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Bio:
Norman Vasu is an Assistant Professor at the Centre of Excellence for National Security (CENS), S Rajaratnam School of International Studies, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. He is Deputy Head of CENS and the coordinator of the Social Resilience Programme.
He obtained a MA from the University of Glasgow in 1998 and a MSc in International Relations from the London School of Economics in 1999. In 2004, Dr Vasu received his doctorate in International Politics from the University of Wales at Aberystwyth.
Prior to his current role at the Centre of Excellence for National Security, he was a tutor at the Department of International Politics at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth from 2000-2002. At the same University he was a lecturer on International Relations for the Centre for Widening Participation and Social Inclusion from 2002-2004. Dr Vasu was also a Post-Doctoral Fellow with the Institute of Defence and Strategic Studies, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore from April 2005 – March 06.
Dr Vasu has authored How Diasporic Peoples Maintain their Identity in Multicultural Societies: Chinese, Africans, and Jews (2008) and edited Social Resilience in Singapore: Reflections from the London Bombings (2007). He has published widely in journals such as Asian Ethnicity, The Kantian Review and Jane’s Homeland and Security Monitor as well as writing for several newspapers on topics surrounding multiculturalism, national security and social resilience.
His current research interests include the theories and practise of multiculturalism, transnational communities and nationalism.
In his spare time, Dr Vasu is an incompetent longboard skateboarder and an even more appalling surfer. |
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Selected Publications:
‘Total Defence for National Security: An Assessment’, co-authored with Bernard Loo, in Management of Success: Singapore Revisited, Terence Chong (ed), Singapore: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, 2010.
‘Sailing a Steady Ship: Goh Chok Tong’s Multiculturalism’, in Impressions: The Goh Years in Singapore, Bridget Welsh, James Chin, Arun Mahizhnan, Tan Tarn How (eds.), Singapore: National University of Singapore Press, 2010.
How Diasporic Peoples Maintain their Identity in Multicultural Societies: Chinese, Africans, and Jews, Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen Press, 2009.
‘(En)countering Terrorism: Multiculturalism and Singapore’, Asian Ethnicity, February 2008, Vol. 9 Issue 1, Pp. 17-32.
"The Ties That Bind and Blind: A Report on Inter-racial and Inter-religious Relations In Singapore" co-authored with Yolanda Chin, Singapore: S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, 2007.
Social Resilience in Singapore: Reflections from the London Bombings, Editor, Singapore: Select Publishing, 2007.
‘Multiculturalism and Social Resilience in Singapore’, RUSI/Jane’s Homeland Security and Resilience Monitor, Vol. 6, No. 2, Pp. 12-13, 2007.
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Selected Public Talks and Activities:
‘Cultural Citizens and Singapore’, Association of Asian Studies Conference, Honolulu, USA, 2011
‘Multiculturalism and National Security’, Department of Political Science, Hawaii Pacific University, 2011
‘National Security and Resilience: A Singaporean Perspective’, International Symposium on Societal Resilience, Department of Homeland Security, Virginia, USA, 2010
‘Multiculturalism, Social Resilience and National Security: A Perspective from the Ivory Tower and From the Ground’, Home Team National Education Forum, Ministry of Home Affairs, Singapore, 2010.
‘Economic North / Political South: Cultural Citizens and Singapore’, ISA - ABRI Joint International Meeting: Diversity and Inequality in World Politics, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 2009
‘In God We (Dis)Trust: The Management of Religion in Singapore’, 13th International Metropolis Conference, Mobility, Integration and Development in a Globalised World, Bonn, Germany, 2008. |
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