Ralf Emmers is Senior Lecturer in International Politics of East Asia and Co-Chair of the Centre for International Studies and Diplomacy (CISD).

His research interests cover security studies, international institutions in the Indo-Pacific, and the security and international politics of Southeast Asia. He was previously Dean of the Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS) and President’s Chair in International Relations, Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore.

Ralf completed his MSc and PhD in the International Relations Department of the London School of Economics (LSE). His authored books include Cooperative Security and the Balance of Power in ASEAN and the ARF (RoutledgeCurzon, 2003), Geopolitics and Maritime Territorial Disputes in East Asia (Routledge, 2010), Resource Management and Contested Territories in East Asia (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013) and Security Strategies of Middle Powers in the Asia Pacific co-written with Sarah Teo (Melbourne University Press, 2018). He is also the co-editor of the Oxford Handbook on Peaceful Change in International Relations (Oxford University Press, 2022).

Ralf has contributed numerous articles in peer-reviewed journals and chapters in edited volumes. His research has been funded by the MacArthur Foundation, the Ford Foundation, the Sasakawa Foundation, and the European Union. He was a Visiting Fellow at the Australian National University, Griffith University and Warwick University.

• Security Studies and International Relations Theory
• Maritime Security
• International Institutions in the Asia Pacific
• Security and International Politics of Southeast Asia

• Visiting Associate, Institute of Southeast Asian Studies (ISEAS), Singapore, Feb 2000
• Visiting Associate, Centre for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), Jakarta, Indonesia, Mar 2000
• Ford Fellowship on Non-Traditional Security in Asia, Institute of Defence and Strategic Studies (IDSS), Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore, 2003-2005
• Co-convenor, Regional Plenary Meetings, second phase of the Ford Project on Non-Traditional Security (NTS) in Asia, 2003-2005
• Contributor, Joint Study on Best Practices and Lessons Learned in Preventive Diplomacy, undertaken for the benefit of the ASEAN Regional Forum, research conducted by RSIS and Pacific Forum CSIS on behalf of the ASEAN Secretariat, Mar 2008
• Steering Committee Member and Associate Fellow, European Union Center, Singapore, since 2009
• Visiting Fellow, Department of International Relations, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University (ANU), Canberra, and Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia, Apr 2009
• Contributor, Report on an Annual Security Outlook (ASO), undertaken for the benefit of the ASEAN Regional Forum, research conducted by RSIS on behalf of the ASEAN Secretariat, Apr 2009
• Project Director, ‘Building Institutional Coherence in Asia’s Security Architecture: The Role of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN)’, RSIS-MacArthur research initiative, 2009-2011
• Editorial Board Member, The Pacific Review, since 2012
• Visiting Fellow, Department of Politics and International Studies, Warwick University, UK, May 2014
• Co-editor, Routledge Series Warwick Studies in Globalisation (with Shaun Breslin)
• Lecturer, SAFTI Military Institute, Home Team Academy, Civil Defence Academy, Singapore
• Participant, Council for Security Cooperation in the Asia-Pacific (CSCAP)
• Academic article reviewer (International Security, International Studies Perspectives, Asian Survey, Cambridge Review of International Affairs, Pacific Affairs, Asian Security, Contemporary Politics, Contemporary Southeast Asia, The Pacific Review, European Journal of International Relations, Security Dialogue, East Asia: An International Quarterly, TRANS, Asian Journal of Peacebuilding, Security Challenges, Asian Perspective, International Relations of the Asia-Pacific, Millennium, Diplomacy & Statecraft)
• Book manuscript reviewer (Routledge, Palgrave Macmillan, Institute of Southeast Asian Studies)

Working Papers

• WP212 | Japan-Korea Relations and the Tokdo/Takeshima Dispute: The Interplay of Nationalism and Natural Resources

  10 November, 2010

• WP208 | The Asian and Global Financial Crises: Consequences for East Asian Regionalism

  16 August, 2010

• WP195 | The Role of the Five Power Defence Arrangements in the Southeast Asian Security Architecture

  20 April, 2010

• WP189 | The ASEAN Regional Forum and Preventive Diplomacy: A Failure in Practice

  07 December, 2009

• WP183 | The Changing Power Distribution in the South China Sea: Implications for Conflict Management and Avoidance

  30 September, 2009

• WP132 | Comprehensive Security and Resilience in Southeast Asia: ASEAN’s Approach to Terrorism and Sea Piracy

  10 July, 2007

• WP129 | The De-escalation of the Spratly Dispute in Sino-Southeast Asian Relations

  06 June, 2007

• WP106 | International Regime Building in Southeast Asia: ASEAN Cooperation against the Illicit Trafficking and Abuse of Drugs

  01 January, 2006

• WP087 | Maritime Disputes in the South China Sea: Strategic and Diplomatic Status Quo

  01 September, 2005

• WP062 | Globalization and Non-Traditional Security Issues: A Study of Human and Drug Trafficking in East Asia

  01 March, 2004

• WP039 | The Securitization of Transnational Crime in ASEAN

  01 November, 2002

Policy Reports

• An Agenda for the East Asia Summit: 30 Recommendations for Regional Cooperation in East Asia

  01 November, 2005

RSIS Commentary Series

• CO17199 | ASEAN minus X: Should This Formula Be Extended?

  24 October, 2017

• CO12165 | US Rebalancing Strategy and the South China Sea Disputes

  04 September, 2012

• CO11163 | US in East Asia Summit: Implications for US-ASEAN Relations

  09 November, 2011

• CO10112 | Asian and Global Financial Crises: Implications for East Asian Regionalism

  14 September, 2010

• CO07120 | The Fight against Terrorism: What Role for ASEAN?

  14 November, 2007

• CO07112 | ASEAN Regional Forum:Time to Move Towards Preventive Diplomacy

  25 October, 2007

• CO07002 | The Future of East Asian Institutionalism

  08 January, 2007

• CO06124 | What Explains the De-escalation of the Spratlys Dispute

  05 December, 2006

• CO05090 | East Asian Institutionalism: Where do we go now?

  15 December, 2005

• CO05081 | The Coming East Asia Summit: A Thirty-Point Agenda

  17 November, 2005

• CO02030 | ASEAN, China and the South China Sea: An Opportunity Missed

  19 November, 2002

IDSS Papers

• IP24030 | The Quad and the South China Sea: Making Waves Without Taking Action

  21 March, 2024

Books

• Studying Non-Traditional Security In Asia: Trend and Issues

  01 October, 2006

Monographs

• A New Agenda for the ASEAN Regional Forum

  15 July, 2002

Authored Books

• Security Strategies of Middle Powers in the Asia Pacific (with Sarah Teo). Carlton, VIC: Melbourne University Publishing, 2018
• Resource Management and Contested Territories in East Asia. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013
• Geopolitics and Maritime Territorial Disputes in East Asia. London: Routledge, 2010
• International Relations in Southeast Asia: The Struggle for Autonomy (with Leonard C. Sebastian, Donald Weatherbee, and Mari Pangestu). New York: Rowman and Littlefield, 2005
• Non-Traditional Security in the Asia-Pacific: The Dynamics of Securitization. Singapore: Marshall Cavendish, 2004
• Cooperative Security and the Balance of Power in ASEAN and the ARF. London: RoutledgeCurzon, 2003

Journal Articles

• “Why the quad is not squaring off in the South China Sea: evaluating interests, objectives and capacity” (with John Bradford) in Australian Journal of International Affairs, 2024. pp. 1-21
• “Keeping the peace in Southeast Asia: ASEAN and the quest for positive peace” (with Mely Caballero-Anthony) in The Pacific Review, Vol. 35, No. 6, 2022. pp. 1079–1104
• “Vietnam and the Search for Security Leadership in ASEAN” (with Huong Le Thu ) in Asian Security, 17, 1, 2020. 64-78
• “The Future of the San Francisco System: Pressures and Prospects” (with Sarah Teo) in Asian Politics & Policy, Vol. 12, No. 1, 2020. pp. 84-96
• “Unpacking ASEAN Neutrality: The Quest for Autonomy and Impartiality in Southeast Asia” in Contemporary Southeast Asia, Vol. 40, No. 3, 2018, pp. 349-370
• “The Role of Middle Powers in Asian Multilateralism” in Asia Policy, Vol. 13, No. 4, 2018, pp. 42-47
• “Enduring Mistrust and Conflict Management in Southeast Asia: An Assessment of ASEAN as a Security Community” in Institute for East Asian Studies, 2016, pp. 1-23
• “What Explains the Success of Preventive Diplomacy in Southeast Asia?” (with Amanda Huan) in Global Change, Peace & Security, Vol. 28, 2016. pp. 1-17
• “Regional Security Strategies of Middle Powers in the Asia-Pacific” (with Sarah Teo) in International Relations of the Asia-Pacific, Vol. 15, No. 2, 2014. pp. 185-216
• “Indonesia’s Role in ASEAN: A Case of Incomplete and Sectoral Leadership” in The Pacific Review, Vol. 27, No. 4, 2014, pp. 543-565
• “ASEAN’s Search for Neutrality in the South China Sea” in Asian Journal of Peacebuilding, Vol. 2, No. 1, 2014, pp. 61-77
• “ASEAN’s Search for Neutrality in the South China Sea” in Asian Journal of Peacebuilding, Vol. 2, No. 1, 2014
• “The Five Power Defence Arrangements and Defence Diplomacy in Southeast Asia” in Asian Security, Vol. 8, No. 3, 2012, pp. 271-286
• “The Asian and Global Financial Crises: Consequences for East Asian Regionalism” (with John Ravenhill) in Contemporary Politics, Vol. 17, No. 2, 2011. pp. 133-149
• “The ASEAN Regional Forum and Preventive Diplomacy: Built to Fail?” (with Tan See Seng) in Asian Security, Vol. 7, No. 1, 2011. pp. 44-60
• “The Changing Distribution of Power in the South China Sea: Implications for Conflict Management and Avoidance” in Political Science, Vol. 62, No. 2, 2010, pp. 118-131
• “The Prospects for Managing and Resolving Conflict in the South China Sea” in Harvard Asia Quarterly, Vol. 12, No. 3 and 4, 2010, pp. 13-17
• “Geopolitics and Maritime Territorial Disputes in the South China Sea: From Competition to Collaboration?” in Pointer: Journal of the Singapore Armed Forces, Vol. 35, No. 3, 2010, pp. 35-44
• “Comprehensive Security and Resilience in Southeast Asia: ASEAN’s Approach to Terrorism” in The Pacific Review, Vol. 22, No. 2, 2009, pp. 159-177
• “International Regime-Building in ASEAN: Cooperation against the Illicit Trafficking and Abuse of Drugs” in Contemporary Southeast Asia, Vol. 29, No. 3 , 2007, pp. 506-525
• “Institutional Arrangements to Counter Human Trafficking in the Asia-Pacific” (with Beth Greener-Barcham, and Nicholas Thomas) in Contemporary Southeast Asia, Vol. 28, No. 3, 2006. pp. 490-511
• “Regional Hegemonies and the Exercise of Power in Southeast Asia: A Study of Indonesia and Vietnam” in Asian Survey, Vol. 45, No. 4, 2005, pp. 645-665
• “Special Issue: Essays in Memory of Michael Leifer” (with Joseph Liow Chin Yong) in The Pacific Review, Vol. 18, No. 1, 2005
• “The Indochinese Enlargement of ASEAN: Security Expectations and Outcomes” in Australian Journal of International Affairs, Vol. 59, No. 1, 2005, pp. 71-88
• “Book Review of Regional Security Structures in Asia (authored by Ashok Kapur)” in Contemporary Southeast Asia, Vol. 25 , No. 3, 2003, pp. 508-511
• “ASEAN and the Securitization of Transnational Crime in Southeast Asia” in The Pacific Review, Vol. 16, No. 3, 2003, pp. 421-440
• “Multilateralism Matters in the Asia Pacific: Presenting a New Agenda for the ASEAN Regional Forum” (with Tan See Seng, and Mely Caballero-Anthony) in Pointer: Journal of the Singapore Armed Forces, Vol. 28, 2002. pp. 44–61
• “The Influence of the Balance of Power Factor within the ASEAN Regional Forum” in Contemporary Southeast Asia, Vol. 23, No. 2, 2001, pp. 275-291

Edited Books / Special Issues

• The Oxford Handbook of Peaceful Change in International Relations (with T. V. Paul, Deborah Welch Larson, Harold A. Trinkunas, and Anders Wivel), Eds. : Oxford University Press, 2021
• ASEAN and the Institutionalization of East Asia. London: Routledge, 2012
• The Five Power Defence Arrangements at Forty (with Ian Storey, and Daljit Singh), Eds. Singapore: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, 2011
• Security and International Politics in the South China Sea: Towards a Co-operative Management Regime (with Sam Bateman), Eds. London: Routledge, 2009
• Studying Non-Traditional Security in Asia: Trends and Issues (with Mely Caballero-Anthony, and Amitav Acharya), Eds. Singapore: Marshall Cavendish, 2006
• Non-Traditional Security in Asia: Dilemmas in Securitization (with Mely Caballero-Anthony, and Amitav Acharya), Eds. London: Ashgate, 2006
• Order and Security in Southeast Asia: Essays in Memory of Michael Leifer (with Joseph Liow Chin Yong), Eds. London: Routledge, 2006

Chapters in Edited Books

• “Power Transition and Traditional Allies in Southeast Asia” in Justin Massie and Jonathan Paquin (Eds.), America’s Allies and the Decline of US Hegemony. London: Routledge, 2020, pp. 110-125
• “Securitization” in Alan Collins (Ed.), Contemporary Security Studies, 5th Edition. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019, pp. 173-187
• “The Role of Think Tanks in Shaping Policy Debates in Asia: S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies” (with Mely Caballero-Anthony, Theresa Robles, and Sarah Teo) in James G. McGann, Think Tanks, Foreign Policy and the Emerging Powers. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018, pp. 225-237
• “China’s Influence in the South China Sea and the Failure of Joint Development” in Evelyn Goh (Ed.), Rising China’s Influence in Developing Asia. New York: Oxford University Press, 2016, pp. 155-173
• “The Maritime Dispute in the East China Sea” in Joachim Krause and Sebastian Bruns (Eds.), Routledge Handbook of Naval Strategy and Security. London: Routledge, 2016, pp. 47-57
• “Securitization” in Alan Collins (Ed.), Contemporary Security Studies, 4th Edition. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016, pp. 168-181
• Emmers, Ralf. ‘Security and Power Balancing: Singapore’s Response to the US Rebalance to Asia’, in William T. Tow and Douglas Stuart (eds) The New U.S. Strategy Towards Asia: Adapting to the American Pivot, London: Routledge, 2015.
• Emmers, Ralf. "The US Rebalance to Asia and the South China Sea Disputes," in The South China Sea Maritime Dispute: Political, Legal, and Regional Perspectives, edited by Leszek Buszynski and Christopher B. Roberts. London: Routledge, 2014
• Emmers, Ralf. "Security and Power Balancing: Singapore’s Response to the US Rebalance to Asia." In The New U.S. Strategy Towards Asia, edited by William T. Tow and Douglas Stuart. London: Routledge, 2014 (forthcoming).
• Emmers, Ralf. "The US Rebalance to Asia and the South China Sea Disputes." In The South China Sea: Political, Legal, and Regional Perspectives, edited by Leszek Buszynski and Christopher B. Roberts. London: Routledge, 2014 (forthcoming).
• Emmers, Ralf. "Natural resources and inter-state cooperation and competition in the South China Sea." In Recent Developments in the South China Sea Dispute: The Prospect of a Joint Development Regime, edited by Wu Shicun and Nong Hong, 160-71. London: Routledge, 2014.
• Emmers, Ralf. "The Role of the Five Power Defence Arrangements in Southeast Asian Security Architecture." In Bilateralism, Multilateralism and Asia-Pacific Security: Contending Cooperation, edited by William T. Tow and Brendan Taylor, 87-99. London: Routledge, 2013.
• “Securitization” in Alan Collins (Ed.), Contemporary Security Studies, 3rd Edition. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013, pp. 131-144
• Emmers, Ralf. "Comprehensive Security in East Asia." In The Routledge Handbook of Asian Regionalism, edited by Mark Beeson and Richard Stubbs, 289-99. London: Routledge, 2012.
• “The ASEAN Regional Forum and Preventive Diplomacy: A Review Essay” (with Tan See Seng) in Ralf Emmers (Ed.), ASEAN and the Institutionalization of East Asia. Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge, 2011, pp. 89-102
• Emmers, Ralf. "Maritime Security in Southeast Asia." In The Routledge Handbook of Asian Security Studies, edited by Sumit Ganguly, Andrew Scobell and Joseph Chinyong Liow, 241-51. London: Routledge, 2010.
• “Securitization” in Alan Collins (Ed.), Contemporary Security Studies, 2nd Edition. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010, pp. 136-151
• Emmers, Ralf. "The De-escalation of the Spratly Dispute in Sino-Southeast Asian Relations." In Security and International Politics in the South China Sea: Towards a Cooperative Management Regime, edited by Sam Bateman and Ralf Emmers, 128-39. London: Routledge, 2009.
• “Geopolitics and the Maritime Territorial Disputes in the South China Sea” in Joshua Ho, Realising Safe and Secure Seas for All. Singapore: Select Publishing, 2009, pp.139-150
• Emmers, Ralf, Beth Greener-Barcham and Nicholas Thomas. "Securitising Human Trafficking in the Asia-Pacific: Regional Organisations and Response Strategies." In Security and Migration in Asia: The Dynamics of Securitisation, edited by Melissa Curley and Wong Siu-lun, 59-82. London: Routledge, 2008, pp. 59-82.
• Emmers, Ralf. "Southeast Asia’s New Security Institutions." In Asia's New Institutional Architecture: Evolving Structures for Managing Trade, Financial, and Security Relations, edited by Vinod K. Aggarwal and Min Gyo Koo, 181-213, Berlin: Springer, 2008.
• “Maritime Disputes in the South China Sea: Strategic and Diplomatic Status Quo” in Kwa Chong Guan and John K. Skogan (Eds.), Maritime Security in Southeast Asia. London: Routledge, 2007, pp. 49-61
• “Securitization” in Alan Collins (Ed.), Contemporary Security Studies. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007, pp. 109-125
• Caballero-Anthony, Mely, and Ralf Emmers. "The Dynamics of Securitization in Asia." In Studying Non-Traditional Security in Asia: Trends and Issues, edited by Ralf Emmers, Mely Caballero-Anthony and Amitav Acharya, 21-35. Singapore: Marshall Cavendish, 2006.
• Callabero-Anthony, Mely, and Ralf Emmers. "Understanding the Dynamics of Securitizing Non-Traditional Security." In Non-Traditional Security in Asia: Dilemmas in Securitization, edited by Mely Caballero-Anthony, Ralf Emmers and Amitav Acharya, 1-12. London: Ashgate, 2006.
• Emmers, Ralf. "Globalization and the Trafficking of People and Narcotics in East Asia." In Development, Migration and Security in East Asia: People's Movement and Non-Traditional Security Challenges in A Changing East Asia, edited by Dewi Fortuna Anwar, 295-324. Jakarta: The Habibie Center, 2005.
• Emmers, Ralf. "Regional Organizations and Peacekeeping: A Study of the ARF." In Forces for Good: Cosmopolitan Militaries in the 21st Century, edited by Lorraine Elliott and Graeme Cheeseman, 134-49. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2004.
• Emmers, Ralf. "Security Cooperation in the Asia-Pacific: Evolution of Concepts and Practices." In Asia-Pacific Security Cooperation: National Interests and Regional Order, edited by Tan See Seng and Amitav Acharya, 3-18. New York: M.E. Sharpe, 2004.

Working Papers

• The East Asia Summit and the Regional Security Architecture (with Joseph Liow Chin Yong, and Tan See Seng), Maryland Series in Contemporary Asian Studies, College Park, MD: University of Maryland, 1 January 2011

Op-Eds

• “Democratization, National Identity and Indonesia’s Foreign Policy”, The ASAN Forum, 25 June 2019
• “The East Asia Summit: A 30-Point Agenda” (with Tan See Seng), PacNet, No. 54, 9 December 2005
• “A 30-Point Agenda for the East Asia Summit” (with Tan See Seng), The Jakarta Post, 6 December 2005
• “Some proposals for the East Asia Summit” (with Tan See Seng), The Straits Times, 19 November 2005

• Chair, Council of Councils Twelfth Regional Conference, co-organised by the French Institute of International Relations (IFRI) and the Council on Foreign Relations, Paris, France, 17-19 November 2019
• Speaker, “Great Power Competition and the South China Sea Dispute”, Indonesian Naval Command and Staff College, Jakarta, Indonesia, October 2019
• Discussant, Seoul Defense Dialogue “ASEAN: Regional Security and Balance” by the Ministry of National Defense, South Korea, 21 September 2019
• Discussant, “Indo-Pacific Security” by Pangoal Institute, Beijing, China, 20 August 2019
• Discussant, Eighth Annual Council of Councils Conference, organised by the Council on Foreign Relations, Washington D.C., USA, 5-7 May 2019
• Discussant, “China-US Rivalry at the Regional Security Days” organised by the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, Bangkok, Thailand, December 2018
• Discussant, “Security in the Asia-Pacific and Challenges for the International Law-Based Order,” 3rd edition of the Asia-Pacific Day in the Polish Parliament, by the Polish Institute of International Affairs, Warsaw, Poland, 13 November 2018
• Chair, Council of Councils Eleventh Regional Conference, co-organised by the East Asia Institute and the Council on Foreign Relations, Seoul, South Korea, 7-9 October 2018
• Discussant, “Sino-US Relations under the Trump Administration” by Pangoal Institute, Beijing, China, 22 September 2018
• Discussant, “The Role of Think Tanks in Shaping Policy Debates”, Yushan Forum: Asian Dialogue for Innovation and Progress, Taipei, Taiwan, 11-12 October 2017
• Discussant, “ASEAN-Korea Cooperation” at the Jeju Forum for Peace and Prosperity 2017 by Jeju Special Self-Governing Province, International Peace Foundation, East Asia Foundation, and Joongang Daily, Korea, 1 May 2017
• Discussant, “Geopolitics of the South China Sea Dispute” at a Seminar co-organised by RSIS and the Polish Institute of International Affairs, Warsaw, Poland, May 2017
• Discussant, Sixth Annual Council of Councils Conference, by the Council on Foreign Relations, Washington D.C., USA, 7-9 May 2017
• Chair and Discussant, Council of Councils Ninth Regional Conference, co-organised by the German Institute for International and Security Affairs (SWP) and the Council on Foreign Relations, Berlin, Germany, 30 October – 1 November 2016
• Chair and Discussant, “A New Cold War History from Southeast Asian Perspective”, the Association for Southeast Asian Studies in the United Kingdom (ASEASUK), London, UK, 16-18 September 2016
• Discussant, Fifth Annual Council of Councils Conference, organised by the Council on Foreign Relations, New York, USA, 15-17 May 2016
• Discussant, Jakarta Workshop on Cooperative Security, co-organised by the Geneva Center for Security Policy (GCSP), the Indonesian Centre for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), and the Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs (FDFA), Jakarta, Indonesia, 24 February 2016
• Discussant, RSIS Roundtable on “The Future of the ADMM/ADMM+ and Defence Diplomacy in the Asia Pacific”, by the Regional Security Architecture Programme, IDSS, RSIS, Singapore, 17 November 2015
• Discussant, Council of Councils Seventh Regional Conference, co-organised by the Observer Research Foundation and the Council on Foreign Relations, New Delhi, India, 11-13 January 2015
• Discussant, “2014 Taiwan-US-Japan Trilateral Security Dialogue”, co-organised by the Chung-Hua Institution for Economic Research, the Center for Strategic and International Studies, and the Institute for International Policy Studies, Taipei, Taiwan, July 2014
• Discussant, MacArthur Asia Security Initiative 2011 Annual Meeting, by the Center for International Strategic Studies, Peking University, Beijing, China, 12 June 2011
• Discussant, 2nd Workshop on “Developing Disputed Maritime Energy Resources in Asia”, by the National Bureau of Asian Research and funded by the MacArthur Foundation, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, August 2010
• Discussant, Conference on “China and East Asia Strategic Dynamics”, organised by RSIS, NTU, Singapore, 11-12 March 2010
• Discussant, Workshop on “Developing Disputed Maritime Energy Resources in Asia”, organised by the National Bureau of Asian Research and funded by the MacArthur Foundation, Bali, Indonesia, December 2009
• Discussant, Meeting of Focus Group Leaders, MacArthur East Asian Security Initiative, organised by the Australian National University and the University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan, September 2009
• Discussant, Sentosa Roundtable on Asian Security 2008 Conference, by RSIS and funded by the Sasakawa Peace Foundation, Singapore, 19 January 2008
• Chair and Discussant, Forum on “Alliances, Alignments and Community-Building: The Emergence of a New International Order in the Asia-Pacific”, by Institute of Southeast Asian Studies (ISEAS), Singapore, September 2007
• Discussant, “Assessing the Shifting Security Agenda in the Asia-Pacific: A Meeting of Experts”, organised by RSIS and funded by the MacArthur Foundation, Singapore, 17 October 2007
• Chair and Discussant, “Living with Complexity: Understanding and Addressing the Southeast Asian Security Problematique”, The 46th Annual Convention of the International Studies Association (ISA), Honolulu, USA, 1-5 March 2005

• IR6006 The Study of Institutions
• AS6008 Maritime Security and Territorial Disputes in the Indo-Pacific