Anastasia Kapetas – Openforum https://www.openforum.com.au Open Forum offers an independent platform for Australian debate Thu, 28 Mar 2024 22:27:37 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.9.25 The power of Indigenous diplomacy https://www.openforum.com.au/the-power-of-indigenous-diplomacy/ Mon, 22 Nov 2021 22:49:31 +0000 https://www.openforum.com.au/?p=35211 Australia’s Indigenous nations have their own traditions of relationship-building and diplomacy which could help strengthen our ties with the Pacific.

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Confronting state fragility and democratic decline https://www.openforum.com.au/confronting-state-fragility-and-democratic-decline/ Mon, 18 Oct 2021 21:54:48 +0000 https://www.openforum.com.au/?p=34812 The return of strategic competition between states is an established geopolitical trend, but states themselves are getting more fragile, according to the 2021 Fund for Peace Fragile States Index.

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What’s next for Afghanistan? https://www.openforum.com.au/whats-next-for-afghanistan/ Mon, 16 Aug 2021 16:02:27 +0000 https://www.openforum.com.au/?p=34040 After their rapid, bloodless victory in Afghanistan in the wake of the allied withdrawal, do the Taliban have the capacity to govern the country and keep unified control?

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WhatsApp and the right to encrypt https://www.openforum.com.au/whatsapp-and-the-right-to-encrypt/ Mon, 19 Jul 2021 21:53:56 +0000 https://www.openforum.com.au/?p=33704 Encrypted messaging has become a very difficult business. Despite their reach, it’s hard to make money from messaging apps and their key service - encryption - is under constant attack from actors across the political spectrum.

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The case for a ‘disinformation CERN’ https://www.openforum.com.au/the-case-for-a-disinformation-cern/ https://www.openforum.com.au/the-case-for-a-disinformation-cern/#comments Fri, 21 May 2021 23:05:11 +0000 https://www.openforum.com.au/?p=33040 The scale and reach of the disinformation problem is now so vast that only research cooperation across the democratic world can address the shared threat to our societies.

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Navalny sheds light on dark corners https://www.openforum.com.au/navalny-sheds-light-on-dark-corners/ Thu, 11 Feb 2021 00:24:49 +0000 https://www.openforum.com.au/?p=31717 The cynical imprisonment of Alexei Navalny won't secure the future of Vladimir Putin's brutal dictatorship for long.

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The geopolitics of artificial intelligence https://www.openforum.com.au/the-geopolitics-of-artificial-intelligence/ Fri, 25 Dec 2020 01:10:44 +0000 https://www.openforum.com.au/?p=31109 Australia has the opportunity to develop innovative policy that could help set standards internationally by engaging transparently with the high risk to security, democracy and social cohesion inherent in many AI applications.

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China’s third revolution https://www.openforum.com.au/chinas-third-revolution/ Mon, 03 Aug 2020 23:41:20 +0000 https://www.openforum.com.au/?p=29092 On the brink of a new cold war, China has more instruments of power than it has ever had, but its challenges and missteps mean that the world’s democratic countries still have the upper hand - at least for the moment.

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