Dr Benjamin Ho

Benjamin Ho is a Research Fellow at the China Programme, S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS), Singapore. He obtained his PhD from the Department of International Relations at the London School of Economics and Political Science, UK. His research focus includes the study of China’s international relations, with an emphasis on Chinese political worldview and exceptionalism thinking. Other research interests include security multilateralism in the Asia Pacific region with a focus on regional institutions and fora, national security (intelligence) as well as the sociology of religion. His research articles have been published in the America Journal of Chinese Studies (forthcoming), China Quarterly, Journal of Contemporary China, East Asia: An International Quarterly,  Alternatives: Global, Local, Political, Asia Policy, Australian Journal of International Affairs and the Yale Journal of International Affairs. Since joining RSIS, Benjamin has been involved in a number of think-tank events and conferences including the Track II Network of ASEAN Defence and Security Institutions (NADI), the Pacific Young Leaders programme and CSCAP meetings.

• 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

Working Papers

• WP256 | The Rising Chorus of Chinese Exceptionalism

  10 April, 2013

• WP249 | ASEAN's Centrality in a Rising Asia

  13 September, 2012

Commentaries

• Global Health Security - Post COVID-19 World: Will It Reshape Global Leadership?

  06 April, 2020

• How China Sees the Indo-Pacific: What Next After AOIP?

  30 December, 2019

• PRC Turns 70: Five Elements of its Grand Strategy

  30 September, 2019

• The China Challenge: Contending Discourses on International Order

  30 November, 2018

• CO18062 | Will China Be a Responsible Great Power?

  03 April, 2018

• CO16315 | The Terrex Vehicles Issue: China Seizes Asia-Pacific Initiative

  28 December, 2016

• CO15225 | Xi’s State Visit to UK: Turning to British History for China’s Future

  22 October, 2015

• CO15067 | Lee Kuan Yew’s Leadership: Model for China?

  26 March, 2015

• CO14202 | The China Dream: Between Personal Aspiration and State Authoritarianism?

  15 October, 2014

• CO14082 | ASEAN Open Skies: Economic Integration and SAR

  07 May, 2014

• CO14059 | MH370: Limits of China’s Soft Power

  31 March, 2014

• CO14018 | Abe’s Call to Stand up to China: At What Cost?

  27 January, 2014

• CO13190 | Beijing’s ASEAN Embrace: Making Hay While the Sun Shines

  09 October, 2013

• CO13078 | ASEAN Unity: From Word to Deed

  26 April, 2013

• CO13036 | Beijing's Renewed Resolve: Treading the Path of Peaceful Development

  25 February, 2013

• CO12224 | China's New Leadership: How Reformist Will It Be?

  11 December, 2012

• CO12224 | China's New Leadership: How Reformist Will It Be?

  11 December, 2012

• CO12188 | ASEAN at 45: A Case for Principled Realism

  08 October, 2012

• CO12138 | Negotiating the World's Cyber Frontier

  30 July, 2012

• CO12097 | Beijing’s Leadership Transition: Testing Times for China

  11 June, 2012

• CO12059 | Seoul Nuclear Summit: Back to the Drawing Board

  03 April, 2012

• CO12028 | ASEAN Centrality: Year of Big Power Transitions

  20 February, 2012

• CO12006 | China’s Global Role: Need for Soft Power?

  09 January, 2012

• CO11162 | ASEAN’s World Cup Goal: Where Football Meets Diplomacy

  09 November, 2011

• CO11107 | ARF at 18: Crisis of Confidence or Oasis of Opportunity?

  19 July, 2011

Event Reports

• Royal Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs - RSIS Asian Security Conference 2014

  13 March, 2014

• Roundtable Report on "Strategic Engagement in the Asia Pacific: The Future of the ADMM-Plus"

  24 July, 2013

Journal Articles

• “The Relational-Turn in International Relations Theory: Bringing Chinese Ideas into Mainstream International Relations Scholarship” in American Journal of Chinese Studies, 26, 2, 2019, pp. 91-106
• “Introduction: China’s International Relations Thinking – From Theory to Practice” in Asia Policy, Vol. 14, No. 3, 2019, pp. 2-7
• Ho, B. (2018). Power and Populism: What the Singapore Model Means for the Chinese Dream. The China Quarterly, 1-20. doi:10.1017/S030574101800053X
• Bhubhindar Singh, Sarah Teo & Benjamin Ho, "Rising Sino-Japanese competition: perspectives from South-East Asian elites", Australian Journal of International Affairs, Volume 71, Issue 1, February 2017, Pages 105-120, DOI: 10.1080/10357718.2016.1157849
  
• Benjamin Ho, "About Face—the relational dimension in Chinese IR discourse", Journal of Contemporary China (2015), 26 October 2015, DOI: 10.1080/10670564.2015.107571
• Benjamin Ho, "Learning from Lee: Lessons in Governance for the Middle Kingdom from the Little Red Dot", East Asia 32 No. 3 (September 2015): pp. 1-24, doi: 10.1007/s12140-015-9248-0
• Ho, Benjamin. “The Future of ASEAN Centrality in the Asia-Pacific Regional Architecture." Yale Journal of International Affairs, 24 June 2015. http://yalejournal.org/article_post/asean_centrality/.
• Ho, Benjamin. "Understanding Chinese Exceptionalism: China’s Rise, Its Goodness, and Greatness." Alternatives: Global, Local, Political 39, no. 3 (2014): 164-176. doi: 10.1177/0304375414567978.

Op-Eds

• Ho, Benjamin, and Shawn Ho. “Xi sees off America's Trump card challenge.” Channel NewsAsia, 11 November 2017. https://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/commentary/commentary-xi-sees-off-america-trump-challenge-9394678
• Ho, Shawn, and Benjamin Ho. “After China’s 19th Party Congress – implications for the regional architecture and order.” PacNet #82, 8 November 2017. https://www.csis.org/analysis/pacnet-82-after-chinas-19th-party-congress-%E2%80%93-implications-regional-architecture-and-order.
• Singh, Bhubhindar, Sarah Teo, and Benjamin Ho. "Sino-Japanese Competition and ASEAN." Australian Outlook, 9 January 2017. http://www.internationalaffairs.org.au/australian_outlook/sino-japanese-competition-and-asean.
• Ho, Benjamin. "ASEAN Security Architecture: Tension between National Interests and Regional Institutions", Asia Pacific Bulletin, No. 356, 29 September 2016.
• Ho, Benjamin. “Defense diplomacy in East Asia: will ASEAN continue to be central?" PacNet #42, 27 July 2015, http://csis.org/publication/pacnet-42-defense-diplomacy-east-asia-will-asean-continue-be-central.
• Ho, Benjamin, Bhubhindar Singh, and Sarah Teo. "ASEAN Chairmanship in 2015: Perspectives and Prospects", Asia Pacific Bulletin, No. 298, 13 January 2015, http://www.eastwestcenter.org/publications/malaysia%E2%80%99s-asean-chairmanship-in-2015-perspectives-and-prospects.
• Kaewkamol Pitakdumrongkit and Benjamin Ho. “Beijing’s ASEAN Embrace: Making Hay While the Sun Shines.” Eurasia Review, October 10, 2013.