Shahar Hameiri
![Shahar Hameiri](https://www.lowyinstitute.org/sites/default/files/SH.jpg)
Biography
Publications
Shahar Hameiri is Associate Professor of International Politics and Australian Research Council Future Fellow in the School of Political Science and International Studies, University of Queensland. He tweets @ShaharHameiri.
![Learning the right lessons from Australia’s Covid response](https://www.lowyinstitute.org/sites/default/files/styles/expert_publications/public/2023-10/Covid%20lockdown%20comp.jpg?itok=Y5692wX-)
Learning the right lessons from Australia’s Covid response
The pandemic measures that took us from lucky country to locked-up country have their roots in 1980s neoliberalism.
![Australia and Digicel: Hands-off no more?](https://www.lowyinstitute.org/sites/default/files/styles/expert_publications/public/3094482863_def87cb909_o.jpg?itok=-maqEG0v)
Australia and Digicel: Hands-off no more?
Financing the takeover of a Pacific telco firm amounts to a marked shift in the government’s industrial philosophy.
![Debunking the myth of China’s “debt-trap diplomacy”](https://www.lowyinstitute.org/sites/default/files/styles/expert_publications/public/GettyImages-675021470.jpg?itok=PUr4ysv-)
Debunking the myth of China’s “debt-trap diplomacy”
Never attribute to malice what can be explained by incompetence.
![Covid-19: Why did global health governance fail?](https://www.lowyinstitute.org/sites/default/files/styles/expert_publications/public/14017137937_7e23c43793_o.jpg?itok=i0dJ88MO)
Covid-19: Why did global health governance fail?
Despite the existence of a “World Health Organization”, very limited collective capacity had developed previously.
![China’s Pacific presence improves Australian aid](https://www.lowyinstitute.org/sites/default/files/styles/expert_publications/public/Pacific%20aid%20article%20WEB%203.jpg?itok=S80GzQKY)
China’s Pacific presence improves Australian aid
A funding shift towards infrastructure building, caused by Chinese competition, is welcome and well overdue.
![The misunderstood AIIB](https://www.lowyinstitute.org/sites/default/files/styles/expert_publications/public/GettyImages-505201094mini.jpg?itok=VsCGtU4m)
The misunderstood AIIB
China’s Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank clearly does not challenge the global governance status-quo.