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Dr Helen E.S. Nesadurai

  B.Sc (Hons) & MSc (Biochemistry, Universiti Malaya)
M.Sc (Development Economics, Oxford)
Ph.D. (Politics & International Studies, Warwick)
- Senior Lecturer in International Studies



My research, which is located within the interrelated fields of International Political Economy and International Relations, focuses on globalization and its governance. I am especially interested in understanding the different ways in which elite and non-elite actors operating within distinct domestic contexts use regional cooperation schemes to respond to both the pressures associated with globalization and a host of transnational challenges. Much of my research to date has examined how the tensions between the global and the domestic are negotiated in the construction of regional projects in the broad Asia-Pacific region. I explored these dynamics in detail in my 2003 book on ASEAN titled Globalization, Domestic Politics and Regionalism: The ASEAN Free Trade Area (London & New York: Routledge, 2003) while a variety of book chapters and journal articles published since 2003 also address this theme through case studies of ASEAN, APEC and the ASEAN Plus Three grouping.

Recognising the practical and political difficulties in getting ASEAN to institutionalize human rights principles and practices, my current research explores whether there may be other ways to build a people-centred ASEAN Community that will institutionalize inclusiveness for ASEAN’s peoples. This work builds on a collaborative project on economic security in East Asia that I led between 2004-2006, which culminated in the publication of an edited book titled Globalization and Economic Security in East Asia: Governance and Institutions (London and New York: Routledge, 2006).

In addition, I have been involved in a number of collaborative research projects on regional governance and Asia-Pacific regionalism hosted by the Global Economic Governance Programme at Oxford University, the Berkeley APEC Study Centre at the University of California, Berkeley, the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs at Harvard University and the Rajaratnam School of International Studies in Singapore. Currently, I am participating in a new research project on “New Modes of Governance in Asia” initiated by the Asia Research Centre at Murdoch University in Australia. I am an External Associate of both the Centre for the Study of Globalization and Regionalization at Warwick University and the Asia Research Centre at Murdoch University. I also serve as a member of the editorial board/international advisory panel of the following international, peer-reviewed journals: Global Governance, The Pacific Review and Contemporary Southeast Asia.

 


Academic Publications

Forthcoming “Networking their Way to Cooperation: Finance Ministers and Central Bankers in East Asian Financial Cooperation”, in Leonardo Martinez-Diaz and Ngaire Woods (eds), Networks of Influence, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008, in press).
2008

“Bandung and the Political Economy of North-South Relations”, in See-Seng Tan and Amitav Acharya (eds), Bandung Revisited: The Legacy of the 1955 Asian-African Conference for International Order (Singapore: National University of Singapore Press, 2008), pp. 68-101.
2008 “The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN)”, New Political Economy, 13 (2): 225-239. 
2008 “Economic Nationalism and the Limits of Globalization”, in Terence Chong (ed.), Globalization and its Counter-Forces in Southeast Asia ( Singapore: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, 2008), pp. 134-68.
2007 “Hanging Together, Institutional Design and Cooperation in Southeast Asia: The Cases of AFTA and the ARF”, in Amitav Acharya and Alistair Iain Johnstone (eds), Crafting Cooperation: Regional International Institutions in Comparative Perspective ( New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007), pp. 32-82 (co-authored with Yuen-Foong Khong).
2007 “Southeast Asia’s New Institutional Architecture for Cooperation in Economics and Finance”, in Vinod K. Aggarwal and Min-Gyo Koo (eds), Asia’s New Institutional Architecture: Evolving Structures for Managing Trade, Finance and Security Relations (Berlin & Heidelberg: Springer-Verlag, 2007), pp. 151-80.
2006 Globalisation and Economic Security in East Asia: Governance and Institutions , ( London and New York, Routledge, 2006) (Editor)
2006 “Conceptualising Economic Security in an Era of Globalisation: What does the East Asian Experience Reveal?” in Helen E.S. Nesadurai (ed.), Globalisation and Economic Security in East Asia: Governance and Institutions , ( London and New York, Routledge, 2006), pp. 3-22.
2006 “The Indo-Chinese Enlargement of ASEAN: Enhancing or Undermining Regional Economic Integration?” in Douglas Webber and Bertrand Fort (eds), Regional Integration in Europe and East Asia: Convergence or Divergence? ( London and New York: Routledge, 2006), pp. 199-217.
2006 “ Malaysia and the United States: Rejecting Dominance, Embracing Engagement”, in Mark Beeson (ed.), Bush and Asia, ( London and New York, Routledge, 2006), pp. 179-95.
2006 “APEC and East Asia: The Challenge of Remaining Relevant”, in Lorraine Elliot (ed.) APEC and the Search for Relevance: 2007 and Beyond, ( Canberra: Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University, 2006), pp. 16-25.
2006 “Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN)”, in Roland Robertson and J.A. Scholte (eds), Encyclopaedia of Globalization, ( London and New York: Routledge, 2006).
2005 “Asia and the Asia-Pacific”, in Mary Farrell, Bjorn Hettne and Luk Van Langenhove (eds) Global Politics of Regionalism, ( Cambridge: Pluto Press, 2005), pp. 155-70
2004 “Asia-Pacific Approaches to Regional Governance: The Globalisation-Domestic Politics Nexus”, in Kanishka Jayasuriya (ed.), Asian Regional Governance: Crisis and Change, ( London and New York: RoutledgeCurzon, 2004), pp. 147-72.
2004 “Cooperation and Institutional Transformation in ASEAN: Lessons from the ASEAN Free Trade Area (AFTA) Project”, in Ramesh Thakur and Edward Newman (eds), Broadening Asia’s Security Discourse and Agenda , ( Tokyo, New York and Paris: United Nations University Press, 2004), pp. 279-305.
2004 “Special Issue on Globalisation and Economic Security in East Asia: Governance and Institutions”, The Pacific Review, 17 (4) (Guest Editor).
2004 “Introduction: Economic Security, Globalisation and Governance”, The Pacific Review, 17 (4): 459-84.
2003 Globalization, Domestic Politics and Regionalism: The ASEAN Free Trade Area ( London and New York: Routledge).
2003 “Attempting Developmental Regionalism in AFTA: The Domestic Sources of Regional Governance”, Third World Quarterly, 24 (2): 235-53.
2002 “Rethinking the Southeast Asian Development Model: Bringing Ethical and Governance Questions In”, ASEAN Economic Bulletin, 19 (1): 27-39 (co-authored with Richard A. Higgott).
2000 “Southeast Asian Research Institutes and Regional Cooperation’, in Diane Stone (ed.), Banking on Knowledge, ( London: Routledge, 2000), pp. 183-202 (co-authored with Diane Stone).
2000 “In Defence of National Economic Autonomy? Malaysia’s Response to the Financial Crisis”, The Pacific Review, 13 (1): 73-113.
1996 “APEC -- A United States Tool for Regional Domination?” The Pacific Review, 9(1): 31-57.


Non-peer-reviewed Publications

2000 Southeast Asian Think Tanks in Regional and Global Networking, Panorama (Friedrich Ebert Stiftung Occasional Papers), Vol. 1/2000: 19-35 (co-authored with Diane Stone).