Regional Security Architecture Programme

The Regional Security Architecture Programme (previously known as the Multilateralism & Regionalism Programme) conducts advanced, cutting-edge research, networking and teaching in and on cooperative multilateralism and regionalism in the Asia Pacific.

Since its inception in 2002, the Programme’s output has contributed to the systematic accumulation of scholarly and policy-based knowledge on multilateralism and regionalism. Its agenda covers trans-regional, regional and sub-regional arrangements such as APEC, ASEAN, ASEAN+3, ASEAN Regional Forum, ADMM, ADMM-Plus, East Asia Summit, Shanghai Cooperation Organization and the Six Party Talks, as well as non-official networks such as the Shangri-La Dialogue and Track 2 processes.

Some of the Programme’s key projects include: Evolving Approaches to Security in the Asia-Pacific (2002); United Nations Peace Operations and the Asia-Pacific Region (2003); Globalization and Economic Security in East Asia (2003); Reassessing Security Cooperation in the Asia-Pacific Region (2003); An Agenda for the East Asia Summit: 30 Recommendations for Regional Cooperation in East Asia (2005); No Community Without Cooperation: Regional Institutions and Asia’s Security Order (2008); No Community Without Commitment: Towards Functional Regionalism in East Asia (2009); Collaboration under Anarchy: Functional Regionalism and the Security of East Asia (2009); ASEAN-China Regional and Sub-regional Cooperation (2009); Building Institutional Coherence in Asia’s Security Architecture: The Role of ASEAN (2009); Defence Diplomacy in Southeast Asia (2010); Is Northeast Asian Regionalism the Centre of East Asian Regionalism? (2012); Japan’s Perspectives of the ADMM-Plus (2012); South Korea’s Defence Diplomacy in East Asia (2013); South Korea’s Middle-Power Engagement Initiatives: Perspectives from Southeast Asia (2013); Strategic Engagement in the Asia Pacific: The Future of the ADMM-Plus (2013); Impact of the Sino-Japanese Competitive Relationship on ASEAN as a Region and Institution (2014); and The Future of the ADMM/ADMM-Plus and Defence Diplomacy in the Asia Pacific (2015).

The Programme is funded by Singapore’s Ministry of Defence. It has also been successful in attaining funding from international foundations such as the Sasakawa Peace Foundations of Japan and the United States, the MacArthur Foundation of the United States, the Friedrich Ebert Foundation of Germany as well as the Korea Foundation.

Besides the above-mentioned foundations, the Programme has also collaborated with the Economic and Social Research Council of the United Kingdom, the Pacific Forum CSIS of the United States, the Lowy Institute for International Policy of Australia, the Center for a New American Security of the United States, the Japan Institute of International Affairs, the Center for American Progress of the United States and the China Institutes of Contemporary International Relations of China.

Programme Staff

• Dr Bhubhindar Singh
  Associate Professor
  Coordinator, Regional Security Architecture Programme, IDSS
  Head of Graduate Studies
  DID: +65 6790 6845
  Email: [email protected]

• Dr Tan See Seng
  Professor
  Regional Security Architecture Programme, IDSS
  DID: +65 6790 4277
  Email: [email protected]

• Dr Wu Shang-Su
  Research Fellow
  Regional Security Architecture Programme, IDSS
  DID: +65 6592 1817
  Email: [email protected]

• Mr Henrick Z Tsjeng
  Associate Research Fellow
  Regional Security Architecture Programme, IDSS
  DID: +65 6790 6424
  Email: [email protected]

• Mr Shawn Ho
  Associate Research Fellow
  Regional Security Architecture Programme, IDSS
  DID: +65 6904 1255
  Email: [email protected]

• Ms Sarah Teo
  Associate Research Fellow
  Regional Security Architecture Programme, IDSS
  DID: +65 6513 2076
  Email: [email protected]