Professor Andrew Tan

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Professor Andrew Tan is a specialist on Asian (particularly East and Southeast Asian) security and international relations, as well as a defence and strategic analyst, with particular interests in terrorism, insurgency, defence and strategic issues. He is currently Associate Professor in the School of Social Sciences, University of New South Wales, Australia, and was Convenor for International Studies until December 2012. He was previously Senior Lecturer in Defence Studies, King’s College London, and taught on the Masters in Defence Studies program at the Joint Services Command and Staff College, UK, Britain’s combined military staff college for senior commanders. He has also taught on the Masters in Strategic Studies program at the Institute of Defence and Strategic Studies (now Rajaratnam School of International Studies), Singapore. Educated in Singapore, Cambridge and Sydney (where he obtained his Ph.D.), his advice on security issues is sought by governments, armed forces, universities and research institutes.

Andrew is author or editor of 16 books and many internationally refereed journal articles and book chapters. His books include: Security Perspectives of the Malay Archipelago (Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar, 2004), A Political and Economic Dictionary of South-East Asia (London: Europa, 2004), The Politics of Terrorism (London: Routledge, 2006), A Handbook of Terrorism and Insurgency in Southeast Asia (Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar, 2007), The Politics of Maritime Power (London: Routledge, 2007), The Global Arms Trade (London: Routledge, 2009) and US Strategy Against Global Terrorism: How it Evolved, Why it Failed and Where it is Headed (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009), International Relations and Security Perspectives of East and Southeast Asia (London: Routledge, 2013) and The Arms Race in Asia (London: Routledge, 2014). His book, Security Strategies in the Asia-Pacific: The USA's Second Front in Southeast Asia (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011), according to Professor James Auer of the Vanderbilt Institute for Public Policy Studies, “needs to be read at the Pentagon, the State Department and the National Security Council.” This book was also nominated by Palgrave Macmillan (USA) for the Asia Society Schwartz Book Prize.