr 12, 2024 | Feature Article

Walking stiffly, largely distracted, and struggling to focus on the bare essentials, US President Joe Biden was keeping ...

Death by Algorithm: Israel’s AI War in Gaza

Apr 10, 2024 | Feature Article

Remorseless killing at the initiation of artificial intelligence has been the subject of nail-biting concern for various ...

Germany, Gaza and the World Court: Broadening the Scope of Genocide

Apr 9, 2024 | Feature Article

Can it get any busier? The World Court, otherwise known as the International Court of Justice, has been swamped by appli ...

Aukusing for War: The Real Target Is China

Apr 7, 2024 | Feature Article

The occasional burst of candour from US diplomats provides a striking, air clearing difference to their Australian and B ...

Aukusing for War: The Real Target Is China

Apr 7, 2024 | Feature Article

The occasional burst of candour from US diplomats provides a striking, air clearing difference to their Australian and B ...

Killing Aid Workers: Australia’s Muddled Policy on Israel

Apr 5, 2024 | Feature Article

The Australian Prime Minister, Anthony Albanese, was distraught and testy. It seemed that, on this occasion, Israel had ...

Killing Humanitarians: Israel’s War on Aid Workers in Gaza

Apr 3, 2024 | Feature Article

Eulogies should rarely be taken at face value. Plaster saints take the place of complex individuals; faults transmute in ...

The Baltimore Bridge Collapse: Conspiracy as Mother’s Milk

Apr 2, 2024 | Feature Article

The human mind is often incapable of tolerating the limitless nature of a universe, the absence of a divine architect, o ...

Kategate: From Conspiracy to Contrition Extraction

Apr 1, 2024 | Feature Article

Cancer is a stomping bugger of a disease. It seeks the worm-ridden end, a thief finding its way into your body unasked a ...

Starvation in Gaza: The World Court’s Latest Intervention

Mar 30, 2024 | Feature Article

Rarely has the International Court of Justice been so constantly exercised by one topic during a short span of time. On ...

Imperial Fruit: Bananas, Costs and Climate Change

Mar 29, 2024 | Feature Article

The curved course of the ubiquitous banana has often been the peel of empire, its sweetness masking a sharp, bitter lega ...

Binoy Kampmark

Dr. Binoy Kampmark was a Commonwealth Scholar at Selwyn College, Cambridge. He lectures at RMIT University, Melbourne. . More He is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Global, Urban and Social Studies, teaching within the Bachelor of Social Science (Legal and Dispute Studies) program.

Binoy’s research and teaching interests lie in the intersections of law, international relations and history. Much of his research and teaching involves the examination of conflict, diplomacy, and the various crises confronting international society including refugees, terrorism, ‘rogue’ states and undocumented citizens.

Binoy has written extensively in both refereed journals and more popular media on his research interest topics of the institution of war, diplomacy, international relations, 20th century history and law.

The quality of his research has been acknowledged in awards made by the US-based International Association for the Study of Forced Migration and Limina, journal of the History Department of the University of Western Australia.

Media expertise
Binoy is available for media interviews and comments as an expert on international and national security, terrorism, the war on terror and politics.

He has been interviewed for National Public Radio in the United States, Radio National in Australia, and radio stations in South Africa. He is also a regular contributor to online publications including The Conversation, Eureka Street, CounterPunch (US) and Scoop (NZ).

Binoy was also commissioned by the UK History Channel in December 2007 to January 2008 to write package descriptions for the American Civil War, and in March 2006 to write a package on World War II: The War in the West, 1943-1945.