
Overview
Background
I am a political economist with diverse research interests, with a particular interest in the evolving nature of statehood and political agency. My work focuses on Asia and the Pacific. I have written on rising powers (specifically China), global health politics, security governance, statebuilding, non-traditional security, global and regional governance, and Australian development and foreign policy. I have been awarded an Australian Research Council Future Fellowship (2021-26) to examine emerging competition over international development financing projects in Asia and the Pacific. I am a Research Fellow of the Second Cold War Observatory.
My most recent books are The Locked-Up Country: Learning the Lessons from Australia's COVID-19 Response (UQP, 2023), co-authored with Dr Tom Chodor, and Fractured China: How State Transformation is Shaping China's Rise (Cambridge University Press, 2021), co-authored with Prof Lee Jones. My other books include International Intervention and Local Politics (Cambridge University, 2017), Governing Borderless Threats: Non-Traditional Security and the Politics of State Transformation (Cambridge University Press, 2015), and Regulating Statehood (Palgrave Macmillan, 2010). I am also co-editor of the all-new fourth edition of The Political Economy of Southeast Asia: Poliltics and Uneven Development Under Hyperglobalisation (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020). I received my PhD from the Asia Research Centre, Murdoch University in 2009. I tweet @ShaharHameiri.
Availability
- Professor Shahar Hameiri is:
- Available for supervision
- Media expert
Qualifications
- Bachelor of Arts, Murdoch University
- Bachelor (Honours), Murdoch University
- Doctor of Philosophy, Murdoch University
Research interests
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Security governance, with a focus on the Asia Pacific
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Rising Powers
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Non-traditional security
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State transformation and new modes of governance
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Statebuilding and peacebuilding interventions
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The politics of risk management
Research impacts
I have been a regular contributor to the print, broadcast and electronic media in areas relating to my expertise.
I have also co-authored policy papers, most recently with Dr Lee Jones for Chatham House, debunking the myth that China startegically ensnares recipients of its development financing in a 'debt-trap' to enhance China's geopolitical objectives.
Works
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Featured
2024
Journal Article
China, international competition and the stalemate in sovereign debt restructuring: beyond geopolitics
Hameiri, Shahar and Jones, Lee (2024). China, international competition and the stalemate in sovereign debt restructuring: beyond geopolitics. International Affairs, 100 (2), 691-710. doi: 10.1093/ia/iiae017
Featured
2023
Journal Article
Why the West’s alternative to China’s international infrastructure financing is failing
Hameiri, Shahar and Jones, Lee (2023). Why the West’s alternative to China’s international infrastructure financing is failing. European Journal of International Relations, 30 (3), 697-724. doi: 10.1177/13540661231218573
Featured
2023
Book
The locked-up country: learning the lessons from Australia's COVID-19 response
Chodor, Tom and Hameiri, Shahar (2023). The locked-up country: learning the lessons from Australia's COVID-19 response. Saint Lucia, QLD, Australia: University of Queensland Press.
Featured
2021
Book
Fractured China: how state transformation is shaping China's rise
Jones, Lee and Hameiri, Shahar (2021). Fractured China: how state transformation is shaping China's rise. Cambridge, United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press. doi: 10.1017/9781009047487
2024
Book Chapter
Australian Foreign Policy and the New International Disorder
Beeson, Mark and Hameiri, Shahar (2024). Australian Foreign Policy and the New International Disorder. Australia in World Affairs 2011–2015. (pp. 3-20) Cambridge, United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press. doi: 10.1017/9781009458559.004
2023
Book Chapter
Heterarchy and state transformation
Jones, Lee and Hameiri, Shahar (2023). Heterarchy and state transformation. Heterarchy in world politics. (pp. 67-79) edited by Philip G. Cerny. Abingdon, Oxon, United Kingdom: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9781003352617-7
2022
Journal Article
Explaining the failure of global health governance during COVID-19
Jones, Lee and Hameiri, Shahar (2022). Explaining the failure of global health governance during COVID-19. International Affairs, 98 (6), 2057-2076. doi: 10.1093/ia/iiac231
2022
Journal Article
COVID-19 and the pathologies of Australia’s regulatory state
Chodor, Tom and Hameiri, Shahar (2022). COVID-19 and the pathologies of Australia’s regulatory state. Journal of Contemporary Asia, 53 (1), 1-25. doi: 10.1080/00472336.2022.2106883
2022
Journal Article
For a progressive realism: Australian foreign policy in the 21st century
Bisley, Nick, Eckersley, Robyn, Hameiri, Shahar, Kirk, Jessica, Lawson, George and Zala, Benjamin (2022). For a progressive realism: Australian foreign policy in the 21st century. Australian Journal of International Affairs, 76 (2), 1-23. doi: 10.1080/10357718.2022.2051428
2022
Book Chapter
Globalization, state transformation and global governance
Hameiri, Shahar and Jones, Lee (2022). Globalization, state transformation and global governance. Handbook on governance and development. (pp. 64-77) edited by Wil Hout and Jane Hutchison. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar Publishing. doi: 10.4337/9781789908756.00014
2021
Journal Article
COVID-19 and the failure of the neoliberal regulatory state
Jones, Lee and Hameiri, Shahar (2021). COVID-19 and the failure of the neoliberal regulatory state. Review of International Political Economy, 29 (4), 1-25. doi: 10.1080/09692290.2021.1892798
2021
Journal Article
COVID-19: is this the end of globalization?
Hameiri, Shahar (2021). COVID-19: is this the end of globalization?. International Journal, 76 (1), 30-41. doi: 10.1177/0020702020985325
2020
Book Chapter
Southeast Asian regional governance: political economy, regulatory regionalism and ASEAN integration
Jones, Lee and Hameiri, Shahar (2020). Southeast Asian regional governance: political economy, regulatory regionalism and ASEAN integration. The political economy of Southeast Asia: politics and uneven development under hyperglobalisation. (pp. 199-224) edited by Toby Carroll, Shahar Hameiri and Lee Jones. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan. doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-28255-4_8
2020
Book Chapter
Theorising political economy in Southeast Asia
Hameiri, Shahar and Jones, Lee (2020). Theorising political economy in Southeast Asia. The political economy of Southeast Asia: politics and uneven development under hyperglobalisation. (pp. 3-34) edited by Toby Carroll, Shahar Hameiri and Lee Jones. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan. doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-28255-4_1
2020
Book
The political economy of Southeast Asia: politics and uneven development under hyperglobalisation
Toby Carroll, Shahar Hameiri and Lee Jones eds. (2020). The political economy of Southeast Asia: politics and uneven development under hyperglobalisation. Studies in the Political Economy of Public Policy, Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan. doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-28255-4
2019
Journal Article
Institutionalism beyond methodological nationalism? The new interdependence approach and the limits of historical institutionalism
Hameiri, Shahar (2019). Institutionalism beyond methodological nationalism? The new interdependence approach and the limits of historical institutionalism. Review of International Political Economy, 27 (3), 1-21. doi: 10.1080/09692290.2019.1675742
2019
Journal Article
Reframing the rising powers debate: state transformation and foreign policy
Hameiri, Shahar, Jones, Lee and Heathershaw, John (2019). Reframing the rising powers debate: state transformation and foreign policy. Third World Quarterly, 40 (8), 1-18. doi: 10.1080/01436597.2019.1594182
2019
Journal Article
State transformation and China's engagement in global governance: the case of nuclear technologies
Hameiri, Shahar and Zeng, Jinghan (2019). State transformation and China's engagement in global governance: the case of nuclear technologies. Pacific Review, 33 (6), 900-930. doi: 10.1080/09512748.2019.1613441
2019
Book Chapter
International statebuilding interventions and the politics of scale
Hameiri, Shahar and Scarpello, Fabio (2019). International statebuilding interventions and the politics of scale. Handbook on intervention and statebuilding. (pp. 61-70) edited by Nicolas Lemay-Hebert. Cheltenham, United Kingdom: Edward Elgar. doi: 10.4337/9781788116237.00013
2018
Journal Article
Security governance and the politics of state transformation: moving from description to explanation
Hameiri, Shahar, Jones, Lee and Sandor, Adam (2018). Security governance and the politics of state transformation: moving from description to explanation. Journal of Global Security Studies, 3 (4), 463-482. doi: 10.1093/jogss/ogy024
Supervision
Availability
- Professor Shahar Hameiri is:
- Available for supervision
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Available projects
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The Politics of Development Financing Competition in Asia and the Pacific
Project description
Expressions of interest are sought from applicants interested in examining how states and their societies are responding to emerging competition between the US and its allies and China in Asia and the Pacific. Country case-studies, as well as regionally or thematically focused studies are all welcome.
Research environment
The School of Political Science and International Studies has an outstanding global reputation for research and teaching in the discipline. Our Graduate Centre is home to a thriving research community. We have over 50 PhD candidates working on a range of research projects.
PhD students in our School Graduate Centre receive a number of benefits including:
1. Postgraduate workshops and dedicated training 2. A thriving research culture in one of the world's best schools in the discipline 3. The resources you need to complete your studies, including work station, desktop computer, and research funding.
Supervision history
Current supervision
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Doctor Philosophy
The Politics of Government-Linked Companies in Malaysia
Principal Advisor
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Doctor Philosophy
The Politics of Investment De-Risking in Indonesia
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Dr Melissa Johnston
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Doctor Philosophy
PLANNING AND BUDGETING REFORM IN INDONESIA: GOVERNANCE, REGULATIONS, AND INSTITUTIONAL ARRANGEMENT
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Dr Melissa Johnston
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Doctor Philosophy
The Political Economy of Market-oriented Healthcare Reform in State-Socialist Asia: State, Interests, and Ideology
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Dr Adam Hannah
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Doctor Philosophy
Countering China? Reactions to Chinese Geostrategy in India, Japan, and South Korea
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Associate Professor Sarah Percy
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Doctor Philosophy
Matrilineal Societies in the Borderlands
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Dr Melissa Johnston
Completed supervision
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2020
Doctor Philosophy
Southeast Asian Regional Governance and the Domestic Politics of Portfolio Investment Liberalization: The Case of Indonesia
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Associate Professor Melissa Curley
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2024
Doctor Philosophy
The Politics of Central Bank Approaches to Climate Change in East Asia and the West
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Associate Professor Ryan Walter
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2024
Doctor Philosophy
Chinese peacebuilding practice in Myanmar
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Professor Alexander Bellamy, Dr Sarah Teitt
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2022
Doctor Philosophy
China's Rising Influence in Cambodia: Local Contestation and State Responses
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Associate Professor Melissa Curley
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2022
Doctor Philosophy
`Nation as Village': Historicising the Authoritarian Populist Regime of Mahinda Rajapaksa in Sri Lanka
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Associate Professor Heloise Weber
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2020
Doctor Philosophy
Security as Politics: the US Securitisation of the 2013-2016 Ebola Outbreak
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Professor Matt McDonald
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2019
Doctor Philosophy
Contesting legitimacy: terrorist organisations and legitimacy-seeking behaviours
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Professor Andrew Phillips, Professor Tim Dunne
Media
Enquiries
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- Asian security
- australian foreign policy
- development
- global governance
- politics of COVID-19
- regional politics in the Asia-Pacific
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