Dr Joseph Liow Chin Yong

Professor of Comparative and International Politics

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

Entity: RSIS

Email: [email protected]

DID: +65 6790 6983

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Biography

Joseph Chinyong Liow is Dean of College of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, where he is also Professor of Comparative and International Politics and former Dean at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies. He held the inaugural Lee Kuan Yew Chair in Southeast Asia Studies at the Brookings Institution, Washington DC, where he was also a Senior Fellow in the Foreign Policy Program.

Joseph’s research interests encompass Muslim politics and social movements in Southeast Asia and the geopolitics and geoeconomics of the Asia Pacific region.

Joseph is the author, co-author, or editor of 14 books. His most recent single-authored books are Ambivalent Engagement: The United States and Regional Security in Southeast Asia after the Cold War (Brookings 2017), Religion and Nationalism in Southeast Asia (Cambridge University Press, 2016) and Dictionary of the Modern Politics of Southeast Asia, fourth edition (Routledge, 2014). A regular columnist for the Straits Times, his commentaries on international affairs have also appeared in New York Times, Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, National Interest, Nikkei Asian Review, and the Wall Street Journal. He has testified to the United States Congress, and been invited to deliver a special closed-door briefing to the ASEAN Defence Minister’s Meeting. In addition to scholarship and policy analysis, Joseph has also consulted for a wide-range of MNCs including Shell, BHP Billiton, Chevron, Japan Bank for International Cooperation, Total, and Statoil. He sits on the board of several peer-reviewed academic and policy journals, is a member of the Social Science Research Council (Singapore), and serves as Singapore’s representative on the advisory board of the ASEAN Institute of Peace and Reconciliation formed under the auspices of the ASEAN Charter.

Joseph Liow holds a PhD in International Relations from the London School of Economics and Political Science, a MSc in Strategic Studies from the Nanyang Technological University, and a BA (Hons) in Political Science from the University of Madison-Wisconsin.

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Areas of Expertise

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

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Professional Activities

Visiting Fellow, Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, Singapore, Jun-Jul 2005
Southeast Asia Fellow, East-West Center Washington, USA, October-December 2005
Fulbright Researcher, Stanford University, USA, September-November 2011
Visiting Fellow, Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center, Stanford University, USA, November-December 2007
Honorary Fellow, Strategy and Security Institute, Exeter University, U.K., since October 2013
Singapore Representative, Advisory Board, ASEAN Institute of Peace and Reconciliation (appointed by Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Singapore)
Co-Editor, Asian Security Book Series, Routledge
Member, Editorial Board, South East Asia Research
Member, Editorial Board, The ASAN Forum
Member, Advisory Board, NTU Academic Council