KUIK Cheng-Chwee is Professor of International Relations at the Institute of Malaysian and International Studies (IKMAS), National University of Malaysia (UKM). He is concurrently a nonresident senior fellow at the Foreign Policy Institute, Johns Hopkins University and a nonresident scholar at Carnegie China, Carnegie’s East Asia-based research center on contemporary China. Previously he was a postdoctoral research associate at the Princeton-Harvard “China and the World” Program.
Professor KUIK’s research focuses on small-state foreign policies, big powers in the Indo-Pacific, Asian security, and international relations. His publications have appeared in such peer-reviewed journals as International Affairs, Pacific Review, Journal of Contemporary China, Chinese Journal of International Politics, and Contemporary Southeast Asia. He is co-author with David M. Lampton and Selina Ho of Rivers of Iron: Railroads and Chinese Power in Southeast Asia (2020), and co-editor with Alice Ba and Sueo Sudo of Institutionalizing East Asia (2016). Kuik’s essay, “The Essence of Hedging” was awarded the Michael Leifer Memorial Prize by the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies. Professor Kuik serves on the editorial boards of Contemporary Southeast Asia, Australian Journal of International Affairs, Asian Politics and Policy, and several other IR periodicals. He holds an M.Litt. from the University of St. Andrews and a PhD from Johns Hopkins University.