Faculty

Dr Farish (Badrol Hisham)Ahmad-Noor

Associate Professor

Coordinator of PhD Programme

Education: PhD (University of Essex)

Areas of Expertise:

• Political Religion in South and Southeast Asia
• New Modes of Religio-political Mobilisation in Asia
• Religious Violence and Counter-Terrorism in Asia
• Malaysian and Indonesian Studies

Entity: GPO

Dr Mohamed Bin Ali

Assistant Professor

Education: BA (Al-Azhar University); MSc (RSIS, NTU); PhD (University of Exeter)

Areas of Expertise:

• Islamic Studies – Shariah Law, Theology
• Islam and Politics – Islamist Ideology, Salafism and Jihadism
• Religious Violence and Extremism
• Inter-religious Relations – Islam and the Religious Other
• De-Radicalisation and Rehabilitation of Violent Extremist Offenders

Entity: SRP

Dr Ang Cheng Guan

Associate Professor

Associate Dean of S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies; Deputy Director of Institute of Defence and Strategic 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: IDSS / RSIS

Dr Mely Caballero-Anthony

Professor

Head of Centre for Non-Traditional Security Studies

Education: BA Hons; MA (UP); PhD (HKU)

Areas of Expertise:

• Regionalism and Regional Security in the Asia-Pacific
• Non-Traditional Security
• Human Security, Comparative Politics and International Relations in Southeast Asia
• Conflict Prevention and Management, Human Rights, Democracy
• Human Security
• Migration and Protection of Civilian
• Responsibility to Protect

Entity: NTS Centre

Dr Alan Chong

Associate Professor

Acting Head of Centre for Multilateralism Studies; Deputy 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

Senior Fellow

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

Entity: NTS Centre

Dr Ralf Emmers

Dean of S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies and President’s Chair in International Relations

Education: BA (VUB-Vesalius College); MSc; PhD (LSE)

Areas of Expertise:

• Security Studies and International Relations Theory
• Maritime Security
• International Institutions in the Asia Pacific
• Security and International Politics of Southeast Asia

Entity: RSIS

Dr Xue Gong

Assistant Professor

Education: BPhil (NNU); MSc (RSIS, NTU); PhD (RSIS, NTU)

Areas of Expertise:

• China’s Economic Diplomacy
• Chinese Overseas Investments
• State-Firms Relations
• China-ASEAN Relations
• China’s CSR Activities

Entity: IDSS

Dr Rohan Gunaratna

Professor of Security Studies

Education: MA (University of Notre Dame); PhD (University of St Andrews)

Areas of Expertise:

• Islamic State and Al-Qaeda
• Counter-terrorism Intelligence
• Counter-terrorism Operations
• Countering the Financing of Terrorism
• Strategic Prevention
• Online Radicalization
• Rehabilitation and Reintegration

Entity: RSIS

Dr Irm Haleem

Assistant Professor

Manager (Research & Publications) at ICPVTR; Coordinator of MSc (International Relations) Programme

Education: BA (Eckerd College); MA (Northeastern University); PhD (Boston University)

Areas of Expertise:

• Conceptual Study of Violence
• Political Theory and Violence
• Social Philosophy and Violence
• Theory of Recognition and Violence
• Existentialism

Entity: ICPVTR

Dr Ahmed Salah Hashim

Associate Professor

Head of Horizon Threats and Strategies, IDSS

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 Paul Hedges

Associate Professor

Education: BA Hons; MA; PhD (University of Wales)

Areas of Expertise:

Interreligious Studies:

•   Interreligious Relations in Plural Societies.
•   Histories (C19th-today) of Interreligious Encounters.
•   Theories of Interreligious Encounters and Dialogue.
•   Interreligious Ethics.

Modern and Contemporary Christian Thought:

•  Theologies of Religions in Global Context.
•  Intercultural and Comparative Theologies.

Theory in the Study of Religion and Theology:

•  Definitions of Religion and Debates around Postcolonialism.

Other Areas:

• Sacred Space, Religious Architecture, and Pilgrimage.
• Death Studies and Religion.
• Religions in East, South, and Southeast Asia.

Entity: SRP

Dr Benjamin Ho

Assistant Professor

Education: BComm Hons (NTU); MSc (RSIS, NTU); PhD (LSE)

Areas of Expertise:

• Security Multilateralism in the Asia Pacific Region With a Focus on Regional Institutions and Fora
• Chinese Foreign Policy and Ethical Philosophy
• National Security (Intelligence)
• Sociology of Religion

Entity: IDSS

Dr Hoo Tiang Boon

Assistant Professor

Coordinator of MSc (Asian Studies) Programme

Education: BEng (NUS); MSc (NTU); PhD (University of Oxford)

Areas of Expertise:

• China’s Foreign and Security Policy
• US-China Relations
• China’s International Role
• Cross-strait Relations
• China’s Regional Relations

Entity: IDSS

Dr Jikon Lai

Assistant Professor

Education: BSc (LSE); MPhil (Oxon); PhD (ANU)

Areas of Expertise:

• International political economy
• Comparative politics
• Political economy of East Asia
• Global political economy of finance
• Politics of Islamic finance
• Economic governance and development

Entity: CMS

Dr Lee Jonghyuk

Assistant Professor

Education: BA (Korea University of Foreign Studies); MA (Harvard University); PhD (UCSD)

Entity: IDSS

Dr Su-Hyun Lee

Assistant Professor

Coordinator of MSc (International Political Economy) Programme

Education: BA (Korea University); MA (Korea University); PhD (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor)

Areas of Expertise:

• International and Comparative Political Economy
• International Trade and U.S. Trade Politics
• (Re)Distributive Politics
• Political Institutions, Parties and Party Systems
• Research Methods
• Developing Countries, and Korean Politics

Entity: CMS

Dr Li Mingjiang

Associate Professor

Coordinator of China Programme, IDSS

Education: BA; MA (Foreign Affairs University, Beijing); PhD (Boston)

Areas of Expertise:

• China’s Diplomatic History
• Domestic Sources of Chinese Foreign Policy
• China’s Relations with East Asian Nations and the United States
• Asia-Pacific Security
• The South China Sea Disputes
• The Rise of China and Its International Implications

Entity: IDSS

Dr Joseph Liow Chin Yong

Research Adviser, S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies and Tan Kah Kee Chair in Comparative and International Politics

Education: BA Hons (Wisconsin-Madison); MSc (RSIS, NTU); PhD (LSE)

Areas of Expertise:

• Asia Pacific Security Issues
• Comparative Politics of Southeast Asia
• Muslim Social and Political Movements in Southeast Asia

Entity: RSIS

Dr Anit Mukherjee

Assistant Professor

Deputy Head of Graduate Studies; Coordinator of South Asia Programme, IDSS

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: GPO / IDSS

Dr Ong Wei Chong

Assistant Professor

Education: BA (University of East Anglia, Norwich); MSc (IDSS, NTU); PhD (University of Exeter)

Areas of Expertise:

• Military History
• Strategic Studies
• War Studies
• Insurgency/Counterinsurgency
• Expeditionary Operations
• Civil-Military Relations
• Media/Information Operations

Entity: IDSS

Dr Kaewkamol Pitakdumrongkit

Assistant Professor

Deputy Head of Centre for Multilateralism Studies; Deputy Coordinator of International Political Economy Programme

Education: BA (California State University, Long Beach); MA; PhD (University of California)

Areas of Expertise:

• International Negotiations
• International Economic Governance (e.g. WTO, IMF, AIIB, CPTPP, RCEP)
• Regional-Global Economic Governance Dynamics
• Free and Open Indo-Pacific
• Economic Development
• ASEAN+3 Financial Cooperation
• ASEAN Economic Community and ASEAN’s External Economic Relations
• Mekong subregion

Entity: CMS

Dr Kumar Ramakrishna

Associate Professor

Associate Dean; Head of International Centre for Political Violence and Terrorism Research; Research Adviser to National Security Studies Programme

Education: BSSc Hons (NUS); M, Defence Studies (UNSW); PhD (Royal Holloway University of London)

Areas of Expertise:

• History of Strategic Thought
• Propaganda Theory
• Counter-insurgency Theory
• History of the Malayan Emergency (1948-60)
• Terrorist Motivations and Ideology
• Counter-terrorism Strategy

Entity: ICPVTR / NSSP / RSIS

Dr Michael Raska

Assistant Professor

Coordinator of Military Transformations Programme, IDSS

Education: BA (Missouri Southern State College); MA (Yonsei University); PhD (LKYSPP, NUS)

Areas of Expertise:

• Military Innovation: Theory, Processes, and Debate – Impact of emerging disruptive technologies and new types of armaments on military transformation and modernisation, particularly when it comes to new operational concept and new operating areas, especially in the maritime, air, and space domains;
• Security Conceptions, Strategic Trends, and Military Modernisation in East Asia: Regional approaches to military modernisation and its implications for the medium to long-term stability of the geo-strategic environment of the Asia Pacific;
• Information & Cyber Warfare: Cross-Domain Strategic Interactions – Implications of cyber and information warfare on international security; Long-range trends and developments when it comes to future warfare.

Entity: IDSS

Dr Evan Resnick

Assistant Professor

Coordinator for External Teaching

Education: BA Hons (York); MA; MPhil; PhD (Columbia University)

Areas of Expertise:

• International Relations Theory
• International Security Studies
• United States Foreign Policy, Defence Policy, and Grand Strategy
• Military Alliances
• Positive Sanctions and Statecraft

Entity: GPO

Dr Leonard C. Sebastian

Associate Professor

Coordinator of Indonesia Programme, IDSS

Education: BA Hons, Grad Dip Strategic Studies; MA (York University); PhD (ANU)

Areas of Expertise:

• Indonesian Politics
• Indonesian Defence and Security Policy
• Indonesian Foreign Policy Trends
• Political Islam and Militant Movements in Indonesia
• Indonesian Counter-terrorism Strategy
• Indonesian Political Economy and Decentralisation
• Singapore-Indonesia Relations
• Regional Security Developments in Southeast Asia with special reference to normative structures, the ASEAN Political and Security Community concept, and neo-classical realist approaches including the impact of domestic policy on foreign policy decision making
• Democratic Transitions in Asia
• Civil-military Relations in Asia.

Entity: IDSS

Dr Bhubhindar Singh

Associate Professor

Head of Graduate Studies

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

Areas of Expertise:

• Japanese Foreign Security Policy
• International Relations of Northeast Asia

Entity: GPO

Dr Sinderpal Singh

Senior Fellow

Coordinator of Regional Security Architecture Programme, IDSS

Education: BA (NUS); MA (ANU); PhD (Aberystwyth)

Areas of Expertise:

• Indian Foreign Policy
• IR Theory
• Asia’s International Politics
• Regionalism in International Politics
• Indian Ocean Security

Entity: IDSS

Dr Rafal Stepien

Assistant Professor

Deputy Coordinator of MSc (Asian Studies) Programme

Education: BA (UWA); BA Hons; MA (University of Oxford); M.Phil (University of Cambridge); MA; MPhil; PhD (Columbia University)

Areas of Expertise:

• Indian and Chinese Buddhist Philosophy and Literature
• Arabic and Persian Islamic Philosophy and Literature
• South and East Asian Religions
• Comparative Religion and Philosophy of Religion

Entity: SRP

Dr Kevin Tan Yew Lee

Professor

Education: LLB Hons (NUS); LLM; JSD (Yale)

Areas of Expertise:

• International Human Rights
• Public International Law
• Constitutional and Administrative Law
• Legal History
• The Singapore Legal System

Entity: RSIS

Dr Tan See Seng

Professor of International Relations

Education: BA Hons (Manitoba); MA (Manitoba); PhD (Arizona State University)

Areas of Expertise:

• Critical Social Thought
• International Relations Theory
• Multilateralism and Regionalism
• Conflict Management
• Politics and Security of Southeast Asia and the Asia Pacific

Entity: RSIS

Dr Norman Vasu

Senior Fellow

Deputy Head of Centre of Excellence for National Security

Education: MA Hons (Glasgow); MSc (LSE); PhD (Aberystwyth)

Areas of Expertise:

• Multiculturalism
• Ethnic relations
• Narratives of governance
• Citizenship
• Immigration
• National security

Entity: CENS

Dr Friedrich Wu

Adjunct Associate Professor

Education: BA Cum Laude (California State University, Chico); MA; PhD (Washington)

Areas of Expertise:

• Globalisation of the Chinese Economy and Enterprises
• Economic-Political Risk Analysis and Financial Crisis Forecasting
• ASEAN- China Relations

Entity: CMS