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Rules Based Audio
Welcome to Rules Based Audio, a Lowy Institute podcast. In this series we explore the rules based order, a concept that is ever more prominent in debates about how the world works and how it should work.
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Ali Wyne on great power competition, the United States and China
What does great power competition mean, and where did the concept come from? In this episode of Rules Based Audio, Ben Scott speaks to author and anal...

AUKUS – Are Australian nuclear submarines a dangerous precedent?
Ben Scott talks to Maria Rost Rublee, an Associate Professor of Politics & International Relations at Monash University, and Alan Kuperman, an Associa...

The scramble for information control over Africa
There has been increasing concern that Russia and China are using state-owned media companies, social media campaigns and proxy actors to manipulate p...

What are we getting wrong about online manipulation?
In this episode of Rules Based Audio, Sasha Fegan talks to Carl Miller about online manipulation, disinformation, misinformation and inauthentic behav...

Ukraine and the future of the Rules Based Order
Ben Scott discusses the war in Ukraine and international law with Professor Fleur Johns and Dr Eve Massingham. They talk about the laws of war, econom...

Mick Ryan on Russian military strategy in Ukraine
The Russian invasion of Ukraine continues to surprise Western analysts, many of whom thought President Vladimir Putin’s incendiary rhetoric and troop...

In Conversation with Hilary Charlesworth
Ben Scott talks to Professor Hilary Charlesworth. Professor Charlesworth is a distinguished international lawyer who has been nominated for election t...

In Conversation with Shirley Scott
In this episode of Rules Based Audio, Ben Scott talks to Professor Shirley Scott, Professor of International Law and International Relations at UNSW,...

In Conversation with John Ikenberry
In an increasingly contested world, basic questions about how the world works, and how it should work, are being asked anew. In Rules Based Audio we w...

Exporting Digital Authoritarianism, with Alina Polyakova
Digital authoritarianism is the use of digital technology by authoritarian regimes to monitor, manipulate and control both domestic and foreign popula...

Renting influence: China in the Pacific, with Jonathan Pryke and Dan McGarry
Rules Based Audio takes a look at China's interests, influence and intentions in the Pacific.
Reports of a planned Chinese naval base in...

Globalisation's Next Wave: The Jobs Apocalypse
The mass commercialisation of artificial intelligence, machine learning technologies and automation, combined with outsourcing to lower income countri...

October in Syria: The US withdrawal and the death of al-Baghdadi, with Rodger Shanahan
Dr Rodger Shanahan unpacks the implications of the US withdrawal from Syria and the death of Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi in October 2019...

Agent of Instability: Trump’s America, with Ambassador Nicholas Burns
Former US Ambassador to NATO Nicholas Burns talks about the instability of US foreign policy under Trump and how to recover from it, the significance...

Belt and Road - The Next Phase, with Nadege Rolland and Wang Yiwei
The next phase of China's massive Belt and Road Initiative is shifting emphasis after foreign criticism about debt-trap diplomacy, and concerns about...

Socialist paradise: The new North Korea under Kim Jong-un, with Anna Fifield
The Washington Post Beijing bureau chief and author Anna Fifield talks with host Kelsey Munro about life and politics in North Korea today. Kim Jong-u...

Kremlinology: What does Russia want? with Yevgenia Albats and Bobo Lo
What does Russia want in the world? The dissident Russian journalist and academic Yevgenia Albats talks to Rules Based Audio host Kelsey Munro about h...

Democracy and Disinformation - lessons from the Philippines with Nicole Curato
Was the Philippines Patient Zero of the disinformation era? Democracy expert Dr Nicole Curato unpacks the role networked disinformation has played in...

Protest City: The battle for Hong Kong with Ben Bland and Primrose Riordan
Lowy Institute Research Fellow Ben Bland and Financial Times journalist Primrose Riordan talk about the roots of the ongoing political unrest in Hong...

Australia's great and powerful friends with Michael Fullilove
With a Brexit-obsessed new Prime Minister in the UK and an unpredictable President in the White House, are Australia's "great and powerful friends", i...

Xi Jinping - the Backlash, with Richard McGregor
Lowy Senior Fellow Richard McGregor discusses the domestic and international reaction to Xi’s centralisation of political control and assertion of Chi...

The Octagon of Power - Unpacking the Asia Power Index
We're talking power in the Asia Pacific. Who's got it, who's losing it, and who's using what they've got in the smartest way? Kelsey Munro talks to th...

The Propaganda Department - Media, censorship and politics in China, with Chris Buckley
Our guests are New York Times Beijing correspondent Chris Buckley, and James Griffiths from CNN Hong Kong. Chris Buckley discusses what it's like cove...

The Terrorist's Wife: The Role of Women and Children in Jihad, with Lydia Khalil
Counterterrorism expert Lydia Khalil discusses women who join violent Islamist groups; and the unprecedented role of women in the Islamic State caliph...

The New Normal - The Future of US-China relations with David Shambaugh
In the first episode of Rules Based Audio, Kelsey Munro talks to Professor David Shambaugh from George Washington University about the shift to full-s...