ALAN CHONG

is Associate Professor at RSIS. He has published widely on the notion of soft power and the role of ideas in constructing the international relations of Singapore and Asia. His publications have appeared in The Pacific Review, International Relations of the Asia-Pacific, Asian Survey, East Asia: an International Quarterly, and theReview of International Studies. His recent book was Foreign Policy in Global Information Space: Actualizing Soft Power (Palgrave, 2007). He is currently working on several projects exploring the notion of 'Asian international theory'. His interest in soft power has also led to inquiry into the sociological and philosophical foundations of international communication and various forms of information politics. He has previously collaborated with Southeast Asian scholars investigating pedagogical constructions of International Relations and scholarship on the region. He has taught courses ranging from foreign policy analysis to political communication and Singapore's politics. His intellectual socialization blends his doctoral training at the London School of Economics and Political Science, with a decade of teaching at the National University of Singapore, and assorted fieldwork experiences in Britain, Chile, Malaysia, the Philippines and Taiwan.

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AHMED SALAH HASHIM

is an Associate Professor in ICPVTR at the Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS), Nanyang Technological University. Associate Professor Hashim graduated with a PhD in Political Science and Defense Studies from Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His research interests are Middle East and South Asia politics and security, Terrorism and Counter-terrorism in Middle East. South Asia and South-East Asia, Insurgency and Counterinsurgency theory and cases in Middle East and Asia, Maritime Terrorism, Nuclear Proliferation, Islamist politics and Jihadist thought.

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BERNARD F.W. LOO

is Associate Professor of strategy and war at the Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS), Nanyang Technological University. He completed his doctoral studies at the Department of International Politics at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth in 2002. He is the author of Medium Powers and Accidental Wars: A study in Conventional Strategic Stability (Edwin Mellen, 2005), and the editor of Military Transformation and Operations (Routledge, 2009). His other publications have appeared in the Journal of Strategic Studies, Contemporary Southeast Asia, NIDS Security Reports, and Taiwan Defense Affairs. He is a regular commentator on defence matters, and his commentaries have appeared in The Straits Times (Singapore), The Nation (Thailand), and The New Straits Times (Malaysia). He has been invited to speak at a variety of defence-related institutions and conferences, in China, Estonia, Finland, Japan, New Zealand, and the Philippines. His research interests encompass war studies, strategic theory, conventional military strategies, strategic challenges of small and medium powers, and problems and prospects of military transformation. In addition to his academic responsibilities, Bernard is also concurrently the coordinator of External and Executive Education programmes, as well as the Military Transformations Programme, and the Military Studies Programme. In whatever spare time that is left, Bernard is an enthusiastic (but less than accomplished) acoustic guitarist and home cook.

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BHUBHINDAR SINGH

joined RSIS as an Assistant Professor in March 2010. Prior to joining RSIS, he was first a White Rose East Asia Centre Post-doctoral Fellow and then a Sasakawa Lecturer in Japanese Studies at the School of East Asian Studies, University of Sheffield. Bhubhindar was an Associate Research Fellow at the Institute of Defence and Strategic Studies (IDSS), Singapore, where he conducted research on Japan's foreign policy and East Asian Politics, and taught at SAFTI Military Institute (Singapore's Military Academy) on the geopolitics of Southeast Asia. His research interests include the international relations of Northeast Asia with a special focus on Japan's security policy and international politics of Southeast Asia. Bhubhindar has published his work in Pacific Review, Asian Survey, Contemporary Southeast Asia, and Issues and Studies and is presently preparing a monograph entitled Japanese Security Identity and transformation: From a Peace-State to an International-State.

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DEBORAH ELMS

is Head, Temasek Foundation Centre for Trade & Negotiations (TFCTN) and Senior Fellow of International Political Economy at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. Dr. Elms participates in teaching, research and networking. Her research interests are negotiations and decisionmaking, particularly in trade. Her current research topic is the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) negotiations. She also conducts a range of teaching and training for government officials from around Asia, for members of parliament, for business leaders, and for graduate students. She has provided consulting to the governments of Abu Dhabi, Sri Lanka, Cambodia, Taiwan, and Singapore on a range of trade issues. Dr. Elms received a Ph.D. in political science from the University of Washington, an MA in international relations from the University of Southern California, and a BA and BS from Boston University in international relations and journalism.

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EMRYS CHEW

is an Assistant Professor at the School. He was educated at the Anglo-Chinese School, Singapore, and St Catharine's College, Cambridge. From the University of Cambridge, he obtained both a BA with First Class Honours in History (1995) and a PhD (2002). His BA dissertation, a study entitled 'The Naning War, 1831-1832: Colonial Authority and Malay Resistance in the Early Period of British Expansion', was awarded the Alan Coulson Prize for Imperial and Commonwealth History and subsequently published (Modern Asian Studies, May 1998). His doctoral thesis, entitled 'Arming the Periphery', traced the development and dynamics of arms trade networks in the Indian Ocean between 1780 and 1914: a period of unprecedented Western imperial and industrial expansion as well as indigenous transformation and crisis across Asia and Africa. As part of his postdoctoral programme, he also wrote a series of articles for the Golden Web Project at the University of Cambridge, under the title 'Guns and Gems: The Sinews of War and the Ornaments of Peace in the Indian Ocean World', which looked at some of the commercial connections between the supply of strategic goods and the sale of luxury commodities such as gemstones, items sometimes smuggled as contraband. His other publications include an article about the impact of arms transfers on military culture and colonial warfare in Indian Ocean societies, particularly in light of contemporary debates on the international war against terrorism ('Militarized Cultures in Collision', Journal of the Royal United Services Institute, October 2003). In addition to his research interests, Emrys has taught undergraduate courses on Imperial and Post-colonial History at the University of Cambridge, examining cross-cultural interactions that have generated and shaped much of the modern world.

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EUAN SOMERLED GRAHAM

is a Senior Fellow in the Maritime Security Programme at the School. Dr Graham graduated with a PhD in Political Science and International Relations from Australian National University. His research interests are Maritime/SLOC security in North and Southeast Asia, East Asian geopolitics and security architecture, Southeast Asia's relations with external powers, security of the Korean Peninsula, history of decolonization and conflict in Southeast Asia.

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FRIEDRICH WU

is Adjunct Associate Professor of International Political Economy at the School. Before his academic appointment, Dr. Wu was Director of Economics (2001-2005) at Singapore's Ministry of Trade and Industry. In this capacity, he was the principal government spokesman for the official releases of annual and quarterly GDP economic estimates and forecasts, as well as the government's chief representative for the APEC Economic Committee. Before entering government service, Dr Wu was Head/Vice President of Economic Research for 16 years (1985-2001) at the Singapore-based DBS Bank, the largest banking group in the island-republic and in Southeast Asia, and the 4th largest banking group in Hong Kong. Originally from Hong Kong, Dr. Wu received his MA and PhD from the University of Washington (Seattle, USA). Before joining DBS Bank, Dr. Wu did research and consulting work with Frost & Sullivan (USA) and the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies (Singapore). Dr. Wu's publications on Asian economic, financial and political issues have appeared in more than 70 book chapters, peer-reviewed international academic journals, and trade magazines including, among others, Asia-Pacific Business Review (UK), Asian Wall Street Journal (Hong Kong), Business Week (USA), California Management Review (USA), China Business Review (USA), China & World Economy (China), Columbia Journal of World Business (USA), Far Eastern Economic Review (Hong Kong), Japan Times (Japan), JETRO China Newsletter (Japan), Journal of Asian Business (USA), Long-Range Planning (UK), Management International Review (Germany), Modern China (USA), Post-Communist Economies (UK), The International Economy (USA), The Nikkei Weekly (Japan), The World Economy (UK), Thunderbird International Business Review (USA), World Economics (UK), etc.

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FARISH A. NOOR

Farish A. Noor is presently Senior Fellow at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, Nanyang Technological University; where he is part of the research cluster 'Transnational Religion in Southeast Asia'. Dr. Farish is also Affiliated Professor at Muhamadiyah University, Surakarta and Sunan Kalijaga Islamic University, Jogjakarta.

He is the author of The Madrasa in Asia: Political Activism and Transnational Linkages. (With Martin van Bruinessen and Yoginder Sikand (Eds.), University of Amsterdam Press, Amsterdam, 2008; Islam Embedded: The Historical Development of the Pan-Malaysian Islamic Party PAS: 1951-2003, Malaysian Sociological Research Institute (MSRI), Kuala Lumpur, 2004. His other writings include: Writings on the War on Terror (Globalmedia Press, India, 2006), From Majapahit to Putrajaya: Searching For Another Malaysia (Silverfish Books, Kuala Lumpur, 2005), Islam Progresif: Peluang, Tentangan dan Masa Depannya di Asia Tenggara (SAMHA, Jogjakarta, 2005), Di San Zhi Yan Kan Ma Lai Xi Ya (Sin Chew Jit Poh Press, Petaling Jaya, 2004), The Other Malaysia: Writings on Malaysia's Subaltern History (Silverfish Books, Kuala Lumpur, 2003); and New Voices of Islam, (International Institute for the Study of Islam in the Modern World, Leiden, Netherlands, 2002).

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IQBAL SINGH SEVEA

is Assistant Professor and Coordinator of the Contemporary Islam Program at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. Dr. Sevea received his doctorate from the University of Oxford. He also holds a Masters in African and Asian History from the School of Oriental and African Studies, United Kingdom. His research interests include modern Islamic thought, political Islam, the history and politics of South Asia, Muslim networks between South and Southeast Asia, as well as religion and identity in Asia. He has been a Visiting Lecturer at the Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilisations, London. His forthcoming publications include the article "The Ahmadiyya Print Jihad: Expansive Print Arena and the Transmission of 'True' Islam". Dr. Sevea is currently working on a book manuscript tracing the interaction between South Asian Muslim intellectuals and modern political thought, particularly the ideology of nationalism and the contingent institution of the nation-state.

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JOSEPH LIOW CHIN YONG

is Associate Dean and Professor at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. He joined RSIS (formerly IDSS) in January 1997. Joseph obtained his Ph.D. from the London School of Economics and Political Science in June 2003. His research interests are in the field of Muslim politics (with specialization in Malaysia and Thailand), and the international politics of Southeast Asia. He teaches the RSIS M.Sc. course on Foreign Policy and Security Issues in Southeast Asia. Aside from this, he also teaches regularly at the Civil Service College, Home Team Academy, Civil Defence Academy, and occasionally at the Singapore Command and Staff Course, and has been invited to brief various government agencies on developments in Malaysia and southern Thailand. Joseph has been interviewed regularly in regional and international media, and also been engaged as a consultant for foreign government agencies and multi-national corporations. Joseph is the author of The Politics of Indonesia-Malaysia Relations: One Kin, Two Nations (London: RoutledgeCurzon, 2005), Muslim Resistance in Southern Philippines and Southern Thailand: Religion, Ideology, Politics (Washington D.C.: East-West Centre Washington, 2006), Islam, Education, and Reform in Southern Thailand: Tradition and Transformation (Singapore: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, 2009), Piety and Politics: Islamism in Contemporary Malaysia (New York: Oxford University Press, 2009), and editor of a forthcoming four volume series of essays on Islam with Routledge, titled Islam in Southeast Asia: Critical Concepts. He has also published numerous articles in major international peer-refereed journals such as Third World Quarterly, Commonwealth and Comparative Politics, Australian Journal of International Affairs, Contemporary Southeast Asia, Journal of Southeast Asian Studies, Asian Survey, South East Asia Research, Asian Security, Studies in Conflict and Terrorism, Asia Policy, Journal of Islamic Studies, Harvard Asia-Pacific Review, and NBR Analysis.

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KEVIN YL TAN

is Adjunct Professor at the School. He was born and educated in Singapore, graduating with LLB (Hons) from the Faculty of Law of the National University of Singapore in 1986. He joined the teaching staff of the same faculty that same year. Subsequently obtained his LLM (Masters of Law) and JSD (Doctor in the Science of Law) at Yale Law School in the United States. From 1986 to 2000, he taught at the Law Faculty, specializing in Constitutional and Administrative Law, Law and Government, Law and Society and International Human Rights. He resigned as Associate Professor in 2000 to start his own consultancy but continues to teach law on the part-time basis at both the National University of Singapore and the Nanyang Technological University. Beyond his university duties, he has been active in many organisations, serving as National Programme Commissioner in the Singapore Scout Association (1992-95); Council Member of the National Youth Achievement Award Council (since 1998), Singapore Red Cross Society (since 1999), CSCAP (since 1998), Board Member of the Preservation of Monuments Board (since 1998), Singapore Academy of Law Legal Heritage Committee (since 1999), Executive Director of the Society of International Law, Singapore (1998-2003), President, The Roundtable (1999-2002). Since 2001, he has been President of the Singapore Heritage Society.

He has published widely in his areas of specialization and his Constitutional Law in Malaysia and Singapore is the standard casebook in use in Malaysia and Singapore. He is author/ editor of Managing Political Change in Singapore: The Elected Presidency (Routledge, 1997); Lee's Lieutenants: Singapore's Old Guard (Allen & Unwin, 1999) (both with Lam Peng Er); The Singapore Legal System (Singapore University Press, 1999); Scouting in Singapore: 1910-2000 (Singapore Scout Association/National Archives, 2002) (with Wan Meng Hao),Essays in Singapore Legal History (Marshall-Cavendish Academic, 2004),Baden-Powell's Scouting for Boys: Singapore-Malaysia Edition(Brownsea, 2004), and Introduction to Singapore's Constitution(Talisman, 2005). Current work in progress includes a second collection of legal history essays, a book of essays on Singapore's constitution (with Thio Li-ann) and a book on media law (with Ang Peng Hwa).

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KHONG YUEN FOONG

is Senior Research Adviser at the School and Professor of International Relations and Fellow of Nuffield College, Oxford University. Between 1998-2000, he held senior administrative positions at IDSS while on leave from Oxford. He received his PhD from Harvard University in 1987 and was Assistant/Associate Professor in Harvard's Government Department from 1987-1994. His PhD dissertation was awarded Harvard's Sumner Prize for the best dissertation on war and peace; his book Analogies at War (Princeton, 1992; fifth printing 2002) won the 1994 Political Psychology Book Award of the American Political Science Association. A former Social Science Research Council-MacArthur Foundation Fellow on International Peace and Security and a United States Institute of Peace Fellow, he received the Erik Erikson Award for distinguished early career contribution to Political Psychology (1996). He has also served as Vice-President of the International Studies Association (1999-2000), and as a Committee Member of the Social Science Research Council Committee on International Peace and Security. He is on the editorial/advisory boards of International Security, The European Journal of International Relations, The International Relations of the Asia Pacific, and the Asian Security series of Stanford University Press. Recent works include a jointly authored book on Power in Transition: The Peaceful Change of International Order (United Nations University Press, 2001), a co-edited volume (with David Malone) on Unilateralism and U.S. Foreign Policy: International Perspectives (Lynne Rienner, 2003), and a co-authored book (with Neil MacFarlane) on Human Security and the United Nations: A Critical History (Indiana University Press, 2006). He is currently working on a book "America's Natural Allies and Adversaries: Identity and Power in U.S.-U.K. and U.S.-China Relations."

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KUMAR RAMAKRISHNA

is Associate Professor and the Head, Centre of Excellence for National Security at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS), Singapore. He obtained a 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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LEE DONGMIN

is an Assistant Professor at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. Dr. Lee's research interests include theories and practices of civil-military relations and security studies in Northeast Asia. He also pursues interests in comparative political economy that focus in particular on the politics of economic development and state theory. His teaching interests include the military in politics, comparative politics in Asia, and the politics and security policy of China and Korea.

He completed a Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Colorado at Boulder with his dissertation titled, Soldier and State: Continuing the Debate on Chinese Civil-Military Relations. Dr. Lee has contributed to the academic journals, Armed Forces & Society and Defence Studies. Prior to joining RSIS, he previously taught courses in International Relations at the University of Colorado and served as a Research Fellow at the Center for International & Strategic Studies (CISS) at Peking University.

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LEONARD C. SEBASTIAN

is Associate Professor, Head, Undergraduate Studies and Coordinator of the Indonesia Programme at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS). He is author of Realpolitik Ideology: Indonesia's Use of Military Force (Singapore: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, 2006) and his refereed articles have been published in the Journal of Strategic Studies, the Cambridge Review of International Affairs Contemporary Southeast Asia and a contributor to International Relations in Southeast Asia: The Struggle for Autonomy (Rowman & Littlefield, 2005). He is a member of the Advisory Panel to the Government Parliamentary Committee on Defence and Foreign Affairs (GPC-DFA). Dr Sebastian joined RSIS or as it was then called the Institute of Defence and Strategic Studies as Senior Fellow in October 2000. From February 1995 to September 2000 he was a Fellow at the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies (ISEAS). He received his PhD from the Australian National University in 1997 where he was affiliated to the Strategic and Defence Studies Centre of the Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies. In October 2003, Dr Sebastian was awarded a research grant from the United States Institute of Peace (USIP) after an open international competition to study militant Islamic movements in Indonesia. Research producing a book manuscript titled "Contesting Islam in Indonesia: A Contextual Study of Muslim Militancy". In April 2005 he was a Freeman Fellow participating in an Asia Foundation's study tour of the United States for emerging Southeast Asian leaders. He was awarded the Fulbright-Singapore Research Award and was a Visiting Fulbright Scholar at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs at Harvard University from September to December 2005. Dr Sebastian participated in the inaugural Program of the Presidential Friends of Indonesia hosted by the Department of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Indonesia (13-18 August 2008).

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LI MINGJIANG

is Assistant Professor at the School. His main research interests include the rise of China in the context of East Asian regional relations and Sino-US relations, China's diplomatic history, and domestic sources of China's international strategies. At RSIS, he teaches two courses: the History and International Politics of the Cold War and Chinese Security and Foreign Policy. He received his Ph.D. from Boston University in Political Science. He has also studied at the Foreign Affairs University (Beijing) and the Hopkins-Nanjing Center. He was a diplomatic correspondent for Xinhua News Agency from 1999 to 2001. Mingjiang has previously taught Political Science and Chinese Politics courses at Boston University, Tufts University, and Suffolk University. He has published and presented papers on China's domestic politics and foreign policy.

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MELY CABALLERO-ANTHONY

is Associate Professor at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS), Singapore. She also holds the concurrent positions of Coordinator of the RSIS Programme on Non-Traditional Security in Asia, and Coordinator of the Consortium of Non-Traditional Security Studies in Asia (NTS-Asia) Secretariat. Her research interests include regionalism and regional security in Asia Pacific, multilateral security cooperation, politics and international relations in Southeast Asia, conflict prevention and management, as well as human security. At RSIS, she teaches a course on Comparative Politics in Asia.

Dr Anthony's recent publications include, Regional Security in Southeast Asia: Beyond the ASEAN Way (Singapore: ISEAS, 2005); and co-edited books on UN Peace Operations and Asian Security(London and New York: Routledge, 2005), Studying Non-Traditional Security in Asia: Issues and Trends (Singapore: Michael Cavendish, 2006), and Understanding Non-Traditional Security in Asia: Dilemmas in Securitization (London: Ashgate, 2006). She has written extensively and published several articles on ASEAN and the ARF, as well as on security issues in the Asia Pacific in academic journals such as Asian Survey, Asian Perspective, Journal of International Affairs, Pacific Review, International Peacekeeping, Contemporary Southeast Asia, Southeast Asian Affairs, Asia Pacific Security Outlook and Indonesian Quarterly. She has also written a number of book chapters on regional security trends, non-traditional security issues, human security, and civil society.

Aside from her academic and research interests, Dr. Anthony has been active in Track II work in the region. She is a member of the Council for Security Cooperation in the Asia Pacific (CSCAP) Working Group on Peacekeeping and Peacebuilding; member of the Singapore national CSCAP committee; and associate member of the ASEAN Institutes of Strategic and International Studies (ASEAN-ISIS) network. Prior to her appointment at RSIS, she was Senior Analyst at the Institute of Strategic and International Studies (ISIS), Malaysia; Visiting Research Fellow, Japan Institute of International Affairs (JIIA), Japan; Research Officer, Centre of Asian Studies, University of Hong Kong; and Research Fellow, Institute of Southeast Asian Studies (ISEAS), Singapore.

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NORMAN VASU

is an Assistant Professor at the S Rajaratnam School of International Studies, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. He obtained a MA from the University of Glasgow in 1998 and a MSc in International Relations from the London School of Economics in 1999. In 2004, Dr Vasu received his doctorate in International Politics from the University of Wales at Aberystwyth.

Prior to his current role at the Centre of Excellence for National Security, he was a tutor at the Department of International Politics at the University of Wales Aberystwyth from 2000-2002. At the same University he was a lecturer on International Relations for the Centre for Widening Participation and Social Inclusion from 2002-2004. Dr Vasu was also a Post-Doctoral Fellow with the Institute of Defence and Strategic Studies, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore from April 2005 - March 06.

Dr Vasu has authored How Diasporic Peoples Maintain their Identity in Multicultural Societies: Chinese, Africans, and Jews (2008) and edited Social Resilience in Singapore: Reflections from the London Bombings (2007). He has published widely in journals such as Asian Ethnicity, The Kantian Review and Jane's Homeland and Security Monitor as well as writing for several newspapers on topics surrounding multiculturalism, national security and social resilience. His current research interests include the theories and practise of multiculturalism, transnational communities and nationalism.

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ONG WEICHONG

is a Research Fellow at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS), Nanyang Technological University. He is attached to the Military Studies Programme at the school's constituent unit, the Institute of Defence and Strategic Studies (IDSS). In addition, he is an Affiliated Researcher with the Department of Leadership and Management, Swedish National Defence College. He is also an external lecturer at the Goh Keng Swee Command and Staff College (GKS CSC), Singapore Armed Forces Advanced School (SAS) and Officer Cadet School (OCS), SAFTI Military Institute, Singapore where he is a primary lecturer for the Operations Other than War (OOTW) and the Campaign and War Studies (CWS) modules. In uniform, Weichong is a National Serviceman with the Civil Military Relations Group, Singapore Armed Forces.

Weichong completed his doctoral studies with the Centre for the Study of War, State and Society, University of Exeter, UK in 2010 where he was a recipient of research grants from the University of Exeter and the Royal Historical Society. His other academic qualifications include MSc Strategic Studies (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, 2006); BA History (University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK, 2005); and Cert History (University of Hull, UK, 2003). Weichong's articles, commentaries and op-eds have been published in the journal and magazine of the Singapore Armed Forces - Pointer and Pioneer, RUSI Journal, Straits Times, Lianhe Zaobao, Defense News, Khaleej Times, RSIS Commentary Series, Canadian Naval Review, Diplomatie and The Global Facilitation Network for Security Sector Reform ( GFN-SSR) Document Library.

Weichong's primary research interests are War Studies, Military History, International History, Counterinsurgency, Expeditionary Operations and Media in Conflict. He is happy to supervise MSc dissertations in any of the aforesaid subject areas.

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PRADUMNA BICKRAM RANA

is an international economist with expertise in the areas of international macroeconomics, trade, and development issues focusing on Asia. He is currently an Associate Professor at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies of the Nanyang Technological University (NTU). He was the Senior Director of the Asian Development Bank's (ADB's) Office of Regional Economic Integration which spearheaded the ADB's support for Asian economic integration. Prior to that, he held various senior positions at the ADB for many years. He has teaching and research experience at the NTU, NUS, and the Tribhuvan University (Nepal). He obtained his PhD from Vanderbilt University where he was a Fulbright Scholar and a Masters in Economics from Michigan State University and Tribhuvan University where he was a gold medalist. He has published widely in the areas of Asian economic development and integration, financial crises, and economic policy reforms in transition economies. These include 15 authored or edited books, over 25 chapters in books, and over 40 articles in international scholarly journals including Review of Economics and Statistics, Journal of International Economics, Journal of Development Economics, Journal of Asian Economics, World Development, Developing Economies, and Singapore Economic Review. Recently, he co-authored a book on South Asia: Rising to the Challenge of Globalization (World Scientific Publishers) and co-edited books on Pan-Asian Integration: Linking East and South Asia (Palgrave Macmillan) and National Strategies for Regional Integration: South and East Asian Case Studies (Anthem Press, UK). Presently, he is co-authoring a book on Asia and the Global Economic Crisis: Challenges in a Financially Integrated World (Palgrave Macmillan).

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RAJESH M. BASRUR

is Associate Professor at RSIS. He has obtained MA and M Phil degrees in History (Delhi) and MA and PhD in Political Science (Mumbai). Earlier, he was Director, Centre for Global Studies, Mumbai, India (2000-2007) and taught History and Politics at the University of Mumbai (1978-2000). He has engaged in post-doctoral research at RSIS (2006-2007), Stanford University (2002-2003), Sandia National Laboratories (2002), the Brookings Institution (2001-2002), the Henry L. Stimson Center (2001), the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (1995-96), and Simon Fraser University (1994).

His research interests encompass global nuclear politics, South Asian security, international relations theory and human security. He is the author of (with three others) The 2008 Mumbai Terrorist Attacks: Strategic Fallout (RSIS, forthcoming); South Asia's Cold War: Nuclear Weapons and Conflict in Comparative Perspective (Routledge, 1998); Minimum Deterrence and India's Nuclear Security (Stanford University Press, 2006); and India's External Relations: A Theoretical Analysis (Commonwealth Publishers, 2000). He has edited Challenges to Indian Democracy (Oxford University Press, 2009); (with Mallika Joseph) Reintroducing the Human Security Debate in South Asia (Samskriti, 2007); Security in the New Millennium (India Research Press, 2001); and Perspectives on India's Defence and Arms Control (University of Mumbai, 1999). He has published over 60 research papers and chapters in Contemporary South Asia, India Review, Journal of Peace Research, and other journals and edited volumes. His papers have also been published in French, German and Russian. He is also Associate, Pakistan Security Research Unit, Department of Peace Studies, University of Bradford; Associate Editor, India Review, and Member, International Board, Asian Security Monograph Series, Stanford University Press.

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RALF EMMERS

is Associate Professor and Head of the Centre for Multilateralism Studies at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS), Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore. He completed his MSc and PhD in the International Relations Department of the London School of Economics (LSE). His research interests cover security studies and international relations theory, maritime security, international institutions in the Asia-Pacific, and the security and international politics of Southeast Asia. Dr Emmers is the co-Series Editor of the Warwick Studies in Globalisation (Routledge Book Series) and an Editorial Board member of The Pacific Review.

Dr. Emmers’ professional activities have included serving as the Coordinator of the Multilateralism and Regionalism Programme at RSIS (2009-2010); as the Head of Graduate Studies at RSIS (2006-2009); as a Visiting Fellow at the Australian National University/Griffith University (2009), funded by the Australian Research Council (ARC) Center of Excellence in Policing and Security (CEPS); as a Participant at the CSCAP Study Group on Human Trafficking in the Asia-Pacific Region (2005); as a Ford Fellow on Non-Traditional Security in Asia (2003-05), Institute of Defence and Strategic Studies (IDSS); as an IDSS Post Doctoral Fellow in Asian Security (2002); and as a Research Associate at the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies (ISEAS), Singapore, and the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), Jakarta (2000). 

Dr Emmers is the author or editor of ten books and monographs and has contributed numerous journal articles and book chapters in edited volumes. He is the author of Geopolitics and Maritime Territorial Disputes in East Asia (Routledge, 2010), Cooperative Security and the Balance of Power in ASEAN and the ARF (RoutledgeCurzon, 2003) and Non-Traditional Security in the Asia-Pacific: The Dynamics of Securitization (Marshall Cavendish, 2004) and the co-author of The East Asia Summit and the Regional Security Architecture (University of Maryland School of Law, 2011). He is the editor of ASEAN and the Institutionalization of East Asia (Routledge, 2012) and the co-editor of The Five Power Defence Arrangements at Forty: Evolving to meet New Challenges (Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, forthcoming 2011), Security and International Politics in the South China Sea: Towards a Co-operative Management Regime (Routledge, 2009), Order and Security in Southeast Asia: Essays in Memory of Michael Leifer (Routledge, 2006), Understanding Non-Traditional Security in Asia: Dilemmas in Securitization (Ashgate, 2006), and of Non-Traditional Security in Asia: Trends and Issues (Marshall Cavendish, 2006). Additionally, he has published articles in peer-reviewed journals such as The Pacific Review, Asian Survey, Australian Journal of International Affairs, Asian Security, Harvard Asia Quarterly, Contemporary Southeast Asia, Contemporary Politics, Political Science, Pointer and Dialogue + Cooperation as well as numerous book chapters in edited volumes. He is one of the authors of a monograph on A New Agenda for the ASEAN Regional Forum (IDSS, 2002) and of An Agenda for the East Asia Summit (IDSS, 2005) as well as a contributor to International Relations in Southeast Asia: The Struggle for Autonomy (Rowman & Littlefield, 2005). 

Dr Emmers teaches a course on the Study of International Institutions as part of the MSc in International Relations at RSIS and lectures at the SAFTI Military Institute and the Home Team Command and Staff Course, Singapore.   

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RICHARD A. BITZINGER

is a Senior Fellow with the S.Rajaratnam School of International Studies, where his work focuses on military and defense issues relating to the Asia-Pacific region, including force modernization and defense transformation, regional local defense industries and armaments production, and weapons proliferation.

Mr. Bitzinger has written several monographs and book chapters, and his articles have appeared in such journals as International Security, Orbis, China Quarterly, and Survival. He is the author of Towards a Brave New Arms Industry? (Oxford University Press, 2003), "Come the Revolution: Transforming the Asia-Pacific's Militaries," Naval War College Review (Fall 2005), and Transforming the U.S. Military: Implications for the Asia-Pacific (ASPI, December 2006). He is also the editor of The Modern Defense Industry: Political, Economic and Technological Issues (Praeger, 2009).

Mr. Bitzinger was previously an Associate Professor with the Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies (APCSS), Honolulu, Hawaii, and has also worked for the RAND Corporation, the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Affairs, and the U.S. Government. In 1999-2000, he was a Senior Fellow with the Atlantic Council of the United States. He holds a Masters degree from the Monterey Institute of International Affairs and has pursued additional postgraduate studies at the University of California, Los Angeles.

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RICHARD CARNEY

is an Assistant Professor in International Political Economy at the School. His interests bridge finance and politics. He is the author of Contested Capitalism: The Political Origins of Financial Institutions, and the editor of Lessons from the Asian Financial Crisis. He has published articles in the Journal of East Asian Studies, French Politics, and New Political Economy. Prior to joining RSIS, he was a Jean Monnet/ Vincent Wright Fellow at the European University Institute in Florence, Italy and a visiting Assistant Professor at the Josef Korbel Graduate School of International Studies in Denver, Colorado. He received his PhD from the University of California, San Diego.

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ROHAN GUNARATNA

is Head, International Centre for Political Violence and Terrorism Research, S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies in Singapore. He is also Senior Fellow, Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy's Jebsen Centre for Counter-Terrorism Studies, Boston; Senior Fellow, National Memorial Institute for the Prevention of Terrorism, Oklahoma; Honorary Fellow and Member of the Advisory Council, International Policy Institute for Counter Terrorism, Israel; and Member, Steering Committee, George Washington University's Homeland Security Policy Institute. He holds a masters degree in international peace studies from Notre Dame, US, where he was Hesburgh Scholar and a doctorate in international relations from St Andrews, where he was British Chevening Scholar.

Gunaratna has over 20 years of academic, policy, and operational experience in counter terrorism. He led the specialist team that designed and built the UN database on the mobility, weapons and finance of Al Qaeda, Taliban and their Entities. He adviced Risk Management Solutions, California, to develop their US and Global Risk Models. He is the author of 12 books including "Inside Al Qaeda: Global Network of Terror," published by Columbia University Press, an international bestseller. He serves on the editorial boards of "Studies in Conflict and Terrorism" and "Terrorism and Political Violence," the leading counter-terrorism academic journals.

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RON MATTHEWS

is Professor in Defence Economics, Deputy Director of the Institute of Defence and Strategic Studies, and Head of Graduate and doctoral studies at RSIS. He holds the following degrees: BSc Behavioural Sciences (Aston University); MSc Financial Economics (University of Wales); MBA (Warwick University); and a PhD Development Economics (Glasgow University). Professor Matthews' research interests focus on defence industrialisation (particularly in relation to Asia-Pacific), countertrade, technology transfer and civil-military integration. He has been awarded Research Fellowships from NATO and the World Bank, has been a Visiting Researcher at the Hoover Institute of War, Revolution and Peace (Stanford University), at Capetown University, the National University of Singapore, and the Institute of Strategic Studies, Islamabad. He is presently also a Visiting Professor at Cranfield University, UK Defence Academy, Birmingham University, the Institute of Technology, Bandung, Indonesia, and at the Malaysian National Defence University. Professor Matthews has lectured at Harvard University and numerous other universities and institutions in North America, Europe and the Far East. He has also written and edited several books and numerous articles on defence industrialisation. The most recent publication (co-edited with Jack Treddenick) is entitled Managing the Revolution in Military Affairs. In 2006, Professor Matthews provided evidence to the House of Commons Select Committee on the UK Defence Industrial Strategy.

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J. Soedradjad Djiwandono

is Professor at RSIS. He served as a member of the Pro-tem Committee of Advisors to the Provost of NTU, 2006-2008. He is also Emeritus professor of Economics, the University of Indonesia. At RSIS he has taught courses that included Economics for IPE, Global and Regional Financial Crisis, and Indonesian Economy. At the University of Indonesia for many years he taught courses in Introduction to Micro and Macro Economics, International Trade and Monetary Economics.

Before joining RSIS, he was a Visiting Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies (ISEAS), from January 2001- August 2002. Previously he was a Development Associates at the Harvard Institute for International Development (HIID) and Visiting Scholar, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, with a grant from the Ford Foundation, September 1998-December 2000. He had a long career working in the Government of Indonesia that included posts in the Cabinet: Governor of Bank Indonesia, Indonesia's central bank (1993-1998) and State Minister of Trade, Republic of Indonesia (1988-1993). The previous posts, which he held within the GOI included Assistant Minister Coordinator for Economics, Finance and Industry, Head, Bureau of Monetary and State Finance, National Development and Planning Agency (BAPPENAS), Special Assistant to the Minister of Trade, Staff, Directorate General of Monetary Affairs, the Ministry of Finance, Head, Economic Division, National Institute for Economic and Social Research (LEKNAS), the Indonesia Institute for Sciences (LIPI)

Professor Djiwandono authored several books on trade and development, monetary and banking in Indonesia, including Bank Indonesia and the Crisis: An Insider's View, Singapore: ISEAS, 2004. He headed a team of writers, commissioned by the Board of Governors of Bank Indonesia to write a six-volume book, Sejarah Bank Indonesia 1945-2003, published in 2005, 2006, 2007 and 1010. A shorter, English version of it was published entitled Bank Indonesia: Its Journey through Indonesia's Development, 1953-2003, Jakarta: Bank Indonesia, 2009. He is in the process of rewriting his book on the Indonesian financial crisis with a view to the recent global financial crisis. He contributed chapters in a number of books as well as articles in journals, newspapers and news magazines on issues in monetary and banking, international trade and economic development of Indonesia.

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TAN SEE SENG

is Associate Professor and Head of Research for the Institute of Defence and Strategic Studies (IDSS), a constitutive element of RSIS. He previously directed the Multilateralism and Regionalism Programme and the Executive Education department at RSIS, and also served as Deputy Head of Graduate Studies. He consults regularly with agencies like the ASEAN Secretariat. He has published widely on regionalism and regional security in Asia, and maintains an interest in critical theory and post-positivist methodology in the study of the international relations of the Asia-Pacific. His books include the 4-volume Regionalism in Asia (Routledge, 2009), Bandung Revisited: The Legacy of the 1955 Asian-African Conference for International Order (NUS Press, 2008), Do Institutions Matter? Regional Institutions and Regionalism in East Asia (RSIS, 2008), The Role of Knowledge Communities in Constructing Asia-Pacific Security (Mellen, 2007), People's ASEAN and Governments' ASEAN (RSIS, 2007), Asia-Pacific Security Cooperation (M.E. Sharpe, 2004), After Bali: The Threat of Terrorism in Southeast Asia (World Scientific, 2003), etc. He has also published with peer-reviewed journals such as International Relations of the Asia-Pacific, The Pacific Review, Journal of Asian Studies, Contemporary Southeast Asia, International Peacekeeping, The Washington Quarterly, SAIS Review of International Affairs, Australian Journal of International Affairs, etc. He is a member of Singapore CSCAP. Prior to life in academia, he worked for a non-profit, faith-based organization.

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