PhD Student Profiles

Education: BA (Zhejiang University); MA (The Chinese University of Hongkong, Shenzhen)

Thesis Title: Technology Policy and Great Power Competitions

Research Interest:

• U.S.-China Technology Competition
• U.S. Foreign Policy
• China’s Industrial Policy

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Education: B. Political Science (International Relations, Parahyangan Chatolic University); MSc (Defence Management, Indonesian Defence University affiliated with Cranfield University)

Thesis Title: Parliamentary Oversight and Intelligence Reform in the Post Reformasi Indonesia

Research Interest:

• Security Sector Reform in Indonesia
• Intelligence Studies
• Civil-Military Relations

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Education: BA (Azusa Pacific University); MA (University of Southern California)

Thesis Title:Is the Best Yet to Come? Gen XYZ Support for Israel in a Multireligious Context

Research Interest:

• Israel-Singapore Relations
• Singaporean Evangelical, Pentecostal, and Charismatic Christianity
• Philosemitism
• Public Diplomacy
• Track 1.5 Diplomacy

Email: [email protected]

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Education: BSc (Hons) (Rutgers University – New Brunswick); MA (Columbia University); MSc (S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies – Nanyang Technological University)

Thesis Title: Renminbi Internationalization on China’s Political Power: A Regime Type, and Country Income Level Analysis

Research Interest:

• International Political Economy
• Comparative Political Economy
• International Finance Institutions
• Global Financial Architecture

Email: [email protected]

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Education: BA (National University of Singapore); PGDE (National Institute of Education-Nanyang Technological University); MSc (S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies-Nanyang Technological University)

Thesis Title:Feeling Confident: How Leaders Make War Decisions

Research Interest:

• Political Psychology
• Role of emotions in international politics and war
• Judgment and decision-making in war

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Education: Masters in Communication (Purdue University)

Thesis Title: Exploring Political Identity Formation Among Stateless Rohingya

Research Interest:

• Statelessness and human rights
• Transnational social movements
• Political Identity
• Conflict Resolution

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Education: BA (Communication University of China); MA (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)

Thesis Title: Winning hearts and minds in Southeast Asia: Understanding the soft power approach in Chinese foreign policy

Research Interest:

• Media and Politics
• Global Communication in International Relations
• Chinese Nationalism

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Education: BA (Al-Azhar University, Cairo); MSc (S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies-Nanyang Technological University)

Thesis Title: Religious Extremism in India and its Influence on the Diaspora

Research Interest:

• Islam (Theology and Shariah) and Inter-religious Relations
• Religious violence and Islamist Extremism
• Counterterrorism and De-Radicalisation

Email: [email protected]

Education: BA (Hankuk University of Foreign Studies); MPP (Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, NUS)

Thesis Title: Change in Japan’s Security Orientation: A Strategic Cultural Explanation

Research Interest:

• Japanese Security Policy
• Strategic Culture

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Education: BSocSc(Hons) (Hong Kong Baptist University); MSc (S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies-Nanyang Technological University)

Thesis Title: China’s Activism in Regional Integration along the Borders: A Subnational Analysis

Research Interest:

• Regional Integration
• Domestic Source of Foreign Policy
• Economic Governance
• China-Southeast Asian Relations

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Education: BA (Australian National University); MSc (S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies-Nanyang Technological University)

Thesis Title: The subnational push for palm oil sustainability governance

Research Interest:

• Comparative Political Economy
• Global Governance
• Environmental Politics

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Education: BA (George Mason University); MA (Georgetown University)

Thesis Title:Understanding the Logic Behind Military Responses to Events Threatening Authoritarian Regime Survival

Research Interest:

• Civil-Military Relations
• China’s Security Issues
• Chinese Intelligence History

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Education: BA (Wuhan University); MSc (S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies-Nanyang Technological University)

Thesis Title: Detangling Terrorism’s Impact on Foreign Investment: How Do Domestic Politics and Investment Incentives Matter

Research Interest:

• Comparative Political Economy
• Political Violence
• Foreign Investment
• Environment

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Education: BA (UCLA); MS (Thunderbird); MA (John Hopkins)

Thesis Title: Suicide Bombings in Indonesia and the Philippines: A Comparative Case Study of Salafi Jihadi Organizations and Individuals

Research Interest:

• Terrorist Organizations and Strategies
• Islamic State and Al-Qaeda
• Counter-terrorism and Counter-insurgency
• Countering Foreign Influence Operations
• Asymmetric Warfare

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Education: BSc Economics (University of the Philippines, Diliman); MPP (Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore); Ph.D. Candidate, International Political Economy (S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)

Thesis Title: The Failure of “Induced Innovation” in the Philippine Rice Sector: Insights from Farm-Level Analysis and Inter-Country Comparisons

Research Interest:

• Food Security
• Structural Transformation and Agricultural Transformation
• Dynamic Modelling of Public Policy Systems
• Statistical Modelling

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Education: BA (Adams State College); BComm (Nanyang Technological University); MSc (S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies-Nanyang Technological University)

Thesis Title: Understanding the Outcomes of US-led Minilaterals

Research Interest:

• Political Psychology
• Decision-Making
• International Institutions
• Organizational Behaviour

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Education: BA (Juniata College US); MA (Qatar University)

Thesis Title: Why Some Resource-abundant Countries Choose to Industrialize While Others Do Not: the Case of MENA Countries

Research Interest:

• Comparative Political Economy
• Energy Security
• Industrial Policy
• Middle East and North Africa

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Education: BA (University of Delhi (Hons); MA (University of Delhi (Hons)

Thesis Title: Problematizing the Problem: A Constructivist Analysis of how the Kashmir’ problem was constructed via process tracing

Research Interest:

• Postcolonial Critical Constructivism
• Process Training
• Constitutive Causality
• Genealogy of Conflict

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Education: B. Eng (National University Singapore); M. Si (Han) (Indonesian DefenseUniversity); MA (King’s College London)

Thesis Title: Historical Institutionalism Analysis of Low-Carbon Energy Transition in the Philippines and Indonesia

Research Interest:

• Climate Change
• Energy Security
• Technological Developments
• Governance

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Education: BS Economics (University of the Philippines); MSc Finance (University of the Philippines)

Thesis Title: The Politics of Disaster Risk Financing in ASEAN

Research Interest:

• Disaster Risk Finance / Climate Finance
• Regional Integration and Cooperation
• Early Warnings Systems
• Debt Sustainability

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Education: BA (Brigham Young University), MA (Georgetown University), MS (National Intelligence University)

Thesis Title: Intelligence Failure in Terrorism: Connecting the Dots or Hard Target

Research Interest:

• Terrorism
• Intelligence Failure
• Country Threat Assessment
• Security Risk
• Shi’a Opposition Groups

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