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Staff Profiles
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Head Dr Kumar Ramakrishna obtained First Class (Honours) in Political Science from the National University of Singapore in 1989 and a Masters in Defence Studies from the University of New South Wales in 1992. He went on to secure his PhD in History from Royal Holloway and Bedford New College, University of London, in 1999. His current research interests include British propaganda in the Malayan Emergency; propaganda theory and practice; history of strategic thought; and counter-terrorism. He was an Asia Foundation (US) Freeman Fellow in June 2002 and a Visiting Research Fellow at the Institute for National Strategic Studies, National Defense University, Washington, D.C., from April to June 2003. He was also an Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) Special Visitor in March 2003. Ramakrishna has been a frequent speaker on counter-terrorism before local and international audiences, and published in numerous internationally refereed journals. He has co-edited two wellreceived books on counter-terrorism, The New Terrorism: Anatomy, Trends and Counter-Strategies (2002) as well as After Bali: The Threat of Terrorism in Southeast Asia (2004). His major book, Emergency Propaganda: The Winning of Malayan Hearts and Minds, 1948-1958, (2002) was described by the International History Review as “required reading for historians of Malaya, and for those whose task is to counter insurgents, guerrillas, and terrorists”. He is a member of the Singapore Government Parliamentary Committee (GPC) Resource Panel on Home Affairs and Law, and Executive Committee Member of the Political Science Association (Singapore).
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Coordinator Dr Norman Vasu is the Coordinator of the Social Resilience Programme at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS), Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. Dr Vasu specialises in multiculturalism, identity-based conflict, transnational communities, cultural theory and political philosophy. Dr Vasu received his doctorate in International Politics from the University of Wales at Aberystwyth. He also holds a MSc in International Relations from the London School of Economics and a MA from the University of Glasgow. He has been a tutor at the Department of International Politics at the University of Wales Aberystwyth. At the same University he has also been a lecturer on International Relations for the Centre of Widening Participation. Dr Vasu is currently working on a book manuscript entitled Managing Difference: Diasporas in Multiculturalism. Based on his doctoral thesis, it discusses two contemporary approaches to multiculturalism and challenges these from the perspective of Jewish, African and Chinese diasporas. |
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Tsu Li, Yolanda Yolanda Chin is an Associate Research Fellow for the Social Resilience Programme at the Centre of Excellence for National Security, S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, Nanyang Technological University. Her current research interest is in the role of education, history and politics in the construction of knowledge, identity and threat perceptions, and the representation and management of multiculturalism. |
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Dalziel Mr Gregory Dalziel is Associate Research Fellow for the Homeland Defence Programme at the Centre of Excellence for National Security, S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, Nanyang Technological University. His research interest include Red Teams, networked government, risk assessment and national security issues, social networks, netwar, information & communication technologies. |
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Tiang Boon Mr Hoo
Tiang Boon is an Associate Research Fellow for
the Risk Assessment and Horizon Scanning Programme
at the Centre of Excellence for National Security,
S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies,
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Sue Chia Ng Sue Chia is Associate Research Fellow for the Homeland Defence Programme at the Centre of Excellence for National Security, S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, Nanyang Technological University. Her research interests are homeland transport security, supply chain security, national and homeland security practices, food security, Indochinese socio-politico history, Franco-Viet literature and the political-economy of Vietnam. |
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Joanna Phua Ms Joanna Phua is a Associate Research Fellow for the Social Resilience Programme at the Centre of Excellence for National Security, S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, Nanyang Technological University. Her research Interests are in citizen-state relations; national narratives, images; ‘mechanized’ nationalism; importance and influence of space/place on thought and imagination; cultural politics; cosmopolitics, post-structural and critical theories; globalization; risk society; multilateralism, global governance. |
For more information on CENS
Please write in to:
The Centre of Excellence for National Security
A Centre of the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies
Blk S4, Level B4,
Nanyang Avenue,
Singapore 639798
Email: cens@ntu.edu.sg
