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Bobo
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Former Associate Research Fellow, Russia/Eurasia Center, Ifri

Research Areas:

  • Russian and Chinese foreign policy

Bobo LO is an independent analyst. He is a former Associate Research Fellow at the Russia/Eurasia Center at Ifri.

Prior to that, he was previously director of the Russia and China programme, Centre for European Reform; Head of the Russia/Eurasia Center, Chatham House; Deputy Head of Mission at the Australian Embassy in Moscow. He has a MA from Oxford and a PhD from Melbourne University.

Dr. Lo writes extensively on Russian foreign policy. His most recent book, A Wary Embrace: What the China-Russia Relationship Means for the World, was published by Penguin Random House Australia in 2017. His book Russia and the New World Disorder (Brookings and Chatham House, 2015) has been described by The Economist as "the best attempt yet to explain Russia's unfortunate relationship with the rest of the world." Other publications by Bobo Lo include Axis of Convenience: Moscow, Beijing and the New Geopolitics (Brookings and Chatham House, 2008), Vladimir Putin and the Evolution of Russian Foreign Policy (Blackwell and Chatham House, 2003), and Russian Foreign Policy in the Post-Soviet Era: Reality, Illusion and Mythmaking (Palgrave, 2002). These more recent short writings include "Global Order in the Shadow of the Coronavirus: China, Russia and the West," Lowy Institute Analysis, July 2020; "The Return: Russia and the Security Landscape of Northeast Asia", Russie.NEI.Reports, Ifri, March 2020; "Once More with Feeling: Russia and the Asia-Pacific", Lowy Analysis, August 2019; "Greater Eurasia: the Emperor's new clothes or an idea whose time has come?", Russie.NEI.Reports, July 2019; "The five secrets to the Russian president's success", Australian Financial Review, 6 February 2019 and "Going Legit? The Foreign Policy of Vladimir Putin", Lowy Analysis, September 2018.

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Between Aspiration and Reality: Russia in the World (Dis)order

17 June 2024

The world has rarely seemed more disorderly than it is today. But in this anarchic environment, some things are constant. 

Bobo LO
Studies

The Sino-Russian Partnership: Assumptions, Myths and Realities

02 March 2023

When Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin announced a “no limits friendship” at their February 2022 summit, the message was that Beijing and Moscow had reached a new peak in relations.

Bobo LO
Studies

Rewinding the Clock? US-Russia Relations in the Biden Era

03 February 2022

The escalating crisis in Ukraine in the winter of 2021-2022 has returned US-Russia relations to center stage.

Bobo LO
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The Adaptation Game — Russia and Climate Change

05 March 2021

Russia is an outlier in the international consensus on climate change.

Bobo LO

Global Order in the Shadow of the Coronavirus: China, Russia and the West

29 July 2020

The coronavirus pandemic has thrown a harsh spotlight on the state of global governance. Faced with the greatest emergency since the Second World War, nations have regressed into narrow self-interest. The concept of a rules-based international order has been stripped of meaning, while liberalism faces its greatest crisis in decades.

Bobo LO
Studies

The Return: Russia and the Security Landscape of Northeast Asia

31 March 2020

Northeast Asia has emerged as a critical theater of Russian foreign policy in recent years.

Moscow’s historical Westerncentrism is giving way to a new awareness about the vital importance of the region. The “turn to the East” now has genuine substance and impetus. Yet Russian policy is a work in progress, more opportunistic than strategic. The security landscape is complex and fluid, and Moscow has struggled to manage its contradictions.

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Chutzpah and Realism: Vladimir Putin and the Making of Russian Foreign Policy

13 June 2018

In the course of his presidency, Vladimir Putin has presided over a remarkable expansion of Russian foreign policy.

Bobo LO
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New Order for Old Triangles? The Russia-China-India Matrix

30 March 2017

As the US-led international system struggles under the strain of multiple challenges, the complex web of relations between Russia, China, and India will be critical to the formation of a new world order.

Bobo LO
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The Illusion of Convergence—Russia, China, and the BRICS

16 March 2016

The discussion about the BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa) opposes two narratives. The first considers they play an increasing role in the international relations as the West is loosing power; the other sees the BRICS as a charade. But the key role played by the interaction between Russia and China is an evidence shared by most experts.

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Frontiers New and Old: Russia’s Policy in Central Asia

06 January 2015

For much of the post-Soviet period, Central Asia has been a backwater of Russian foreign policy. But things are changing. Circumstances in and beyond the region are driving a more committed approach in Moscow. 

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