Books
Managing Global Risks in an Urban age: Singapore and the making of a Global City, ‘Rethinking Asia and International Relations’ Series, London: Routledge, 2016
Asia-Pacific Nations in International Peace Support and Stability Missions, ‘Asia Today’ series, New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014 (co-edited with Chiyuki Aoi)
War as Risk Management: Strategy and Conflict in an age of Globalised Risks,
‘Contemporary Security Studies’ series, London: Routledge, 2006
Risk, Global Governance and Security: the other war on terror,
‘Global Security’ series, London: Routledge, 2009 (first-author, with Ken McDonagh)
Academic Journal Articles
“UK-Japan military exercises and mutual strategic reassurance”, Defence Studies, Vol. 21 Issue 3, 2021, pp.334-355
“Regional Communicative Dynamics and International Relations in the Asia-Pacific”, Asian Perspective, Vol. 45 No. 3, Summer 2021, pp.479-501 (Co-editor of Special Section on Strategic Communications, with Chiyuki Aoi)
“The sustainability turn in UAE-Japan relations”, Contemporary Arab Affairs, Vol 13 No. 4, Dec 2020, pp.89-109
“Enhancing Europe’s global power in Asia 2030”, Global Policy, Vol. 11 Issue 1, February 2020, pp.159-163
“Japan’s Health Diplomacy: Projecting Soft Power in the Era of Global Health” (co-authored with Hisashi Kato and Timothy Mackey), Global Health Governance, Vol. IX No. 1 and 2, 2019
"The continuing resonance of the war as risk management perspective for understanding military interventions", Contemporary Security Policy, Special Forum on Governing Risks in International Security, Vol. 39 Issue 4, 2018, pp.544-558
‘Three Faces of Japan’s Soft Power’, Asian International Studies Review, Vol. 18 No. 1, 2017
‘Turning on the taps: Singapore’s new branding as a global hydrohub’ (with Joo Yu Min), International Development Planning Review, Vol. 39 Issue 2, 2017
'Shaping Norms for Health Governance in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN)' (with M Nodzenski, T Pang & KH Phua), Global Health Governance, Vol. X No. 2, Fall 2016
‘Can small states be more than price-takers?’(with Syed Adha), Global Governance, Vol. 21 No. 3, July-September 2015, pp.435-454
‘Managing Risk, the State and Political Economy in Historical Perspective’ (with Ken McDonagh), International Politics, Vol. 52 No. 4, July 2015, pp.408-425
‘Smart Power and Japan’s Self-Defence Forces’, Journal of Strategic Studies, Vol. 38 No. 3, 2015, pp.282-308
‘Beyond kawaii pop culture: Japan’s normative soft power as a global trouble-shooter’, The Pacific Review, Vol. 27 No. 2, May 2014, pp.169-192
‘The Bundeswehr and the Kunduz Air Strike 4 September 2009: Germany’s Post-Heroic moment?’ (with Constantin Schuessler), European Security, Vol. 22 No. 3, 2013, pp.355-375
‘A global city in an age of global risks: Singapore’s evolving discourse on vulnerability’, Contemporary Southeast Asia, Vol. 35 No. 4, Dec 2013, pp.432-452
‘Confessions of a small state: Singapore’s evolving approach to international peace operations’, Journal of International Peacekeeping, Vol. 16 Issue 1-2, February 2012, pp.119-151
‘What did New Labour ever do for us? Evaluating Tony Blair’s imprint on British strategic culture’, British Journal of Politics and International Relations, Vol. 14 No. 4, Nov 2012, pp.556-575
‘After the ‘War on Terror’: Regulatory States, Risk Bureaucracies and the Risk-based Governance of Terror’ (with Ken McDonagh), International Relations, Vol. 25 No. 3, September 2011, pp.313-329
‘Ghosts in the machine: Is IR eternally haunted by the spectre of old concepts?’ International Politics, Vol. 47 No. 5, September 2010, pp.535-556
‘Mirror mirror on the wall, who is the softest of them all? Evaluating Japanese and Chinese strategies in the ‘soft’ power competition era’, International Relations of the
Asia-Pacific, Vol. 10 No. 2, May 2010, pp.275-306
‘The other war on terror revealed: Global governmentality and the Financial Action Task Force’s campaign against terrorist financing’, Review of International Studies,
Vol. 34 No. 3, July 2008 (with Ken McDonagh), pp.553-573
‘The Return of Net Assessment’, Survival, Vol. 49 No. 4, Winter 2007-08, pp.135-152
‘Old wine in new bottles? Reconfiguring Net Assessment as a framework of 21st
century security analysis’, Contemporary Security Policy, Vol. 28 No. 3, December 2007, pp.423-443
Lost in translation? Why Japan and traditional Great Power rivalry remain key to East Asian international politics’, Irish Studies in International Affairs, Vol. 18, October 2007, pp.45-59
The transformation of war debate: through the looking glass of Ulrich Beck’s World Risk Society’, International Relations, Vol. 20 No.1, March 2006, pp.69-91
‘Unravelling the ‘war’ on terrorism: A ‘risk-management’ exercise in ‘war’
clothing?’, Security Dialogue, Vol. 33, No.2 , June 2002, pp.227-242
Book Chapters
“Small States”, in The Oxford Research Encyclopedia of International Studies, Oxford University Press, 2020
'Security Risks" in The Encyclopedia of Risk Research, Society for Risk Analysis Japan, Maruzen Publishing, 2019
“Beyond the securitisation of civil society in Singapore’ in Chiharu Takenaka and Khatharya Um (eds) Globalisation and Civil Society in East Asian Space, Routledge forthcoming 2021
“The Asia Pacific region and international peace support: Limits of institutionalization’ (with Chiyuki Aoi) in Takashi Inoguchi (ed), The Sage Handbook of Asian Foreign Policy Vol.2,SAGE Publications, 2019
‘Japan as security-provider in Asia’, in Peace and Stability in Asia, German-Southeast Asian Centre of Excellence for Public Policy and Good Governance, Thammasat University, forthcoming 2021
`Terrorism and counter-terrorism in Japan` (with Chiyuki Aoi) in Michael Boyle (ed), Non-Western responses to Terrorism, Manchester University Press, 2019
‘Constraints and Opportunities in the US Defence Posture in Asia’ in Andrew Tan (ed), Handbook of the United States in Asia, Edward Elgar, UK, 2018, pp.324-340
‘“Smart Power” and Japan’s trouble-shooting approach to South-east Asia”, in Mary McCarthy (ed) The Routledge Handbook of Japanese Foreign Policy, Routledge, 2018, pp.202-216
'CHINESE AND JAPANESE “SOFT POWER” PROJECTION: A TANGLED WEB OF CULTURE, GEO-STRATEGIC COMPETITION AND NAVAL POWER' in Lam Peng Er (ed) China-Japan Relations in the 21th Century, Palgrave Macmillan, 2017
‘Singapore’s perceptions of long-term strategic and economic trends in South-east Asia’, in David Denoon (eds), The US, China and the future of south-east Asia, New York University Press, 2017
‘Assessing the Sino-US Power Balance,’ in Andrew Tan (ed) Handbook of US- China Relations, Edward Elgar, 2016
'NATO and Regional Approaches to Asia-Pacific Security: The Singapore perspective' in Alex Moens and Brooke Windsor (eds), NATO and Asia-Pacific, NATO Defence College and Simon Fraser University, 2016
‘The Financial Action Task Force’, (co-authored with Ken McDonagh), in James Sperling (ed), Handbook of Security Governance, Edward Elgar, 2014
‘ASEAN and the South China Sea disputes’ in Huang Jing (eds), The South China Sea: Central to Asia-Pacific Peace and Security, Palgrave, 2014
‘Japan’s anti-piracy mission off Somalia and the dynamics of Great Power intervention’, in Emma Leonard (eds) Globalizing Somalia: Multilateral, International and Transnational Repercussions of Conflict, Bloomsbury Press: New York and London, 2013
‘The New Security Concept: The role of the military in Chinese foreign policy’, in Emilian Kavalski (ed), The Ashgate Research Companion to Chinese Foreign Policy, Ashgate: 2012
‘Risk, Reflexive Rationality and the implications for decision-making’, in Heidi Kurkinnen, Decision-Making in Crisis and War, Helsinki: Finnish National Defence University, 2010, pp.19-32
‘The Iraq crisis: intelligence-driven or risk-driven?’ in Eunan O’Halpin, Robert Armstrong and Jane Ohlmeyer(eds), Intelligence, International Power and Statecraft, Dublin: Irish Academic Press, 2006, pp. 222-34
‘Unravelling the war on terrorism’, in Alan O’Day (editor), The War on
Terrorism, Ashgate, December 2004, pp.67-83
Reviews, Articles for Specialist Journals, Op-ed Pieces and Media etc:
"Enabling NATO's engagement with partners in the Asia-Pacific", NATO Association of Canada, December 2020
"Britain returns East of Suez, via Japan?", The Straits Times, 2 February 2021
リスクと未来の社会(Risk and Future Society) in Future Exploration 2050 (Mirai Tankyu 2050), Nikkei Book Publishing, 2021 (Japanese)
"Japan and ASEAN: Partners for uncertain times", The Straits Times, 25 January 2019 (with Jonathan McClory)
‘Japan’s hard and soft power in southeast Asia’, RSIS Commentaries, 27 December 2017 (reprinted in Eurasia Review; New Straits Times (Malaysia)
Invited book review: ‘China and Japan as Charm Rivals’, in International Relations of the Asia-Pacific, Vol. 15 No. 2, 2015, p.400-402
Invited review: ‘Competitive Strategies for the 21st Century’, in RUSI Journal, Vol. 158 No. 4, August/Sep 2013, p.89
Invited review: International Relations and States of Exception, in Cambridge Review of International Affairs, Vol. 23 No. 4, Dec 2010, pp.625-626
Invited review: War in an Age of Risk, RUSI Journal, Vol. 154 No. 3, July 2009, pp.82-83
‘Book review: Client State’, Millennium: Journal of International Studies, Vol.37 No. 3, 2009, pp.814-815
‘Invited review: Risk Society at War’, Journal of Risk Research, Vol. 11 No. 5, 2008, pp.689-691
‘Invited Response to J. Owen Herzog’, Cambridge Review of International Affairs, Vol. 20 No. 2, June 2007, pp.350-351
‘Okinawa remains stumbling block for Abe’, TODAY, 24 December 2014
‘Live’ interview with Channel News Asia on the Japan elections, 14 December 2014
‘Tackling Japan’s security challenges ‘ (with William Choong), The Straits Times,07 February 2015
‘Japan: troublemaker or troubleshooter’, The Straits Times, 25 March 2014
‘Europe not quite the paradigm of peace’, The Straits Times, 22 Oct 2013
‘Stars aligning for Japan in south-east Asia?’, The Straits Times, 12 June 2013
‘Protecting Japan’s beautiful seas’, The Straits Times, 04 January 2013, http://misc.meltwaternews.com/sph_view.php?view=25264
‘Asia and the US elections: foreign policy challenges’, invited contribution to Royal United Services Institute (RUSI), UK, special online feature on ‘The US elections: what the rest of the world thinks’, http://www.rusi.org/analysis/commentary/ref:C5086743C40F1C/#.UTw0Y1dNiL8, 23 October 2012
‘Power that speaks softly’, Interview and profile featured in ‘Chatroom’ section, The Straits Times, 08 September 2012
‘Wobbly British finally strike gold’, The Straits Times, 08 August 2012
‘Britain goes all out to charm Asia’, The Straits Times (Singapore), 30 April 2012
‘Rajaratnam’s global city vision vindicated 40 years on’, The Straits Times (Singapore), 06 February 2012
‘Japan circles the aerial wagons', The Straits Times (Singapore), 11 November 2011
‘Water: Once an albatross, now a source of soft power’, The Straits Times (Singapore), 30 August 2011
‘Best not to push Japan into a corner’, The Straits Times (Singapore), 21 December 2010
‘The Japanese art of adapting to crisis’, The Straits Times, (Singapore), 19 October 2010
‘Singapore’s unique identity sets it apart from China’, The Straits Times (Singapore), 05 September 2010
‘Humanitarianism, military and security issues: NGOs, depleted uranium and the ICC’, Royal United Services Institute Newsbriefs, Vol. 21, Issue 4, April 2001
