Professor Shahar Hameiri
Undergraduate and Postgraduate Convenor of International Relations
Professor
School of Political Science and International Studies
+61 7 344 31324
Researcher biography
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.
Books
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.
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
Hameiri, Shahar, Hughes, Caroline and Scarpello, Fabio (2017). International intervention and local politics. Cambridge, United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press. doi: 10.1017/9781108416894
Hameiri, Shahar and Jones, Lee (2015). Governing borderless threats : non-traditional security and the politics of state transformation. Cambridge, United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press. doi: 10.1017/cbo9781316275535
Hameiri, Shahar (2010). Regulating statehood: state building and the transformation of the global order. Basingstoke, United Kingdom: Palgrave Macmillan. doi: 10.1057/9780230282001
Book Chapters
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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.
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
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
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
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 Articles
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
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
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
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
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
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
Hameiri, Shahar (2021). COVID-19: is this the end of globalization?. International Journal, 76 (1), 30-41. doi: 10.1177/0020702020985325
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
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
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
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
Hameiri, Shahar and Jones, Lee (2018). China challenges global governance? Chinese international development finance and the AIIB. International Affairs, 94 (3), 573-593. doi: 10.1093/ia/iiy026
Hameiri, Shahar, Jones, Lee and Yizheng, Zou (2018). The Development-Insecurity Nexus in China’s Near-Abroad: Rethinking Cross-Border Economic Integration in an Era of State Transformation. Journal of Contemporary Asia, 49 (3), 1-27. doi: 10.1080/00472336.2018.1502802
Hameiri, Shahar and Scarpello, Fabio (2018). International development aid and the politics of scale. Review of International Political Economy, 25 (2), 145-168. doi: 10.1080/09692290.2018.1431560
Hameiri, Shahar and Jones, Lee (2017). Beyond hybridity to the politics of scale: international intervention and ‘local’ politics. Development and Change, 48 (1), 54-77. doi: 10.1111/dech.12287
Hameiri, Shahar and Jones, Lee (2016). Global governance as state transformation. Political Studies, 64 (4), 793-810. doi: 10.1111/1467-9248.12225
Hameiri, Shahar and Jones, Lee (2016). Rising powers and state transformation: the case of China. European Journal of International Relations, 22 (1), 72-98. doi: 10.1177/1354066115578952
Hameiri, Shahar and Jones, Lee (2015). Non-traditional security, political economy and state transformation: the case of avian influenza in Indonesia. International Politics, 52 (4), 445-465. doi: 10.1057/ip.2015.6
Hameiri, Shahar and Jones, Lee (2015). Probing the links between political economy and non-traditional security: themes, approaches and instruments. International Politics, 52 (4), 371-388. doi: 10.1057/ip.2015.1
Hameiri, Shahar (2015). China’s “Charm Offensive” in the Pacific and Australia’s Regional Order. The Pacific Review, 28 (5), 631-654. doi: 10.1080/09512748.2015.1012542
Hameiri, Shahar and Jones, Lee (2015). Regulatory regionalism and anti-money laundering governance in Asia. Australian Journal of International Affairs, 69 (2), 144-163. doi: 10.1080/10357718.2014.978737
Hameiri, Shahar and Wilson, Jeffrey (2015). The contested rescaling of economic governance in East Asia. Australian Journal of International Affairs, 69 (2), 115-125. doi: 10.1080/10357718.2014.978742
Hameiri, Shahar (2014). Avian influenza, 'viral Sovereignty', and the politics of health security in Indonesia. The Pacific Review, 27 (3), 333-356. doi: 10.1080/09512748.2014.909523
Hameiri, Shahar (2014). Review of Corruption, culture and politics in the Pacific. Larmour, Peter (2012) Interpreting Corruption: Culture and Politics in the Pacific Islands. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, pp. 188, $49, ISBN: 978-0-8248-3514-9 (cloth). Asia Pacific Viewpoint, 55 (1), 123-124. doi: 10.1111/apv.12036
Hameiri, Shahar (2014). The crisis of liberal peacebuilding and the future of statebuilding. International Politics, 51 (3), 316-333. doi: 10.1057/ip.2014.15
Hameiri, Shahar and Jones, Lee (2013). The politics and governance of non-traditional security. International Studies Quarterly, 57 (3), 462-473. doi: 10.1111/isqu.12014
Hameiri, Shahar (2013). Theorising regions through changes in statehood: rethinking the theory and method of comparative regionalism. Review of International Studies, 39 (2), 313-335. doi: 10.1017/S026021051100074X
Hameiri, Shahar (2012). Mitigating the risk to primitive accumulation: state-building and the logging boom in Solomon Islands. Journal of Contemporary Asia, 42 (3), 405-426. doi: 10.1080/00472336.2012.687629
Hameiri, Shahar (2012). The domestic politics of international hierarchy: Risk management and the reconstitution of international society. International Politics, 49 (1), 59-77. doi: 10.1057/ip.2011.33
Hameiri, Shahar and Kühn, Florian P. (2011). Introduction: risk, risk management and international relations. International Relations, 25 (3), 275-279. doi: 10.1177/0047117811415479
Hameiri, Shahar (2011). State transformation, territorial politics and the management of transnational risk. International Relations, 25 (3), 381-397. doi: 10.1177/0047117811416290
Hameiri, Shahar and Jayasuriya, Kanishka (2011). Regulatory regionalism and the dynamics of territorial politics: the case of the Asia-Pacific Region. Political Studies, 59 (1), 20-37. doi: 10.1111/j.1467-9248.2010.00854.x
Hameiri, Shahar (2009). Governing disorder: the Australian Federal Police and Australia's new regional frontier. The Pacific Review, 22 (5), 549-574. doi: 10.1080/09512740903329707
Hameiri, Shahar (2009). Beyond methodological nationalism, but where to for the study of regional governance?. Australian Journal of International Affairs, 63 (3), 430-441. doi: 10.1080/10357710903104885
Hameiri, Shahar (2009). The region within: RAMSI, the Pacific Plan and new modes of governance in the Southwest Pacific. Australian Journal of International Affairs, 63 (3), 348-360. doi: 10.1080/10357710903104828
Hameiri, Shahar (2009). Capacity and its fallacies: international state building as state transformation. Millennium: Journal of International Studies, 38 (1), 55-81. doi: 10.1177/0305829809335942
Hameiri, Shahar (2009). State building or crisis management? A critical analysis of the social and political implications of the Regional Assistance Mission to Solomon Islands. Third World Quarterly, 30 (1), 35-52. doi: 10.1080/01436590802622276
Hameiri, Shahar (2008). Risk management, neo-liberalism and the securitisation of the Australian aid program. Australian Journal of International Affairs, 62 (3), 357-371. doi: 10.1080/10357710802286817
Carroll, Toby and Hameiri, Shahar (2007). Good governance and security: the limits of Australia’s new aid programme. Journal of Contemporary Asia, 37 (4), 410-430. doi: 10.1080/00472330701546467
Carroll, Toby and Hameiri, Shahar (2007). Why development requires less nuance and more class: a response to Patrick Kilby. Australian Journal of International Affairs, 61 (3), 306-311. doi: 10.1080/10357710701531495
Hameiri, Shahar (2007). Failed state or a failed paradigm? State capacity and the limits of institutionalism. Journal of International Relations and Development, 10 (2), 122-149. doi: 10.1057/palgrave.jird.1800120
Hameiri, Shahar (2007). The trouble with RAMSI: reexamining the roots of conflict in Solomon Islands. The Contemporary Pacific, 19 (2), 409-441. doi: 10.1353/cp.2007.0052