This is a brilliant piece on COVID-19 and risk: 'It’s easy to turn on the tap of fear as a motivational force, and much harder to switch it off in the absence of concrete reassurance. But the Government could have foreseen that we would need to resume more normal activity before any medical breakthrough could reduce the risk of Covid-19 to zero. Wh... Read this >>
Profile: Shahar Hameiri - Associate Professor of International Politics
My research interests are diverse, 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. I have written extensively on issues of security governance, statebuilding, non-traditional security, risk and risk management, regional governance and Australian development and security policy. I am currently working with Dr Lee Jones (Queen Mary University of London) on a project on rising powers and state transformation, focusing on China's engagements in Southeast Asia. The project was awarded an ARC Discovery Project grant in 2017. My latest co-edited book, The Political Economy of Southeast Asia: Politics and Uneven Development under Hyperglobalisation was published in 2020 by Palgrave Macmillan. I am also co-author of International Intervention and Local Politics (Cambridge University Press, 2017), with Prof Caroline Hughes and Dr Fabio Scarpello, and Governing Borderless Threats: Non-Traditional Security and the Politics of State Transformation (Cambridge University Press, 2015), with Dr Lee Jones, and authored Regulating Statehood (Palgrave Macmillan, 2010). I received my PhD from the Asia Research Centre, Murdoch University in 2009.
Shahar Hameiri's COVID-19 Diary
07 May 2020 : On taking risks
Shahar Hameiri, Associate Professor of International Politics
15 Apr 2020 : Covid-19: why did global health governance fail?
I've got a short piece that explains why global health governance failed so badly to respond to Covid-19. https://www.lowyinstitute.org/the-interpreter/covid-19-why-did-global-health-governance-fail Read this >>
Shahar Hameiri, Associate Professor of International Politics
10 Apr 2020 : No going back to 'normal'
This is worth reading from Adam Tooze, who I think wrote the best book about the GFC and the decade of crises that followed it - Crashed. As he says, the scale and speed of the economic catastrophe engulfing us is without any precedent, not even the Great Depression. Governments are responding with spenidng on a scale hitherto unseen as well. There is no ... Read this >>
Shahar Hameiri, Associate Professor of International Politics
06 Apr 2020 : Finding the balance
I have been thinking along similar lines when I read this piece. Isn't part of a public health policy agenda during this crisis ensuring the sustainability of lockdown measures? https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/apr/05/we-need-to-live-restricted-lives-for-at-least-six-months-police-enforced-lockdowns-are-unnecessary Read this >>
Shahar Hameiri, Associate Professor of International Politics
05 Apr 2020 : The political economy of the COVID19 crisis
Just came across this brilliant analysis from Costas Lapavitsas on the political economy of the COVID19 global crisis. Tl;dr, it's rooted in the response to the GFC, especially how governments stepped in to bail collapsed globalised financialised capitalism. Now they're doubling down on the same, notwithstanding the perception of some kind of socialism. D... Read this >>