Bio

Ralf Emmers is Associate Professor and Head of Graduate Studies at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS), Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. His research interests are in security studies, international institutions in the Asia Pacific, and the international relations of Southeast Asia. His publications include Non-Traditional Security in the Asia-Pacific: The Dynamics of Securitization and Cooperative Security and the Balance of Power in ASEAN and the ARF (Routledge). He is co-editor of Security and International Politics in the South China Sea: Towards a Cooperative Management Regime; Order and Security in Southeast Asia: Essays in Memory of Michael Leifer (both published by Routledge) and Understanding Non-Traditional Security in Asia: Dilemmas in Securitization.