26. Australian responses to a changing world - with Nick Bisley

Australia faces an international environment unlike any it has faced since becoming an independent foreign policy player in the 1940s. The economic and political rise of China, uncertainty about US leadership and power, and concerns regarding the sustainability of existing institutions have resulted in a sense of anxiety. Have Australia’s responses to the changing world order been effective? Is it possible for these changes to be turned into opportunities? What are the dominant discourses on Australia’s foreign policy orientation? Nick Bisley, head of Humanities and Social Sciences and Professor of International Relations at La Trobe University, joins Simone van Nieuwenhuizen, researcher at the Australia-China Relations Institute (ACRI) at the University of Technology Sydney to discuss how Australian policymakers and scholars are responding to the changing world order.