Dr Joseph Liow Chin Yong

Joseph Chinyong Liow is Tan Kah Kee Chair in Comparative and International Politics at Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore. He is Professor and former Dean at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, and currently Dean of College of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences at NTU Singapore. 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.

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

• 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

Working Papers

• WP153 | Outlook for Malaysia’s 12th General Elections

  27 February, 2008

• WP063 | Outlook for Malaysia’s 11th General Election

  01 March, 2004

• WP045 | Deconstructing Political Islam in Malaysia : UMNO’S Reponse to PAS’ Religio-Political Dialectic

  01 March, 2003

• WP005 | Continuity and Change In Malaysian Politics: Assessing the Buildup to the 1999-2000 General Elections

  01 August, 1999

Commentaries

• CO18072 | RSIS Series on Malaysia’s 14th General Election - Black Swan, Dark Horse, and Elephant in the Room

  24 April, 2018

• CO18025 | Shifting Sands of Terrorism in Southeast Asia

  15 February, 2018

• CO17216 | Trump's Asia Visit: New Momentum in US-Asia Ties?

  16 November, 2017

• CO17190 | Taking Shape: New Global Financial Architecture

  11 October, 2017

• CO17144 | US Strategy in the South China Sea: Five Pillars for a Proposed Trump Plan

  02 August, 2017

• CO17049 | The Rise of Trump and Its Global Implications - Trump's Asia Policy, Two Months On

  21 March, 2017

• CO17030 | Malaysia Election Looms: Opposition Forces in Power Play

  17 February, 2017

• CO16177 | The PCA Ruling and ASEAN: A Call for Unity

  14 July, 2016

• CO16099 | The ISIS Threat to Southeast Asia: An Assessment

  29 April, 2016

• CO15156 | IS Activity in Southeast Asia

  24 July, 2015

• CO15087 | Lee Kuan Yew: The Man and His Dream

  10 April, 2015

• CO15004 | Ketuanan Melayu: What’s in a Name?

  06 January, 2015

• CO13075 | Malaysia's GE13: A Cliff-hanger Election

  25 April, 2013

• CO13033 | Trading Swords for Ploughshares: How Sajahatra Bangsamoro could bring peace to Mindanao

  18 February, 2013

• CO12174 | The Libyan Crisis: Romney's "Curve Ball" or "Terrible Course"?

  14 September, 2012

• CO10124 | Indonesia-Malaysia Relations: Baggage of ‘Blood Brotherhood’

  28 September, 2010

• CO10007 | Religion and Identity in Malaysia

  14 January, 2010

• CO07055 | The 53rd PAS Congress: Implications for Malaysian Politics

  06 June, 2007

• CO06119 | A New Era in US-ASEAN Relations

  14 November, 2006

• CO06094 | The Mahathir-Abdullah Rift: What’s really at stake?

  08 September, 2006

• CO06090 | Prospects for Reform in PAS

  28 August, 2006

• CO05011 | Over-reading the Islamist factor in Thailand’s southern troubles

  10 March, 2005

• CO04032 | The Pondok Schools of Southern Thailand: Bastion of Islamic Education or Hotbed of Militancy?

  25 August, 2004

• CO04014 | Bangkok’s Southern Discomfort: Violence and Response in Southern Thailand

  03 May, 2004

• CO04004 | Malaysia: PM Abdullah Badawi’s Performance and Prospects

  25 February, 2004

• CO03034 | THE 49TH PAS CONGRESS: Politics behind the rhetoric

  22 September, 2003

• CO03015 | Malaysia’s Opposition to the Iraq War: A Matter of Principle or Expediency?

  11 April, 2003

• CO03006 | of Chinese Politics in Malaysia’s Ruling

  12 March, 2003

• CO02018 | Desecuritising the “Illegal Indonesian Migrant Worker” problem in Malaysia’s relations with Indonesia

  16 September, 2002

Interreligious Relations

• Interreligious Relations (IRR) Issue 5 - Religion, Nationalism and Politics in Southeast Asia: The Ambivalence of the Sacred in an Uncertain World

  25 June, 2019

Authored Books

• Tan, See Seng, Ralf Emmer and Joseph Liow Chin Yong. 2011. The East Asia Summit and the Regional Security Architecture, Maryland Series in Contemporary Asian Studies No. 3-2010 (202). College Park, Maryland: University of Maryland.
• Liow, Joseph Chinyong, and Ralf Emmers, eds. Order and Security in Southeast Asia: Essays in Memory of Michael Leifer. London: Routledge, 2006

Edited Books / Special Issues

• International Relations and Asia’s Southern Tier: ASEAN, Australia, and India (with Gilbert Rozman), Eds. Singapore: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018

Journal Articles

• Emmers, Ralf, and Joseph Chinyong Liow, guest eds. "Special Issue: Essays in Memory of Michael Leifer." The Pacific Review 18, no. 1 (2005).

Chapters in Edited Books

• Joseph Chinyong Liow, “What if Singapore Has to Choose Between China and the United States?” in Institute of Policy Studies (ed.), Insights on Singapore’s Politics and Governance from Leading Thinkers, Singapore: Institute of Policy Studies, 2019. in Jiang Yulin, Insights on Singapore’s Politics and Governance from Leading Thinkers. Singapore: Singapore: Institute of Policy Studies, 2019, 1
• Liow, Joseph Chinyong, and Rajni Gamage. “The Quest for Regional and Domestic Stability.” in Southeast Asian Affairs 2014, edited by Daljit Singh, 3-19. ISEAS Publishing, 2014.
• Liow, Joseph and Mohamed Nawab Mohamed Osman. “Dancing with China: Comparing Thailand and Malaysia’s Experiences” in Tang Shiping, Li Minjiang and Amitav Acharya (eds), Living with China: Regional States and China through Crises and Turning Points. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.
• Tan, See Seng, and Joseph Liow Chin Yong. 2008. “Southeast Asia.” In From Superpower to Besieged Global Power: Restoring World Order after the Failure of the Bush Doctrine, edited by Edward Kolodziej and Roger Kanet, 115–33. Athens, Georgia: University of Georgia Press.

Op-Eds

• Season of Gridlock Ahead, But Not for US Policy on Asia, The Straits Times, 20 November 2018
• Myths and Realities of Indonesian-Malaysian “Blood Brotherhood”, The Straits Times, 11 August 2018
• A New Dawn in Malaysia, The Straits Times, 12 May 2018
• Malaysia Election: A Black Swan, a Dark Horse, and an Elephant in the Room, The Straits Times, 7 April 2018
• Trump’s Roller-coaster of a First Year in Office, The Straits Times, 20 January 2018
• ASEAN After 50: Looking Back to Look Forward, The Straits Times, 9 December 2017
• Is US Engagement Back on Track in East Asia?, The Straits Times, 14 November 2017
• Positive Signs for a Southern Philippine Peace (with Joseph Franco), Global Brief, 17 June 2013
• Franco, Joseph and Joseph Liow Chin Yong. "Air of Optimism as Peace Takes Root in Mindanao." The Straits Times, February 25, 2013.
• Tan, See Seng, and Joseph Liow Chin Yong. 2005. “Case for an East Asian Security Order.” The Straits Times, 1 March.
• Tan, See Seng, and Joseph Liow Chin Yong. 2005. “Case for an East Asian Security Order.” The Straits Times, 1 March.
• Tan, See Seng, and Joseph Liow Chin Yong. 2004. “A Step Back in China’s ‘Charm Offensive.’” The Straits Times, 22 July.
• Tan, See Seng, and Joseph Liow Chin Yong. 2004. “A Step Back in China’s ‘Charm Offensive.’” The Straits Times, 22 July.

Working Papers

• Ralf Emmers Tan See Seng