body-container-line-1

COLUMNIST: BINOY KAMPMARK

K-Defense Day: Pimping for the Arms Dealers

K-Defense Day: Pimping for the Arms Dealers

Jul 13, 2025 | Feature Article

Militarism is catching on across the countries of advanced economies and beyond. The sly, disingenuous term of ldquo;de ...

Jul 9, 2025 | Feature Article

She has become a notorious figure of international interest, shamelessly exploited for news cycles, commercial worth and ...

Jul 4, 2025 | Feature Article

It makes for stark and dark reading. The report for the UN Human Rights Council titled

Jul 2, 2025 | Feature Article

When campaigning in 2016, presidential candidate Donald Trump was delighted by leaked, hacked or disclosed material that ...

Jul 1, 2025 | Feature Article

The aftermath of Operation Midnight Hammer, a strike by the US Air Force on three nuclear facilities in Iran authorised ...

Jun 29, 2025 | Feature Article

The initial statement from Australian government sources was one of constipated caution and clenching wariness. Senator ...

Jun 28, 2025 | Feature Article

The confidence trickster was at it again on his visit to The Hague, reluctantly meeting members of the overly large fami ...

Jun 23, 2025 | Feature Article

De-escalation has become one of those coarse words in severe need of banishment, best kept in an index used by unredeema ...

Jun 22, 2025 | Feature Article

Farce is a regular feature of international relations. It can be gaudy and lurid, dressed up in all manner of outfits. I ...

Jun 19, 2025 | Feature Article

It rsquo;s official. If not, it ought to be. Israeli forces freely butcher Palestinians in Gaza of all stripes, standing ...

Jun 17, 2025 | Feature Article

These are the sorts of things that tend to be discussed in bunkered facilities and grimy locker rooms. Now, very much in ...

Jun 16, 2025 | Feature Article

There is a throbbing complaint among Western powers, including those in the European Union and the United States. Iran i ...

Jun 14, 2025 | Feature Article

Pre-emptive attacks in international law are rarely justified. The threat must evince itself through an obvious intent t ...

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.

Is Mahama's government heading in the right direction?

Started: 09-07-2025 | Ends: 09-08-2025