Antonio L Rappa
, PhD, is a lecturer and consultant. He teaches Security Studies, SIM University. His research is on Special Forces, Security, Counterterrorism, Police and Military Doctrine. He has published on politics, political theory, and globalization in Southeast Asia.Bill Durodié
is Senior Fellow. He is also an Associate Fellow in the International Security Programme of Chatham House, the Royal Institute of International Affairs in London, and Honorary Senior Research Fellow in the School of Social Policy, Sociology and Social Research of the University of Kent. Previously he was Senior Lecturer in Risk and Corporate Security in the Resilience Centre of Cranfield University, part of the Defence Academy of the United Kingdom, and Director of the International Centre for Security Analysis in the War Studies Group of King's College London.Durodié was educated at Imperial College, the London School of Economics and New College Oxford. He was also awarded a PhD by Public Works from Middlesex University. His main research interest is into the causes and consequences of our contemporary consciousness of risk, as well as the limitations of risk management in addressing social perceptions of threat. He featured in the BAFTA award-winning BBC documentary series, The Power of Nightmares: The Rise of the Politics of Fear.
Recent commentaries include; The Forgotten Role of Government, The Straits Times, 3 August 2009; Recession and Unrest, The Straits Times, 28 May 2009; Securing Electricity, The World Today, September 2008; China's Helpful Role in the New World Order, China Daily, 23 July 2008; whilst recent book chapters and journal articles include; Ethical Dialogue about Science in the Context of a Culture of Precaution, in Mark A. Bedau and Emily C. Parke (eds.) 'The Ethics of Protocells: Moral and Social Implications of Creating Life in the Laboratory', The MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, May 2009; Les attentats de Londres du 7 juillet 2005: un nihilisme made in the UK, in Didier Bigo, Laurent Bonelli and Thomas Deltombe (eds.) 'Au Nom du 11 Septembre . Les Démocraties À L'Épreuve de L'Antiterrorisme', Éditions La Découverte, Paris, September 2008; Fear and Terror in a Post-Political Age, Government & Opposition, July 2007; and Risk and the Social Construction of 'Gulf War Syndrome', Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, April 2006.
He is currently working on a book, Politics without Purpose: The Rise of Risk Management and the Death of Social Consciousness to be published jointly through Hurst & Co. in London and Columbia University Press in the US.
BRUCE HOFFMAN
is a Visiting Professor at RSIS and the School's S. Rajaratnam Professor of Strategic Studies for 2009. He has been studying terrorism and insurgency for more than thirty years and is currently a tenured professor in the Security Studies Program at Georgetown University's Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, Washington, DC. Professor Hoffman previously held the Corporate Chair in Counterterrorism and Counterinsurgency at the RAND Corporation and was also Director of RAND's Washington, D.C. Office.Professor Hoffman was Scholar-in-Residence for Counterterrorism at the Central Intelligence Agency between 2004 and 2006. He was also adviser on counterterrorism to the Office of National Security Affairs, Coalition Provisional Authority, Baghdad, Iraq during the spring of 2004 and from 2004-2005 was an adviser on counterinsurgency to the Strategy, Plans, and Analysis Office at Multi-National Forces-Iraq Headquarters, Baghdad. Professor Hoffman was also an adviser to the Iraq Study Group. He has been elected to a Visiting Fellowship at All Souls College, Oxford University for Michaelmas Term, 2009.
Professor Hoffman was the founding Director of the Centre for the Study of Terrorism and Political Violence at the University of St Andrews in Scotland, where he was also Reader in International Relations and Chairman of the Department of International Relations. He is Editor-in-Chief of Studies in Conflict and Terrorism, the leading scholarly journal in the field. and a member of the advisory boards of Terrorism and Political Violence and the Review of International Studies. Professor Hoffman is a contributing editor to The National Interest and also editor of the new Columbia University Press Series on Terrorism and Irregular Warfare.
He holds degrees in government, history, and international relations and received his doctorate from Oxford University. In November 1994, the Director of Central Intelligence awarded Professor Hoffman the United States Intelligence Community Seal Medallion the highest level of commendation given to a non-government employee, which recognizes sustained superior performance of high value that distinctly benefits the interests and national security of the United States.
A revised and updated edition of his acclaimed 1998 book, Inside Terrorism, was published in May 2006 by Columbia University Press in the U.S. and S. Fischer Verlag in Germany. Foreign language editions of the first edition have been published in ten countries. The Washington Post described Inside Terrorism as "brilliant" and the "best one volume introduction to the phenomenon" (16 July 2006.
Chang Youngho
is an Assistant Professor of Economics at the Division of Economics and an Adjunct Senior Fellow at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS), Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. He is also a Senior Fellow at the Energy Studies Institute (ESI), National University of Singapore. Apart from academic affiliations, he is a member of Technical Committee for Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) Designated National Authority (DNA), National Environment Agency, Singapore.He published his research papers in academic journals. Apart from academic publications, he carried out consultation projects for the public and private sector. He specializes in the economics of climate change, energy and security, oil and economy, and electricity market deregulation. His current research interests are oil price fluctuations and macroeconomic performance, the economics of energy security, and energy use and climate change. He received his Ph.D. (in Economics) from the University of Hawaii at Manoa, U.S.A.
Chew Soon Beng
is Professor of Economics and Industrial Relations at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. He received his Ph. D. from the University of Western Ontario, Canada. He is author of Small Firms in Singapore (Oxford University Press), Trade Unionism in Singapore (McGraw Hill), Employment-Driven Industrial Relations Regimes (Avebury), Values and Lifestyles of Young Singaporeans (Prentice-Hall), and Foreign Enterprises in China: Operation and Management (in Chinese). He has also published in journals such as the Singapore Economic Review, the China Economic Review, Review of Pacific Basin Financial Markets and Policies, and the Journal of Advances in Pacific Basin Business Economic and Finance. His current research interests include trade unionism, labour markets analysis, globalization and entrepreneurship.He has received many awards including Honorary Professorship, Institute of Legislation "Khalkh Juram", Mongolia 2001; Honorary Professorship, Moscow External University of the Humanities,1997; National Book Prize, 1996 and his paper in Journal of Enterprising Communities has been awarded Highly Commended Paper in 2009.
Chung, Chong Wook
is a Visiting Professor at RSIS, is a specialist in the foreign and security affairs of the Korean peninsular, Chinese politics, and two Koreas' relations with China and Japan. With a BA in international relations from Seoul National University and a Ph.D. in political science from Yale University, Dr. Chung taught at Yale and American University in the United States before returning to Korea to teach at his alma mater, Seoul National University. During his long teaching career at Seoul National University, he directed its Center for International Studies. Also, he worked in various advisory capacities for various departments of Korean government, including Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ministry of Defense, and Ministry of Unification. In 1993, his academic career was interrupted as he joined the office of Korean president as the national security advisor in which capacity he handled the North Korean nuclear issue and the death of Kim Il Sung, among others. With the conclusion of the Geneva Agreed Framework in late 1994, he went to Beijing to work as Korean ambassador to China. In 1998, he came back to Korea to resume academic career, teaching at Ajou University as a distinguished professor and until recently at the Graduate School of International Studies, Seoul National University, as a visiting professor. His publications in English include Maoism and Development and Major Powers and Peace in Korea. He also contributed many articles for professional journals, international conferences, and monographic studies such as the volumes on North Korea published by the University of California, Berkeley. He was the president of the Korean association for the study of the socialist countries in the early 1990s, the largest academic organization for the Korean scholars working on the communist and socialist countries. He is a founding member of the Seoul Forum for International Affairs in Seoul.C. Raja Mohan
is Visiting Professor at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. Earlier, Mohan was Professor of South Asian Studies at the Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi. He also served as the Strategic Affairs Editor of the Indian Express in New Delhi, and the Diplomatic Editor and Washington Correspondent of The Hindu. Mohan has a masters degree in Nuclear Physics and a Ph.D. in international relations. He was a member of India's National Security Advisory Board during 1998-2000 and 2004-06. Mohan Was a Jennings Randolph Peace Fellow at the U.S. Institute of Peace, Washington DC, during 1992-93. His recent books include Crossing the Rubicon: The Shaping of India's New Foreign Policy (New York: Palgrave, 2004) and Impossible Allies: Nuclear India, United States and the Global Order (New Delhi: India Research Press, 2006).Dan Crosswell
is Adjunct Professor in RSIS. Crosswell holds a PhD from Kansas State and taught at K-State and James Madison before coming to Singapore in 1990 where he lectured at the National University of Singapore and the National Institute of Education. A military historian, Crosswell specializes in the U.S. Army in Europe in World War II, mostly dealing with higher headquarters and command decisions. In 1991 Greenwood published his study of GEN Walter Bedell Smith, Eisenhower's chief of staff. The University Press of Kentucky will publish his full biography of Smith in 2010. His next project will examine the interface of logistics and command decisions in the campaigns in North Africa, the Mediterranean, and northwest Europe.David Reisman
is Professor in the School of Humanities and Social Sciences, NTU. He specialises in institutional economics, political economy and public policy. His books include Social Policy in an Ageing Society (2009), Schumpeter's Market (2005), The Institutional Economy (2002) and Conservative Capitalism (1996; Chinese edition 2003). Educated at the London School of Economics, Professor Reisman holds the D.Sc.(Econ.) of the University of London. He has received a number of awards and distinctions, including the Humboldt Fellowship and the Gunnar Myrdal Prize.Geoffrey Till
is the Professor of Maritime Studies at the Joint Services Command and Staff College and a member of the Defence Studies Department, part of the War Studies Group of King's College London. He is the Director of the Corbett Centre for Maritime Policy Studies.In addition to many articles and chapters on various aspects of maritime strategy and policy defence, he is the author of a number of books. His most recent are a major study Seapower : A Guide for the 21st Century for Frank Cass, published in 2004 [completed with the aid of a research grant from the British Academy and with a second expanded edition appearing in Spring 2009], The Development of British Naval Thinking published by Routledge in 2006 and a volume edited with Emrys Chew and Joshua Ho, Globalization and the Defence in Asia [Routledge, 2008].
In 2007 he was a Senior Research Fellow at the Rajaratnam School of International Studies, Singapore and in 2008 held the inaugural Sir Howard Kippenberger Visiting Chair in Strategic Studies at the Victoria University of Wellington. He returned to the RSIS as Visiting Professor in 2009. He is completing a major study of the impact of globalisation on naval development especially in the Asia-Pacific region. This will appear as an Adelphi paper for the International Institute for Strategic Studies, London. He is also working on a historical study of naval transformation. His works have been translated into 9 languages, and he regularly speaks at staff colleges and academic conferences around the world.
Gerard Chaliand
is a Visiting Professor in RSIS and he is considered since decades as a pre-eminent observer of insurgency warfare. For the past 40 years he has observed guerrilla movements in countries of Asia, Africa and Latin America, and has had close battlefield contact with African, South American, Afghan and Vietnamese guerrillas among others. Dr. Chaliand has written about 40 books, 20 of which have been translated into English. He has taught at the prestigious Ecole Nationale d'Administration as well as at the National War College in Paris. He has also been a Visiting Professor at Harvard University, UCLA and the University of California at Berkeley. Dr. Chaliand was Director of the European Center for the Study of Conflicts as well as an advisor to the Center of Analysis and Planning of the French Foreign Ministry. He spent nine months in Iraq in the last five years and has been recently four times in Afghanistan as Senior Visiting Fellow at the Centre for Conflict and Peace Studies (CAPS) in Kabul.Helene Lavoix
is a Visiting Senior Fellow at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies. She holds a PhD (2005) and a MSc in International Politics of Asia (1997) from the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London, and a Master in Finance (1987 - Grande Ecole, France). Her current research interests are focused on actionable strategic anticipation for traditional and non-traditional security issues, including international multidisciplinary collaborative processes, new potential organisations for political authorities, multi-disciplinary dynamic models, belief systems and cognitive biases.Dr. Lavoix is an independent scholar and consultant, specialised on strategic foresight and warning (traditional and non-traditional security issues), conflict and crises prevention, genocide and Eastern Asia. She conceptualises, researches and writes studies and reports on related issues and contributes to exercises, creation of new foresight and warning capabilities, seminars, expert workshops, international conferences on related topics as advisor, participant, speaker, and organizer, mainly for and with state or quasi-state actors (Canadian Association for Security and Intelligence Studies (CASIS), Club of Budapest (EU), Economic Community of Central African States (CEEAC-ECCAS), European Commission, Europol, French Government, German BMZ, Singapore's National Security Coordination Centre, Prime Minister's Office, US Department of Energy, US Department of State, etc.), sometimes with research centres, such as CERI-Sciences Po, Ifri. She teaches at Master's level strategic foresight and warning. She has published on strategic early warning, indicators, fragile states, complexity and genocide. Prior to that, she served as an analyst in international relations (Eastern Asia and Globalisation) for the European Commission, created and headed the Cambodian branch of a NGO in the field of development during and after the UN peace-building mission (1992-1994) and worked in finance.
Huang Minting
has been a lecturer at Language and Communication Centre of NTU since 2003. She holds a doctorate degree of Education in Applied Linguistics from the University of Leicester and a master degree of arts in English language from the National University of Singapore. Effectively bilingual, Dr. Huang has extensive experience in teaching English and Chinese language courses as well as communication skills courses in several tertiary institutes in Singapore. With keen interest in translation and interpretation, Dr.Huang has helped SIM university develop its first translation degree program. In recent years, Dr.Huang has been involved in the development of new academic writing courses at the language and communication centre of NTU. She has also developed research interest in contrastive linguistics, translation studies and the use of new technology in the teaching of academic writing.Ilan Mizrahi
is a Visiting Professor of RSIS. Mr Mizrahi obtained his B.A in Tel Aviv University on Islam and Middle East history, M.A in Haifa University on Political Science focusing on the issue of "Intelligence and the decision makers". He has served in the Intelligence community for 30 years, last position as Deputy Head and two years as Head of National Security Council.JOHN RAVENHILL
, PhD (California, Berkeley), is the NTUC Visiting Professor of International Economic Relations at RSIS. He is also Professor in the Department of International Relations, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University. He previously held the Chair of Politics at the University of Edinburgh, and was Associate Professor at the University of Sydney, and Assistant Professor at the University of Virginia. He has been a Visiting Professor at the International University of Japan, the University of Geneva, and at the University of California, Berkeley. His recent books include Crisis as Catalyst: Asia's Dynamic Political Economy (Cornell 2008, co-editor); Global Political Economy (Oxford, editor, 2008), Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation: The Construction of Pacific Rim Regionalism (Cambridge, 2001), and The Asian Financial Crisis and the Architecture of Global Finance (Cambridge, co-editor, 2000). His articles have appeared in many of the leading international relations journals including World Politics, International Organization, Review of International Political Economy, New Political Economy, Review of International Studies, World Policy Journal, World Development, and International Affairs. He was the founding editor of the Cambridge University Press Cambridge Asia-Pacific Studies series, and is on the editorial boards of Pacific Affairs, International Relations, International Relations of the Asia-Pacific, Business and Politics and Global Economic Review. He was the first winner of the Australasian Political Studies Association's L.F. Crisp medal.Leo Suryadinata
, Ph.D., is Adjunct Professor of Asian Studies Programme at RSIS. He is currently Director of the Chinese Heritage Centre (Singapore) and President, International Society for the Study of Chinese Overseas (ISSCO). He was formerly Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies (ISEAS) and Professor of Political Science at the National University of Singapore (NUS). Prof. Leo specializes in Domestic Politics and Foreign Policies of Southeast Asia with special reference to Indonesia, ethnic and racial politics particularly with regard to ethnic Chinese, and China-ASEAN relations. He was Editor and later, Co-editor of the Asian Journal of Political Science (NUS, 1993-June 2002), and Editor-in-Chief of the bilingual journal Asian Culture (Chinese title: Yazhou Wenhua, Singapore, 1990- date). Prof. Leo has published extensively, his recent books in English include Elections and Politics in Indonesia (2002); Indonesia's Population: Ethnicity and Religion in a Changing Political Landscape (co-author, 2003); Chinese and Nation-Building in Southeast Asia (1997, reissued in 2004 with a postscript); China and ASEAN States: the Ethnic Chinese Dimensions (1985, reissued in 2005 with a postscript);Pribumi Indonesians, the Chinese Minority and China: A Study of Perceptions and Policies (1978, 4th edition published in 2005);Emerging Democracy in Indonesia (co-author, 2005); Admiral Zheng He and Southeast Asia (editor and contributor, 2005) and Southeast Asia's Chinese Businesses in an Era of Globalization: Coping with the Rise of China (2006, Editor).Paul Bolt
is a Senior Visiting Fellow at RSIS and Professor of Political Science, United States Air Force Academy. He received his Ph.D. at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Professor Bolt has taught at Zhejiang University and Baicheng Normal College in the People's Republic of China, as well as the University of Illinois. His research interests are in Chinese foreign and defense policies, American defense policy, and the Chinese diaspora. Currently he is at RSIS on a Fulbright Fellowship. Professor Bolt is co-editor of The United States, Russia and China: Confronting Global Terrorism and Security Challenges in the 21st Century (Praeger Publishers, 2008), co-editor of China's Nuclear Future (Lynne Rienner, 2006), co-editor of American Defense Policy, 8th edition (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005), as well as author of China and Southeast Asia's Ethnic Chinese: State and Diaspora in Contemporary Asia (Praeger Publishers, 2000). He has also published on Asian and security issues in the Journal of Contemporary China, Issues and Studies, Asian Affairs, Diaspora, Airman Scholar, and various edited volumes.S.R. Joey Long
received his Ph.D. in History from the University of Cambridge. He is Assistant Professor of History and International Affairs at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies. He is the author of articles in Diplomatic History, Journal of Southeast Asian Studies, Contemporary Southeast Asia, South East Asia Research, and Rethinking History. His research interests are in the history of U.S. foreign relations, and decolonization and the Cold War.SAM BATEMAN
is a Senior Fellow and Adviser to the Maritime Security Programme at the School. On retirement from the Royal Australian Navy in 1993 and until 2000, he was the Director of the Centre for Maritime Policy at the University of Wollongong where he retains status as a Professorial Research Fellow. His naval service included four ship commands, five years in Papua New Guinea and several postings in the force development and strategic policy areas of the Department of Defence in Canberra. Current research interests include regional maritime security, strategic and political implications of the Law of the Sea, and maritime cooperation and confidence-building. Sam Bateman completed his PhD at the University of New South Wales in 2001. He has written extensively on defence and maritime issues in Australia, the Asia Pacific and Indian Ocean, and edited or coedited several books on maritime security and the law of the sea, including Navigational Rights and Freedoms and the New Law of the Sea (Kluwer, 2000). During 2002 he was a Visiting Fellow at the East-West Center in Honolulu where he completed a report on "Coast Guards: New Forces for Regional Order and Security". He is Co-Chair of the CSCAP Study Group on Enhancing Maritime Cooperation in the Asia-Pacific, and Editor of the journal Maritime Studies.Sumit Ganguly
is the Rabindranath Tagore Chair in Indian Cultures and Civilizations, a Professor of Political Science and the Director of Research of the Center on American and Global Security at Indiana University in Bloomington. He has previously been on the faculty of James Madison College of Michigan State University, Hunter College of the City University of New York and the University of Texas at Austin. He has also been a Fellow and a Guest Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, DC and a Visiting Fellow at the Center for International Security and Cooperation at Stanford University. Professor Ganguly is also a member of the Council on Foreign Relations (New York) and the International Institute of Strategic Studies (London).His research and writing, focused primarily on South Asia, has been supported by grants from the American Institute for Indian Studies, the Asia Foundation, the Carnegie Corporation of New York, the Ford Foundation, the W. Alton Jones Foundation, the Smithsonian Institution and the United States Institute of Peace. In the summer of 2009 he was a Visiting Fellow at the Center for Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law at Stanford University. He serves on the editorial boards of Asian Affairs, Asian Survey, Current History, the Journal of Democracy, the Journal of Strategic Studies and Security Studies. From 2008 to 2009, Professor Ganguly served as a Co-Editor of the International Studies Quarterly. From January 2010 he will serve as an Associate Editor of the International Studies Quarterly while on leave as the Ngee Ann Chair in International Relations at the Rajaratnam School of International Studies at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore.
He is the author, editor or co-editor of eighteen books on South Asia. His most recent books are Nuclear Proliferation in South Asia: Crisis Behavior and the Bomb co-edited with S. Paul Kapur (Routledge, London), The State of India’s Democracy, co-edited with Larry Diamond and Marc Plattner (Johns Hopkins University Press), Treading on Hallowed Ground: Military Operations in Sacred Spaces co-edited with C. Christine Fair (Oxford University Press, New York) and India and Counterinsurgency co-edited with David P. Fidler (Routledge). He has just completed a co-authored book (with S. Paul Kapur), India, Pakistan and the Bomb: Debating Nuclear Stability in South Asia, which will be published in February 2010 by Columbia University Press. He is currently finishing a book (with Rahul Mukherjee), India Since 1980, to be published by Cambridge University Press.
Yeo Lay Hwee
is currently working at the European Union Centre in Singapore and Senior Research Fellow at the Singapore Institute of International Affairs. Dr Yeo is also Adjunct Research Fellow in the S Rajaratnam School of International Studies and International Fellow at the Contemporary Europe Research Centre (CERC), University of Melbourne, and teaches part time at the National University of Singapore. An international relations expert, she participates actively both in policy dialogue, research and in academic workshops and conferences. Her research interests revolve around comparative regionalism; ASEAN and EU; and the Asia-Europe Meeting (ASEM) process. Some of her recent publications include "Asia and Europe: The Development and Different Dimensions of ASEM"; "The Eurasian Space: Far More than two Continents"; "EU-ASEAN Relations and Policy Learning"; "The ASEAN Security Community: Towards Preventive Diplomacy and Institutionalised Security Cooperation"; "Japan, ASEAN and the construction of an East Asian Community".For her exemplary record in research and policy work in regionalism and Asia-Europe / ASEAN-EU relations, she was awarded the Nakasone Yasuhiro Award in June 2007. She had also been awarded various short term visiting fellowships and scholarships taking her to Brussels, Leiden and Aalborg.
Young Ho Kim
is a Visiting Research Fellow at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies and an Associate Professor at the Department of International Relations in Korea National Defense University(KNDU), Seoul, Korea. Currently serving as a member of Advisory Board to the Chief Secretary to the President for Foreign Policy and Security, Republic of Korea, he is also a Co-director of Research Committee of Korean Association of International Studies, Co-director of Editorial Committee of Journal of Northeast Asian Studies, and member of Editorial Board of Korean Journal of International Relations. His areas of teaching and research interest comprise Foreign Policy and Security Issues in Northeast Asia, Korea-U.S. Relations, International Organizations including UN and INGO's, and International Environmental Politics.Dr. Kim received his Ph.D. and M.A. degrees in Political Science from the Ohio State University, USA. Prior to joining the KNDU, he was a Post-doctoral Researcher at the Mershon Center for Education in National Security, Columbus, Ohio, USA, and Research Professor at the Research Institute of Unification Studies in Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea. Beside to KNDU, he taught in Ohio State University, Yonsei University, Ewha Women's University, Hanyang University, Kyunghee University, and Korea Military Academy. As a Director, he also led the International Affairs Division of Research Institute of National Security Affairs(RINSA) in KNDU and served as a Managing Editor of Korean Journal of Security Affairs [formerly titled as KNDU Review] for 2004-2006. Dr. Kim co-authored several books and published and presented many papers on such topics as civil-military relations, foreign policy and security strategy of South Korea, and international relations among the Northeast Asian countries.