Dr Hoo Tiang Boon

Dr. Hoo Tiang Boon is Assistant Professor with the China Programme and Coordinator of the M.Sc. (Asian Studies) programme at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS), Nanyang Technological University. He holds a Ph.D. in International Relations from the University of Oxford. He is the lecturer of the Masters courses, China’s Foreign and Security Policy and Cross-Strait Relations, at RSIS. Dr. Hoo is the author of several publications on China, cross-strait relations and US-China relations. He has spoken about his work at various venues, including Harvard University, University of Oxford, University of Manchester, Bristol University and the International Studies Association Convention. He has been involved in several diplomatic initiatives, including the Singapore-US Strategic Dialogue, Singapore-France Dialogue on China, the Korea-Singapore Forum and the Network of ASEAN Defence and Security Institutions. Dr. Hoo is an overseas expert in the China Thinktanks network of the Development Research Centre of China’s State Council. He was formerly a visiting fellow at the China Foreign Affairs University, a visiting scholar at the Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences and a visiting researcher at the Shanghai Institutes for International Studies.

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

• Visiting Scholar, China Foreign Affairs University, March 2014
• Visiting Researcher, Shanghai Institutes for International Studies, September- December 2011
• Visiting Scholar, Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences, March-May 2011
• Article Reviewer (Cold War History, Global Governance, Royal United Services Institute Journal, Journal of Asian Politics and History)

Commentaries

• CO16019 | Cross-Strait Relations: No Return to Crisis Mode

  27 January, 2016

• CO15071 | Lee Kuan Yew’s China Wisdom

  30 March, 2015

• CO14146 | Xi-Modi Talks: A New Type of Sino-Indian Relationship?

  24 July, 2014

• CO13137 | G2 or Chimerica? The Growing Institutionalisation of US-China Relations

  23 July, 2013

• CO08048 | Malaysian Lessons for Singapore?

  17 April, 2008

• CO08024 | Mas Selamat Kastari’s Disappearing Act: Assessing the Fallout

  03 March, 2008

• CO07093 | The Security Dimension of Climate Change

  06 September, 2007

• CO06068 | Israel’s Response: A Strategic Misstep with Global Implications?

  24 July, 2006

• CO06068 | Israel’s Response: A Strategic Misstep with Global Implications?

  24 July, 2006

Bulletins and Newsletters

• CENS Cognito | A Brief Look at the "Wild" Side

  19 February, 2008

Authored Books

• China’s Global Identity: Considering the Responsibilities of Great Power. Washington, D.C.: Georgetown University Press, 2018

Edited Books / Special Issues

• China’s Omnidirectional Peripheral Diplomacy (with Jianwei Wang), Eds. Singapore: World Scientific Publishing Co., 2019
• Chinese Foreign Policy Under Xi. New York: Routledge, 2017

Journal Articles

• "New Trends in Chinese Foreign Policy" (with Li Mingjiang, and James Char) in Asian Security, 13, 2, 2017. 81-83
• Hoo Tiang Boon, “The Hedging Prong in India’s Evolving China Strategy”, Journal of Contemporary China, (April 2016). DOI: 10.1080/10670564.2016.1160527

Op-Eds

• Hoo Tiang Boon and James Char. “台海危机不会重现,” Lianhe Zaobao, January 23, 2016.
• Hoo Tiang Boon and James Char. “Wither cross-Strait relations?” East Asia Forum, January 29, 2016.
• Hoo Tiang Boon and James Char. “Taiwan-China Ties Set to Cool But will Stay Calm,” The Straits Times, January 22, 2016.
• Hoo Tiang Boon, "'Chindia' Engaged in a New Romance," in Bloomberg Brief, 7 July 2014.

• AS6022 China’s Foreign and Security Policy
• IR6032 Cross-Strait Relations