Mely Caballero-Anthony - An Introduction to Non-Traditional Security Studies: A Transnational Approach

Mely Caballero-Anthonyis Associate Professor and Head of the Centre for Non-Traditional Security (NTS) Studies at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS), Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. Prof. Anthonys research interests include regionalism and regional security in the Asia-Pacific, multilateral security cooperation, politics and international relations in ASEAN, conflict prevention and management, as well as Human Security. She has published extensively in peer-reviewed journals on a broad range of security issues in the Asia-Pacific. Her latest publications, both single-authored and co-edited, include: Community Security: Human Security at 21, (Contemporary Politics, 2015) Understanding ASEAN Centrality, (Pacific Review, 2014), Human Security in ASEAN: 20 Years On, (Asian Journal of Peacebuilding, 2014), Non-Traditional Security in Asia: Issues, Challenges and Framework for Action, (ISEAS, 2013). She previously served as the Director of External Relations at the ASEAN Secretariat and currently serves in the UN Secretary-Generals Advisory Board on Disarmament Matters and Security. She is also Secretary-General of the Consortium of Non-Traditional Security Studies in Asia (NTS-Asia) and is a member of the World Economic Forum (WEF) Global Agenda Council on Conflict Prevention. She can be contacted at ISMCAnthony@ntu.edu.sg.David Capieis Associate Professor of International Relations at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. His research focuses on Human Security and humanitarian disarmament in the Asia-Pacific region. He is the author of The Asia-Pacific Security Lexicon (with Paul Evans) which has been published in Japanese, Chinese and Vietnamese editions. He is also the author of Under the Gun: The Small Arms Challenge in the Pacific (VUP, 2002) and Small Arms Production and Transfers in Southeast Asia (ANU, 2002). David has been a Visiting Scholar at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs at Harvard University and the Luiss Guido Carli in Rome and is a Research Associate at the ASEAN Studies Center at American University, Washington DC. David has served as a member of the Public Advisory Committee on Disarmament and Arms Control and is also a member of the ASEAN Regional Forums Expert and Eminent Persons Group. He can be contacted at david.capie@vuw.ac.nz.Alistair D. B. Cookis the Coordinator of the Humanitarian Assistance and Disaster Relief Programme, and a Research Fellow at the Centre for Non-Traditional Security (NTS) Studies, S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS), Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore. In 20122013, he was a visiting research fellow at the East Asian Institute of the National University of Singapore. He graduated with a PhD from the University of Melbourne, Australia; Masters from Purdue University, USA; and M.A. (Hons) from St. Andrews University, Scotland. He has taught at Purdue University, University of Melbourne, Deakin University, Nanyang Technological University and Australian National University. His research interests are in non-traditional security and Human Security in the Asia-Pacific including humanitarian assistance and disaster relief, peace and conflict studies, foreign policy and regional cooperation, and domestic politics in Myanmar. He has recently co-edited a book titled Irregular Migration and Human Security in East Asia (Routledge, 2015) and has published in a variety of journals. He contributes to local and global media outlets. He can be contacted at iscook@ntu.edu.sg.Melissa Curleyis Senior Lecturer in International Relations in the Department of Political Science and International Studies at the University of Queensland Australia, where she is also Director of the UQ Rotary Peace Centre. Prior to taking up her UQ role, she was a researcher in the Centre of Asian Studies at the University of Hong Kong from 19992005. Her research and teaching interests include Southeast Asian politics and International Relations, the politics of migration and security, Cambodian politics, and non-traditional security in East Asia (including trafficking in persons and migrant smuggling, pandemic disease and child protection issues). She is currently working on a book manuscript on Cambodian civil society and democratisation in the post-UNTAC period. Dr. Curley also co-facilitates the UQ Working Group on Human Trafficking and Migrant Smuggling in the T.C Bernie School of Law. She has published across the disciplines of International Relations and Law including in: Review of International Studies, Journal of Law and Society, Australian Journal of Human Rights