Monographs - Taking Control: Sovereignty and Democracy after Brexit, with Philip Cunliffe, George Hoare and Peter Ramsay (Cambridge: Polity, 2023) - Fractured China: How State Transformation is Shaping China’s Rise, with Shahar Hameiri (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021) - Debunking the Myth of “Debt Trap Diplomacy”: How Recipient Countries Shape China’s Belt and Road Initiative  (with Shahar Hameiri) (London: Chatham House, 2020) - Societies Under Siege: Exploring How International Economic Sanctions (Do Not) Work (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015) - Governing Borderless Threats: Non-Traditional Security and the Politics of State Transformation (with Shahar Hameiri) (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015; paperback 2017) - ASEAN, Sovereignty and Intervention in Southeast Asia (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012; paperback 2016) Edited Volumes - The Political Economy of Southeast Asia: Politics and Uneven Development under Hyperglobalisation, 4th edition, co-edited with Toby Carroll and Shahar Hameiri (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2020). - Rising Powers and State Transformation, Third World Quarterly 40:8 (2019), 1397-1589: special issue, co-edited with Shahar Hameiri and John Heathershaw; reprinted as Rising Powers and State Transformation (Abingdon: Routledge, 2020) - The Political Economy of the New Security Agenda, International Politics 59:4 (2015), 371-501: special issue, co-edited with Shahar Hameiri Peer Reviewed Journal Articles - China, International Competition and the Stalemate in Sovereign Debt Restructuring: Beyond Geopolitics (with Shahar Hameiri), International Affairs 100:2 (2024), 691-710 - Why the West’s Alternative to China’s International Infrastructure Financing is Failing (with Shahar Hameiri), European Journal of International Relations, early online, 23 December 2023 - Explaining the Failure of Global Health Governance During COVID-19 (with Shahar Hameiri), International Affairs 98:6 (2022), 2057-2076 - COVID-19 and the Failure of the Neoliberal Regulatory State (with Shahar Hameiri), Review of International Political Economy 29:4 (2022), 1027-1052 - Explaining Myanmar’s Response to China’s Belt and Road Initiative: From Disengagement to Embrace (with Khin Ma Ma Myo), Asian Perspective 45:2 (2021): 301-324 - Evaluating the Success of International Sanctions: A New Research Agenda (with Clara Portela), Revista CIDOB d’Afers Internacionals 125 (2020): 39-60 - Does China’s Belt and Road Initiative Challenge the Liberal, Rules-Based International Order?, Fudan Journal of the Humanities and Social Sciences 13:1 (2020), 113-133 - China’s Responses to Threats to its Overseas Economic Interests: Softening Non-Interference and Cultivating Hegemony (with Yizheng Zou), Journal of Contemporary China 29:121 (2019): 92-108 - Theorizing Foreign and Security Policy in an Era of State Transformation: A New Framework and Case Study of China, Journal of Global Security Studies 4:4 (2019): 579-597 - Reframing the Rising Powers Debate: State Transformation and Foreign Policy (with Shahar Hameiri and John Heathershaw), Third World Quarterly 40:8 (2019): 1397-1414 - Understanding China’s “Belt and Road Initiative”: Beyond “Grand Strategy” to a State Transformation Analysis  (with Jinghan Zeng), Third World Quarterly 40:8 (2019): 1415-1439 - The Development-Insecurity Nexus in China’s Near-Abroad: Rethinking Cross-border Economic Integration in an Era of State Transformation (with Shahar Hameiri and Yizheng Zou), Journal of Contemporary Asia 49:3 (2018): 473-499 - Security Governance and the Politics of State Transformation: Moving from Description to Explanation (with Shahar Hameiri and Adam Sandor), Journal of Global Security Studies 3:4 (2018): 463-483 - China Challenges Global Governance? The Case of Chinese International Development Finance and the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (with Shahar Hameiri), International Affairs 94:3 (2018), 573-93 - Rethinking the Role of State-Owned Enterprises in China’s Rise (with Yizeng Zou), New Political Economy 22:6 (2017), 743-760 - Beyond Hybridity to the Politics of Scale: International Intervention and ‘Local’ Politics (with Shahar Hameiri), Development and Change 48:1 (2017), 54-77 - Global Governance as State Transformation (with Shahar Hameiri), Political Studies 64:4 (2016): 793-810 - Explaining the Failure of the ASEAN Economic Community: The Primacy of Domestic Political Economy, Pacific Review 29:5 (2016): 647-70 - Rising Powers and State Transformation: The Case of China (with Shahar Hameiri), European Journal of International Affairs 22:1 (2016): 72-98 - Probing the Links Between Political Economy and Non-Traditional Security: Themes, Approaches and Instruments (with Shahar Hameiri), International Politics 52:4 (2015), 371-388 - The Political Economy of Non-Traditional Security: Explaining the Governance of Avian Influenza in Indonesia  (with Shahar Hameiri), International Politics 52:4 (2015), 445-465 - Regulatory Regionalism and Anti-Money-Laundering Governance in Asia’ (co-authored with Shahar Hameiri), Australian Journal of International Affairs 69:2 (2015), 144-163 - Explaining Myanmar’s Regime Transition: The Periphery is Central, Democratization 21:5 (2014), 780-802 - The Political Economy of Myanmar’s Transition, Journal of Contemporary Asia 44:1 (2014), 144-170 - Sovereignty, Social Order, and Intervention in Revolutionary Times, Review of International Studies 39:5 (2013), 1149-1167 - The Politics and Governance of Non-Traditional Security (with Shahar Hameiri), International Studies Quarterly 57:3 (2013), 462-473 - Beyond Securitisation: Explaining the Scope of Security Policy in Southeast Asia, International Relations of the Asia-Pacific 11:3 (2011), 403-432 - (Post-)Colonial Statebuilding in East Timor: Bringing Social Conflict Back In, Conflict, Security and Development 10:4 (2010), 547-575 - ASEAN’s Unchanged Melody? The Theory and Practice of Non-Intervention in Southeast Asia, Pacific Review 23:3 (2010), 479-502 - Democratisation and Foreign Policy in Southeast Asia: The Case of the ASEAN Inter-Parliamentary Myanmar Caucus, Cambridge Review of International Affairs 27:3 (2009), 387-406 - ASEAN’s Albatross: ASEAN’s Burma Policy, from Constructive Engagement to Critical Disengagement, Asian Security 4:3 (2008), 271-93 - ‘The Others’: Gender and Conscientious Objection in the First World War, Nordic Review of Masculinity Studies 3:2 (2008), 99-113 - ASEAN Intervention in Cambodia: From Cold War to Conditionality, Pacific Review 20:4 (2007), 523-50 Chapters in Edited Volumes - From the Void to COVID: Explaining the Left’s Support for Pandemic Authoritarianism, in Elena L. Lange and Geoff Shullenberger (eds.) COVID-19 and the Left: The Tyranny of Fear (Abingdon: Routledge), 23-39 - Globalization, State Transformation and Global Governance (with Shahar Hameiri), in Wil Hout and Jane Hutchison (eds.) Handbook on Governance and Development (Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2022), 64-77. - Security Order and State Transformation in Asia: Beyond Geopolitics and Grand Strategy, in Felix Heiduk (ed.) Asian Geopolitics and the US-China Rivalry (Abingdon: Routledge, 2022), 65-80 - Understanding Chinese Corporations: Beyond “China Inc.”, in Nick Buxton (ed.) State of Power 2020: The Corporation (Amsterdam: TNI, 2020), 21-32  (Spanish translation here) - Theorising Political Economy in Southeast Asia (with Shahar Hameiri), in Toby Carroll, Shahar Hameiri and Lee Jones (eds.) The Political Economy of Southeast Asia: Politics and Uneven Development under Hyperglobalisation, 4th edition (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2020), 3-34 - Southeast Asian Regional Governance: Political Economy, Regulatory Regionalism and ASEAN Integration (with Shahar Hameiri), in Toby Carroll, Shahar Hameiri and Lee Jones (eds.) The Political Economy of Southeast Asia: Politics and Uneven Development under Hyperglobalisation, 4th edition (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2020), 199-224 - The Politics and Governance of Non-Traditional Security [in Chinese] (with Shahar Hameiri), in Yu Xiaofeng (ed.) Theoretical Frontiers of Non-traditional Security Studies (Zhejiang University Press, 2020), 125-152 [translation of 2013 International Studies Quarterly article] - Beyond China, Inc.: Understanding Chinese Companies, in Transnational Institute (ed.) The State of Power 2020: The Corporation (TNI: Amsterdam) - Sanctioning Apartheid: Comparing the South African and Palestinian Campaigns for Boycotts, Disinvestment, and Sanctions, in David Feldman (ed.) Boycotts Past and Present: From the American Revolution to the Campaign to Boycott Israel (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019), 197-217. - Against Hybridity in the Study of Peacebuilding and Statebuilding (with Shahar Hameiri), in Joanne Wallis et al. (eds.) Hybridity on the Ground in Peacebuilding and Development: Critical Conversations (Canberra: ANU Press, 2018), 99-112 - ASEAN Norms and Practices, in ISIS Malaysia (ed.) ASEAN FutureForward: Anticipating the Next 50 Years  (ISIS Malaysia: Kuala Lumpur, 2017), 89-98 - Political Economy, in Nicholas Farrelly, Ian Holliday and Adam Simpson (eds.), Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Myanmar (London: Routledge, 2017), 181-91 - Understanding Myanmar’s Ceasefires: Geopolitics, Political Economy and Statebuilding, in Mandy Sadan (ed.) War and Peace in the Borderlands of Myanmar: The Kachin Ceasefire, 1994-2011 (Copenhagen: NIAS Press, 2016), 95-113. See also the companion website - State Theory and Statebuilding: Towards a Gramscian Approach, in Robert Egnell and Peter Haldén (eds.) New Agendas in State Building: Hybridity, Contingency and History (London: Routledge, 2013), 70-91 - State Building versus State Formation in East Timor, in Berit Bleisemann-de Guevara (ed.) Statebuilding and State-Formation: The Political Sociology of Intervention (London: Routledge, 2012), 95-113 - State Power, Social Conflict and Security Policy in Southeast Asia, in Richard Robison (ed.) The Routledge Handbook of Southeast Asian Politics (London: Routledge 2011), 346-360 Book Reviews - Review of Renaud Egreteau, Caretaking Democratization: The Military and Political Change in Myanmar, in SOJOURN 32:3 (2017): 748-750. - Review of Garry Rodan and Caroline Hughes, The Politics of Accountability in Southeast Asia: The Dominance of Moral Ideologies, in SOJOURN 30:1 (2015): 271-273. - Review of Andrew MacGregor Marshall, A Kingdom in Crisis: Thailand’s Struggle for Democracy in the Twenty- First Century, New Mandala, 12 November 2014. - How Peace Operations Work: Power, Legitimacy and Effectiveness, by Jeni Whalan, in Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding 8:2-3 (2014), 268-271. - Review of Michael D. Barr, The Ruling Elite of Singapore (2013), in ASEASUK Newsletter 55 (2014), 17-19. - Critical Interventions on Statebuilding, Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding 5:2 (2011), 235-9 [review of David Chandler, International Statebuilding (2010) and Shahar Hamieri, Regulating Statehood (2010)] - Reviews of Donald K. Emmerson (ed.) Hard Choices: Security, Democracy and Regionalism in Southeast Asia and Helen E.S. Nesadurai & J. Soedradjad Djiwandono (eds.) Southeast Asia in the Global Economy: Security Competitiveness and Social Protection, in ASEASUK News no. 46 (Autumn 2009), pp. 40-42, 45-46 - Liberalism and Democratization in East Asia, Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding 3:2 (2009), 277-283 [review of Daniel Bell’s Beyond Liberal Democracy (2006), Jorn Dosch’s Changing Dynamics of Southeast Asian Politics (2007) and Vincent Pollard’s Globalization, Democratization and Asian Leadership (2004)] - World Systems Theory for the Twenty-First Century, Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding 3:1 (2009), 130-132 [review of Giovanni Arrighi’s Adam Smith in Beijing (2008)] - Absent Sovereigns?, Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding 1:3 (2007), 383-88 [review of Bickerton et al., Politics Without Sovereignty: A Critique of Contemporary International Relations (2006)] Other Publications - Saving Britain’s Universities: Academic Freedom, Democracy and Renewal (with Philip Cunliffe) (Canterbury: Cieo, 2020) - Beyond “Land Grabs”: A Better Political Economy of the Rohingya Crisis, global-e 10(80), online.  - Open Access Publishing in Kyle Grayson and Alasdair R. Young (eds.) PSA Guide to Publishing (London: Political Studies Association, 2015), 47-53 - Murdoch International: The ‘Murdoch School’ in International Relations (coauthored with Shahar Hameiri), Asia Research Centre working paper 178, December 2014. - Evaluating the ‘Success’ of International Economic Sanctions: Multiple Goals, Interpretive Methods and Critique  (with Clara Portela), Centre for the Study of Global Security and Development working paper 3, 2014. - Still in the “Driver’s Seat”, But for How Long? ASEAN’s Capacity for Leadership in East-Asian International Relations, Journal of Current Southeast Asian Affairs 29:3 (2010), 95-113 - International Relations Scholarship and the Tyranny of Policy Relevance, Journal of Critical Globalization Studies 1:1 (2009), 125-131 - ASEAN and the Norm of Non-Interference in Southeast Asia: A Quest for Social Order, Nuffield College Politics Working Paper 2009-02 (2009)