Publications

BOOKS/MONOGRAPHS AUTHORED

• External Intervention and State Formation - China, Indonesia, Thailand, 1892-1952, Cambridge University Press, 2012.
  (2013 International Security Studies Section Best Book Award, International Studies Association)
  <http://www.cambridge.org/sg/academic/subjects/politics-international-relations/east-asian-government-politics-and-policy/external-intervention-and-politics-state-formation-china-indonesia-and-thailand-18931952?format=HB>

CHAPTERS IN BOOKS

• “The Collective Influence of Smaller States on the U.S.-China Security Dilemma,” in Ooi Kee Beng [ed.], The Third ASEAN Reader, Singapore: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies Press, 2015, 157-9

   

• “Chinese Nationalism Reconsidered”, in Kate Zhou, Shelley Rigger, and Lynn T. White, III [eds.], Democratization in China, Korea, and Southeast Asia? Local and National Perspectives, Routledge, 2014

   

• “China-Southeast Asian Relations since the Cold War”, in Andrew T.H. Tan [ed.], East and South-East Asia: International Relations and Security Perspectives, Routledge, 2013

   

• “The International System and the Emergence of the Sovereign State: The Birth of the Modern Sovereign State in the Chinese World” in Heavenly Bodies, Physical Bodies, and Political Bodies: Sinology Faces the World, edited by Chu P’ing-tzu and Yang Ju-pin, Taipei: National Taiwan University Publishing Centre, 2005 [in Chinese] （〈主權國的興起與世界政治架構：現代主權在華夏的誕生〉祝平次 楊儒賓 編《天體、生體與國體：迴向世界的漢學》台北 國立台灣大學出版中心 2005年 [民94]）, 407-457

• "America’s Asia-Pacific Rebalance and the Hazards of Hedging," in David W.F. Huang et al [eds.], Asia-Pacific Countries and the U.S. Rebalance Strategy, PalgraveMacMillan, 2016

   

• "Liberalisation in the Face of Existential Threat: Contemplating Political Change in Taiwan and South Korea from Singapore," in K.S. Loh et al [eds.], Living with Myths, Select Books, 2017

   

• "A Matter of Trust: Understanding Limited Support for Taiwan’s Defence Reform," in Ryan Dunch and Ashley Esarey [eds.], Taiwan in Dynamic Transition, forthcoming

   

ARTICLES IN JOURNALS

• “One Thing Leads to Another: Making Sense of East Asia’s Repeated Tensions” [with Todd H. Hall], Asian Security, Vol. 13 No. 1 (March 2017): 20-40

   

   

• “Popular Narratives versus History: Implications for an Emergent China”, European Journal of International Relations, Vol. 20 No. 4 (December 2014): 939-64

   

• 「反覆性緊張的後果研究：以四個東亞雙邊爭端為例」 [A Study on the Consequences of Repeated Tensions: Examining Several Cases of Dyadic Disputes in East Asia] (with Todd H. Hall), World Economics and Politics (《世界經濟與政治》), No. 9 (2014): 50-74

   

• “China’s Hong Kong Headache: What Will Beijing Do About the Protests?” (with Allen R. Carlson and William J. Hurst), The National Interest (October 3, 2014) <http://nationalinterest.org/feature/chinas-hong-kong-headache-what-will-beijing-do-about-the-11402>

   

• “The Lessons of 1914 for East Asia Today? Missing the Trees for the Forest” (with Todd H. Hall), International Security, Volume 39, Number 1 (Summer 2014): 7-43

   

• “Will the Real China Please Stand Up?” Dialogue, No. 7 (February - March 2014): 51-2

   

• “The South China Sea Disputes: Some Documentary Context — Guest Editors Introduction,” Chinese Law and Government, Vol. 46, Nos. 3-4 (May-June/July-August 2013): 3-9

   

• “How External Intervention Made the Sovereign State: Foreign Rivalries, Local Complicity, and State Formation in Weak Polities”, Security Studies, Volume 20, Number 1 (January – March 2011): 623-655

• “Breaking Up is Hard to Do: Foreign Intervention and the Limiting of Fragmentation in the Late Qing and Early Republic, 1893 – 1922”, Twentieth Century China, Volume 35, Number 1 (November 2009): 75-98

• “Japan-Taiwan Relations: Between Affinity and Reality”, (with LAM Peng Er) Asian Affairs: An American Review, Vol. 30 No. 4 (Winter 2004): 249-267 (Note errata on authorship listed in next issue)

SHORTER ARTICLES/COMMENTS IN JOURNAL

• 「後李光耀時代 左右逢源此路不通」[Having Things Both Ways Less Possible in the Post-Lee Kuan Yew Era]《信報財經新聞》Hong Kong Economic Journal (August 8, 2015) [in Mandarin Chinese] <http://www1.hkej.com/dailynews/international/article/1115045/後李光耀時代+左右逢源此路不通>

   

• “The Challenges of Maintaining American Security Ties in Post-Authoritarian East Asia”, (with Andrew S. Erickson) The National Interest (January 29, 2015) <http://nationalinterest.org/feature/the-challenge-maintaining-american-security-ties-post-12145>

   

   

• 「從星洲觀看太陽花」[Watching Sunflowers from Singapore]《破土》 New Bloom (July 11, 2014) [in Mandarin Chinese] <http://newbloommag.net/2014/07/11/從星洲觀看太陽花/>

   

• ‘Challenging Secrecy’ in “Big Question: What Should Governments Keep Secret?” World Policy Journal, Vol. 30 No. 3 (Fall 2013): 8

   

• “Malaysia and Singapore’s Online Response to U.S. ‘Rebalancing,’” Asia Politics and Policy, Vol. 5 No. 2 (April 2013): 314-7

   

• “Lost in Transition, or Why Non-Leading States should Concern Washington and Beijing”, East Asia Forum Quarterly 2, No. 2 (July-September 2010)

BOOK REVIEWS

• “Author’s Response,” ISSF/H-Diplo Roundtable on Ja Ian Chong. External Intervention and the Politics of State Formation: China, Indonesia and Thailand, 1893-1952. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2012. ISBN: 9781107013759 (hardback, $104.99); 9781107679788 (paperback, $32.99) (November 9, 2014) <http://issforum.org/ISSF/PDF/ISSF-Roundtable-7-5.pdf>

   

• Book Review, “Yong Deng.  China’s Struggle for Status: The Realignment of International Relations.  New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008.  Pamela Kyle Crossley, Helen F. Siu, and Donald S. Sutton.  Eds.  Empire at the Margins: Culture, Ethnicity, and Frontier in Early Modern China.  Berkeley: University of California Press, 2006”, Journal of East Asian Studies, Volume 11, Number 1 (Spring 2011): 155-161

• Book Review, “Michael Green and Bates Gill.   Asia’s New Multilateralism: Cooperation, Competition, and the Search for Community.  New York: Columbia University Press, 2009”, Journal of East Asian Studies, Volume 10, Number 2 (Summer 2010): 345-358

• Book Review, “Allen Carlson.  Unifying China, Integrating the World: Securing Chinese Sovereignty in the Reform Era.  Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2005”, China Review International, Volume 13, Number 1 (Spring 2006): 93-99

• Book Review, “Feng Zhang. Chinese Hegemony: Grand Strategy and International Institutions in East Asian History. Stanford University Press, 2015,” H-Diplo, forthcoming

   

THESES/DISSERTATIONS

• Imposing States: External Intervention and the Politics of State Formation

PUBLISHED REPORTS

• “Freedom of Navigation Operations: Better Quiet Resolve,” RSIS Commentaries (November 6, 2015) <https://www.rsis.edu.sg/rsis-publication/rsis/co15236-south-china-sea-series-freedom-of-navigation-operations-better-quiet-resolve/#.VryU-8c7Im8>

   

• “Reading the Tea-Leaves of China’s Force Modernisation: Capabilities, Intentions, and a Perplexed Region,” Proceedings of Conference on Asia-Pacific Security, Tamkang University (July 2014) 

   

• “Regional Architecture and Framework for Cooperation in the Asia-Pacific,” (with Soo Yeon Kim and Ryogo Nakano) (April 2014)

   

• “The Collective Influence of Smaller States in the U.S.-China Security Dilemma”, Asia Pacific Bulletin, No. 193 (December 20, 2012)

   

• “China’s Transparency Deficit Complicates Beijing’s Regional Outreach”, Asia Pacific Bulletin, No. 185 (November 13, 2012)

   

• “Testing Alternative Responses to Power Preponderance: A Look at the Asia-Pacific”, Institute of Defence and Strategic Studies Working Paper Series, No. 60 (January 2004)

• “Revisiting Responses to Power Preponderance: Beyond the Balancing-Bandwagoning Dichotomy”, Institute of Defence and Strategic Studies Working Paper Series, No. 54 (November 2003)

• “Towards an ASEAN Security Community”, (with Leonard C. Sebastian) Straits Times (Singapore)/IDSS Perspectives (October 7, 2003)

   

• “Washington’s Disquiet: A Perspective on Current U.S.-Taiwan Relations”, Straits Times (Singapore)/IDSS Perspectives (July 14, 2003)

   

• “Chinese Interests in Post-Reunification Korea”, in A Blueprint for U.S. Policy toward a Unified Korea (Washington, DC: Centre for Strategic and International Studies Press, 2002), 33-36

   

OTHERS

• “Strengthen, Not Alter, Parliament,” Straits Times (December 3, 2015) <http://www.straitstimes.com/forum/letters-in-print/strengthen-not-alter-parliament#xtor=CS1-10>

   

• “More informed citizens can help safeguard Singapore,” Straits Times (June 17, 2015) <http://news.asiaone.com/news/mailbox/more-informed-citizens-can-help-safeguard-spore>

   

• “Of Liberalization and Externalities,” Thinking Taiwan (May 6, 2014) <http://thinking-taiwan.com/of-liberalization-externalities-2/>

   

• 「東盟的未來」 [The Future of ASEAN], 《聯合早報》Lianhe Zaobao (Singapore) (August 3, 2003) [in Mandarin Chinese]

   

• 「『國』與『非國』之戰——9/11事件的在認識」[The State/Non-State Conflict: Rethinking 9/11], 《聯合早報》Lianhe Zaobao, November 28, 2001 [in Mandarin Chinese]