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COLUMNIST: BINOY KAMPMARK

Rehabilitation and Confidence Tricks: Al-Sharaa, Trump and Sanctions

Rehabilitation and Confidence Tricks: Al-Sharaa, Trump and Sanctions

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Contrary to the propaganda of moral upstarts, terrorism pays. It proves rewarding. It establishes states and reconstitut ...

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May 11, 2025 | Feature Article

The occasion of electing another Pope was a spectacle in time and, in many ways, outside it. It was the one rare occasio ...

May 9, 2025 | Feature Article

It has been unedifying, and, it should be said, far from noble. But being unedifying has become something of a day speci ...

May 7, 2025 | Feature Article

Killing civilians wholesale, starving them to convince those unaffected to change course, and shepherding whole populati ...

May 6, 2025 | Feature Article

The dust had barely settled on the Australian federal election on May 3 before the hagiographers, mythmakers and revisio ...

May 2, 2025 | Feature Article

The agreement between Washington and Kyiv to create an investment fund to search for rare earth minerals has been seen a ...

Apr 30, 2025 | Feature Article

The murder and starvation of populations in real time, subject to rolling coverage and commentary, is not usually the do ...

Apr 27, 2025 | Feature Article

Universities are in a bind. As institutions of learning and teaching, knowledge learnt and taught should, or at the very ...

Apr 25, 2025 | Feature Article

The very idea of infallibility sets one up for the mighty fall. But the Pope, temporal head of all Catholics, is one suc ...

Apr 23, 2025 | Feature Article

Has the love, or even more so the fixation, gone with the US dollar, that all cushioning reserve currency that has shown ...

Apr 21, 2025 | Feature Article

It was a deal for the cretinous, hammered out by the less than bright for less than honourable goals. But AUKUS, the tri ...

Binoy Kampmark
Binoy Kampmark

Dr. Binoy Kampmark was a Commonwealth Scholar at Selwyn College, Cambridge. He lectures at RMIT University, Melbourne. Email: [email protected]. 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.

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Started: 01-05-2025 | Ends: 01-06-2025