Peer-Reviewed Academic Journal Articles

• 'The Bundeswehr and the Kunduz Air Strike 4 September 2009: Germany’s Post-Heroic moment?' (with Constantin Schuessler), accepted for publication, European Security, forthcoming 2013
• ‘Beyond kawaii pop culture: Japan’s normative soft power as a global trouble-shooter’, accepted for publication, The Pacific Review, forthcoming 2013
• '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 Issue 4, November 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
  
• '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
• ‘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)
• ‘The Return of Net Assessment’, Survival, Vol. 49 No. 4, Winter 2007-08
• ‘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
• ‘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
• ‘The transformation of war debate: through the looking glass of Ulrich Beck’s World Risk Society’, International Relations, Vol. 20 No.1, March 2006
• ‘Unravelling the ‘war’ on terrorism: A ‘risk-management’ exercise in ‘war’
  clothing?’, Security Dialogue, Vol. 33, No.2 , June 2002
  

Books

• Asia-Pacific Nations in International Peace Support and Stability Missions (eds), contracted with Palgrave Macmillan, New York, forthcoming (with Chiyuki Aoi)
• Risk, Global Governance and Security: the other war on terror, London: Routledge, 2009 (with Ken McDonagh)
• War as Risk Management: Strategy and Conflict in an age of Globalised Risks, London: Routledge, 2006
  

Book Chapters

• ‘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, forthcoming, contracted with Continuum Press, London
• ‘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
  
• ‘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
• ‘Unravelling the war on terrorism’, in Alan O’Day (editor), The War on Terrorism, Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing, December 2004

• ‘Protecting Japan’s beautiful seas’, The Straits Times, 04 January 2013
• ‘Asia and the US elections: foreign policy challenges’, invited contribution to Royal United Services Institute for Defence Studies (RUSI), UK, special feature on ‘The US elections: what the rest of the world thinks’, 23 October 2012
• 'Power that speaks softly', Interview in Chatroom section, The Straits Times, 08 September 2012
• "'Wobbly' British finally strike gold" The Straits Times (Singapore), 7 August 2012
• 'Britain goes all out to charm Asia', The Straits Times (Singapore), 30 April 2012
• 'Rajaratnam’s global city vision for S’pore 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
• ‘Soft Power: Singapore has what it takes’, The Straits Times (Singapore), 03 July 2010

• "Singapore's perception of strategic and economic developments in SEA", Conference on ‘China, The U.S., and the Future of Southeast Asia’, New York University, USA (June 2013)
• "To Feign control over the uncontrollable: The discourse of risk and the politics of catastrophe", Workshop on ‘Political Economy, State Transformation and the new Security agenda’, Queen Mary, University of London, United Kingdom (March 2013)
• "ASEAN’s Position on the South China Sea and Implications for Regional Peace and Security", Conference on ‘The South China Sea: Central to Asia-Pacific Peace and Security’ Asia Society/Centre on Asia and Globalisation, New York, USA (March 2013)
• "Urban Order, Global Risks". British International Studies Association / International Studies Assocation Joint Conference (20 - 22 Jun 2012)
• "To Feign control over the uncontrollable’ : The discourse of risk and the politics of catastrophe". International Studies Annual Convention ( 1 - 5 Apr 2012, San Diego, United States)
• "Human Rights and the Bureaucratisation of Counter‐Terrorism’". International Studies Assocation Annual Conference 2011 (16 - 19 Mar 2011, Montreal, Canada)
• "Japan's Maritime Soft Power and Disaster Diplomacy". Security and Defence Implications of the Great East Japan Earthquake, (King's College, London, United Kingdom)
• "The non kinetic role of the military in smart power strategies". Smart Power: Transforming Militaries for 21st Century Missions, (Goh Keng Swee Command and Staff College, Singapore)

• ‘IR theory in the UK and Singapore’ Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan (20 Dec 2012)
• ‘The evolution of British strategic culture’, Japan National Defence Academy, Yokosuka, Japan (14 Dec 2012)
• ‘Contributions to international peacekeeping by Asia-Pacific countries: A micro view’, Japan Association of International Security Annual meeting, Tokyo, Japan (08-09 Dec 2012)
• "Climate change and Security’". Combined Annual Review Meeting of Indonesian and Singapore Chiefs of Defence Forces ( 8 - 10 May 2012)
• "The security dimensions of Japan’s soft power’". International Studies Seminar (14 Dec 2011, Aoyama Gakuin University, Tokyo, Japan)
• "The commercial peace theory and the economy security nexus: theorising the case of rare earth elements". Five University Network Workshop on East Asian Security ( 8 - 10 Dec 2012, Tokyo, Japan)
• "Japan’s soft power as a global trouble shooter". Visiting Speakers Seminar Series (18 Nov 2011, Asia Research Centre, Murdoch University, Perth, Australia)