Evelyn Goh
Biographic Data
| ID | 1186599 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Evelyn Goh |
| GIVEN NAMES | Evelyn |
| FAMILY NAME | Goh |
| SIGNATURE | GOH E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Australian National University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4769-4789 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 28 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 114 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 27 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Reflections on the State of the World
If the world is in a moment of upheaval, what that upheaval looks and feels like depends a lot on where you are. In this collection of Dispatches, we invited writers, scholars, and thinkers from Oslo, Guatemala City, Cape Town, Canberra, Moscow, Chennai, and Jerusalem to reflect on what the state of the world looks like from where they are sitting. What are the most defining issues? What is the mood where you live? And what might the future hold
Chinese Investments in Southeast Asia: Patterns and Significance
Southeast Asia’s growing economic linkages with China have generated political opportunities and strategic concerns in equal measure. This study provides a fuller picture of Chinese investments in Southeast Asia for those seeking to understand its significance and impacts. From their carefully constructed dataset, Goh and Liu provide a regionwide, multi-sectoral analysis quantitative survey and analysis of key changes in Chinese investments in So…
Addressing two recent challenges to the factive account of knowledge
Rethinking strategy and statecraft for the twenty-first century of complexity: A Case for Strategic Diplomacy
Today's most pressing security and policy challenges-great power conflict, economic interdependence, peacebuilding, climate change and other non-traditional threats such as pandemics-are all complex problems. Hyperconnectivity, power diffusion and radical technological transformation are significantly shrinking the policy space available to governments and other international agencies in what has been called the twenty-first century of complexity…
Rethinking Sino-Japanese Alienation: History Problems and Historical Opportunities
Bitterly contested memories of war, colonisation, and empire among Japan, China, and Korea have increasingly threatened regional order and security over the past three decades. In Sino-Japanese relations, identity, territory, and power pull together in a particularly lethal direction, generating dangerous tensions in both geopolitical and memory rivalries. Buzan and Goh explore a new approach to dealing with this history problem. First, they cons…
In response: Alliance dynamics, variables, and the English School for East Asia
Worldviews on the United States, alliances, and the changing international order: An Introduction
Since the end of World War II, US alliances have been at the core of the regional orders in both East Asia and Western Europe. However, doubts about the US-hegemonic order have arisen due to great power competition and uncertainty about US leadership. This introductory paper sets out the research questions which the papers for this Special Issue address, and discusses key implications of their findings. It suggests the divergent worldviews held b…
Conceptualizing the Economic-Security-Identity Nexus in East Asia’s Regional Order
US Dominance and American Bias in International Relations Scholarship: A View from the Outside
This article responds to the Journal of Global Security Studies special issue on “American Perspectives and Blind Spots on World Politics,” edited by Jeff Colgan. It applauds their significant achievement in offering positivist demonstrations of the bias generated by American assumptions, coding, and preferences, and quantitative demonstration of the systemic and systematic impact of this bias in skewing key assumptions and theories in mainstream…
Contesting Hegemonic Order: China in East Asia
This paper develops an English School–informed approach to theorize hegemonic order using an explicitly social lens. It conceptualizes the architecture of hegemonic order as consisting of three social elements—compact, structure, and processes—and emphasizes social exchange, power relationships, and negotiation as the bridges linking hegemony and order. Using the most significant contemporary case of hegemonic contestation, it employs this hegemo…
The International Relations of East Asia: A New Research Prospectus
East Asia is a region of signal importance for global order because of its economic dynamism and growing heft, China's challenge to the United States as incumbent regional and global hegemon, and other conflict hotspots like the Korean peninsula. This requires academic analysis that both appreciates the subtleties inherent to this region and can relate them to the wider systemic context. Many analysts have begun to allude to the challenging chara…
China in the Mekong River Basin: The Regional Security Implications of Resource Development on the Lancang Jiang
Evelyn Goh Introduction The Mekong is the eighth largest river in the world, with a basin covering 800,000 square kilometres of mainland East Asia.1 It flows through Yunnan province in southern China, Laos, Thailand, Cambodia and Vietnam; and forms part of the borders between Myanmar and China, and Myanmar and Laos. More than 80 million people (90 per cent of the riparian population) depend upon the Mekong River for resources ranging from drinkin…
Conclusion
This chapter concludes by presenting the key findings from the volume as a whole: China demands less from its weakest neighbours and these small developing Asian states exhibit more agency in managing Chinese influence than we might expect. China's record influence is mixed, often generating unintended consequences, and there are significant contradictions in Chinese conceptions of influence. The chapter also reflects on the broader implications …
Rising China's Influence in Developing Asia
East Asia as regional international society: The problem of great power management
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Contesting International Society in East Asia
Bringing together some of the most innovative scholars in both the English School of international relations and East Asian studies, this volume investigates whether or not significant and distinct international social structures exist at the regional level represented by 'East Asia', and what this can tell us about international society both regionally and globally. The book's main finding is that the regional dispute over how its states and peo…
The Modes of China’s Influence
Distinguishing between power as resources and influence as converting those resources into outcomes, I propose a new framework for analyzing China’s influence, using examples from Southeast Asia. Because China exercises influence predominantly in contexts of convergent, not divergent, preferences, three key modes of influence are “preference multiplying,” “persuasion,” and “ability to prevail.”
The Struggle for Order: Hegemony, Hierarchy, and Transition in Post-Cold War East Asia
How has world order changed since the Cold War ended? Do we live in an age of American empire, or is global power shifting to the East with the rise of China? Arguing that existing ideas about balance of power and power transition are inadequate, this book instead conceives of an ‘order transition’ that has occurred in East Asia since 1989. Building on advances in ‘English School’ approaches, this book highlights that hegemonic power is based on …
How Japan matters in the evolving East Asian security order
This article argues that Japan matters crucially in the evolving East Asian security order because it is embedded both in the structural transition and the ongoing regional strategies to manage it. The post-Cold War East Asian order transition centres on
Security Politics in the Asia-Pacific: A Regional-Global Nexus?
Asia is experiencing major changes in its security relations. This book brings together respected experts to assess both the theoretical and empirical dimensions of the Asian security debate. Building on the latest research on Asia's regional security politics, it focuses on the 'regional-global nexus' as a way to understand the dynamics of Asian security politics and its intersection with global security. Contributors to the volume offer diverse…
Great Powers and Hierarchical Order in Southeast Asia: Analyzing Regional Security Strategies
The small and medium-sized states in Southeast Asia have faced significant geostrategic changes with the end of the Cold War and the rise of China. Over the last decade, scholars have debated how these countries would cope with growing Chinese power, and how their relations with the other major powers in the region would change. Some analysts have suggested that the region is shifting toward a more China-centered order, but this view is premature…
Testing sincerity: Henry Kissinger’s February 1973 encounter with the Chinese leadership
In strategic contexts actors may costlessly renege on verbal commitments. Many analysts consequently reject negotiation talk as an empirical basis for examining political interaction. They focus on deeds (e.g., missile deployments, troop movements, defense expenditures), which more likely than cheap talk signal sincere intent. Dialogical or pragmatic analysts, however, apply tools of linguistics and formal logic in systematic examinations of nego…
Southeast Asian perspectives on the China challenge
Why have Southeast Asian states' threat perceptions regarding China been reduced significantly over the last 15 years? This article argues it is the result of astute Chinese diplomacy, successful Southeast Asian regional security strategy, and the relative restraint exercised by the major regional powers. The paper is divided into three sections that first outline Southeast Asian strategic imperatives and Chinese strategic aims in the region; fol…
The US–China Relationship and Asia-Pacific Security: Negotiating Change
The crucial determinant of Asia-Pacific security is whether the U.S. and China can negotiate their relationship and their relative positions and roles in such a way as to produce sustainable regional stability. This paper examines three alternative scenarios of negotiating Sino-American coexistence: (I) The maintenance of the status quo of U.S. strategic dominance over the region, which China does not challenge; (II) negotiated change, by which t…
Constructing the U.S. Rapprochement with China, 1961–1974: From 'Red Menace' to 'Tacit Ally'
With Nixon's historic reconciliation with China in 1972, Sino-American relations were restored, and China moved from being regarded as America's most implacable enemy to a friend and tacit ally. Existing accounts of the rapprochement focus on the shifting balance of power between the USA, China and the Soviet Union, but in this book Goh argues that they cannot adequately explain the timing and policy choices related to Washington's decisions for …
Great Powers and Hierarchical Order in Southeast Asia: Analyzing Regional Security Strategies
The small and medium-sized states in Southeast Asia have faced significant geostrategic changes with the end of the Cold War and the rise of China. Over the last decade, scholars have debated how these countries would cope with growing Chinese power, and how their relations with the other major powers in the region would change. Some analysts have suggested that the region is shifting toward a more China-centered order, but this view is premature…
The International Relations of East Asia: A New Research Prospectus
East Asia is a region of signal importance for global order because of its economic dynamism and growing heft, China's challenge to the United States as incumbent regional and global hegemon, and other conflict hotspots like the Korean peninsula. This requires academic analysis that both appreciates the subtleties inherent to this region and can relate them to the wider systemic context. Many analysts have begun to allude to the challenging chara…
Contesting Hegemonic Order: China in East Asia
This paper develops an English School–informed approach to theorize hegemonic order using an explicitly social lens. It conceptualizes the architecture of hegemonic order as consisting of three social elements—compact, structure, and processes—and emphasizes social exchange, power relationships, and negotiation as the bridges linking hegemony and order. Using the most significant contemporary case of hegemonic contestation, it employs this hegemo…
Hegemonic constraints: The implications of 11 September for American power
This paper argues that at the heart of the post -September 11 world lies several critical issues surrounding American power: its unprecedented primacy, the way in which it is exercised, and how it is perceived and received around the world. On the one hand, September 11 not only failed to alter American preponderance of power in the international system, but in fact reinforced US credibility, power projection and military involvement abroad. On t…
The Asean Regional Forum in United States East Asian strategy
This paper analyses the development of the US approach to the ASEAN Regional Forum (ARF), from 1991 onwards. It examines theories of why a superpower would participate in a multilateral security institution, and investigates the motivations for the attitudes and extent of participation of the George H. Bush, Clinton and George W. Bush administrations towards the ARF. It argues that, in the post-Cold War period and in the face of a rising China, U…
Worldviews on the United States, alliances, and the changing international order: An Introduction
Since the end of World War II, US alliances have been at the core of the regional orders in both East Asia and Western Europe. However, doubts about the US-hegemonic order have arisen due to great power competition and uncertainty about US leadership. This introductory paper sets out the research questions which the papers for this Special Issue address, and discusses key implications of their findings. It suggests the divergent worldviews held b…
Southeast Asian perspectives on the China challenge
Why have Southeast Asian states' threat perceptions regarding China been reduced significantly over the last 15 years? This article argues it is the result of astute Chinese diplomacy, successful Southeast Asian regional security strategy, and the relative restraint exercised by the major regional powers. The paper is divided into three sections that first outline Southeast Asian strategic imperatives and Chinese strategic aims in the region; fol…
The Modes of China’s Influence
Distinguishing between power as resources and influence as converting those resources into outcomes, I propose a new framework for analyzing China’s influence, using examples from Southeast Asia. Because China exercises influence predominantly in contexts of convergent, not divergent, preferences, three key modes of influence are “preference multiplying,” “persuasion,” and “ability to prevail.”
The US–China Relationship and Asia-Pacific Security: Negotiating Change
The crucial determinant of Asia-Pacific security is whether the U.S. and China can negotiate their relationship and their relative positions and roles in such a way as to produce sustainable regional stability. This paper examines three alternative scenarios of negotiating Sino-American coexistence: (I) The maintenance of the status quo of U.S. strategic dominance over the region, which China does not challenge; (II) negotiated change, by which t…
US Dominance and American Bias in International Relations Scholarship: A View from the Outside
This article responds to the Journal of Global Security Studies special issue on “American Perspectives and Blind Spots on World Politics,” edited by Jeff Colgan. It applauds their significant achievement in offering positivist demonstrations of the bias generated by American assumptions, coding, and preferences, and quantitative demonstration of the systemic and systematic impact of this bias in skewing key assumptions and theories in mainstream…
How Japan matters in the evolving East Asian security order
This article argues that Japan matters crucially in the evolving East Asian security order because it is embedded both in the structural transition and the ongoing regional strategies to manage it. The post-Cold War East Asian order transition centres on
Testing sincerity: Henry Kissinger’s February 1973 encounter with the Chinese leadership
In strategic contexts actors may costlessly renege on verbal commitments. Many analysts consequently reject negotiation talk as an empirical basis for examining political interaction. They focus on deeds (e.g., missile deployments, troop movements, defense expenditures), which more likely than cheap talk signal sincere intent. Dialogical or pragmatic analysts, however, apply tools of linguistics and formal logic in systematic examinations of nego…
Rethinking strategy and statecraft for the twenty-first century of complexity: A Case for Strategic Diplomacy
Today's most pressing security and policy challenges-great power conflict, economic interdependence, peacebuilding, climate change and other non-traditional threats such as pandemics-are all complex problems. Hyperconnectivity, power diffusion and radical technological transformation are significantly shrinking the policy space available to governments and other international agencies in what has been called the twenty-first century of complexity…
In response: Alliance dynamics, variables, and the English School for East Asia
Competing Images and American Official Reconsiderations of China Policy, 1961&–1968
In February 1972, President Richard Nixon made a historic visit to the People”s Republic of China (PRC), marking a Sino-American rapprochement and the beginning of the route to normalization of relations. This came more than twenty years after mainland China turned Communist and fought American-led United Nations forces in Korea. Thereafter, the United States had sought to ”contain“. Communist China by means of bilateral alliances and military ba…
Hegemonic constraints: The implications of 11 September for American power
This paper argues that at the heart of the post -September 11 world lies several critical issues surrounding American power: its unprecedented primacy, the way in which it is exercised, and how it is perceived and received around the world. On the one hand, September 11 not only failed to alter American preponderance of power in the international system, but in fact reinforced US credibility, power projection and military involvement abroad. On t…
Constructing the U.S. Rapprochement with China, 1961–1974: From 'Red Menace' to 'Tacit Ally'
With Nixon's historic reconciliation with China in 1972, Sino-American relations were restored, and China moved from being regarded as America's most implacable enemy to a friend and tacit ally. Existing accounts of the rapprochement focus on the shifting balance of power between the USA, China and the Soviet Union, but in this book Goh argues that they cannot adequately explain the timing and policy choices related to Washington's decisions for …
The Asean Regional Forum in United States East Asian strategy
This paper analyses the development of the US approach to the ASEAN Regional Forum (ARF), from 1991 onwards. It examines theories of why a superpower would participate in a multilateral security institution, and investigates the motivations for the attitudes and extent of participation of the George H. Bush, Clinton and George W. Bush administrations towards the ARF. It argues that, in the post-Cold War period and in the face of a rising China, U…
The US–China Relationship and Asia-Pacific Security: Negotiating Change
The crucial determinant of Asia-Pacific security is whether the U.S. and China can negotiate their relationship and their relative positions and roles in such a way as to produce sustainable regional stability. This paper examines three alternative scenarios of negotiating Sino-American coexistence: (I) The maintenance of the status quo of U.S. strategic dominance over the region, which China does not challenge; (II) negotiated change, by which t…
Southeast Asian perspectives on the China challenge
Why have Southeast Asian states' threat perceptions regarding China been reduced significantly over the last 15 years? This article argues it is the result of astute Chinese diplomacy, successful Southeast Asian regional security strategy, and the relative restraint exercised by the major regional powers. The paper is divided into three sections that first outline Southeast Asian strategic imperatives and Chinese strategic aims in the region; fol…
Great Powers and Hierarchical Order in Southeast Asia: Analyzing Regional Security Strategies
The small and medium-sized states in Southeast Asia have faced significant geostrategic changes with the end of the Cold War and the rise of China. Over the last decade, scholars have debated how these countries would cope with growing Chinese power, and how their relations with the other major powers in the region would change. Some analysts have suggested that the region is shifting toward a more China-centered order, but this view is premature…
Testing sincerity: Henry Kissinger’s February 1973 encounter with the Chinese leadership
In strategic contexts actors may costlessly renege on verbal commitments. Many analysts consequently reject negotiation talk as an empirical basis for examining political interaction. They focus on deeds (e.g., missile deployments, troop movements, defense expenditures), which more likely than cheap talk signal sincere intent. Dialogical or pragmatic analysts, however, apply tools of linguistics and formal logic in systematic examinations of nego…
Security Politics in the Asia-Pacific: A Regional-Global Nexus?
Asia is experiencing major changes in its security relations. This book brings together respected experts to assess both the theoretical and empirical dimensions of the Asian security debate. Building on the latest research on Asia's regional security politics, it focuses on the 'regional-global nexus' as a way to understand the dynamics of Asian security politics and its intersection with global security. Contributors to the volume offer diverse…
How Japan matters in the evolving East Asian security order
This article argues that Japan matters crucially in the evolving East Asian security order because it is embedded both in the structural transition and the ongoing regional strategies to manage it. The post-Cold War East Asian order transition centres on
The Struggle for Order: Hegemony, Hierarchy, and Transition in Post-Cold War East Asia
How has world order changed since the Cold War ended? Do we live in an age of American empire, or is global power shifting to the East with the rise of China? Arguing that existing ideas about balance of power and power transition are inadequate, this book instead conceives of an ‘order transition’ that has occurred in East Asia since 1989. Building on advances in ‘English School’ approaches, this book highlights that hegemonic power is based on …
East Asia as regional international society: The problem of great power management
A summary is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content.
Contesting International Society in East Asia
Bringing together some of the most innovative scholars in both the English School of international relations and East Asian studies, this volume investigates whether or not significant and distinct international social structures exist at the regional level represented by 'East Asia', and what this can tell us about international society both regionally and globally. The book's main finding is that the regional dispute over how its states and peo…
The Modes of China’s Influence
Distinguishing between power as resources and influence as converting those resources into outcomes, I propose a new framework for analyzing China’s influence, using examples from Southeast Asia. Because China exercises influence predominantly in contexts of convergent, not divergent, preferences, three key modes of influence are “preference multiplying,” “persuasion,” and “ability to prevail.”
Conclusion
This chapter concludes by presenting the key findings from the volume as a whole: China demands less from its weakest neighbours and these small developing Asian states exhibit more agency in managing Chinese influence than we might expect. China's record influence is mixed, often generating unintended consequences, and there are significant contradictions in Chinese conceptions of influence. The chapter also reflects on the broader implications …
Rising China's Influence in Developing Asia
China in the Mekong River Basin: The Regional Security Implications of Resource Development on the Lancang Jiang
Evelyn Goh Introduction The Mekong is the eighth largest river in the world, with a basin covering 800,000 square kilometres of mainland East Asia.1 It flows through Yunnan province in southern China, Laos, Thailand, Cambodia and Vietnam; and forms part of the borders between Myanmar and China, and Myanmar and Laos. More than 80 million people (90 per cent of the riparian population) depend upon the Mekong River for resources ranging from drinkin…
The International Relations of East Asia: A New Research Prospectus
East Asia is a region of signal importance for global order because of its economic dynamism and growing heft, China's challenge to the United States as incumbent regional and global hegemon, and other conflict hotspots like the Korean peninsula. This requires academic analysis that both appreciates the subtleties inherent to this region and can relate them to the wider systemic context. Many analysts have begun to allude to the challenging chara…
Conceptualizing the Economic-Security-Identity Nexus in East Asia’s Regional Order
US Dominance and American Bias in International Relations Scholarship: A View from the Outside
This article responds to the Journal of Global Security Studies special issue on “American Perspectives and Blind Spots on World Politics,” edited by Jeff Colgan. It applauds their significant achievement in offering positivist demonstrations of the bias generated by American assumptions, coding, and preferences, and quantitative demonstration of the systemic and systematic impact of this bias in skewing key assumptions and theories in mainstream…
Contesting Hegemonic Order: China in East Asia
This paper develops an English School–informed approach to theorize hegemonic order using an explicitly social lens. It conceptualizes the architecture of hegemonic order as consisting of three social elements—compact, structure, and processes—and emphasizes social exchange, power relationships, and negotiation as the bridges linking hegemony and order. Using the most significant contemporary case of hegemonic contestation, it employs this hegemo…
Rethinking Sino-Japanese Alienation: History Problems and Historical Opportunities
Bitterly contested memories of war, colonisation, and empire among Japan, China, and Korea have increasingly threatened regional order and security over the past three decades. In Sino-Japanese relations, identity, territory, and power pull together in a particularly lethal direction, generating dangerous tensions in both geopolitical and memory rivalries. Buzan and Goh explore a new approach to dealing with this history problem. First, they cons…
In response: Alliance dynamics, variables, and the English School for East Asia
Worldviews on the United States, alliances, and the changing international order: An Introduction
Since the end of World War II, US alliances have been at the core of the regional orders in both East Asia and Western Europe. However, doubts about the US-hegemonic order have arisen due to great power competition and uncertainty about US leadership. This introductory paper sets out the research questions which the papers for this Special Issue address, and discusses key implications of their findings. It suggests the divergent worldviews held b…
Addressing two recent challenges to the factive account of knowledge
Political science (24 works) · China (19 works) · Law (19 works) · Economics (17 works) · International Relations and Foreign Policy (16 works) · Politics (16 works) · Sociology (15 works) · Political economy (12 works) · Geography (10 works) · International Development and Aid (10 works)