Dr Michael Raska is Assistant Professor and Coordinator of the Military Transformations Programme at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. His research interests focus on East Asian security and defense issues, including theoretical and policy-oriented aspects of military innovation, force modernisation trajectories, information conflicts and cyberwarfare in East Asia. He is the author of Military Innovation and Small States: Creating Reverse Asymmetry (Routledge,2016) and co-editor of Security, Strategy, and Military Change in the 21st Century: Cross-regional Perspectives (Routledge, 2015). He has published in peer-reviewed professional and academic journals such as the Korea Journal of Defense Analysis, Pointer-Journal of Singapore Armed Forces, and Asian Journal of Public Affairs. His academic contributions also include chapters in edited volumes in cooperation with the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS); European Union Institute for Security Studies (EUISS); Center for New American Security (CNAS); the Norwegian Institute of Defense Studies (IFS); the Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation, UC San Diego; the Strategic Studies Institute (SSI), and the US Army War College. His strategic assessments, commentaries, and op-eds have been published by the National Interest, Project Syndicate, Defense News, The Diplomat, East Asia Forum, RUSI Newsbrief, Asia Times, and select newspapers worldwide. He has also been a frequent commentator on Asian security issues for the BBC World News, CNBC, Channel News Asia, and other media networks. Dr Raska has previously taught at the Goh Keng Swee Command and Staff College (SAF Campaign and War Studies Course) and the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy (International Security). His research experiences include visiting fellowships at Yonsei University, Pacific Forum CSIS, and Hebrew University of Jerusalem (Rothberg International School). He is an alumnus of the Columbia / Cornell University Summer Workshop on Analysis of Military Operations and Strategy (SWAMOS 2012), the Philip Merrill Center for Strategic Studies Workshop at Basin Harbor (2013), the Hertog Summer Study Program (2014), Japan Ministry of Defence Opinion Leader Program (2016), and the German Marshall Fund Young Strategists Forum (2017). He holds a BA in International Studies (summa cum laude) from the Missouri Southern State University (2000), MA in International Relations from the Graduate School of International Studies, Yonsei University (2002), and a PhD in Public Policy and International Affairs (2012) from the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore, where he was a recipient of the NUS President’s Graduate Fellowship.
