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COVIDcast: Hugh White on Coronavirus and Asia’s power balance

In this episode of COVIDcast, Sam Roggeveen, Lowy Institute’s Director of the International Security Program, sat down with Professor Hugh White to discuss the connection between the pandemic and the changing balance of power in Asia.

By Sam Roggeveen

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The Director’s Chair: Rory Stewart on the adventures and disappointments of modern politics

In this episode of The Director’s Chair, Michael Fullilove speaks with former diplomat, traveller, author and politician, Rory Stewart, a man whose life so far has been both conventional and highly unconventional

By Michael Fullilove

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COVIDcast: Foreign Minister Joseph Wu on Taiwan’s place in the world

In this episode of COVIDcast, Natasha Kassam, Research Fellow at the Lowy Institute, sat down with Taiwan’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, Dr Joseph Wu

By Natasha Kassam

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COVIDcast: Xi Jinping and COVID-19

COVIDcast is a Lowy Institute pop-up podcast for anyone interested in understanding the effect of coronavirus on global politics. Each week for the next few weeks, Lowy Institute experts will sit down to discuss the implications of coronavirus for the world. In this episode of COVIDcast, Richard

By Richard McGregor

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The Director’s Chair: Dennis Richardson on Australian politics and foreign policy, the United States and China

In this episode of The Director’s Chair, Michael Fullilove speaks with legendary Australian official Dennis Richardson

By Michael Fullilove

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COVIDcast: Adam Tooze on a world economy in flux

Roland Rajah, Lowy Institute lead economist, sits down with Adam Tooze, Professor of History at Columbia University and the Director of its European Institute, to discuss how the COVID-19 economic crisis is evolving and reshaping the world economy

By Roland Rajah

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COVIDcast: Secretary General Meg Taylor on COVID in the Pacific Islands

In this episode Jonathan Pryke, Director of the Lowy Institute’s Pacific Islands Program, sits down with Dame Meg Taylor, Secretary General of the Pacific Islands Forum Secretariat, to discuss how COVID-19 is affecting health, economics, local communities, climate change, regionalism and

By Jonathan Pryke

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The Director's Chair: David Miliband on British politics and COVID-19 in humanitarian crises

In this episode of The Director's Chair, Michael Fullilove speaks with former British Foreign Secretary, David Miliband

By Michael Fullilove

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COVIDcast: Emerging markets, the pandemic, and the role of the US dollar

Roland Rajah, Director of the International Economy Program, sits down with Brad Setser, Senior Fellow for International Economics, Council on Foreign Relations, to discuss the impact of the pandemic on emerging markets and the role of the US dollar

By Roland Rajah

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COVIDcast Episode 11: Dave Sharma MP on COVID and Australia’s Pacific Relationship

In Episode 11, Jonathan Pryke, Director of the Pacific Islands Program sits down with Dave Sharma, Liberal member for the federal seat of Wentworth, NSW, to discuss strengthening ties between Australia and the Pacific, and a potential Pacific travel bubble

By Jonathan Pryke, Dave Sharma

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The Director’s Chair Ep3: Enrico Letta on global leadership, COVID-19, and the European project

In the third episode of The Director's Chair, Michael Fullilove speaks with former Italian Prime Minister, Enrico Letta, about running a major European power, his relationship with world leaders, global governance during COVID-19, and the future of the European project

By Michael Fullilove

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COVIDcast Episode 10: Sen. Penny Wong on Australia's role in the post COVID-19 world

In Episode 10, Hervé Lemahieu, Director of the Asian Power and Diplomacy Program, sits down with Senator Penny Wong, Shadow Minister for Foreign Affairs and Leader of the Opposition in the Senate, to discuss Australia’s role in shaping the post COVID-19 world

By Hervé Lemahieu , Penny Wong

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COVIDcast Episode 9: COVID-19 and the oil price collapse

In COVIDcast Episode 9, Roland Rajah, Director, International Economy Program, sits down with Rachel Ziemba, Adjunct Senior Fellow at the Center for a New American Security, and Rodger Shanahan, Research Fellow, West Asia Program, to discuss the implications of the recent oil price collapse

By Roland Rajah, Rodger Shanahan, Rachel Ziemba

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The Director’s Chair Ep2: Lord Mervyn King on COVID-19, radical uncertainty and economic forecasting

In the second episode of The Director's Chair, Michael Fullilove speaks with Lord Mervyn King about COVID-19, global economic downturn, the UK's response to the virus, Brexit, and what Lord King terms the 'radical uncertainty' of economic forecasting during a global crisis

By Michael Fullilove

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COVIDcast Episode 8: COVID-19 and the World Health Organization

COVIDcast is a Lowy Institute pop-up podcast for anyone interested in understanding the effect of coronavirus on global politics. In Episode 8, Natasha Kassam, the Institute's Research Fellow in the Diplomacy and Public Opinion Program, sits down with Joel Negin to discuss the current pressures

By Natasha Kassam, Joel Negin

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COVIDcast Episode 7: COVID-19 and the International Economy

COVIDcast is a Lowy Institute pop-up podcast for anyone interested in understanding the effect of coronavirus on global politics. In Episode 7, Roland Rajah sits down with the Institute's Director of Research, Alex Oliver, to discuss the impact of the coronavirus on the global economy.

By Alex Oliver, Roland Rajah

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The Director’s Chair Ep. 1: Susan Glasser and Peter Baker on COVID-19, America and Trump

In the first episode of The Director's Chair, a new Lowy Institute podcast, Michael Fullilove speaks with Susan Glasser of The New Yorker and Peter Baker of The New York Times about COVID-19, the Trump administration and America

By Michael Fullilove

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COVIDcast Episode 6: Geopolitics and the coronavirus pandemic

By Hervé Lemahieu , Ben Bland

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COVIDcast Episode 5: Pandemic in the Pacific

By Alex Oliver, Jonathan Pryke, Shane McLeod

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COVIDcast Episode 4: Crisis looms in Southeast Asia

By Michael Fullilove, Ben Bland

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COVIDcast Episode 3: the China story

By Alex Oliver, Richard McGregor

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COVIDcast Episode 2: virus is declared a pandemic

By Michael Fullilove, Hervé Lemahieu , Alex Oliver, Roland Rajah

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COVIDcast - Episode 1: The global response to the coronavirus

By Michael Fullilove, Richard McGregor, Ben Bland, Natasha Kassam

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Exporting Digital Authoritarianism, with Alina Polyakova

Episode 16 of Rules Based Audio explores the use of digital technology by authoritarian regimes to monitor, manipulate and control both domestic and foreign populations

By Kelsey Munro

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Renting influence: China in the Pacific, with Jonathan Pryke and Dan McGarry

Episode 15 of Rules Based Audio takes a look at China's interests, influence and intentions in the Pacific. Reports of a planned Chinese naval base in Vanuatu in 2018 helped focus policy makers’ attention on China’s strategic intentions and economic influence in the island nations of the south

By Kelsey Munro

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Globalisation's Next Wave: The Jobs Apocalypse

Episode 14: The mass commercialisation of artificial intelligence, machine learning technologies and automation, combined with outsourcing to lower income countries is about to cause massive upheavals and hundreds of millions of job losses in developed economies, according to my guest this episode

By Kelsey Munro

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October in Syria: The US withdrawal and the death of al-Baghdadi, with Rodger Shanahan

Episode 13: 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 in Syria. Are the two events linked? US President Trump’s decision to withdraw US forces from northeast Syria, abandoning the Kurds

By Kelsey Munro

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Agent of Instability: Trump’s America, with Ambassador Nicholas Burns

Episode 12: 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 of US alliances in great power competition with China, and also why he rejects former US Defense Secretary Robert Gates’ pointed

By Kelsey Munro

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Belt and Road - The Next Phase, with Nadege Rolland and Wang Yiwei

Episode 11: The next phase of China's massive Belt and Road Initiative is shifting emphasis after foreign criticism about debt-trap diplomacy, and concerns about corruption, local impacts and environmental issues. Less talk about grand infrastructure projects like ports and rail; more about ‘soft

By Kelsey Munro

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Socialist paradise: The new North Korea under Kim Jong-un, with Anna Fifield

Episode 10. 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-un has permitted strategic changes to the economy of the isolated country, even as he keeps an iron grip on politics and citizens' freedoms

By Kelsey Munro

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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 how President Vladimir Putin has successfully dominated Russian politics for two decades; and then former Moscow-based diplomat and veteran analyst

By Kelsey Munro

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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 the dramatic and fractious political moment we are living in; and discusses how disruptive populists like Duterte and Trump may be the new normal for

By Kelsey Munro

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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 Kong, and where it might end. The semi-autonomous Chinese territory is being squeezed by an increasingly authoritarian Beijing, putting pressure

By Kelsey Munro

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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", in Menzies' famous phrase, looking quite as close or reliable as they once did? Lowy Institute Executive Director Dr Michael Fullilove analyses the

By Kelsey Munro

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Xi Jinping - the Backlash, with Richard McGregor

In Episode 5 of Rules Based Audio, Lowy Senior Fellow Richard McGregor discusses the domestic and international reaction to Xi’s centralisation of political control and assertion of Chinese power on the world stage. Xi has removed his own term limits, cracked down on dissidents and purged the

By Kelsey Munro

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The Octagon of Power - Unpacking the Asia Power Index

In Episode 4 of Rules Based Audio, 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 the lead researchers on the Lowy Institute's Asia Power Index, Herve Lemahieu and Bonnie Bley, about the implications

By Kelsey Munro

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The Propaganda Department - Media, censorship and politics in China, with Chris Buckley

'The Propaganda Department' is a story in two parts about media, censorship and politics in China; with guests Chris Buckley from the New York Times’ Beijing bureau, and James Griffiths from CNN Hong Kong

By Kelsey Munro

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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 caliphate. Rules Based Audio is a fortnightly podcast, hosted by Kelsey Munro and powered by the Lowy Institute, for anyone interested in making sense of a

By Kelsey Munro

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The New Normal – the future of US China relations with David Shambaugh

In the first episode of Rules Based Audio, powered by the Lowy Institute, host Kelsey Munro talks to Professor David Shambaugh from George Washington University about the shift to full-spectrum competition between the US and China, and what it means for the rest of the world

By Kelsey Munro

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