Dr Darren Lim
Areas of expertise
- International Relations 160607
- Government And Politics Of Asia And The Pacific 160606
- Defence Studies 160604
- Political Science 1606
Research interests
- Geoeconomics
- Interdependence, technology and the economic-security nexus
- Grand strategy and the rules-based international order
- Australian foreign policy
- International political economy
- International trade
- International security
- Qualitative research methods
Biography
I research and teach in the field of international relations, at the intersection of international political economy and international security. My major research interests focus on geoeconomics (including economic statecraft and technology competition), grand strategy in the context of power transitions and international order, and the Indo-Pacific region.
The issue areas covered by my published research include (see my personal website for links):
- Sino-US technology competition and great power rivalry, plus the logic (and costs) of decoupling
- How East and South Asian states navigate relations between the US and China through hedging strategies
- Tourism as an instrument of Chinese economic statecraft
- China’s “institutional statecraft” and its creation of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank
- Conceptualising and measuring power in Australian foreign policy
- Bargaining power in Eurozone bailout negotiations between Greece and Germany
- “Doxing democracy”, i.e. cyber interference in democratic elections
As of January 2021, topics I’m currently working on include a book project on geoeconomics, and paper projects on the logic of a China-led international order, informal economic sanctions, and Australia's managment of bilateral relations with China.
I also co-host a podcast called Australia in the World.
I received my PhD in 2014 from Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. Initially trained in law and economics, I previously worked as Associate to the Chief Justice of the Federal Court of Australia, a corporate lawyer, and researcher at International Crisis Group.
My CV is available here and you can find me on Google Scholar.
Available student projects
I am unavailable to supervise Honours or PhD students who wish to commence in 2020 or 2021.
Past student projects
State-sponsored cyber inteference in democratic elections (I. Hansen)
Price and energy security in East Asia (V. Ferguson)
Economic sanctions and Iran (R. Akmal)
Publications
- Lim, D & Ferguson, V 2020, 'Conscious decoupling: The technology security dilemma', in J Golley, L Jaivin, B Hillman, S Strange (ed.), China Dreams, ANU Press, Australia, pp. 119-131.
- Lim, D, Ferguson, V & Bishop, R 2020, 'Chinese Outbound Tourism as an Instrument of Economic Statecraft', Journal of Contemporary China, vol. 29, no. 126, pp. 916-933.
- Lim, D 2019, 'Economic statecraft and the revenge of the state', East Asia Forum Quarterly (EAFQ), vol. 11, no. 4, pp. 31-32.
- Lim, D & Ferguson, V 2019, 'Power in Chinese Foreign Policy', in J Golley, L Jaivin, P J Farrelly and S Strange (ed.), China Story Yearbook 2018: Power, ANU Press, Canberra, Australia, pp. 56-60.
- Lim, D & Mukherjee, R 2019, 'Hedging in South Asia: balancing economic and security interests amid Sino-Indian competition', International Relations of the Asia-Pacific, vol. 19, no. 3, pp. 493-522.
- Lim, D 2019, 'The US, China and 'Technology War'', Global Asia, vol. 14, no. 1, pp. 8-13.
- Lim, D & Ferguson, V 2018, 'Power in Australian foreign policy', Australian Journal of International Affairs, vol. 72, no. 4, pp. 306-313pp.
- Hansen, I & Lim, D 2019, 'Doxing democracy: influencing elections via cyber voter interference', Contemporary Politics, vol. 25, no. 2, pp. 150-171.
- Kennedy, A & Lim, D 2018, 'The innovation imperative: technology and US-China rivalry in the twenty-first century', International Affairs, vol. 94, no. 3, pp. 553-572.
- Lim, D, Moutselos, M & McKenna, M 2019, 'Puzzled out? The unsurprising outcomes of the Greek bailout negotiations', Journal of European Public Policy, vol. 26, no. 3, pp. 324-343.
- Lim, D & Mukherjee, R 2017, 'What Money Can't Buy: The Security Externalities of Chinese Economic Statecraft in Post-War Sri Lanka', Asian Security, pp. 1-20.
- Ikenberry, GJ & Lim, D 2017, 'China's emerging institutional statecraft: The Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank and the prospects for counter-hegemony', Brookings Institution, Project on International Order and Strategy, April.
- Lim, D & Cooper, Z 2015, 'Reassessing Hedging: The Logic of Alignment in East Asia', Security Studies, vol. 24, no. 4, pp. 696-727.
- Bashir, O & Lim, D 2013, 'Misplaced Blame: Foreign Aid and the Consequences of UN Security Council Membership', Journal of Conflict Resolution, vol. 57, no. 3, pp. 509-523.
Projects and Grants
Grants information is drawn from ARIES. To add or update Projects or Grants information please contact your College Research Office.
- Navigating the Emerging Geoeconomic Order: Integrating Economics, Security and Technology (Secondary Investigator)
