ProfessorAlex Tan

Associate Dean - Research

Faculty of Arts

  • Associate Dean - Research
    Faculty of Arts
  • Professor
    Political Science and International Relations
  • +6433695191 (Work)
  • Elsie Locke Building 618

TEACHING & SUPERVISION SUMMARy

political economy of economic growth and development, contemporary democracies, global and international political economy, introduction to comparative politics, foreign policy theory

TEACHING & SUPERVISION

  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
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    Mobilised to demobilised: the case of the 2013 Lahad Datu incident in Sabah
    1 May 2025
    Kadir, Dani
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
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    Political Economy of Debt Distress
    1 Mar 2024
    Perera, Nipuni
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
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    Identity Politics in the Chinese Diaspora in Asia
    2 Mar 2020 - 11 Apr 2024
    Tan, Orson Wei Kann
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
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    Party Systems, Cleavages, Political Coalitions, and Industrial Policy in India
    2 Mar 2020
    Vanvari, Neel Rajesh
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
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    State Civil Society Relations in Disaster Risk Management Policymaking in the Philippines
    2 Mar 2020 - 11 Apr 2024
    Espia, Juhn Chris
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
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    Conflict Mediation and the Role of Local Governments: The Case of Southern Philippines
    1 Aug 2017
    Quilala, Dennis
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
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    Identity and Migration: The Case of Indonesia
    16 Jan 2017 - 30 Jun 2023
    Sobandi, Khairu
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
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    Small States and Its Foreign Policy Behaviour: The Case of the Philippines
    1 Aug 2016 - 20 Dec 2019
    Wong, Chloe
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
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    Network Politics in Northeast Thailand
    22 Feb 2016 - 1 Dec 2023
    Meechan, Suthikarn
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
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    Party System Consolidation in South Korea and the Philippines
    1 Jan 2013 - 19 Apr 2019
    Jung, KC
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
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    Elections and Democratic Consolidation
    1 Jan 2012 - 19 Apr 2019
    Nwokeke, O
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
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    Explaining the Unexplained Wealth of Nations:A Comparative Cross-National Study of ‘Cohabitative National-Human Security’ in the Philippines, Malaysia and Singapore
    1 Jan 2012 - 20 Nov 2015
    Magcamit, M
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
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    Political Participation under the Conflict: A Case Study of the Conflict Area in Songkhla, Thailand
    1 Jan 2012 - 1 Jan 2017
    Chantra, T
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
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    The Dynamics of the Developmental State: State-Led Industrialisation, Political Liberalisation and the Changing States in East Asia
    1 Jan 2012 - 17 Nov 2017
    He, T
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
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    If They Build It Will It Take Root: Applying Lessons of Colonial Legacy to Polity Imposition
    22 Feb 2010 - 27 Sep 2017
    Miller-McTaggart, D
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    2006-PhD/DMA/EdD-To, James
    1 Jan 2006 - 31 Dec 2010
    To, J
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Explaining Defense Spending in Southeast Asia
    17 Feb 2025
    Laudenslager, Jacob
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    How small states respond to the erosion of monetary sovereignty in volatile global markets
    17 Feb 2025
    Sultani, Sadra
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    International organisations in hegemonic breakdown
    17 Feb 2025
    Killoh, Jake
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    A Comparative Analysis of the Success and Failures of Major Welfare Reforms in the UK, New Zealand, and Ireland
    19 Feb 2024 - 31 Jan 2025
    Baker-Garters, Luke
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    Trading in Uncertaintiy
    19 Feb 2024
    Osborne, Charles
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Weaker Supreme Courts, Weaker Democracies?
    19 Feb 2024 - 31 Jan 2025
    Rommel, Iain
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    Comparative Study of Organisational Adaptation
    2 Oct 2023
    Luah, Edna
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Assessing How Social Welfare Provision Affects Family Decision Making
    21 Feb 2022 - 31 Jan 2023
    Fellowes, Jenna
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Geography, bureaucracy, and cash: assessing what factors shape the variation in small state development aid policy
    21 Feb 2022 - 31 Jan 2023
    Duncan, Libby