Shahar Hameiri
@shaharhameiri.bsky.social
Professor @POLSIS University of Queensland. Political economist. Asia & Pacific security & development; the 'Second Cold War'; good hummus; bad puns. Unusual disclaimers apply. https://about.uq.edu.au/experts/13942
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Shahar Hameiri
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International Development Financing in the Second Cold War: The Miserly Convergence of Western Donors and China
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NEW: #OpenAccess article by
@DrLeeJones
and me in Development and Change: 'International Development Financing in the Second Cold War: The Miserly Convergence of Western Donors and China'. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.... 1/
@DrLeeJones
and me in Development and Change: 'International Development Financing in the Second Cold War: The Miserly Convergence of Western Donors and China'. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.... 1/
Reposted by Shahar Hameiri
🚨 NEW ISSUE 🚨
🌏 Special section on how the rise of Asia reshapes international financial affairs
🗣️ Articles on ghosting diplomacy, ASEAN and human rights, India's China strategy and more
🤝 Policy paper on China and 'America First'
📚 25 book reviews
Read the issue > academic.oup.com/ia/issue/101/5
🌏 Special section on how the rise of Asia reshapes international financial affairs
🗣️ Articles on ghosting diplomacy, ASEAN and human rights, India's China strategy and more
🤝 Policy paper on China and 'America First'
📚 25 book reviews
Read the issue > academic.oup.com/ia/issue/101/5
September 8, 2025 at 8:05 AM
🚨 NEW ISSUE 🚨
🌏 Special section on how the rise of Asia reshapes international financial affairs
🗣️ Articles on ghosting diplomacy, ASEAN and human rights, India's China strategy and more
🤝 Policy paper on China and 'America First'
📚 25 book reviews
Read the issue > academic.oup.com/ia/issue/101/5
🌏 Special section on how the rise of Asia reshapes international financial affairs
🗣️ Articles on ghosting diplomacy, ASEAN and human rights, India's China strategy and more
🤝 Policy paper on China and 'America First'
📚 25 book reviews
Read the issue > academic.oup.com/ia/issue/101/5
NEW #openaccess Article: published in International Affairs: 'Competing or complementary: Chinese loans and international bonds in Sri Lanka's default', co-authored with Umesh Moramudali. academic.oup.com/ia/article/1... 1/
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September 5, 2025 at 6:40 AM
NEW #openaccess Article: published in International Affairs: 'Competing or complementary: Chinese loans and international bonds in Sri Lanka's default', co-authored with Umesh Moramudali. academic.oup.com/ia/article/1... 1/
I am thrilled to announce the call for papers for the 16th AIPEN meeting at the University of Queensland, 5-6 Feb 2026. Full details in the link. Please share among your networks. www.ppesydney.net/call-for-pap...
Call for Papers: 2026 AIPEN Workshop: The International Political Economy in the Second Cold War - Progress in Political Economy (PPE)
After decades of deepening economic integration, the world economy is increasingly challenged by rising geopolitical and geoeconomic rivalry, notably, but not only, between the United States and China...
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September 2, 2025 at 10:10 PM
I am thrilled to announce the call for papers for the 16th AIPEN meeting at the University of Queensland, 5-6 Feb 2026. Full details in the link. Please share among your networks. www.ppesydney.net/call-for-pap...
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New (open access!) paper out now with Eric Helleiner and Hongying Wang in New Political Economy:
"A less reluctant (green) Atlas? Explaining the People’s Bank of China’s distinctive environmental shift"
1/ A brief thread 🧵
doi.org/10.1080/1356...
"A less reluctant (green) Atlas? Explaining the People’s Bank of China’s distinctive environmental shift"
1/ A brief thread 🧵
doi.org/10.1080/1356...
May 30, 2025 at 10:16 AM
New (open access!) paper out now with Eric Helleiner and Hongying Wang in New Political Economy:
"A less reluctant (green) Atlas? Explaining the People’s Bank of China’s distinctive environmental shift"
1/ A brief thread 🧵
doi.org/10.1080/1356...
"A less reluctant (green) Atlas? Explaining the People’s Bank of China’s distinctive environmental shift"
1/ A brief thread 🧵
doi.org/10.1080/1356...
Reposted by Shahar Hameiri
On the recent challenges to the foundations of dollar hegemony from Stephen Miran to Donald Trump by Madison Cartwright
@mkonings.bsky.social @shaharhameiri.bsky.social @tomchodor.bsky.social
www.ppesydney.net/trump-versus...
@mkonings.bsky.social @shaharhameiri.bsky.social @tomchodor.bsky.social
www.ppesydney.net/trump-versus...
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May 21, 2025 at 10:06 PM
On the recent challenges to the foundations of dollar hegemony from Stephen Miran to Donald Trump by Madison Cartwright
@mkonings.bsky.social @shaharhameiri.bsky.social @tomchodor.bsky.social
www.ppesydney.net/trump-versus...
@mkonings.bsky.social @shaharhameiri.bsky.social @tomchodor.bsky.social
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If you're going to read just one piece about Trump's tariffs, make it this one.
americanaffairsjournal.org/2025/05/trum...
americanaffairsjournal.org/2025/05/trum...
Trump’s Tariff Gamble and the Decay of the Neoliberal Order - American Affairs Journal
What meaning—if any—can we discern in President Trump’s decisions to impose, and then pause, tariffs on the entire world? And what does this mean for the future of world order? At the time of writing,...
americanaffairsjournal.org
May 20, 2025 at 7:48 AM
If you're going to read just one piece about Trump's tariffs, make it this one.
americanaffairsjournal.org/2025/05/trum...
americanaffairsjournal.org/2025/05/trum...
New: LeeJones and I authored a short piece for East Asia Forum on development financing's miserly convergence, based on our article in Development and Change. eastasiaforum.org/2025/05/11/t...
Trump’s USAID cuts only accelerate the West’s miserly convergence with China
The gutting of USAID reflects a wider trend away from foreign aid that is not fuelled by self-interest.
eastasiaforum.org
May 11, 2025 at 11:38 PM
New: LeeJones and I authored a short piece for East Asia Forum on development financing's miserly convergence, based on our article in Development and Change. eastasiaforum.org/2025/05/11/t...
Great news! This article is now available #OpenAccess. Check it out: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
May 8, 2025 at 7:08 AM
Great news! This article is now available #OpenAccess. Check it out: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
NEW: Lee Jones and I have a new article out in
@ripejournal.bsky.social, 'Explaining China's approach to the global governance of sovereign debt distress: a state transformation approach'. tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... 1/
@ripejournal.bsky.social, 'Explaining China's approach to the global governance of sovereign debt distress: a state transformation approach'. tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... 1/
Explaining china’s approach to the global governance of sovereign debt distress: a state transformation analysis
The global governance of sovereign debt distress is widely understood to be under threat from China, which has risen to become the world’s largest official bilateral creditor. In response to the Gl...
tandfonline.com
April 10, 2025 at 11:53 PM
NEW: Lee Jones and I have a new article out in
@ripejournal.bsky.social, 'Explaining China's approach to the global governance of sovereign debt distress: a state transformation approach'. tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... 1/
@ripejournal.bsky.social, 'Explaining China's approach to the global governance of sovereign debt distress: a state transformation approach'. tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... 1/
Reposted by Shahar Hameiri
Apply to come work with us! @campolis.bsky.social
Assistant Professor in Development Studies (Fixed Term)
www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/50918/
Assistant Professor in Development Studies (Fixed Term)
www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/50918/
Assistant Professor in Development Studies (Fixed Term) - Job Opportunities - University of Cambridge
Assistant Professor in Development Studies (Fixed Term) in the Department of Politics and International Studies at the University of Cambridge.
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April 7, 2025 at 6:36 AM
Apply to come work with us! @campolis.bsky.social
Assistant Professor in Development Studies (Fixed Term)
www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/50918/
Assistant Professor in Development Studies (Fixed Term)
www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/50918/
China won't be replacing US aid in Africa or anywhere that easily. Overall, China has been in retrenchment mode for a while, and while some anecdotal evidence could emerge of China moving in to capitalise on US retreat this needs to be put in perspective. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
April 4, 2025 at 1:28 AM
China won't be replacing US aid in Africa or anywhere that easily. Overall, China has been in retrenchment mode for a while, and while some anecdotal evidence could emerge of China moving in to capitalise on US retreat this needs to be put in perspective. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Reposted by Shahar Hameiri
With the slashing of USAID, this article in @devandchg.bsky.social is very timely:
By @shaharhameiri.bsky.social & Lee Jones
"This article supports the convergence thesis but argues ... this convergence is on a less generous middle ground ... both sides are retrenching."
By @shaharhameiri.bsky.social & Lee Jones
"This article supports the convergence thesis but argues ... this convergence is on a less generous middle ground ... both sides are retrenching."
International Development Financing in the Second Cold War: The Miserly Convergence of Western Donors and China
China's rise as a major development financing provider is widely seen as challenging traditional donor states’ influence over the norms and institutions of global development and over aid recipients....
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
April 2, 2025 at 1:39 PM
With the slashing of USAID, this article in @devandchg.bsky.social is very timely:
By @shaharhameiri.bsky.social & Lee Jones
"This article supports the convergence thesis but argues ... this convergence is on a less generous middle ground ... both sides are retrenching."
By @shaharhameiri.bsky.social & Lee Jones
"This article supports the convergence thesis but argues ... this convergence is on a less generous middle ground ... both sides are retrenching."
I've long argued that Confucius Institutes have no place on university campuses - not because they're particularly dangerous, but because only units that fully respect academic freedom should be on campus. If they want to run in the CBD that's fine by me. www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...
Confucius Institutes quietly disappear from six Australian universities - ABC listen
Australia's leading universities cut ties with Confucius Institutes, but don’t cite concerns of foreign interference.
www.abc.net.au
April 1, 2025 at 7:08 AM
I've long argued that Confucius Institutes have no place on university campuses - not because they're particularly dangerous, but because only units that fully respect academic freedom should be on campus. If they want to run in the CBD that's fine by me. www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...
Another great paper from members of the @scwobservatory.bsky.social
Corridors promise seamless development—but often conceal violence, exclusion & inequality. In a new article, David Bachrach and I theorize the dialectics of 'corridorisation,' tracing how it reshapes lives & land in SEAsia.
@antipodeonline.bsky.social
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@antipodeonline.bsky.social
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The Corridor as Commodity: Enclosure, Legibility, and Uneven Development in Southeast Asian Railway Projects
Corridors are promoted as seamless solutions for economic development, integrating production and consumption networks. However, they often fall short, fail, and operate as tools of accumulation for ....
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
March 24, 2025 at 2:04 AM
Another great paper from members of the @scwobservatory.bsky.social
Glad to see many of my works have also been freely pirated to feed the AI bots. I've rejected publishers' requests for my materials to be used but who cares, the technology companies have taken them anyway.
Meta used at least 16 of my books, and numerous articles, to help train the AI it will use to make billions.
Authors, search your name here:
www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
Authors, search your name here:
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Search LibGen, the Pirated-Books Database That Meta Used to Train AI
Millions of books and scientific papers are captured in the collection’s current iteration.
www.theatlantic.com
March 21, 2025 at 4:12 AM
Glad to see many of my works have also been freely pirated to feed the AI bots. I've rejected publishers' requests for my materials to be used but who cares, the technology companies have taken them anyway.
NEW: #OpenAccess article by
@DrLeeJones
and me in Development and Change: 'International Development Financing in the Second Cold War: The Miserly Convergence of Western Donors and China'. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.... 1/
@DrLeeJones
and me in Development and Change: 'International Development Financing in the Second Cold War: The Miserly Convergence of Western Donors and China'. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.... 1/
International Development Financing in the Second Cold War: The Miserly Convergence of Western Donors and China
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March 20, 2025 at 7:40 AM
NEW: #OpenAccess article by
@DrLeeJones
and me in Development and Change: 'International Development Financing in the Second Cold War: The Miserly Convergence of Western Donors and China'. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.... 1/
@DrLeeJones
and me in Development and Change: 'International Development Financing in the Second Cold War: The Miserly Convergence of Western Donors and China'. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.... 1/
What will happen when the people who learned to think for themselves aren't around anymore? www.cjr.org/tow_center/w...
AI Search Has A Citation Problem
We Compared Eight AI Search Engines. They’re All Bad at Citing News.
www.cjr.org
March 14, 2025 at 12:08 AM
What will happen when the people who learned to think for themselves aren't around anymore? www.cjr.org/tow_center/w...
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We are organising a workshop! 🙂
While striving for autonomy amid growing geopolitical pressures, China’s also creates new dependencies in global trade, finance, & technology:
Beyond Hegemony: China’s Quest for Domestic Autonomy, Creation of Global Dependencies?
check the CfP: tinyurl.com/5a4c949r
While striving for autonomy amid growing geopolitical pressures, China’s also creates new dependencies in global trade, finance, & technology:
Beyond Hegemony: China’s Quest for Domestic Autonomy, Creation of Global Dependencies?
check the CfP: tinyurl.com/5a4c949r
March 4, 2025 at 3:13 PM
We are organising a workshop! 🙂
While striving for autonomy amid growing geopolitical pressures, China’s also creates new dependencies in global trade, finance, & technology:
Beyond Hegemony: China’s Quest for Domestic Autonomy, Creation of Global Dependencies?
check the CfP: tinyurl.com/5a4c949r
While striving for autonomy amid growing geopolitical pressures, China’s also creates new dependencies in global trade, finance, & technology:
Beyond Hegemony: China’s Quest for Domestic Autonomy, Creation of Global Dependencies?
check the CfP: tinyurl.com/5a4c949r
If even half of this story is true, and even if this is his typical opening gambit bluster, this is appalling from Trump - pure gangsterism. The postwar era is truly over. Australia better take note. We have to hedge our bets a lot more than we have been. www.telegraph.co.uk/business/202...
Revealed: Trump’s confidential plan to put Ukraine in a stranglehold
Panic in Kyiv as US president demands higher share of GDP than Germany’s First World War reparations
www.telegraph.co.uk
February 18, 2025 at 2:04 AM
If even half of this story is true, and even if this is his typical opening gambit bluster, this is appalling from Trump - pure gangsterism. The postwar era is truly over. Australia better take note. We have to hedge our bets a lot more than we have been. www.telegraph.co.uk/business/202...
I had a great time presenting on China's approach to sovereign debt restructuring at the Social Scientists' Association of Sri Lanka. Many thanks to B. Stanthakumar for the invitation! If you're interested in the paper, you can watch me present it here www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZHsU...
EXPLAINING CHINA’S APPROACH TO THE GLOBAL GOVERNANCE OF SOVEREIGN DEBT DISTRESS BY SHAHAR HAMEIRI
YouTube video by Social Scientists' Association
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January 30, 2025 at 3:45 PM
I had a great time presenting on China's approach to sovereign debt restructuring at the Social Scientists' Association of Sri Lanka. Many thanks to B. Stanthakumar for the invitation! If you're interested in the paper, you can watch me present it here www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZHsU...
It'd be better to have fewer, better funded PhD scholarships, than what we have right now. I'm assuming that overall funding won't increase, which is a reasonable assumption.
“I'm earning less that I did when I was 14 at McDonalds”, says PhD candidate Alexandra Paton.
#RaiseTheStipend
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-01...
#RaiseTheStipend
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-01...
Alex loves doing her PhD, but says she's earning under the minimum wage
Alexandra Paton, who researches how to manage feral cat populations, says her PhD is important for Australia's wildlife but her income is lower than what she earned as a teenager at Macca's.
www.abc.net.au
January 16, 2025 at 11:36 PM
It'd be better to have fewer, better funded PhD scholarships, than what we have right now. I'm assuming that overall funding won't increase, which is a reasonable assumption.
Really looking forward to speaking soon as this SSA Sri Lanka event in Colombo on some of the research I've been doing with Prof Lee Jones on China's approach to the global governance of sovereign debt restructuring.
January 16, 2025 at 11:23 PM
Really looking forward to speaking soon as this SSA Sri Lanka event in Colombo on some of the research I've been doing with Prof Lee Jones on China's approach to the global governance of sovereign debt restructuring.
And in today's least surprising news: China's growth figures aren't very credible www.ft.com/content/f987...
Chinese citizens’ doubts grow over official growth claims
Government expected to announce GDP expanded about 5% in 2024 but many feel economy is in recession
www.ft.com
January 16, 2025 at 6:31 AM
And in today's least surprising news: China's growth figures aren't very credible www.ft.com/content/f987...
Somehow we've found ourselves back in the 19th century. Between an economy of day labourers, and the masses cheering an anarchist assassin of the rich and powerful, all we need to complete the picture is the return of great power rivalry... hang on...
December 17, 2024 at 7:29 AM
Somehow we've found ourselves back in the 19th century. Between an economy of day labourers, and the masses cheering an anarchist assassin of the rich and powerful, all we need to complete the picture is the return of great power rivalry... hang on...
The global south's debt crisis is far from over. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Massive Interest Burden Haunts $29 Trillion Emerging Debt Pile
Developing nations, already set for a turbulent 2025, are having to cope with ballooning interest payments on $29 trillion of debt that built up over the last decade.
www.bloomberg.com
December 16, 2024 at 8:00 AM
The global south's debt crisis is far from over. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...