Coordinator of External Education,
Coordinator for Multilateralism and
Regionalism Programme, Associate
Professor
Dr. Tan See Seng
Education
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Critical
social thought
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International
relations theory
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Multilateralism
and regionalism
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Conflict
management
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Politics
and security of the Asia-Pacific
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Biblical
theology
Professional
Activities
- Visiting Research Associate,
International Institute for Strategic Studies
(Asia), 2008
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Member, Singapore committee of Council
for Security Cooperation in Asia-Pacific
(CSCAP), 2000-present
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Research Fellow, Singapore Institute of
International Affairs, 1996-97
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Article reviewer, Cambridge
Review of International Affairs, Contemporary Southeast Asia
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).
Management | Faculty & Research | Corporate & Support
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Teaching
/ Research Programme
IR
6001 The Study of International Relations
IR 6003 Critical Security Studies
S6007 (Discourse and Textual Analysis component)
Instructor for various government-run command-and-staff
courses (SAFTI, SPC, Home Team, SCDF, etc)
Deputy Head of Graduate Studies (2005-07)
Coordinator for Executive Education (2007-present)
Coordinator for
Multilateralism and Regionalism
Programme (2002-present)
Convenor of The Sentosa Roundtable for Asian
Security (2006-2009)
Media
expertise
Regional
cooperation and institutionalism in Asia-Pacific,
East Asia and Southeast Asia; US foreign policy
towards the Asia-Pacific; Singapore foreign
and security policy; Southeast Asian international
relations
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