FASS Staff Profile

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR BILVEER SINGH
ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR
DEPARTMENT of POLITICAL SCIENCE

Appointment:
ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR
Office:
AS1/04-04
Email:
polbilve@nus.edu.sg
Tel:
65 6516 3398
Fax:
65 6779 6815
Homepage:
http://profile.nus.edu.sg/fass/polbilve/
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Brief Introduction

Bilveer Singh has a MA and Ph.D in International Relations from the Australian National University. He also teaches and researches on topics related to Comparative Politics.


Teaching Areas

Currently is teaching the following modules:

  • Government and Politics of Singapore.
  • Singapore's Foreign Policy
  • International Politics of Southeast Asia

Current Research

Currently working on the following areas:

  1. Understanding the Dynamics of Domestic Politics, Foreign Policy and Defence of Singapore.
  2. Understanding Radicalism and Terrorism in Southeast Asia.
  3. Security Policy of Indonesia.

Research Interests

Main research interest is in International Relations & Comparative Politics

Publications

BOOKS/MONOGRAPHS AUTHORED

  • Succession Politics in Indonesia: The 1998 Presidential Elections and the Fall of Suharto (London:Macmillan Press, 2000)
  • ASEAN, the Southeast Asian Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zone and the Challenge of Denuclearisation in Southeast Asia, (Canberra: Strategic and Defence Studies Centre), Canberra papers on Strategy and Defence, no. 138, (2000)
  • The Indonesian Military Business Complex: Origins, Course and Its Future, (Canberra: Strategic and Defence Studies Centre), Working Paper Series No, 354 (2001).

  • Defense Relations Between Australia and Indonesia, (Westport, Conn: Greenwood Press, 2002).

  • ASEAN, Australia and the Management of the Jema'ah Islamiyah Threat, (Canberra: Strategic and Defense Studies Centre, Australian National University, 2003), Canberra Papers on Strategy and Defence, No.152.

  • Arming the Singapore Armed Forces: Trends and Implications, (Canberra: Strategic and Defence Studies Centre, Australian National University, 2003), Canberra Papers on Strategy and Defence No.153. 

  • The Vulnerability of Small States Revisited: A Study of Singapore's Post-Cold War Foreign Policy, (Yogjakarta: Gadjah Mada University Press, 1999).
  • Civil-Military Relations in Democratising Indonesia: The Potential and Limits to Change, (Canberra: Strategic and Defence Studies Centre, Australian National University, 2001).
  • Habibie and the Democratization of Indonesia, (Sydney: Book House, 2001), pp.1-487.
  • Politics and Governance in Singapore: An Introduction, (Singapore: McGraw-Hill Education (Asia), 2007), pp. 1-201 + xxxv.
  • The Talibanization of Southeast Asia : Losing the War on Terror to Islamist Extremists, (Westport, Connecticut: Praeger Security International, 2007), pp. 229 + xxxiii.

ARTICLES IN JOURNALS

  • "Civil-Military Relations In Indonesia: Change Amidst Continuity, Armed Forces & Society (Summer 2000)
  • "The Challenge of Militant Islam and Terrorism in Indonesia", Australian Journal of International Affairs, Vol. 58, No. 1, March 2004.
  • "Thaksin and the Challenge of Islamist Militancy in Southern Thailand", Asia-Pacific Political Science Review, March 2006, pp. 52-75.

    "Singapore General Election 2015: Explaining PAP Resounding Win", The Round Table: The Commonweatlh Journal of International Affairs, March 2016, pp. 1-12.

     

Other Information

An active member of the Department, Bilveer has been involved in various administrative duties, including being a Member of the Department Peer Review Committee, Department's Curriculum Review Committee (International Relations), Department Evaluation Committee, Department's Search Committee, Chair, Journal Classification Committee and Chair, Department Inter-JC/CI National Education Committee. Since 2006, he has been involved in administration leadership involving department's workload policy, co-coordinator for Year 2, Coordinator for the Student Exchange Programme and Adviser, Internship Programme. Other administrative duties include: 2010-11: Plagiarism Coammittee; 2012-13: Student Exchange and Non-Graduating Students Advisor ; Political Science Society Advisor; 2013-14: Student Exchange and Non-Graduating Students Advisor; 2014-16: Students and External Relations Committee Chair; Member, Department Management Team.

In terms of public service, he has been a member of the Advisory Panel for Publications (MITA) since 1992 and is also a consultant to the Ministry of Education on the Social Studies and History Syllabi Committees. He was also a Resource Person to the Goverment Parliamentary Committee on Defence and Foreign Affairs. In 2007, Bilveer was appointed as a Resource Person to the Indonesia-East Timor Commission on Truth and Friendship. Currently he is also Vice-President, Political Science Association (Singapore) and the Deputy National Coordinator, Southeast Asian Conflict Studies Network. He is also a member of Singapore's Council on Security and Cooperation Asia-Pacific. In 2005, he was the Deputy Head, Department of Political Science. in 2011-12, he was Head, Centre of Excellence for National Security, S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, Nanyang Technological University and remains as Adjunct Senior Fellow to this date.

Winner of ten teaching excellence awards - Faculty (1992/3, 1998/99, 2001/02, 2002/03, 2003/04, 2004/05, 2005/06, 2006/07); - University (1998/99, 2003/04), Bilveer believes in teaching students creatively and single-mindedly would like to touch and inspire them in their respective endeavours. Adopting the philosophy of developing a complete student with no limits as far as learning is concerned, he has tried to utilise the medium of lectures, tutorials and assignments in pursuit of this mission. Learning to him is a endless journey with no destination.


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