Head of Graduate Studies and Deputy Director of Institute of Defence & Strategic Studies
Prof Ron Matthews

Education

Research Interests

Professional Activities

• Professor, Chair Defence Economics
• Lecturer in Management of Defence Technology, MSC course, S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
• Head of Graduate Studies and Head of Doctoral Studies, S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
• Deputy Director of Institute of Defence and Strategic Studies (2007-2011), S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
• Member of NTU Institutional Review Board

Research

Prof Matthews is a recipient of several research and fellowship awards from prestigious institutions like NATO and the World Bank. He has done extensive research across the world, from Asian countries like India, Pakistan, China, Indonesia, Singapore and Malaysia, to countries further afield, such as the United Kingdom, Sweden, the United States, South Africa, Saudi Arabia and Kenya. He conducted research on the impact of offsets on the UK defence industrial base, which will be published as monograph in 2012.

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Selected Publications

Author and editor of 4 books including Managing the Revolution in Military Affairs and Japan’s Military Renaissance. He contributed chapters in many books on topics like defence economics, offset, defence collaboration and technology transfer strategy. The most recent example of his book chapters can be found in The Modern Defence Industry: Political, Economic, and Technological Issue (Praeger Security International, 2009) and Defence Procurement and Industrial Policy: A Small Country Perspective (Routledge, 2009). Professor Matthews has published tens of articles in double-blind refereed journals, such as Journal of Defence and Peace Economics, Journal of Defence Studies and Journal for Defence and Security Analysis. His writings have also been widely circulated in professional magazines such as Asia Pacific Defence Reporter and Defence Review Asia, and think-tank publication like UK-based RUSI Journal and Royal Institute of International Affairs.

Books:

Managing the Revolution in Military Affairs (ed. with Professor Jack Treddenick) Macmillan Press (October 2001).

Japan 's Military Renaissance? (ed. with Prof. Keisuke Matsuyama) Macmillan Press (August 1993) pp251

European Arms Collaboration: Policies, Problems and Prospects . NATO Fellowship Book manuscript, submitted to NATO HQ, Brussels (July 1990) pp.300, and subsequently published by Harwood Press for York University's Defence Economic Series (1992).

Defence Production in the Third World: The Case of India , Associated Book Centre (ABC) Press, New Delhi, (April 1989) pp.127.

 

Reports/Monographs/Book Chapters:

With Curie Maharani, ‘Iron Triangle Revisited’, book chapter in Richard Bitzinger (ed.), The Modern Defence Industry: Political, Economic, and Technological Issues, Praeger Security International (2009).

With Nellie Zhang Yan, ‘Small Country Total Defence: A case study of Singapore’ in Stefan Markowski, Peter Hall and Robert Wylie (eds.), Defence Procurement and Industrial Policy: A Small Country Perspective, Routledge (2009).

‘Managing the Revolution in Military Affairs’ in Bernard Loo (ed.), Military Transformation and Strategy, Revolutions in Military Affairs and Small States, Routledge (2009).

‘Defence and the Economy: An Introduction’ in Geofrey Till, Emrys Chew and Joshua Ho (eds.), Globalization and Defence in Asia Pacific: Arms across Asia, Abingdon: Routledge (2009).

 

Double-Blind Externally Refereed Papers:

With Peter Krasnopolsky and Wang Di, ‘Ukraine’s Defence Disentanglement from Russia’, Journal of Defence Studies, Vol.11, No. 2, (June 2011)

With Kogila Balakrishnan, ‘Defence Industrialisation through Offsets: A Case Study of Malaysia’, Journal of Peace and Defence Economics), Volume 20 (4), pp 341-358 (August 2009).

With Manjeet Pardesi, ' India's Tortuous Road to Defence Industrial Self-Reliance' (Journal Defense and Security Analysis, (December 2007).

With Nellie Zhang, 'Small Country Total Defence: The Case of Singapore' (Journal of Defence Studies, JSCSC, (September 2007).