Publications

Publications (as of February 2024)

Books

• Harris Rimmer, S. Gender and Transitional Justice: The women of East Timor, Routledge 2010.
• Harris Rimmer, S. Trading Women’s Rights in Transitions. Anthem Press (2024, in press). https://anthempress.com/trading-women-s-rights-in-transitions-hb-33191

Edited Collections

• Harris Rimmer, S & K Ogg (eds) Research Handbook on the Future of Women’s Engagement with International Law. Edward Elgar 2019.  Foreword by Hilary Charlesworth, Afterword by Dianne Otto.
• Palmer, E, Bikundo, E, Harris Rimmer, S. and Clark, M. The Futures of International Criminal Justice. Routledge, 2022.
• Harris Rimmer, Susan, Caitlin Byrne and Wes Morgan. Climate Politics in Oceania, MUP (2024). https://www.mup.com.au/books/climate-politics-in-oceania-paperback-softback

Editor, Special Issues

• Harris Rimmer, S & Charlesworth, H (eds), 2010, Special Issue: Feminist Internationalisms, The Australian Feminist Law Journal, vol. 36.
• Byrne, C., M. Conley-Tyler & Harris Rimmer, S. (eds) (2016) Australian Journal of International Affairs special issue. Vol 70, Issue 6: Australian Diplomacy Today.

• Harris Rimmer, S. & S. Thompson 2018.  Special Issue: Celebrating and Interrogating Women in National Security. Security Challenges. Vol 14(2) https://www.regionalsecurity.org.au/resources/Documents/IFRS%20Sec%20Chal%20Vol%2014%20No%202%20Web%20v2.pdf
• Editor NPJ Climate Action Special Issue: Geographies of Climate Justice in Oceania. https://www.nature.com/collections/egddgficji (with George Carter and Kirstie Petrou)

Articles

• Harris Rimmer, S, Elise Stephenson and Kate MacGuire. ‘Deep Listening for Climate Justice: In-situ feminist inquiry in rural Australia.’ NPJ Climate Action. (2024, in press)
• Stephenson Elise, and Susan Harris Rimmer. Classified and Secret: Understanding the Literature on Diversity in the Intelligence Sector. 2023 International Studies Review25(3) – https://academic.oup.com/isr/article/25/3/viad033/7232093.
• McGaughey, F, Kenny, MA, Maguire, A & Harris Rimmer, S 2022, ‘International human rights law – lessons in the era of COVID-19’, Australian Journal of Human Rights, doi:10.1080/1323238x.2021.1995123
• Maguire, R, Carter, G, Mangubhai, S, Lewis, B & Harris Rimmer, S 2022, ‘Repositioning Gender: Past, Present and Future’, Environmental Policy and Law, vol. 52, no. 5-6, pp. 429–443, doi:10.3233/epl-219048
• Joseph, S, Harris Rimmer, S & Christian, L 2022, ‘What Did Queenslanders Think of Human Rights in 2021? An Attitudinal Survey’, The University of Queensland Law Journal, vol. 41, no. 3, pp. 363–428, doi:10.38127/uqlj.v41i3.6245
• Jérémie Cornut, Susan Harris Rimmer & Ivy Choi. ‘The liquidification of international politics and Trump’s (un)diplomacy on Twitter’. International Politics. Online access from 21 May 2021: https://rdcu.be/clCGx
• Susan Harris Rimmer, Elise Stephenson, Tom Verhelst. ‘New Dimensions of Gender and Political Leadership During COVID-19: Linking Feminist Stewardship and Electoral Success in Queensland, Australia’ SAIS Review of International Affairs Vol 41(1) Special Issue: ​​​Who Runs the World: A Look at Gender in International Affairs, August 2021.
• Susan Harris Rimmer. Leaving Coonabarabran. Who will be Australia’s Climate Refugees? Griffith Review, December 2020. https://www.griffithreview.com/articles/leaving-coonabarabran/
• Venning, A., Hummell, E., Foster, M., Burns, K., & Harris Rimmer, S. (2020). Adjudicating reasonable and necessary funded supports in the National Disability Insurance Scheme: A critical review of the values and priorities indicated in the decisions of the Administrative Appeals Tribunal. Australian Journal of Public Administration, 1-17. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/1467-8500.12438
• Harris Rimmer, S. ‘Issues in Australian Foreign Policy January to June 2019’, Australian Journal of Politics and History 65(4): pp. 638-652
• Harris Rimmer, S. ‘Viva Timor-Leste: a feminist review of 20 years of independence’ (Book reviews) 2019 International Feminist Journal of Politics 21(5): pp. 838-844
• Kim, S.-M, Haug, S. and S. Harris Rimmer (2018). Minilateralism Revisited: MIKTA as Slender Diplomacy in a Multiplex World. Global Governance, 24(4), 475–489. 
• Harris Rimmer, S and S. Thompson. 2018. Celebrating and Interrogating Women in National Security.  Security Challenges Journal 14(2), available at https://www.regionalsecurity.org.au/resources/Documents/Celebrating%20and%20Interrogating%20Women%20and%20National%20Security.pdf
• Ekanayake, C., & Harris Rimmer, S. (2018). Applying Effective Control to the Conduct of UN Forces: Connecting Factual Complexities with Legal Responsibility. International Organizations Law Review, 15(1), 9–38.
• Harris Rimmer, S. 2016. ‘The future of women’s economic empowerment in the Indian Ocean region: governance challenges and opportunities’ Journal of the Indian Ocean Region, Advance online access: http://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/GSnzhxfh7kp4Y2dIGkKV/full
• Harris Rimmer, S. 2016. Barriers to operationalising the Women Peace and Security doctrine in UN Peacekeeping operations. Journal of International Peacekeeping20 (2016): 49-68
• Harris Rimmer, S. 2016. Australia’s trade diplomacy and the Trans-Pacific Partnership: ‘You’ve got to row your own boat’. Australian Journal of International Affairs, 1–16.
• Harris Rimmer, S., & Sawer, M. (2016). Neoliberalism and gender equality policy in Australia. Australian Journal of Political Science, 1–17.
• Harris Rimmer, S. (2015). A Critique of Australia’s G20 Presidency and the Brisbane Summit 2014. Global Summitry, 1(1), 41–63.

• Harris Rimmer, S. 2016. “Status of women reports”, The Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Gender and Sexuality Studies, edited by Nancy Naples.
• Harris Rimmer, S. (with Mathew Davies) 2015. “Indonesia’s normative influence and the ASEAN way” Special issue Asia Pacific Policy Studies “Asia-Pacific security from the ground up”.
• Harris Rimmer, S. 2014. ‘The G20 and its Outreach: New Measures of Accountability, Legitimacy and Success’. Contribution to the G20 Monitor: G20 outreach and views of non-G20 members, January, Lowy Institute for International Policy, Sydney, Available at http://lowyinstitute.org/files/g20_monitor_no7_january_2014_web.pdf,
• Think20 Papers: Recommendations                         for            the          Brisbane               Summit. Lowy Institute, Sydney,  December       2013, http://lowyinstitute.org/files/think20_papers_2014.pdf.
• Harris Rimmer, S. 2013. ‘Australian Leadership at the Security Council: Advancing the Women, Peace and Security Agenda’ UNSW Human Rights Defender, July.
• Harris Rimmer, S. 2013. ‘Coherence and Humility: Development Priorities for the G20’ Contribution to               the          G20         Monitor,                July,        Lowy                  Institutehttp://www.lowyinstitute.org/files/g20_monitor_the_g20_and_development_.pdf
• Harris Rimmer, S 2013. Entries on Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission and Truth and Reconciliation Commission(Solomon Islands) in Encyclopedia of Transitional Justice 3 Volume Hardback Set, eds: Lavinia Stan and Nadya Nedelsky, Cambridge University Press, 2013.
• Harris Rimmer, S 2010, ‘Women Cut in Half: Refugee Women and the Commission for Reception, Truth Seeking and Reconciliation in Timor Leste’, Refugee Survey Quarterly, vol. 29, no. 2, pp. 85-103.
• Harris Rimmer, S 2010, ‘The dangers of character tests under Australian migration laws’, Australian Journal of Administrative Law, vol. 17, pp. 229-244.
• Charlesworth, H & Harris Rimmer, S 2010, ‘Feminist Internationalisms’, The Australian Feminist Law Journal, vol. 32, pp. 3-7.
• Harris Rimmer, S. 2010, ‘Sexing the subject of Transitional Justice’, The Australian Feminist Law Journal, vol. 32, pp. 123-147.
• Harris Rimmer, S. 2009, ‘Is ASIO a good judge of character?’, Alternative Law Journal, vol. 34, no. 2, pp. 102-107.
• Harris Rimmer, S. 2009, ‘Comments: Examining the character of Australian citizens’, Public Law Review, vol. 20, no. 2, pp. 95-100.
• Harris Rimmer, S. 2007, ”Orphans’ or Veterans? Justice for Children Born of War in East Timor’, Texas International Law Journal, vol. 42, no. 2, pp. 323-344.

Book chapters

• Cardell Fleur, Harris Rimmer Susan. ‘Human rights, police powers and mega-sporting events in Queensland, Australia’. The Routledge Handbook of Mega-Sporting Events and Human Rights 436-447, Routledge (2023).
• Harris Rimmer, S. “Perverse Reactions and the Missing Link in Gender-Smart Anti-corruption Policy”. in International Women’s Rights Law and Gender Equality: Making the Law Work for Women. Ramona Vijeyarasa (ed). Routledge, 2021
• Harris Rimmer, S. Foreign Policy under the Coalition: Turbulent Times, Dwindling Investments in From Turnbull to Morrison: The Trust Divide MUP (2019) pp. 59-72
• Harris Rimmer, S and Caitlin Byrne 2019 ‘Feminist Approaches to Global Economic Governance: The G20 as a Platform for Step Change?’ in The G20 and International Relations Theory: Perspectives on Global Summitry. Steven Slaughter, ed. Edward Elgar.
• Harris Rimmer, S 2019. ‘Women Making International Law: Towards feminist diplomacy’. In Harris Rimmer, S, and K Ogg. Research Handbook on Feminist Engagement with International Law. Edward Elgar.
• Harris Rimmer, S. 2019. “Chapter  9. The Case of Australia: From “Culture” Reforms to a Culture of Rights” in Woman and Gender Perspectives in the Military: An International Comparison. Robert Egnell and Mayesha Alam, Editors. Foreword by Ambassador Melanne Verveer. Washington DC: Georgetown University Press, pp 173-2016.
• Harris Rimmer, S. 2017. Women in global economic governance: scaling the summits. In Gender and Diplomacy (pp. 140–169).
• Harris Rimmer, S. 2016. The Rwanda Paradigm: The Responsibility to Protect Displaced Persons. In Civilian Protection in the Twenty-First Century (pp. 79–106).
• Harris Rimmer, S. 2016. ‘Gender, Governance and the Defence of the Realm: Globalising Reforms in the Australian Defence Force’ in Katie Young and Kim Rubenstein (eds) The Public Law of Gender. Cambridge University Press. (Volume V in Connecting International Law with Public Law series).
• Harris Rimmer, S. 2015. ‘Feminist reflections on R2P’ in Theorising R2P edited by Ramesh Thakur & William Maley, OUP.
• Harris Rimmer, S. 2015. G20 engagement: do social partners make a difference to the forum’s legitimacy and accountability? in Mike Callaghan and Tristram Sainsbury (eds), The Future of International Economic Governance and the G20, NewSouth publishing, Lowy.
• Harris Rimmer, S. 2104. ‘The Big Stage: Australian women leading social change in international for a’ in Women and Leadership in a Century of Australian Democracy, eds Joy Damousi, Kim Rubenstein & Mary Tomsic, ANU E-Press (ARC Linkage grant)
• Harris Rimmer, S. 2014. ‘Dangerous Intersection: migration and counter-terrorism laws in the case of Dr Mohammed Haneef’ in Fiona Jenkins, Kim Rubenstein and Mark Nolan (eds) Allegiance and Identity in a Globalised World. Cambridge University Press. (Volume IV in Connecting International Law with Public Law series)
• Harris Rimmer, S. 2012, ‘Timor-Leste: International intervention, gender and the dangers of negative peace’, in Edward Aspinall, Robin Jeffrey and Anthony J Regan (ed.), Diminishing Conflicts in Asia and the Pacific: Why some subside and others don’t, Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, New York USA, pp. 19-36.
• Harris Rimmer, S 2010, ‘A passport to punishment: administrative measures of control for national security purposes’, in Nicola McGarrity, Andrew Lynch and George Williams (ed.), Counter Terrorism and Beyond: The Culture of Law and Justice after 9/11, Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, New York, pp. 109-128.
• Harris Rimmer, S 2010, ‘Assessing the relevance of the international legal framework in claiming economic and social rights’, in Ann Neville (ed.), Human Rights and Social Policy: A Comparative Analysis of Values and Citizenship in OECD Countries, Edward Elgar Publishing, Cheltenham, UK & Northampton, MA, USA.
• Harris Rimmer, S. (2010) Raising women up: analysing Australian advocacy for women’s rights under international and domestic law in Margaret Thornton and Trish Luker (eds) Sex Discrimination in Uncertain Times, ANU E-press.
• Harris Rimmer, S 2009, ‘Grand Plans’, in Barbara Nelson & Andrew MacIntyre (ed.), Capturing the year 2009: Writings from the ANU College of Asia and the Pacific, Australian National University, Canberra, pp. 74-79.
• Harris Rimmer, S 2009, ‘Beloved Madam: The Indonesian ad hoc Human Rights Court’, in  William Binchy (ed.), Timor Leste: Challenges for Justice and Human Rights in the Shadow of the Past, Clarus Press, Dublin, Ireland, pp. 427-473.
• Harris Rimmer, S 2007, ‘Orphans or Veterans? Justice for Children born of war in East Timor’, in
• Charli Carpenter (ed.), Born of War: Protecting Children of Sexual Violence Survivors in Conflict Zones, Kumarian Press (an imprint of Stylus Publishing), USA, pp. 53-77.
• Harris Rimmer, S 2006, ‘The Role of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees’, in Ustinia Dolgopol and Judith Gardam (ed.), The Challenge of Conflict: International Law Responds, Koninklijke Brill, The Netherlands, pp. 517-527.
• Harris Rimmer, S 2006, ‘The Roman Catholic Church and the Rights of East Timorese Women’, in Amanda Whiting & Carolyn Evans (ed.), Mixed Blessings: Laws, Religions, and Women?s Rights in the Asia-Pacific Region, Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, Leiden, The Netherlands, pp. 161-181.

Policy Reports

• Harris Rimmer, S. (2022). Stimson Center report. Ending Violence Against Women and Girls. https://www.stimson.org/2022/ending-violence-against-women-and-girls-bridging-the-gap-between-multilateral-aspiration-and-state-practice/, March 2022.
• Harris Rimmer, S. (2020) Women, Peace and Transforming Security Visions of the Future of Women, Peace and Security for NATO. https://www.nato.int/cps/en/natohq/topics_91091.htm
• The fix: Solving Australia’s foreign affairs challenges. Australian Foreign Affairs magazine (2020). https://www.australianforeignaffairs.com/articles/the-fix/2020/08/the-fix/susan-harris-rimmer
• How to Defend Australians: a Heterodox Approach http://sdsc.bellschool.anu.edu.au/experts-publications/publications/7518/fresh-perspectives-security
• Subacchi and S. Harris Rimmer. (2018) New Frontiers in Gender-responsive Governance: Five Years of the W20. Chatham House Research paper, 6 November 2018, available at https://www.chathamhouse.org/publication/new-frontiers-gender-responsive-governance-five-years-w20 With.
• Harris Rimmer S. (2017). Gender-Smart Procurement: Policies Driving Change. Chatham House Research Paper, December. https://chathamhouse.org/publication/gender-smart-procurement-policies-driving-change

• Harris Rimmer, S, Muggah, R, Scambary, J et al (2010), Timor-Leste Armed Violence Assessment Final Report.
• Harris Rimmer, S, (2009), After the guns fall silent: SGBV in Timor Leste, Timor-Leste Armed Violence Assessment Issue Brief 5.
• Harris Rimmer, S, (2010), Refugees, internally displaced persons and the ‘responsibility to protect’, UNHCR New Issues In Refugee Research Paper No. 185.
• Harris Rimmer, S, (2008). The Dangers of Character Tests, Australia Institute – Discussion Paper, no. 101.