Dr Bobo Lo
Bobo Lo is an independent international relations analyst and a Non-Resident Fellow at the Lowy Institute, Sydney. He was formerly Head of the Russia and Eurasia Programme at Chatham House, and Deputy Head of Mission at the Australian Embassy in Moscow. Past positions and associations have included Director of the China and Russia Programmes at the Centre for European Reform (CER) in London; Associate Research Fellow at the French Institute of International Relations (IFRI); and Senior Fellow at the Center for European Policy Analysis (CEPA) in Washington DC.
Dr Lo has written a number of books, including Axis of Convenience: Moscow, Beijing, and the New Geopolitics (2008) and Russia and the New World Disorder, which was short-listed for the 2016 Pushkin House Prize. His latest book is The Disorderly Society: Rethinking Global Governance in an Age of Anarchy, which came out in November 2025. Shorter writings include: ‘Convergence and divergence: China-Russia relations in the age of Trump’ (July 2025), ‘Gaza and reimagining international order’ (November 2023), and ‘The Ukraine effect: demise or rebirth of the global order?’ (May 2023).
Bobo Lo has an MA from Oxford and a PhD from Melbourne University.
Listen to Dominic Bowen and Dr Lo unpack why today’s international system is defined less by an emerging new order than by growing disorder, and read our analysis on how weakening institutions, fragmented power, and declining trust are reshaping global governance and international risk.
