Executive Director, IISS-Asia
Main responsibilities:
- IISS-Asia office, Singapore
- Asia-Pacific security and defence
- Southeast Asia, particularly Indonesia
Background: Tim Huxley was educated at Oriel College, Oxford, the University of Wales Aberystwyth and the Australian National University. He has worked for many years in the overlap between strategic studies and Asian area studies, his research focusing particularly on Southeast Asian states’ security and defence policies. He has held research and teaching posts at universities in the UK and Australia, and worked for several years at the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies in Singapore. Before joining the IISS, he was Reader in South-East Asian Politics and Director of the Centre for South-East Asian Studies at the University of Hull. His major publications include Defending the Lion City. The Armed Forces of Singapore (Allen & Unwin, 2000) and Disintegrating Indonesia? Implications for Regional Security (Adelphi Paper 349, July 2002). Since joining the IISS, he has contributed extensive analysis of recent security-related developments in Southeast Asia and Australasia to Strategic Survey, The Military Balance , and the Strategic Comments series. He became Executive Director of IISS-Asia, located full time in Singapore, in April 2007
Joined IISS-Asia: April 2007 [With IISS in London from January 2003 - March 2007]
Contact: Click here to email Dr Tim Huxley
Recent articles:
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'South East Asia’s navies in the early 21st century: adapting to new challenges’, in Andrew Forbes (ed), Order and Security Sea Power: Challenges Old and New (Sydney: Halstead Press for The Sea Power Centre – Australia, 2007), pp.259-70.
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'Singapore’s strategic outlook and defence policy’, in Joseph Chinyong Liow and Ralf Emmers (eds), Order and Security in Southeast Asia: Essays in Memory of Michael Leifer (London and New York: Routledge, 2005): 141-60.
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‘Las grandes potencias y la seguridad en el Sudeste Asiatico’, Vanguardia Dossier (Barcelona), 16 (Julio/Septiembre 2005): 24-33.
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‘Southeast Asia in 2004. Stable but facing major security challenges’, Southeast Asian Affairs 2005 (Singapore: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, 2005): 3-23.
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‘The tsunami and security: Asia’s 9/11?’, Survival , 47, 1 (Spring 2005): 123-32.
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‘Singapore and the Revolution in Military Affairs: An outsider’s perspective’, Pointer: Journal of the Singapore Armed Forces , 30, 1 (2004): 33-44.
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‘Singapore and the Revolution in Military Affairs’, in Emily O. Goldman and Thomas G. Mahnken (eds), The Information Revolution in Military Affairs in Asia (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004): 185-208.
