Dr. Muthiah Alagappa is Tun Hussein Onn Chair in International Studies at the Institute of Strategic and International Studies in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Concurrently he is non-resident Senior Associate with the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington, D.C. From 2006 to 2010 he was Distinguished Senior Fellow at the East-West Center. Prior to that he was founding director of East-West Center Washington (2001-2006), director of the integrated research program in East-West Center Honolulu, (1999-2001) and a senior fellow at the East-West Center since 1989. He has held visiting professorships at Columbia University, Stanford University, Keio University, and the Nanyang Technological University. He was Leverhulme visiting professor at University of Bristol in the fall of 2008 and Sir Howard Kippenberger Visiting Chair in the School of Government in Victoria University of Wellington in winter 2010-11.
Dr. Alagappa's research interests include political legitimacy of governments, civil society and political change, political role of the military, democratic change, force and politics, conceptualization of security, Asian practice of security, security order in Asia, nuclear weapons and security, and international governance. He has published widely in highly regarded journal and presses. His recent publications include Nation Making in Asia: From Ethnic to Civic Nations? (2012), ISIS Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur, "A changing Asia: Prospects for war, peace, cooperation, and order,"Political Science , December 2011, 63, 2: pp:155-185, The Long Shadow: Nuclear Weapons and Security in 21st Century Asia (2009), Civil Society and Political Change in Asia: Expanding and Contracting Democratic Space (2004), and Asian Security Order: Instrumental and Normative Features (2003) published by Stanford University Press.
Dr. Muthiah has a PhD (International Affairs) from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University; and an MA (Politics) from the University of Lancaster. He also attended the Staff College in Camberley, UK.
