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Dr. Christian Harijanto serves as a Sessional Academic and Lecturer in the School of Media, Creative Arts and Social Inquiry within the Faculty of Humanities at Curtin University in Perth, Australia. He earned his PhD from Curtin University in 2013, receiving the Chancellor's Commendation for an Exceptional Higher Degree by Research Thesis. Earlier, from 2005 to 2006, he was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship to pursue his MA program in International Political Economy. His post-nominals reflect PhD (Curtin University) and MA in International Political Economy. Harijanto's research focuses on international security, international relations theory, international politics, global governance and regionalism, and South-East Asian studies. Key areas include the interplay of discourses on energy security, national security, and climate change in Australia and Indonesia; the Indo-Pacific concept; middle-power theory; Australian and Indonesian foreign and defence policies; and Islam in Indonesian politics. He contributes to teaching undergraduate courses such as INTR1001 Australia's Global Politics and INTR2002 Diplomacy and Conflict in the Indo-Pacific.
Harijanto has published several scholarly articles advancing discourse on security and international relations. Notable works include 'Middle-power behaviours: Australia's status-quoist/Lockean and Indonesia's reformist/Kantian approaches to crises of legitimacy in the Indo-Pacific' (2024, Australian Journal of International Affairs); 'Risk, resilience and technocratic exception: The riskification of energy price increases in Australia' (2025, Resilience); 'Framing Norm Through Riskification: The International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons and the Anti-Nuclear Weapons Norm' (2025); 'Securitisation, nationalism and democracy: The banning of Hizbut Tahrir Indonesia' (2023); and 'Transforming the writing of history: the new narrative of enlightenment within Muhammadiyah' (2025). His earlier publications feature 'SEBUAH DIALOG UNTUK MENGAKHIRI RANTAI KEKERASAN: CARA PANDANG BARU TENTANG TERORISME' (2003) and 'THE CONVERGENCE OF DEMOCRACY, DE-ISLAMIZATION OF FORMAL POLITICS, AND SHARIAH IN POST-1998 INDONESIA'. With an ORCID iD of 0009-0005-2184-9796, his scholarship examines critical dynamics in regional politics and security paradigms.
