Biography

Currently, I hold two external affiliations as External Associate: with the Centre for the Study of Globalization and Regionalization at Warwick University, UK and the Asia Research Centre at Murdoch University in Australia. I have also held the following visiting positions: Visiting Fellow, Department of International Relations, Australian National University; Visiting Scholar, Centre for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), Jakarta; and Summer Fellow, East-West Center, Honolulu. I have also acted as consultant for the ASEAN Secretariat and the Asian Development Bank. I currently serve as a member of the Editorial Board of The Pacific Review and Journal of Current Southeast Asian Affairs; I am also a member of the International Advisory Committee for Contemporary Southeast Asia. All three are international, peer-reviewed journals. I am currently a Commissioner with the First Murdoch Commission, a year-long (2013) expert commission established by Murdoch University, Australia to provide analysis and practical insights for policy development on Western Australia’s future in the Asian region.

Subjects Taught in 2012 

Honours/Research Degrees Supervision  

Research Interests  

• Politics and Political Economy of Non-State Governance Regimes: The Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil
• Regional Governance and Institutions in the Asia-Pacific: ASEAN, APEC, ASEAN Plus Three
• Regional Civil Society and ‘Alternative’ Regionalism in Southeast Asia
• Contested Knowledge and the Politics of Global/Regional Governance

Current Research/Writing Projects 

• Book chapter on the foreign economic relations and policies of Southeast Asia for the Oxford Handbook of the International Relations of Asia (Oxford University Press).
• Book chapter on the institutional impediments hindering the completion of ASEAN economic integration and how to overcome these (Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, ISEAS).
• Journal article on "Food security, oil palm plantations and local land rights: can multi-stakeholder governance regimes help?" (The Pacific Review).
• Paper on external responses to EU leadership on climate change and its implications for the global governance of sustainable palm oil.

Publications

Book

Nesadurai, Helen E.S. (2003) Globalisation, Domestic Politics and Regionalism: The ASEAN Free Trade Area (London and New York: Routledge).

Edited Books

Nesadurai, Helen E.S. and Djiwandono, J. Soedradjad (eds) (2009) Southeast Asia in the Global Economy: Securing Competitiveness and Social Protection (Singapore: ISEAS Publishing).

Nesadurai, Helen E.S. (ed.) (2006) Globalisation and Economic Security in East Asia: Governance and Institutions (London and New York: Routledge).

Book Chapters

Nesadurai, Helen E.S. (2012) ‘The ASEAN People’s Forum (APF) as Authentic Social Forum: Regional Civil Society Networking for an Alternative Regionalism’, in Mark Beeson and Richard Stubbs (eds), Routledge Handbook of Asian Regionalism (London and New York: Routledge), pp. 166-76.

Nesadurai, Helen E.S. (2012) ‘Trade Policy in Southeast Asia: Politics, Domestic Interests and the Forging of New Accommodations in the Regional and Global Economy’ in Richard Robison (ed.), Routledge Handbook of Southeast Asian Politics (London: Routledge), pp. 315-29.

Nesadurai, Helen E.S. (2011) ‘The Varying Fortunes of ASEAN Economic Integration: What Does the ASEAN Experience Reveal?’, in Shiro Armstrong (ed.) The Politics and the Economics of Integration in Asia and the Pacific, (London and New York: Routledge), pp. 155-89.

Lee, Hock Guan and Nesadurai, Helen E S. (2010) ‘Political Transition in Malaysia: the Future of Malaysia’s Hybrid Political Regime’, in Mely Caballero-Anthony (ed.) Political Change, Democratic Transition and Security in Southeast Asia, (London and New York: Routledge), pp. 97-123.

Nesadurai, Helen E S (2010) ‘ASEAN and Regional Governance after the Cold War: From Regional Order to Regional Community?’ in Shaun Breslin and Richard Higgott (eds), The International Relations of the Asia-Pacific, (London: Sage Publications). [Note: This is a reprint of a 2009 article published in the journal, The Pacific Review].

Nesadurai, Helen E.S. (2009) ‘Finance Ministers and Central Bankers in East Asian Financial Cooperation’, in Ngaire Woods and Leonardo Martinez-Diaz (eds), Networks of Influence? Developing Countries in a Networked Global Order, (Oxford: Oxford University Press), pp. 63-94.

Nesadurai, Helen E.S. and Djiwandono, J. Soedradjad (2009) ‘Southeast Asia in the Global Economy: Striving for Competitiveness, Ensuring Social Protection’ in Nesadurai, Helen E.S. and Djiwandono, J. Soedradjad (eds) Southeast Asia in the Global Economy: Securing Competitiveness and Social Protection (Singapore: ISEAS Publishing), pp. 3-18.

Nesadurai, Helen E.S. (2008) ‘Economic Nationalism and the Limits of Globalization’ in Terence Chong (ed.), Globalization and its Counter-Forces in Southeast Asia (Singapore: ISEAS Publishing), pp. 134-68.

Nesadurai, Helen E.S. (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), pp. 68-101.

Nesadurai, Helen E.S. (2008) ‘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), pp. 151-80.

Khong, Yuen Foong and Nesadurai, Helen E.S. (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 Global Politics (New York: Cambridge University Press), pp. 32-82.

Nesadurai, Helen E.S. (2007) ‘Political Transition, the Malay-UMNO Compact, and the New Governance Agenda’, in Hadi Soesastro (ed.), Political Transition and Economic Development in East Asia, (Jakarta: CSIS Publishing), pp. 163-201.

Nesadurai, Helen E.S. (2006) ‘Malaysia and the United States: Rejecting Dominance, Embracing Engagement’, in Mark Beeson (ed.), Bush and Asia, (London and New York, Routledge), pp. 179-95.

Nesadurai, Helen E.S. (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), pp. 3-22.

Nesadurai, Helen E.S. (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), pp. 199-217.

Nesadurai, Helen E.S. (2005) ‘Asia and the Asia-Pacific’ in Mary Farrell, Bjorn Hettne and Luk Van Langenhove (eds) Global Politics of Regionalism, (Cambridge: Pluto Press), pp. 155-70.

Nesadurai, Helen E.S. (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), pp. 147-72.

Nesadurai, Helen E.S. (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), pp. 279-305.

Nesadurai, Helen E.S. and Stone, Diane (2000) ‘Southeast Asian Research Institutes and Regional Cooperation’, in Diane Stone (ed.), Banking on Knowledge, (London: Routledge), pp. 183-202.

Lim, Imran and Nesadurai, Helen E.S (1997) ‘Managing the Malaysian Industrial Economy: The Policy and Reform Process for Industrialisation’, in Seiichi Masuyama, Donna Vandenbrink, and Chia Siow Yue (eds), Industrial Policies in East Asia, (Singapore: ISEAS Publishing), pp. 185-215.

Journal Articles (Peer-Reviewed ISI Journals)

Nesadurai, Helen E. S. (2013) ‘Malaysia’s Conflict with the Philippines and Indonesia over Labour Migration: Economic Security, Interdependence and Conflict Trajectories’, The Pacific Review, 26 (1): 89-113.

Nesadurai, Helen E S (2009) ‘Economic Surveillance as a New Mode of Regional Governance: Contested Knowledge and the Politics of Risk Management in East Asia’, Australian Journal of International Affairs, 63 (3): 361-75.

Nesadurai, Helen E.S. (2009) ‘ASEAN and Regional Governance after the Cold War: From Regional Order to Regional Community?’ The Pacific Review, 22 (1): 91-118.

Nesadurai, Helen E.S. (2008) ‘The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN)’, New Political Economy, 13 (2): 225-239.

Nesadurai, Helen E.S. (2004) (Guest Editor) ‘Special Issue on Globalisation and Economic Security in East Asia: Governance and Institutions’, The Pacific Review, 17 (4).

Nesadurai, Helen E.S. (2004) ‘Introduction: Economic Security, Globalisation and Governance, The Pacific Review, 17 (4): 459-84.

Nesadurai, Helen E.S. (2003) ‘Attempting Developmental Regionalism in AFTA: The Domestic Sources of Regional Governance’, Third World Quarterly, 24 (2): 235-53.

Higgott, Richard A. and Nesadurai, Helen E.S. (2002) ‘Rethinking the Southeast Asian Development Model: Bringing Ethical and Governance Questions In’, ASEAN Economic Bulletin, 19 (1): 27-39.

Nesadurai, Helen E.S. (2000) ‘In Defence of National Economic Autonomy? Malaysia’s Response to the Financial Crisis’, The Pacific Review, 13 (1): 73-113.

Nesadurai, Helen E.S. (1996) ‘APEC -- A United States Tool for Regional Domination?’ The Pacific Review, 9(1): 31-57.

Occasional Papers, Working Papers, Reference Works and Research Reports (selected)

Nesadurai, Helen E S (2012) ‘Association of Southeast Asian Nations’, in Helmut K. Anheier, Mark Juergensmeyer and Victor Faessel (eds), Encyclopaedia of Global Studies, (Thousand Oaks, California: Sage Publications), pp. 94-97.

Nesadurai, Helen E S (2011) ‘An Uncertain Path to Global Economic Leadership’, East Asian Forum Quarterly, Vol. 3 (No. 3) (September 2011), pp. 23-24.  http://epress.anu.edu.au/eaf/vol3/03/whole.pdf

Nesadurai, Helen E S (2011) ‘Labour and Conflict in Southeast Asia’, ANU-MASI Policy Background Paper No. 8, Australian National University and the MacArthur Foundation Asia Security Initiative, (December 2011).  http://asi.anu.edu.au/policy_background/ANU-MASI_Policy_Background_Paper_008.pdf

Nesadurai, Helen E S (2010) ‘Labor and Grassroots Civic Interests in Regional Institutions’, ADB Working Paper Series on Regional Economic Integration, No. 63, November 2010 (Manila: Asian Development Bank). http://aric.adb.org/pdf/workingpaper/WP63_Nesadurai_Labor_and_Grassroots.pdf

Nesadurai, Helen E S (2010), Land Rights, Global Soft Law Regimes and Land Conflicts: An Exploratory Study of the Impact of RSPO and REDD on Land Conflicts Using Sarawak as a Case Study, Final Research Report submitted to the East Asian Development Network (EADN), 15 March 2010.

Nesadurai, Helen E S (2009) ‘Is Depoliticized Functional Cooperation the Key to Advancing Cooperation in East Asia? Lessons from East Asian Financial Cooperation’ in See-Seng Tan (ed.), Collaboration under Anarchy: Functional Regionalism and the Security of Southeast Asia, RSIS Monograph No. 15: Report of the Study Group for the Sentosa Roundtable on Asian Security 2009, (Singapore: Rajaratnam School of International Studies), pp. 11-25.

Nesadurai, Helen E.S. (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), pp. 16-25. http://ips.cap.anu.edu.au/ir/pubs/keynotes/documents/Keynotes-7.pdf

Nesadurai, Helen E.S. (2002) ‘Is there an Asian Pacific Model of Regional Agreements?’ Working Paper, W-2002/3, United Nations University/Comparative Regional Integration Studies, Bruges, Belgium.

Nesadurai, Helen E.S. (2002) ‘Globalisation and Economic Regionalism: A Survey and Critique of the Literature’, CSGR Working Paper No. 108/02, Centre for the Study of Globalisation and Regionalisation, University of Warwick, UK, November 2002. www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/csgr/research/workingpapers/2002/wp10802.pdf

Nesadurai, Helen E.S. and Stone, Diane (2000) ‘Southeast Asian Think Tanks in Regional and Global Networking’, Panaroma, (Friedrich Ebert Stiftung Occasional Papers), Vol. 1/2000: 19-35.

Conference Papers (selected)

Nesadurai, Helen E S (2012) “ASEAN Plus Three/East Asian Perspectives on Global Governance: Insights from Reponses to the Global/European Crises, Rebalancing and Sovereign Wealth Funds”, paper presented to the Asia-Europe Workshop on Global Economic Governance In Asia: Through The Looking Glass Of The European Sovereign Debt Crisis, organized by the Lee Kwan Yew School of Public Policy and the Centre for Asia and Globalization, National University of Singapore, held in Singapore, 19-20 November 2012.

Nesadurai, Helen E S (2012) “External Responses to European ‘Leadership’ on Climate Change and Bio-fuels: Implications for the [Global] Governance of Sustainable Palm Oil”, paper presented to the International Conference on Regional Leadership and Norms: EU and Asia-Pacific Trajectories’, organized by the University of Western Australia, held in Perth, 2-3 August 2012.

Nesadurai, Helen E S (2011) ‘The ASEAN Institutional Architecture for Regional Economic Integration: An Analysis of Impediments and Actions Required for Progress’, paper presented at the Interim Workshop on Assessment of Impediments and Actions Required for Achieving an AEC by 2015, organized by the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies (ISEAS) Singapore, held at ISEAS on 11 November 2011.

Nesadurai, Helen E S (2011) ‘East Asia and Globalization: The Political Economy of Strategic Engagement’, paper presented at the Workshop on South and East Asian Integration, organized by the Crawford School of Economics and Government, Australian National University, Canberra, 17 August 2011.

Nesadurai, Helen E S (2011) ‘Labour Migration, Economic Security and Conflict in Southeast Asia: Insights from Malaysia’s Conflicts with Indonesia and the Philippines’, Final Paper presented to the MacArthur Asia Security Initiative Project Conference, organized by the Department of International Relations, Australian National University, held at Peking University, Beijing, China, 17-18 May 2011.

Nesadurai, Helen E S (2010) ‘Labour Migration in Southeast Asia: Exploring the Nexus between Economics, Security and Interstate Conflict’, Interim paper presented at the MacArthur Asia Security Initiative Project Conference, organized by the Department of International Relations, Australian National University, Canberra, 1-4 November 2010.

Nesadurai, Helen E S (2009) ‘Explaining the Varying Fortunes of ASEAN Economic Integration: What Does the Historical Experience Reveal?’, paper presented at the Thirty-third Pacific Trade and Development (PAFTAD) Conference, Taipei, Taiwan, 6-8 October 2009.

Nesadurai, Helen E.S. (2007) “International Civil Society and Regional Governance: Holding Governments to Account for Good Governance”, paper presented to the Workshop on New Modes of Governance in the Asia-Pacific: Transparency and Accountability, organised by the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore and the Asia Research Centre, Murdoch University, Australia, 3-4 December 2007.

Nesadurai, Helen E.S. (2007) “Legitimising the ASEAN Community: Economic Integration and the Limits of Performance Legitimacy”, paper presented at the Conference on Pathways to Legitimacy: The Future of Global and Regional Governance, organised by the Centre for the Study of Globalization and Regionalization, University of Warwick, 17-19 September 2007.

Nesadurai, Helen E.S. (2005) ‘Regional Economic Surveillance and Financial Governance in East Asia: Knowledge, Interests and Policy Dialogue’, paper presented at the Conference on Regionalization and the Taming of Globalization, University of Warwick, UK, 26-28 October 2005.

Nesadurai, Helen E.S. (2004) ‘Exploring Regionalism in Southeast Asia: Reproducing the Neoliberal Hegemony or Embedding the Regional Market?’, paper presented at the Fifth Pan-European International Relations Conference, The Hague, Netherlands, 9-11 September 2004.

Nesadurai, Helen E.S. (2004) ‘Regional Economic Governance in Southeast Asia: Normalising Business Actors, Sidelining Civil Society Groups?’ paper presented at the 2004 Annual Convention of the International Studies Association, Montreal, Canada, 17-20 March 2004.

Nesadurai, Helen E.S. (2002) ‘Globalisation and Economic Regionalism in ASEAN: A Combined Economic Realist-Domestic Politics Interpretation’, paper presented at the 2002 Annual Convention of the International Studies Association, New Orleans, USA, 24-27 March, 2002.

Nesadurai, Helen E.S. (2002) ‘The Political Economy of the ASEAN Free Trade Area (AFTA): An Attempt at Developmental Regionalism’, paper presented at the Symposium on Running on Empty? Politics, Markets and Southeast Asian Regionalism, Southeast Asia Research Centre, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, 17-18 January, 2002.

Nesadurai, Helen E.S. and Stone, Diane (1999) ‘Networks, Second Track Diplomacy and Regional Cooperation: The Experience of Southeast Asian Think Tanks’, paper presented at the Inaugural Conference on Bridging Knowledge and Policy, Global Development Network, Bonn, Germany, 5-8 December, 1999.

Nesadurai, Helen E.S. (1995) ‘The International Contestability of Markets: Developing Country Concerns’, paper presented at the OECD-DNME (Dynamic Non-Member Economies) Workshop on Trade Policies, Santiago, Chile, 27-29 November, 1995.