About the Book

The contributors to this book explore approaches to building a framework for nuclear governance in the Asia-Pacific – encompassing nuclear safety, security, and safeguards/non-proliferation.

Nuclear governance collaboration offers an avenue for states in the Asia-Pacific to tackle the emerging opportunities for and challenges to the peaceful uses of nuclear energy and the civilian applications of nuclear and radioactive materials. The nature of national actions, bilateral initiatives and regional cooperation in capacity building taking place in East Asia provides a good foundation to pursue a more robust collaborative framework for nuclear governance in the wider Asia-Pacific region. The contributors to this book explore the most critical nuclear safety, security and non-proliferation issues faced by states in the Asia-Pacific and the growing cooperation spearheaded by Southeast Asian countries, China, Japan, South Korea and the United States.

This book is a valuable read for academics, students, and professionals working on security and strategic studies, international relations, non-traditional security issues as well as nuclear-related issues.

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About the Editors

Mely Caballero-Anthony holds the President’s Chair of International Relations and Security Studies at the Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. She is also Head of the Centre for Non-Traditional Security Studies at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS), Nanyang Technological University. Prof Anthony is currently a member of the Asia-Pacific Leadership Network on Nuclear Non-Proliferation (APLN). From 2013 to 2017, Prof Anthony served on the UN Secretary-General’s Advisory Board on Disarmament Matters (ABDM) and was its Chairperson in 2016. She was Director of External Relations at the ASEAN Secretariat from 2011 to 2012. Her research interests include regionalism and multilateralism in Asia-Pacific, global governance, human security and non-traditional security, nuclear security and conflict prevention. She has published extensively on a broad range of security issues in the Asia Pacific. Her latest books include Negotiating Governance on Non-Traditional Security in Southeast Asia (Columbia University Press, 2018).

Julius Cesar I. Trajano is Research Fellow with the Centre for Non-Traditional Security Studies at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. He is also presently a member of the leadership team of the International Nuclear Security Education Network and is a member of the Council for Security Cooperation in the Asia-Pacific – Nuclear Energy Experts Group. Mr Trajano conducts policy research studies and has publications (book chapters, articles, op-ed commentaries, policy reports) on non-traditional security issues, particularly on nuclear security and safety governance in the Asia-Pacific, peacebuilding, and environmental security. His latest publications include “Ready for Nuclear Energy?: A Policy Review of the Philippines’ Nuclear Energy Plan and Participation in the ASEAN Network of Regulatory Bodies on Atomic Energy” (International Journal of Nuclear Security, 2022).

About the Authors

Tom Corben is Research Associate in the Foreign Policy and Defence Program at the United States Studies Centre. He was previously a resident Lloyd and Lilian Vasey Fellow with Pacific Forum, where he worked on Japanese and Korean domestic politics and foreign policy, and Australia’s engagement with Northeast Asia. Tom has published widely on these issues for a range of platforms, including The Diplomat, East Asia Forum and The Strategist. He has been a tutor in Australian Foreign Policy at the University of New South Wales and is a Pacific Forum Young Leader.

Trevor Findlay is a Principal Fellow at the School of Social and Political Sciences, University of Melbourne, Australia. After an early career in the Australian Foreign Service, serving in Tokyo, Mexico City and Geneva, he held academic positions at the Australian National University, Carleton University in Ottawa and at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard University. He has served on the United Nations Secretary-General’s Advisory Board on Disarmament Matters and Board of Trustees of United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research and chaired both bodies in 2017. Professor Findlay’s research focuses on global nuclear governance, especially nuclear safety, security and non-proliferation, as well as Asia-Pacific regional nuclear governance. He is a leading scholar on the work of the International Atomic Energy Agency. His most recent work, Transforming Safeguards Culture: Iraq, the IAEA and the Future of Nonproliferation, was published by MIT Press for Harvard in 2022. His website is nucleargovernance.com.

David Santoro is President of the Pacific Forum. He specialises in strategic deterrence, arms control and non-proliferation. Santoro’s current interests focus on great-power dynamics and US alliances, particularly the role of China in an era of nuclear multipolarity. His new volume, U.S.-China Nuclear Relations – The Impact of Strategic Triangles, was published by Lynne Rienner in May 2021. Santoro also leads several of the Forum’s track-1.5 and track-2 strategic dialogues.

Doonyapong Wongsawaeng is Associate Professor at the Department of Nuclear Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Chulalongkorn University, Thailand. He received his Ph.D. in Nuclear Engineering from the University of California at Berkeley. His current research focuses on nuclear engineering, plasma hydrogenation, radiation processing, biodiesel and uranium extraction from seawater.

Daojiong Zha is Professor at the School of International Studies and Institute of South-South Cooperation and Development, Peking University. His areas of expertise include international political economy and China’s international economic relations, particularly the fields of energy and natural resources, development aid and the economics-political nexus in the Asia Pacific region. In recent years, his research has extended to political and social risk management for Chinese corporations engaged in non-financial investments abroad. He has served as non-resident fellow in a number of public policy think tanks and advisory member.