Faculty

Dr Ahmed Salah Hashim

Associate Professor

Education: BA (Warwick University); MSc (MIT); PhD (MIT)

Areas of Expertise:

• Middle East, South Asia, Southeast Asia Strategic Issues
• Strategic Theory and Military History
• Insurgency and Counterinsurgency
• Terrorism and Counter-Terrorism
• Cyber Warfare Doctrines
• Guerilla and Asymmetric Warfare
• Civil-Military Relations

Entity: IDSS

Dr Alan Chong

Associate Professor

Coordinator of MSc (International Relations) Programme

Education: BA; BSSc Hons (NUS); MSc; PhD (LSE)

Areas of Expertise:

• International Relations Theorizing of Southeast Asia
• Foreign Policy, Political Economy and Political Thought of Singapore
• Post-1945 Southeast Asian Political Thought
• Soft Power and International Communication
• Cybersecurity in Asia

Entity: CMS

Dr Alistair D. B. Cook

Research Fellow and Coordinator of Humanitarian Assistance and Disaster Relief Programme

Education: MA Hons (University of St Andrews); MA (Purdue); PhD (Melbourne)

Areas of Expertise:

• Humanitarian Assistance and Disaster Response
• Peace and Conflict
• Asia Pacific Regionalism
• Foreign Policy and Internal Conflicts in the Asia Pacific
• Myanmar
• Cambodia
• Nuclear Safety, Security and Safeguards

Entity: NTS Centre

Dr Ang Cheng Guan

Associate Professor

Head of Graduate Studies

Education: BA Hons (NUS); MA (University of London); PhD (University of London)

Areas of Expertise:

• Cold War International History of Southeast Asia and The Indochina Wars

Entity: GPO

Dr Anit Mukherjee

Assistant Professor

Education: BA (Jawaharlal Nehru University); MA; PhD (Johns Hopkins University)

Areas of Expertise:

• Civil-military Relations
• Defence Reforms, Counterinsurgency and India’s Foreign and Defence Policies
• South Asia Security

Entity: IDSS

Dr Arunajeet Kaur

Research Fellow

Education: BA (NUS); PGDip (NIE, NTU); MA (NUS); PhD (ANU)

Areas of Expertise:

• Migration
• Diaspora
• Multi culturalism
• Minority rights
• South East Asian communities
• ASEAN

Entity: NTS Centre

Dr Bernard Loo Fook Weng

Associate Professor

Coordinator of MSc (Strategic Studies) Programme

Education: BSSc Hons (NUS); MA (ANU); PhD (Aberystwyth)

Areas of Expertise:

• Defence Policy
• Evolution of Wafare
• Strategic Theory
• Conventional Military Strategies
• Strategic Problems of Small Powers
• Problems and Prospects of Military Transformation

Entity: IDSS

Dr Bhubhindar Singh

Associate Professor

Coordinator of Regional Security Architecture Programme, IDSS

Education: BA Hons (NUS); BA (NUS); MSc (RSIS, NTU); PhD (University of Sheffield)

Areas of Expertise:

• Japanese Foreign Security Policy
• International Relations of Northeast Asia

Entity: IDSS

Dr Chia-yi Lee

Assistant Professor

Education: BA (National Taiwan University); MA (National Taiwan University); MA (Washington University in St. Louis); PhD (Washington University in St. Louis)

Areas of Expertise:

• Political Economy
• International Politics
• Resource Politics
• Foreign Direct Investment
• Terrorism
• Quantitative Methods
• Game Theory

Entity: CMS

Dr Daniel Chua

Assistant Professor

Deputy Head of Graduate Studies

Education: BA Hons (NTU); MA (NTU): PhD (ANU)

Areas of Expertise:

• Singapore-United States Diplomatic History
• Cold War History
• Southeast Asian Diplomatic History
• Asia Pacific Security
• Strategic Studies

Entity: IDSS