Rate My Professor Shahar Hameiri

Hameiri has secured major funding, including an Australian Research Council Future Fellowship (2021-2026) to investigate emerging competition over international development financing projects in Asia and the Pacific. Additional grants encompass ARC Discovery Projects such as Outsourcing Foreign Policy: Consultants and Contractors in Australian Aid (2025-2028), Rising Powers and State Transformation (2017-2022), and The Politics of Public Administration Reform (2016). His influential publications include Fractured China: How State Transformation is Shaping China's Rise (Cambridge University Press, 2021, co-authored with Lee Jones), The Locked-Up Country: Learning the Lessons from Australia's COVID-19 Response (University of Queensland Press, 2023, co-authored with Tom Chodor), International Intervention and Local Politics (Cambridge University Press, 2017, co-authored with Caroline Hughes and Fabio Scarpello), Governing Borderless Threats: Non-Traditional Security and the Politics of State Transformation (Cambridge University Press, 2015, co-authored with Lee Jones), and Regulating Statehood: State Building and the Transformation of the Global Order (Palgrave Macmillan, 2010). He co-edited the fourth edition of The Political Economy of Southeast Asia: Politics and Uneven Development Under Hyperglobalisation (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020). Recent journal articles feature Explaining China’s Approach to the Global Governance of Sovereign Debt Distress (Review of International Political Economy, 2025, with Lee Jones), International Development Financing in the Second Cold War (Development and Change, 2025, with Lee Jones), Why the West’s Alternative to China’s International Infrastructure Financing is Failing (European Journal of International Relations, 2024, with Lee Jones), and Explaining the Failure of Global Health Governance During COVID-19 (International Affairs, 2022, with Lee Jones). Hameiri is a Research Fellow of the Second Cold War Observatory.