Staff Profiles / Dr Leonard C. Sebastian

Head of Undergraduate Studies, Associate Professor
Dr. Leonard C. Sebastian

Education

BA (Hons), York

MA, York

PhD, ANU

Research Interests

Indonesian politics

Indonesian defence and security policy

Foreign policy trends

Political Islam and militant movements in Indonesia

Indonesian anti-terror legislation

Singapore-Indonesia relations

Regional security developments in Southeast Asia with special reference to the ASEAN Security Community concept.

Professional Activities

Member, Advisory Panel to the Government Parliamentary Committee on Defence and Foreign Affairs (GPC-DFA)

Freeman Fellow (April 2005); Visiting Fulbright Scholar (September – December 2005)

Member, Experts Group on the Security of East Timor in the Regional Context sponsored by the Instituto de Estrategicos e Internacionais (IEEI), Lisbon and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Portugal (2001-2002)

Part-time Consultant for the Singapore Trade Development Board (now known as International Enterprise Singapore) (June 2000-2001)

Publications

Realpolitik Ideology: Indonesia’s use of military force (Singapore: ISEAS, 2006, 560 pages) “New Islamic Streams in Indonesia” (forthcoming); “Dissecting the Nexus between Islam, Politics and Democracy in Indonesia: The phenomenon of the rise of the Prosperous Justice Party (PKS)” (forthcoming); “Perceiving Indonesian approaches to International Relations theory” in Why is There no Non-Western International Relations Theory, special edition of International Relations of the Asia Pacific edited by Amitav Acharya and Barry Buzan (forthcoming; co-author); “Domestic stability priorities, ‘Balance of interests’ and Indonesia’s management of Regional Order” in Joseph Chinyong Liow and Ralf Emmers eds., Order and Security in Southeast Asia: Essays in honour of Michael Leifer (London: Routledge, 2005); “Terrorism and Transnational Crime in Southeast Asian International Relations”, in Donald E. Weatherbee et al, International Relations in Southeast Asia: The Struggle for Autonomy (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2005), Chapter 6, pp. 156-186; “The Indonesian dilemma: How to participate in the War on Terror without becoming a National Security State”, in Kumar Ramakrishna and See Seng Tan, eds., After Bali: The Threat of Terrorism in Southeast Asia (Singapore: Institute of Defence and Strategic Studies/World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd, 2004): pp. 357-382.

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