Professor Kanishka Jayasuriya

Kanishka Jayasuriya is currently Professor of International Politics and Director of the Indo-Pacific Governance Research Centre (IPGRC), University of Adelaide. Prior to this he was Principal Senior Research Fellow at the Asia Research Centre (ARC), Murdoch University.

He has held teaching and research appointments in several Australian and overseas universities including the ANU, the University of Sydney, Murdoch University , National University of Singapore, and City University of Hong Kong.

Research Interests:

Global governance, law and regulation:
• New forms and spaces of legal governance in hybrid public and private institutions, and private law; issues of regulation and global governance with a particular focus on global social and education governance.
• Issues of regional regulation and the framework of regulatory regionalism
• The rise of the regulatory state

The transition from social democracy to market liberalism:
• The dynamics of the shift from post war social democratic models and the implications of this for citizenship, inequality, social policy, and global political economy.

Australian politics, political economy and foreign policy:
• Australia as a middle power and Australian-Asian engagement.