Dr Lina Gong is Research Fellow at the Centre for Non-Traditional Security Studies (NTS Centre), S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS), Nanyang Technological University (NTU). Lina holds a BA in English Language and Literature and an MA in Interpreting and Translation from Sichuan University, China. She received her PhD from RSIS, NTU. Her PhD thesis is on China’s engagement with the UN peacekeeping. Her research interests include non-traditional security studies in East Asia, China and global governance, peace and conflict, and marine environment. She has published several journal articles and book chapters on non-traditional security issues in Asia as well as China’s engagement with UN peace effort. She has also contributed to a dozen of RSIS publications.

Policy Reports

• Southeast Asia-China Cooperation in Disaster Management in Post-COVID Era

  29 September, 2020

• Governing Human-induced Disasters in Southeast Asia: Insights from the 2017 Marawi Conflict

  23 April, 2020

• Tackling East Asia's New Environmental Challenge – Marine Plastic Pollution

  20 June, 2019

• Advancing Marine Environmental Protection in the South China Sea

  26 November, 2018

Commentaries

• Global Health Security - COVID-19: Is the Humanitarian Sector Prepared?

  11 March, 2020

• China’s Emerging Disaster Diplomacy: What It Means for Southeast Asia

  06 February, 2020

• Combating Marine Debris: What After the Bangkok Declaration?

  08 July, 2019

• More Plastic Bags than Fish? East Asia’s New Environmental Threat

  08 April, 2019

• CO18139 | Laos Dam Collapse: The Regional Response

  21 August, 2018

• CO17123 | Protecting Our Seas - China’s Efforts to Protect the Seas

  22 June, 2017

• CO17046 | China’s Pledge to Restore Blue Skies

  17 March, 2017

Bulletins and Newsletters

• NTS Alert (Sep 2013)

  08 September, 2013

• NTS Alert (Sep 2012)

  21 September, 2012

• NTS Alert (Jun 2012)

  15 June, 2012

• NTS Alert (Mar 2012)

  16 March, 2012

• NTS Alert (Oct 2011 - Issue 2)

  28 October, 2011

• NTS Alert (Oct 2011 - Issue 1)

  14 October, 2011

• NTS Alert (Oct 2010 - Issue 2)

  27 October, 2010

• NTS Alert (Oct 2010 - Issue 1)

  15 October, 2010

NTS Insight

• The COVID-19 Catalyst: Implications for Disaster Governance in ASEAN

  23 December, 2020

• Marine Environmental Protection in the South China Sea: Challenges and Prospects Part 2

  20 February, 2018

• Marine Environmental Protection in the South China Sea: Challenges and Prospects Part I

  11 December, 2017

• NTS Insight (Jun 2013) | Transitional Justice in South and Southeast Asia: Integrating Judicial and Non-judicial Measures

  25 June, 2013

• NTS Insight (Mar 2013) | Nuclear Energy Development in Southeast Asia: Implications for Singapore

  14 March, 2013

• NTS Insight (Nov 2010) | Cheap but Costly: Constraints of Economic Development in the Coal Mining Industry

  30 November, 2010

• NTS Insight (Sep 2010) | Misdirected Development a Threat to Security - Analysis of Southeast Asia

  30 September, 2010

Journal Articles

• “Humanitarian diplomacy as an instrument for China’s image-building” in Asian Journal of Comparative Politics, 2021
• “Security Governance in East Asia and China’s Response to COVID-19” (with Mely Caballero-Anthony) in Fudan Journal of the Humanities and Social Sciences, 2021
• “China and southeast Asia in the 2000s: Tension management in the maritime space” (with Zha Daojiong) in The British Journal of Politics and International Relations, 2021
• “Achieving the ASEAN 2025 Vision on Disaster Management: Lessons from a Worthy Journey” (with Alistair D. B. Cook) in Achieving the ASEAN 2025 Vision on Disaster Management: Lessons from a Worthy Journey, ASEAN Risk Monitor and Disaster Management Review (2019), No. 1, 2019. pp.173 – 184.
• Alistair D. B. Cook, Manpavan Joth Kaur and Lina Gong, "Applying the Ethnic Rebellion Model and Risk Assessment Model to Conflict in Myanmar." In Southeast Asian Studies: A Quarterly Journal of Translation (2011)
• Alistair D. B. Cook and Lina Gong, "The Cambodian Legacy and the Responsibility to Protect in Asia," In Peace Review 23:4 (2011)

Edited Books / Special Issues

• Humanitarianism in the Asia-Pacific: Engaging the Debate in Policy and Practice (with Alistair D. B. Cook), Eds. Singapore: Springer, 2021
• Non-Traditional Security Issues in ASEAN: Agendas for Action (with Mely Caballero-Anthony), Eds. Singapore: ISEAS – Yusof Ishak Institute, 2020

Chapters in Edited Books

• “Marine Environmental Protection in the South China Sea” (with Julius Cesar Imperial Trajano, Margareth Sembiring, and Rini Astuti) in Mely Caballero-Anthony and Lina Gong (Eds.), Non-Traditional Security Issues in ASEAN: Agendas for Action. Singapore: ISEAS - Yusof Ishak Institute, 2020, Chap 4
• Lina Gong, 2016, ‘China’s Dual Approach towards the Protection of Civilians,’ in Cecilia Jacob and Alistair D. B. Cook (eds) Civilian Protection in the Twenty-First Century: Governance and Responsibility in a Fragmented World, New Delhi: Oxford University Press, pp.147 – 168.
• 2015, ‘China’s Position on and Future Role in Implementing RtoP: Analysis of its Statements at the UN General Assembly’, in Liu Tiewa (ed.), Responsibility to Protect: China’s Perspective of International Norm Building, Beijing: Peking University Press. (In Chinese).
• 2014, ‘Making a Sale vs Making it Safe: Prospects for ASEAN-Australia Nuclear Energy Cooperation’, in Sally Percival Wood and Baogang He (eds.), The Australia-ASEAN Dialogue: Tracing 40 Years of Partnership, Palgrave Macmillan. (With Sofiah Jamil).
• Mely Caballero-Anthony, Alistair D. B. Cook, Pau Khan Khup Hangzo, Lina Gong and Manpavan Kaur, "Internal Conflict." In Non-Traditional Security in Asia: Issues, Challenges and Framework for Action (Singapore: ISEAS, 2013)

Op-Eds

• “Working together on relief can stop a China‑India border disaster”, The Interpreter, 28 September 2020