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Professor Shahar Hameiri

Professor

School of Political Science and International Studies
Faculty of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences
s.hameiri@uq.edu.au
+61 7 344 31324

Overview

I am a political economist with diverse research interests, traversing the fields of security, development and aid, governance, political geography and international relations. I am particularly interested in understanding the evolving nature of statehood and political agency under conditions of globalisation. My work focuses on Asia and the Pacific. I have written extensively on rising powers (specifically China), security governance, statebuilding, non-traditional security, risk and risk management, regional governance and Australian development and security policy. I was recently awarded an Australian Research Council Future Fellowship (2021-25) to examine emerging competition over international development financing projects in Asia and the Pacific. My latest book, co-authored with Dr Lee Jones, is Fractured China: How State Transformation is Shaping China's Rise, out in 2021 with Cambridge University Press. 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.

Research Interests

  • Security governance, with a focus on the Asia Pacific
  • Rising Powers
  • Non-traditional security
  • State transformation and new modes of governance
  • Statebuilding and peacebuilding interventions
  • 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.

Qualifications

  • Bachelor of Arts, Murdoch University
  • Bachelor of Arts with Honours, Murdoch University
  • Doctor of Philosophy, Murdoch University

Publications

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Grants

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Supervision

  • The Political Economy of Market-oriented Healthcare Reform in State-Socialist Asia: State, Interests, and Ideology

    Doctor Philosophy

  • The Politics of Investment De-Risking in Indonesia

    Doctor Philosophy

  • Countering China? Reactions to Chinese Geostrategy in India, Japan, and South Korea

    Doctor Philosophy

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Publications

Featured Publications

Book

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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • Against hybridity in the study of peacebuilding and statebuilding

    Hameiri, Shahar and Jones, Lee (2018). Against hybridity in the study of peacebuilding and statebuilding. Hybridity on the ground in peacebuilding and development: critical conversations. (pp. 99-112) edited by Joanne Wallis, Lia Kent, Miranda Forsyth , Sinclair Dinnen and Srinjoy Bose. Acton, ACT, Australia: ANU Press. doi: 10.22459/hgpd.03.2018.06

  • Australian foreign policy and the new world disorder

    Beeson, Mark and Hameiri, Shahar (2016). Australian foreign policy and the new world disorder. Navigating the new international disorder: Australia in world affairs 2011-15. (pp. 1-18) edited by Mark Beeson and Shahar Hameiri. Melbourne, Australia: Oxford University Press.

  • State-building and primitive accumulation in Solomon Islands: the unintended consequences of risk mitigation at the frontiers of global capitalist expansion

    Hameiri, Shahar (2014). State-building and primitive accumulation in Solomon Islands: the unintended consequences of risk mitigation at the frontiers of global capitalist expansion. The politics of marketising Asia. (pp. 101-117) edited by Toby Carroll and Darryl S. L. Jarvis. Basingstoke, United Kingdom: Palgrave Macmillan. doi: 10.1057/9781137001672_5

  • Regulatory statebuilding and the transformation of the state

    Hameiri, Shahar (2013). Regulatory statebuilding and the transformation of the state. Routledge handbook of international statebuilding. (pp. 52-63) edited by David Chandler and Timothy D. Sisk. Abingdon, United Kingdom: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9780203370377.ch5

  • Regulatory regionalism in Asia

    Hameiri, Shahar and Jayasuriya, Kanishka (2012). Regulatory regionalism in Asia. Routledge handbook of Asian regionalism. (pp. 177-185) Abingdon, Oxon, United States: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9780203803608.ch14

  • A reality check for the critique of the liberal peace

    Hameiri, Shahar (2011). A reality check for the critique of the liberal peace. A liberal peace? The problems and practices of peacebuilding. (pp. 191-208) edited by Susanna Campbell, David Chandler and Meera Sabaratnam. London, United Kingdom: Zed Books.

Journal Article

Edited Outputs

PhD and MPhil Supervision

Current Supervision

  • The Political Economy of Market-oriented Healthcare Reform in State-Socialist Asia: State, Interests, and Ideology

    Doctor Philosophy — Principal Advisor

    Other advisors:

  • The Politics of Investment De-Risking in Indonesia

    Doctor Philosophy — Principal Advisor

    Other advisors:

  • Countering China? Reactions to Chinese Geostrategy in India, Japan, and South Korea

    Doctor Philosophy — Principal Advisor

    Other advisors:

  • PLANNING AND BUDGETING REFORM IN INDONESIA: GOVERNANCE, REGULATIONS, AND INSTITUTIONAL ARRANGEMENT

    Doctor Philosophy — Principal Advisor

    Other advisors:

  • The Politics of Government-Linked Companies in Malaysia

    Doctor Philosophy — Principal Advisor

  • The Politics of Central Bank Approaches to Climate Change in East Asia and the West

    Doctor Philosophy — Associate Advisor

    Other advisors:

  • Chinese peacebuilding practice in Myanmar

    Doctor Philosophy — Associate Advisor

    Other advisors:

  • Matrilineal Societies in the Borderlands

    Doctor Philosophy — Associate Advisor

    Other advisors:

Completed Supervision

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Asian security, development, australian foreign policy, global governance, regional politics in the Asia-Pacific, politics of COVID-19

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