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 (or what used to be called economic statecraft), 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):
- “Debt trap diplomacy” and Chinese economic statecraft in Sri Lanka
- How East Asian states navigate relations between the US and China through hedging strategies
- Sino-US technology competition and great power rivalry
- 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 2019, topics I’m currently working on include a book project on geoeconomic coercion, and paper projects on the logic of a China-led international order, informal economic sanctions, and tourism as an instrument of economic statecraft.
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.
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 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.
