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Prénom de l'expert
Bobo
Nom de l'expert
LO

Intitulé du poste

Former Associate Research Fellow, Russia/Eurasia Center, Ifri

Domaine d'expertises En

Research Areas:

  • Russian and Chinese foreign policy
Biographie En

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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Publications

Russia's Eastern Direction - Distinguishing the Real from the Virtual

Date de publication
01 January 2014
Accroche

The Asia-Pacific region has assumed primary importance as a center of global politics and economic dynamism. For Moscow, this development highlights a world in which many long-standing assumptions about international politics are being overturned. It speaks of “global power … shifting to the East,” and of Russia becoming involved in the “dynamic integration processes in the ‘new Asia".” But for all the rhetoric about a “turn to the East”, Russia’s commitment to serious engagement with the Asia-Pacific is uncertain. Its elite retains a strongly Western-centric world-view, even as it criticizes Western shortcomings.

How the Chinese See Russia

Date de publication
09 January 2011
Accroche

This essay examines Chinese attitudes toward Russia as a great power, neighbor, partner and competitor.

Russia, China and the United States: From Strategic Triangularism to the Postmodern Triangle

Date de publication
15 February 2010
Accroche

Over the past decade, there has been much talk about a new world order, in which American "unipolarity" would be superseded by more equal arrangements between the great powers. One such idea is a return to the Russia-China-US triangle. In truth, however, the time for such geopolitical schemes has long passed.

Russia, China and the United States: From Strategic Triangularism to the Postmodern Triangle

Date de publication
01 February 2010
Accroche

Over the past decade, there has been much talk about a new world order, in which American "unipolarity" would be superseded by more equal arrangements between the great powers. One such idea is a return to the Russia-China-US triangle.

A Fine Balance - The Strange Case of Sino-Russian Relations

Date de publication
07 April 2005
Accroche

Russia's relationship with China is complex and contradictory. Bilateral ties are more substantive and multifaceted than ever before, the two countries agree on most regional and international questions, and China is a major customer of Russian arms and energy. However, Moscow is increasingly uneasy about China's transformation as the next global power and the implications of this for Russia's security and place in the world. Balancing delicately between strategic convergence and suspicion, Sino-Russian partnership faces an uncertain future.

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