Rules Based Audio Podcast
1) Exporting Digital Authoritarianism, with Alina Polyakova
Episode 16 - Digital authoritarianism is the use of digital technology by authoritarian regimes to monitor, manipulate and control both domestic and foreign populations. China and Russia are at the fo...Show More
2) 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’ atte...Show More
Renting influence: China in the Pacific, with Jonathan Pryke and Dan McGarry
34:59 | Dec 2nd, 2019
3) Globalisation's Next Wave: The Jobs Apocalypse
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 hundred...Show More
4) 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 in Syria. Are the two events linked? US Preside...Show More
5) 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 competi...Show More
6) 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 environm...Show More
7) 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 t...Show More
Socialist paradise: The new North Korea under Kim Jong-un, with Anna Fifield
32:44 | Sep 23rd, 2019
8) 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 domin...Show More
9) 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...Show More
Democracy and Disinformation - lessons from the Philippines with Nicole Curato
32:55 | Aug 26th, 2019
10) 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...Show More
Protest City: The battle for Hong Kong with Ben Bland and Primrose Riordan
30:53 | Aug 12th, 2019