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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.
	Rajesh M. Basrur 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 South Asia’s Cold War: Nuclear Weapons and Conflict in Comparative Perspective (Abingdon: Routledge, forthcoming); Minimum Deterrence and India’s Nuclear Security (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2006); and India’s External Relations: A Theoretical Analysis (New Delhi: Commonwealth Publishers, 2000). He has also edited (with Mallika Joseph) Reintroducing the Human Security Debate in South Asia (New Delhi: Samskriti Publishers, 2007); Security in the New Millennium (New Delhi: India Research Press, 2001); and Perspectives on India’s Defence and Arms Control (Mumbai: University of Mumbai, 1999). He is currently editing a volume on Challenges to Indian Democracy for the Nehru Centre, Mumbai. He has published over 50 research papers and chapters in Journal of Peace Research, Contemporary South Asia, India Review and other journals and edited volumes. His papers have also been published in French and Russian. He is a member of the International Board, Asian Security Monograph Series, Stanford University Press.
	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.
	Richard Carney is an Assistant Professor in International Political Economy at the School. His interests bridge finance and politics. He is currently working on a book project on the political origins of modern capitalism among OECD countries in order to make projections about the future of capitalism in China. Richard received his MA and PhD at the University of California, San Diego in 2003. He completed his dissertation, “ The Political Economy of Financial Systems: Explaining Varieties of Capitalism,” under the supervision of Peter Gourevitch and Miles Kahler. Subsequently, he was awarded the Jean Monnet/ Vincent Wright Fellowship at the European University Institute in Florence, Italy, where he published several articles on politics and the structure of nation financial systems. Richard has since taught courses on international political economy, varieties of capitalism, and international monetary relations at the Graduate School of Asian Studies in Denver. He has been invited to give presentations at numerous universities in North America, Europe, and Asia, including the European University Institute, Oxford, the LSE, and Harvard Business School.
	Chang Youngho is jointly appointed as an Assistant Professor at RSIS and with the Department of Economics, HSS, NTU. He is a Member of R&D Workgroup and Households Sub-Committee of the National Climate Change Committee (N3C). He specializes in the economics of climate change, the economics of renewable resources, energy security, oil and economy, and electricity market deregulation. His current research interests are oil price fluctuation and macroeconomic performance, the economics of energy security, the transition of resource use in an economy, the economics of sustainability, energy use and climate change, and the effectiveness of a new market structure in a deregulated electricity market. He was an Assistant Professor in the Department of Economics at the National University of Singapore and taught Resource and Energy Economics, Environmental Economics, Macroeconomics, Principles of Economics, and Economics of the Environment. He has published papers in academic journals like Econometric Theory, Economics Letters, Energy Policy, International Journal of Global Energy Issues, and International Journal of Electronic Business Management. Apart from academic publication, he carried out consultation projects for the public and private sector including analysis of the effectiveness of new market structure in electricity industry, understanding the drivers for ethanol demand and the costbenefit analysis of the Kyoto Protocol for Singapore. He also worked for international academic associations such as the International Association for Energy Economics (IAEE) as a member of the organizing committee for its annual conferences and a judge for best student paper competition for the IAEE conference. He was a degree fellow at the East-West Center, Hawaii and received his Ph.D. (in Economics) from University of Hawaii at Manoa, U.S.A.
	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.
	Karim Douglas S. Crow serves as Associate Professor in Contemporary Islam at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore from September 2006. Born and raised in Beirut of Lebanese- American parentage, Professor Crow took his university education in Beirut and Cairo, and his Doctorate from The Institute of Islamic Studies at McGill University (Montreal). During 1980–1992 he taught Islamic Studies and Arabic Language and Literature at: Columbia University, New York University, Fordham University, The University of Virginia, and the University of Maryland. In 1999 & 2000–2005 he served as Professor of Islamic Thought teaching philosophy, theology and intellectual traditions at The International Institute of Islamic Thought and Civilisation (ISTAC) in Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia). Dr. Crow has published articles and book chapters on Islamic metaphysics, contemporary Islamic intellectual & spiritual currents, Islamic peace studies, and values & ethics; and an edited volume Facing One Qiblah: Legal and Doctrinal Aspects of Sunni and Shi‘a Muslims (Singapore, Pustaka Nasional, 2005). He has been conducting research for many years on Islamic understandings of intelligence¬reason, and his textual study of tradition history ‘When God Created Wisdom’: Islamic ‘Aql Creation Narratives is under consideration by Brill Publishers. He is now working on an historical survey of Islam and Rationality, a book on the wisdom of the Prophet Muhammad, and a monograph on the life and thought of imam Ja‘far al-Sadiq (d.148 H /765 CE). Dr. Crow is an Advisor for several non-governmental programs and institutions treating Islamic peace issues in the Arab world and Southeast Asia. During 1996—2000 he directed the project ‘ Islam and Peace’ for the international NGO Nonviolence International (Washington D.C.), traveling to numerous countries in the Muslim world. Since 2000– he serves as curriculum advisor for an NGO program in Aceh (Indonesia) on Peace education for high school youth; and as Consultant for an internationally funded peace training program with the Ulama of Aceh. Combining scholarship in a wide range of interests with community engagement in Peace education, Dr. Crow’s life and work bridges the Muslim world and the West.
	J.Soedradjad Djiwandono is Emeritus Professor of Economics, the University of Indonesia, and Professor of Economics for IPE at the School. Previously he was a Visiting Senior Fellow, Institute of Southeast Asian Studies (ISEAS), and a Development Associate at the Harvard Institute for International Development (HIID), Harvard University, USA. While assuming his teaching at the Faculty of Economics of the University of Indonesia, he has had a long career in government in Indonesia, working in different capacities, including Bureau Head in the National Development Planning Agency (Bappenas), Special Assistant to the Minister of Trade, and Assistant Minister Coordinator for Economics, Finance and Industry. He has also held cabinet posts in the Soeharto government, notably a five year-term as the State Minister of Trade and another five year-term as Governor of Bank Indonesia, Indonesia’s central bank. Dr Djiwandono earned a BA in Economics from Gajah Mada University (1963), an MSc in Economics (1966) from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA, an MA in Political Economy (1978) and a PhD in Economics (1980) from Boston University, USA, specialising in Monetary Economics, International Trade and Development Economics. Dr Djiwandono has authored several books (mostly written in Bahasa Indonesia) including two books that were published in 2001 on the financial and banking crisis in Indonesia. His latest book, Bank Indonesia and the Crisis: An Insider’s View, was published by the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies (ISEAS), Singapore in 2005 and was reprinted in August 2006. In the last two years he has led a team commissioned by Bank Indonesia to write a six-volume book on the history of Bank Indonesia, the Indonesia’s central bank, covering a period of 1945 –2003, which will be completed by the end of 2007. He has contributed book chapters, articles in leading journals such as the Bulletin of Indonesian Economic Studies and Asia Business Law Review, as well as articles for newspapers and news magazines on Indonesia’s trade, monetary and banking policies and experiences.
	Deborah Elms is an Assistant Professor at the School. Her research interests in decision making bridge economics and security studies. Her current research project explores the contributions of behavioral economics and political psychology. She received a PhD in Political Science from the University of Washington. Her dissertation examined bilateral market access disputes between the United States, Japan, South Korea and Thailand. She also received an MA from the University of Southern California. Dr. Elms has published articles and book reviews in International Negotiation, Political Psychology and Comparative Political Studies. She has also contributed case studies on the Bangladeshi child garment workers, U.S. -Japan auto and auto parts dispute, and the discussions over intellectual property rights in the Doha Round of the World Trade Organization (WTO) to Georgetown University’s Institute for the Study of Diplomacy series. Prior to joining IDSS in 2005, Dr Elms served as a Lecturer at the University of Washington, teaching courses in international political economy, international relations, military intervention and American foreign policy.
	Ralf Emmers is Associate Professor and Head of Graduate 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, international institutions and regionalism in the Asia-Pacific, maritime security, and the security and international politics of Southeast Asia. His publications include 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). Dr Emmers is the co-editor with Joseph Liow of Order and Security in Southeast Asia: Essays in Memory of Michael Leifer (RoutledgeCurzon, 2006), of a co-edited book with Mely C. Anthony and Amitav Acharya called Understanding Non-Traditional Security in Asia: Dilemmas in Securitization (Ashgate, 2006), and of a collection of essays with Mely C. Anthony and Amitav Acharya entitled Non-Traditional Security in Asia: Trends and Issues (Marshall Cavendish, 2006). He is the author of journal articles in The Pacific Review, Asian Survey, Australian Journal of International Affairs, Contemporary Southeast Asia, Pointer and Dialogue + Cooperation and of chapters in edited volumes. He is also one of the authors of an IDSS monograph on A New Agenda for the ASEAN Regional Forum (2002) and 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.
	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.
	John Harrison is an Assistant Professor at RSIS and Manager of Terrorism Research at the International Center for Political Violence and Terrorism Research. He is also the Coordinator for the Transportation Security program at the Center for Excellence in National Security. He is one of the leading specialists on aviation security and has made presentations at many international conferences including the 34th IAASP Annual Conference in Taipei in 2005, Euro Defense Conference Edinburgh 2004, Air Cargo Conference Brussels 2004, International Society of Aviation Psychologists Dayton Ohio 2003 As well as the Changing Face of Terrorism Conference in Singapore in 2003 where his presentation “The Changing Face of Aviation Terrorism” was publication in Dr Gunaratna’s book “ The Changing Face of Terrorism”. He has briefed a wide range of government and private sector bodies. Dr Harrison holds a PhD in International Relations for St Andrews University and M.litt in International Security Studies for St Andrews, as well as an MA in Political Science from the American University in Washington DC and a BA in Political Science from Wheeling Jesuit University. He has also worked for and on various political campaigns in the US and Scotland.
	Khong Yuen Foong is Senior Research Adviser and Professor at the School and a Fellow of Nuffield College and Professor of International Relations at 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 new project, courtesy of a Leverhulme Trust Fellowship, on “America’s Natural Allies and Adversaries: Identity and Power in U.S.-U.K. and U.S.-China Relations.”
	Terence Lee is Assistant Professor at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, Nanyang Technological University of Singapore. He was previously a Postdoctoral Fellow in National Security at the John M. Olin Institute for Strategic Studies, Harvard University, from September 2006 to June 2007. Dr Lee earned his Ph.D. and M.A degrees in Political Science from the University of Washington, Seattle. He also holds a M.Sc. in Strategic Studies from the Nanyang Technological University and a Bachelor of Arts (Distinction) degree in Political Science and Southeast Asian Studies from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Dr Lee has held academic positions at the Institute for Southeast Asian Studies in Singapore and the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore. He received the United States Institute of Peace Jennings Randolph Program for Peace Dissertation Fellowship in 2005. His research interests include international relations theory, international security, comparative politics, civil-military relations theory and Southeast Asian politics. Dr Lee’s publications on aspects of Southeast Asian civil-military relations and politics have appeared in Asian Survey, Armed Forces and Society and Foreign Policy.
	Joey Long received his PhD in History from the University of Cambridge in 2006. He is Assistant Professor at the  S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, and is a student of the history of American foreign relations. He has published in refereed journals such as Contemporary Southeast Asia, South East Asia Research, and Rethinking History, and has contributed articles to edited volumes on Singapore’s history and water security. His op-ed pieces on U.S. policy toward Asia have also appeared in the Straits Times. Fellowships and awards he has received include the University of Cambridge History Faculty Dissertation Grant (2006); the Lawrence Gelfand-Armin Rappaport Fellowship from the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations (2005); and the Holland Rose Trust Award from the University of Cambridge (2004).
	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.
	Joseph Liow Chin Yong is an Associate Professor and Head of Research (IDSS) at RSIS. He joined the School in January 1997. Dr Liow’s research interests include the international politics of Southeast Asia, Muslim politics in Southeast Asia (focusing primarily on Malaysia and Thailand), and the domestic politics and foreign policies of Malaysia. He completed his PhD at the International Relations Department of the London School of Economics (LSE). Dr Liow teaches the courses “Foreign Policy and Security Issues in Southeast Asia” and “State, Society, and Politics in Malaysia” in the graduate programme. Aside from several book chapter contributions, Dr Liow has also published in journals such as Asia Policy, Asian Survey, Asian Journal of Political Science, Contemporary Southeast Asia, South East Asia Research, Third World Quarterly, Australian Journal of International Affairs, Commonwealth and Comparative Politics, Studies in Conflict and Terrorism, and Journal of Southeast Asian Studies. He is also author of The Politics of Indonesia-Malaysia Relations: One Kin, Two Nations (RoutledgeCurzon, 2005), Muslim Resistance in Southern Thailand and Southern Philippines: Religion, Ideology, and Politics (East-West Centre, 2006), and co-editor (with Ralf Emmers) of Order and Security in Southeast Asia: Essays in Memory of Michael Leifer (Routledge Curzon, 2005). His ongoing research projects include Islamic education in Thailand, and Muslim politics in Malaysia in the context of a plural society. Besides overseeing all IDSS research programmes as Head of Research, Dr Liow is also coordinator of the School’s Civil and Internal Conflict Programme and Contemporary Islam Programme.
	Bernard Loo Fook Weng is an Assistant Professor at RSIS, specialising in war studies, conventional military strategies and strategic problems of middle powers. He completed his doctoral studies at the Department of International Politics, University of Wales, Aberystwyth, under the auspices of an IDSS scholarship in 2002. From 1991 to 1997, he was a Military History Officer at the Department of Strategic Studies, SAFTI Military Institute, after obtaining an MA (Strategic Studies) at the Strategic and Defence Studies Centre, Australian National University under a John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation scholarship in 1991. He is the author of Medium Powers and Accidental Wars: A Study in Conventional Strategic Stability (Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen Press, 2005). He is concurrently the Coordinator of the Revolutions in Military Affairs Research Programme at the School.
	Ron Matthews is Professor in Defence Economics and Deputy Director of the Institute of Defence and Strategic 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, at 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.
	C. Raja Mohan is currently a 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).
	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).
	Christopher Roberts is a Post Doctoral Fellow at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS) in Singapore. Chris received his PhD from the University of New South Wales and previously completed a two year Masters in Asian Studies at the University of Southern Queensland. His PhD dissertation was supervised by Professor James Cotton and examined the challenges to security, cooperation and integration in Southeast Asia. Chris has been the recipient of a number of awards and scholarships including the Endeavour Australia Cheung Kong Award in 2005. He recently conducted survey and interview work throughout the Southeast Asian nations that examined regional perceptions concerning ASEAN as well as issues such as trust, conflict, democracy, religion and transnational crime. His publications have ranged from integration and cooperation in ASEAN to more specific issues such as poor governance in Myanmar.
	Leonard C. Sebastian is Associate Professor at RSIS and Coordinator of the Indonesia Programme. 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 and Contemporary Southeast Asia. He is a member of the Advisory Panel to the Government Parliamentary Committee on Defence and Foreign Affairs (GPC-DFA). Dr Sebastian joined IDSS as Senior Fellow in October 2000. From February 1995 to September 2000 he was a Fellow at the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies (ISEAS). Prior to joining ISEAS, he worked for the Current Affairs Division of the-then Singapore Broadcasting Corporation (1988-89). Dr Sebastian graduated from York University, Canada in 1987 with a specialised honours degree in History, in the process winning the Department of History’s International Churchill Society Award. He received a York University tuition waiver scholarship and graduate assistantship to pursue a Masters degree in Political Science and a Graduate Diploma in Strategic Studies which was conferred in 1991 (Distinction). In 1992, he was awarded a scholarship by the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies and completed a PhD in Politics and International Relations 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. He has held consultancies with the Center for Information on Security Trade Control (CISTEC), Japan, the Trade Development Board (TDB), Singapore, and International IDEA, Sweden, and lectured at the Singapore Command and Staff College at the SAFTI Military Institute. While on the staff of ISEAS he was a Member of CSCAP-Singapore serving on the Working Group on Confidence and Security Building Measures (CSBM). 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. 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.
	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).
	Kevin YL Tan is Adjunct Associate 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).
	Tan See Seng is Associate Professor and Coordinator of Executive Education at the School. He also serves as Coordinator of the Multilateralism and Regionalism Programme (which, by 2007, will become the Centre for the Advanced Study of Regionalism and Multilateralism). His research interests include critical-social international relations theory, multilateralism and regionalism, conflict prevention and management and foreign policy analysis. He is the author of Constructing Asia-Pacific Security: Knowledge Communities and the Politics of Epistemic Agency (forthcoming), and is currently writing a book on Asia-Pacific international relations theory. He is the editor of States and Their Subalterns: Identity and Contestation in Southeast Asia, Asia- Pacific Security Cooperation: National Interests and Regional Order (with Amitav Acharya), After Bali: The Threat of Terrorism in Southeast Asia (with Kumar Ramakrishna), An Agenda for the East-Asian Summit: 30 Recommendations for Regional Cooperation in East Asia (with Ralf Emmers). He has contributed to various anthologies as well as to refereed journals such as International Relations of the Asia-Pacific, The Pacific Review, The Washington Quarterly, The SAIS Review of International Affairs, International Peacekeeping, Journal of Asian Studies, Contemporary Southeast Asia, etc. He is a member of the Singapore national committee of CSCAP. Prior to joining IDSS, he worked for a religious NGO. He attended the University of Manitoba, Arizona State University, and Fuller Theological Seminary.
	Shiping Tang is a Senior Fellow at the School. He has a B. A. in Paleontology from China University of Geosciences (1985), an M. A. in molecular biology from University of Science and Technology of China (1988), a Ph. D. in molecular biology & genetics from Wayne State University School of Medicine (1995), and an M. A. in Asian Studies from University of California at Berkeley (1999). He has published widely in both Chinese and English journals and contributed chapters to various edited volumes and commentaries to various newspapers. His most recent publications include “A Systemic Theory of the Security Environment,” Journal of Strategic Studies (2004, lead article), “Reputation, Cult of Reputation, and International Conflicts,” Security Studies (2005), The Evolution of Regional States’ post- Cold War China Policy (Beijing: World Affairs Press, 2005, coeditor. In Chinese), “China’s Regional Strategy,” in David Shambaugh ed, Power Shift: China and Asia’s New Dynamics (University of California Press, 2005. contributor, with Zhang Yunling); and “Correspondence: Reassurance and Uncertainty in International Politics,” International Security (2007). He has finished a book manuscript, titled, “Defensive Realism: A Systematic Statement”. He is now working on another book, “Social Evolution of International Politics”.
	Norman Vasu is an Assistant Professor and 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.
	Friedrich Wu is Adjunct Associate Professor of International Political Economy at the School. He is concurrently a Visiting Senior Research Fellow at the East Asian Institute, National University of Singapore. Before the current appointments, 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 many book chapters, peer-reviewed international academic journals, and trade magazines including, among others, Asia-Pacific Business Review (UK), Asian Wall Street Journal (Hong Kong), California Management Review (USA), China Business Review (USA), Columbia Journal of World Business (USA), Far Eastern Economic Review (Hong Kong), International Trade Journal (USA), 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), and World Economics (UK).
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