Justin Hastings

Professor Justin Hastings is Professor of International Relations and Comparative Politics and an Australian Research Council Future Fellow in the Department of Government and International Relations at the University of Sydney. He holds an AB with honors from the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University, awarded in 2001, and a PhD in Political Science from the University of California, Berkeley, completed in 2008. From 2008 to 2010, he served as Assistant Professor in the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs at the Georgia Institute of Technology. At the University of Sydney, he is affiliated with the Sydney Southeast Asia Centre, China Studies Centre, Sydney Cybersecurity Network, Asian Studies Program, and the Centre for International Security Studies, where he leads the Regional Security Program.

Hastings' research focuses on the structure and behavior of clandestine state and non-state actors, including terrorists, maritime pirates, smugglers, organized criminals, insurgents, and nuclear weapons proliferators, primarily in Northeast Asia and Southeast Asia, as well as East Africa and general security issues. He has conducted research in South Korea, Indonesia, Singapore, China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Malaysia, Thailand, and the Philippines. His work has been funded by the Australian Research Council, Korea Foundation, Australian government, United States federal government, United States-Indonesia Society, National Bureau for Asian Research, MacArthur Foundation, Science Applications International Corporation, and US National Science Foundation via the University of California’s Institute for Global Cooperation and Conflict. Key publications include the book A Most Enterprising Country: North Korea in the Global Economy (Cornell University Press, 2016), "Charting the Course of Uyghur Unrest?" (The China Quarterly, 2012), and "Understanding Maritime Piracy Syndicate Operations" (Security Studies, 2012). His scholarship has accumulated 1,280 citations with an h-index of 18 (Google Scholar).

Professional Email: justin.hastings@sydney.edu.au