Research Interests

Selected Publications

The Role of Knowledge Communities in Constructing Asia-Pacific Security: How Thought and Talk Make War and Peace (Edwin Mellen, 2007) (sole author); Bandung Revisited: The Legacy of the 1955 Asian-African Conference for International Order (NUS Press, 2008) (co-editor); People’s ASEAN and Governments’ ASEAN (RSIS, 2007) (co-editor); An Agenda for the East Asia Summit (RSIS, 2005) (co-editor); Asia-Pacific Security Cooperation: National Interests and Regional Order (M.E. Sharpe, 2004) (co-editor); After Bali: The Threat of Terrorism in Southeast Asia (World Scientific, 2003) (co-editor); “Whither Societas Civilis in the Asia-Pacific after 11 September: Ideological Absolutism and Ethics in an Age of Terror,” Australian Journal of International Affairs, Vol. 61, No. 2 (2007), pp. 232-46; “Rescuing Constructivism from the Constructivists: A Critical Reading of Constructivist Interventions in Southeast Asian Security,” The Pacific Review, Vol. 19, No. 2 (2006), pp. 239-60; “Betwixt Balance and Community: America, ASEAN, and the Security of Southeast Asia,” International Relations of the Asia-Pacific, Vol. 6, No. 1 (2006), pp. 37-59 (co-author); “Untying Leifer’s Discourse on Order and Power,” The Pacific Review, Vol. 18 No. 1 (2005), pp. 71–93; “NGOs in Conflict Management in Southeast Asia,” International Peacekeeping, Vol. 12, No. 1 (2005), pp. 41-55; “Interstate and Intrastate Dynamics in Southeast Asia’s War on Terror,” The SAIS Review of International Affairs, Vol. 24, No. 1 (2004), pp. 91-105 (co-author); “ASEAN: The Road Not Taken,” in Muthiah Alagappa (ed.), Nuclear Weapons and Security in 21st Century Asia (Stanford University Press, forthcoming); Disjointed Perspectives: Interpreting Complexity in Southeast Asian Perceptions on America,” in Edward Kolodziej and Roger Kanet (eds.), From Superpower to Besieged Global Power (University of Georgia Press, 2008) (co-author); “Deconstructing the Discourse on Epistemic Agency: A Singaporean Tale of Two ‘Essentialisms,’” in Anthony Burke and Matt McDonald (eds.), Critical Security in the Asia-Pacific (Manchester University Press, 2006); Lévinas and the Question of Civilizational Amity After September 11,” in Linell Cady and Sheldon W. Simon (eds.), Disrupting Violence: Religion and Conflict in South and Southeast Asia (Routledge, 2006).