Chang Jun Yan is Assistant Professor with the Military Studies Programme and the US Programme at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS), Nanyang Technological University. He has published on international and regional security, his area of focus, in various academic journals. Prior to joining RSIS, Jun Yan was a combat officer in the Republic of Singapore Navy (RSN). He has participated in various multilateral maritime exercises, such as the Exercise Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC) in Hawaii. He was also part of the RSN’s counter-piracy operations in the Gulf of Aden and the Somali Basin, Operation Blue Sapphire (Maritime) [OBS (M)]. Jun Yan graduated from the National University of Singapore (NUS) with a BSc in Political Science and a minor in English Studies, obtained his MSc (International Relations) from RSIS, and has a PhD from the University of Queensland, Australia.

• International Relations Theory
• International Security
• Critical Security Studies

• Leader of Tomorrow, 36th St. Gallen Wings of Excellence, St. Gallen University, Switzerland, May 2006
• Pointer Editorial Board Member
• Visiting Academic, Institute of Policy Studies, Universiti Brunei Darussalam

Annual Reviews

• Selected Essays by RSIS Researchers - 2021

  17 January, 2022

IDSS Papers

• IP25039 | Joining the Dots: Security Guarantees for Ukraine

  25 March, 2025

• IP22056 | Benign Defence Diplomacy in the Asia-Pacific Programme for Senior Military Officers

  14 October, 2022

Journal Articles

• “Keeping Friends Close and Enemies Closer: Praxis in International Security Order and the Singapore Armed Forces” (with Adrian Ang U-Jin, and Bernard Loo Fook Weng) in Contemporary Security Policy, 2025
• “Pendulum Swings Rather Than Paradigm Shifts: Southeast Asia’s Securitisations and the Global War on Terror” (with Nicole Jenne) in European Journal of International Security, 10, 1, 2025. pp. 60-77
• “Of Risk and Threat: How the United States Perceives China’s Rise” in The Chinese Journal of International Politics, Vol. 16, Issue 3, 2023, pp. 357-381
• “Not between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea: Singapore’s Hedging” in International Studies Quarterly, 66, 3, 2022
• “Velvet Fists: The Paradox of Defence Diplomacy in Southeast Asia” (with Nicole Jenne) in European Journal of International Security, 5, 3, 2020. pp. 332-349
• “Hegemonic Distortions: The Securitisation of the Insurgency in Thailand’s Deep South” (with Nicole Jenne) in TRaNS: Trans-Regional and -National Studies of Southeast Asia, 7, 2, 2019. pp. 209-232
• “The International Politics of Air Disasters: Lessons for Aviation Disaster Governance from Asia, 2014-2015” (with Alan Chong) in Cambridge Review of International Affairs, 31, 3-4, 2018. pp. 249-271
• “Essence of Security Communities: Explaining ASEAN” in International Relations of the Asia-Pacific, 16, 3, 2016, pp. 335-369
• “Security Competition by Proxy: Asia Pacific Interstate Rivalry in the Aftermath of the MH370 Incident” (with Alan Chong) in Global Change, Peace & Security, 28, 1, 2016. pp. 75-98

Chapters in Edited Books

• “Mind the Gap: The Curious Case of Everyday Civil-Military Relations in Singapore” (with Ho Shu Huang) in Alan Chong and Nicole Jenne, Asian Military Evolutions: Civil-Military Relations in Asia. Bristol: Bristol University Press, 2023, pp. 90-109
• “Conscripting the Audience: Singapore’s Successful Securitisation of Vulnerability” in Shu Huang, Ho and Graham, Ong-Webb, National Service in Singapore. Singapore: World Scientific, 2019, pp. 83-103
• “Globalisation’s Impact on Navies in the Asia-Pacific: From the Modern to the Postmodern to the ‘Quantumodern’” in Walter Feichtinger and Benedict Hensellek (Eds.), Armed Forces for 2020 and Beyond: Roles | Tasks | Expectations. Vienna: Austrian National Defence Academy, 2016, pp. 125-143

Op-Eds

• “Framing Minilateralism in the Asia-Pacific”, Centre for Strategic and Contemporary Research, 10 September 2024
• “US Security View of China Is Not Black and White”, CNA, 23 April 2024
• “Singapore’s Defense Metamorphoses”, The National Interest, 3 October 2023
• “US Courting Asia-Pacific, but Will It Bear Fruit?” (with Adrian Ang U-Jin), New Straits Times, 12 June 2022
• “US Engagement in Southeast Asia: How Much Will Be Enough?” (with Collin Koh Swee Lean), The Interpreter, 15 September 2021
• “The RIMPAC 2020 Maneuvers Bring 20 Ships and 10 Pacific Nations Together” (with Nicole Jenne), The Washington Post, 17 August 2020
• “Ukraine Crash, Global Aviation Governance” (with Alan Chong), The Jakarta Post, 22 January 2020
• “Is Donald Trump’s Administration Ceding Southeast Asia to an Ever-aggressive China?”, South China Morning Post, 9 November 2019
• “MH370 Report is a Much Needed ‘Wake-up Call’” (with Alan Chong), Bangkok Post, 27 August 2018
• “Great Expectations for ASEAN will Meet Internal Contradictions in 2018”, Channel NewsAsia, 10 December 2017
• “Why a Lack of Basic Skills in the US Navy has Led to Deadly Accidents”, Today, 7 November 2017
• “The Terrex Fallacies” (with Angela Poh), The Straits Times, 6 December 2016
• “Defense Diplomacy in ASEAN?”, Thinking ASEAN, 23 November 2016
• “Global Aviation Needs Stronger Governance” (with Alan Chong), Today, 19 February 2016