Yang Razali Kassim

Yang Razali Kassim is Senior Fellow and Advisor (Media Outreach) at the Centre for Non-Traditional Security (NTS) Studies of the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS), Nanyang Technological University (NTU). He is also Editor of RSIS Commentaries and Strategic Currents – two major RSIS publications, and a Faculty Associate of the RSIS Contemporary Islam Programme.

Prior to RSIS, he was a senior journalist with Singapore Press Holdings, serving as Regional Editor with The Business Times and before that, Principal Assistant to the Editor/Senior Correspondent with The Straits Times, as well as a stint as Jakarta Correspondent for The Straits Times. Hewas a Wolfson Press Fellow at Wolfson College, Cambridge University and recipient of a Pan-Asia Award in Journalism by Citibank.He graduated with Second Class Upper Honours in Political Science from the then University of Singapore (now the National University of Singapore).

His research interests in non-traditional security studies are in the politics and diplomacy of climate change, as well as human security, particularly in ASEAN, with a focus on socio-political transitions, internal and cross-border conflicts as well as state-civil society relations in Southeast Asia.

In his professional career, Mr Yang Razali has closely followed major ASEAN meetings of political, security and economic ministers as well as the summits of APEC (the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation), ASEM (the Asia-Europe Meeting) and the WTO (World Trade Organization). He has also attended several domestic, regional as well as international conferences on political and economic developments in the region, such as the ASEAN Regional Forum (ARF); the APEC summits in Seattle in 1993, Bogor in 1994, Osaka in 1995, Manila in 1996, Auckland in 1997 and Kuala Lumpur in 1998, as well as key meetings of the WTO such as those held in Singapore and Seattle, US. 

In addition, he has also been a civil society activist. He is a founder of the Association of Muslim Professionals (AMP), a major civil society and self-help group, and has served in leading positions until he stepped down as Chairman in 2006. In the AMP, he initiated various programmes to assist the disadvantaged and under-privileged, promoted inter-ethnic and inter-faith dialogues and cooperation, and engaged in advocacy work, including dialogues with government leaders.

Selected Publications

• Books and Book Chapters
   
  
  • Transition Politics in Southeast Asia: Dynamics of Leadership Change and Succession in Indonesia and Malaysia (2005: Marshall Cavendish, Singapore).
  • Edited Strategic Currents: Emerging Trends in Southeast Asia (2009: RSIS & ISEAS, Singapore).
  • Edited Strategic Currents: Marking the Transition to the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies (2006: Institute of Defence and Strategic Studies, Singapore).
  • ‘Yudhoyono: Outlook for 2006’ in Regional Outlook Southeast Asia, 2006–2007 (2006: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies).
  • ‘Winning Over the Malay Community: Politics of Engagement’, in Impressions of the Goh Chok Tong Years in Singapore (2009: NUS Press, Institute of Policy Studies and Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy).
  • Editor of Issues in Non-Traditional Security in Asia (forthcoming, to be published in 2011: RSIS and Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, Singapore). 

• Commentaries

• ‘Libya and the UN: Whose Responsibility to Protect?’, RSIS Commentaries, 4 March 2011 (with Iftekhar Ahmad Chowdhury).
• ‘Tunisia and Climate Change: What It Means for Southeast Asia’, RSIS Commentaries, 28 January 2011.
• ‘Different Climate in Australian Politics’, The Straits Times, 12 July 2010.
• ‘From Aceh to Chile: Is ASEAN Prepared for Another Disaster?’, International Relations and Security Network, 1 March 2010.
• ‘Indonesia, Australia and US: New Age, New Issues’, World Affairs Journal.
• ‘Indonesia’s Twin Disasters: Will the Next Big One Reach Singapore?’, RSIS Commentaries, 2 Nov 2010.
• ‘Australia and Climate Change: The Changing Weather in Climate Politics’, Eurasia Review, 30 July 2010.
• ‘Tsunami: Nature’s Test for ASEAN’s New Leadership’, IDSS Commentaries, No. 3, 12 January 2005;
  

• ‘GAM: Islam and the Future of Aceh’, IDSS Commentaries, No. 7, 8 February 2005.
• ‘Remaking of PAS: Is there an Anwar Hand?’, IDSS Commentaries, No.38, 30 June 2005.
• ‘Aceh Peace Accord 2005: Breakthrough at Last?’, IDSS Commentaries, No. 44, 22 July 2005.
• ‘Nature’s Test for New ASEAN Leadership’, TCS Daily, 2 January 2005.
• ‘GAM and the Future of Aceh’, TCS Daily, 9 March 2005.
• ‘ASEAN’s Restlessness’, 20 April 2005.
• ‘ASEAN Cohesion : Making Sense of Indonesia’s Reactions to Bilateral Disputes’, IDSS Commentaries, No. 15, 6 April 2005.
• ‘Responsibility to Protect: How Should Southeast Asia Respond?’, (with Nur Azha Putra), World Affairs Journal, 26 April 2010.
• ‘Responsibility to Protect: How Should Southeast Asia Respond?’, International Coalition of the Responsibility to Protect (ICRToP), 4 June 2010.

• ‘Egypt Post-Mubarak: Is Indonesia the Right Model?’, The Straits Times, 19 February 2011.
•  ‘Return of the Mahathir Era?’, IDSS Commentaries, No. 59, 23 August 2005.
• ‘Yudhoyono’s Transformation’, 5 January 2005.
• ‘Najib Takes Calculated Risk as Poll Talk Swirls’, The Straits Times, 29 October 2010.
• ‘Najib’s UMNO: Gearing Up for Early Elections?’, Eurasia Review,2 November 2010.

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