Dylan Ming Hui Loh
Biographic Data
| ID | 4153367 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Dylan Ming Hui Loh |
| GIVEN NAMES | Dylan Ming Hui |
| FAMILY NAME | Loh |
| SIGNATURE | LOH D M H |
| AFFILIATIONS | Nanyang Technological University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1149-1303 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 62 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
China’s conception of regional security order: An analysis of Defence White Papers from 2010 to 2019
China’s re-emergence as a military power has generated renewed debates about its security building practices regionally and globally. At the same time, it is increasingly perceived as a challenger to the Western-led international order. Intervening in this debate, we develop a first-cut analysis of Chinese conceptions of regional security orders by analysing China’s Defence White Papers (DWP) from 2010 to 2019. We conceive of regional security or…
Contested actors and moral strategies in the diplomacy of Taiwan and the Central Tibetan Administration
Response to Ketian Zhang’s Review of China’s Rising Foreign Ministry: Practices and Representations of Assertive Diplomacy
Singapore's conception of the liberal international order as a small state
The liberal international order (LIO) is undergoing significant challenges, and this has given rise to debates about its purported decline. In this context, most studies of the LIO focus on major powers with little attention paid to small states' conceptualizations of the LIO despite its ubiquity in international life. Focusing on the Singaporean case as a small state, it asks the question: how does Singapore conceptualize the LIO and what are th…
Field Overlaps, Normativity, and the Contestation of Practices in China's Belt and Road Initiative
China's Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) is a cornerstone of Xi Jinping's foreign policy. Chinese ministries, companies, and universities set up diplomatic networks, build roads and harbors, and facilitate scientific projects and educational programs to implement the BRI. Whereas some see the BRI as an integration project, others contend that it challenges the existing international order. We introduce the concept of field overlaps to study the nor…
Liminal sovereignty practices: Rethinking the inside/outside dichotomy
Sovereignty is the core concept of international relations. Almost without exception, approaches to sovereignty in IR have followed a binary framing where sovereignty is seen to consist of two components: ‘internal’ versus ‘external’ sovereignty, ‘positive’ versus ‘negative’ sovereignty, and so on. These dichotomies stem from the prevailing understanding of sovereignty as the boundary between the inside and the outside of the state. This article …
The ‘Chinese Dream’ and the ‘Belt and Road Initiative’: Narratives, practices, and sub-state actors
The ‘Chinese Dream’ (CD) and the ‘Belt Road Initiative’ (BRI) are signature programs of President Xi Jinping. Much of the scholarships on these two projects have concerned itself with either domestic propagandistic effects or external foreign policy impact. These concerns have underpinned the literature’s focus on material expressions of such projects, be it through infrastructural construction in the case of the BRI or propaganda tools in the ex…
Institutional Habitus, State identity, and China's Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Foreign ministries play a critical role in international relations and are the main interface of diplomacy. Yet, in international relations scholarship, foreign ministries are relatively neglected as an object of scholarly analysis and feature very little around discussions of state's agency and identity. Using China's Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA) as a foil, I suggest that foreign ministries develop dispositions, perceive the social world a…
Diplomatic Control, Foreign Policy, and Change under Xi Jinping: A Field-Theoretic Account
This article outlines how Xi Jinping has exercised control over diplomatic actors, particularly China's Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and draws out the effects of this control for the ministry and for Chinese foreign policy. Leveraging Bourdieu's (1984) concept of “field,” I demonstrate how Xi has – through processes of socialisation, restriction, and displays of fealty – bred local diplomatic field incentives in which actors exhibit more loyal, a…
The disturbance and endurance of norms in Asean: Peaceful but stressful
Since the Cold War, South-East Asia has been marked by a period of relative calm and stability. Yet this peace belies ongoing tensions, mistrust and stress in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and among its member states. Within the scholarship on ASEAN, not enough attention is devoted to these underlying currents. How and in what way do tensions stress the ASEAN norms? What are some of the coping mechanisms adopted by ASEAN and …
Defending China’s National Image and ‘Defensive Soft Power: The Case of Hong Kong’s ‘Umbrella Revolution
This study examines the pro-democracy protests of Hong Kong in 2014 and how the protests became sites for Beijing’s representations of Chinese national image(s). It argues that ‘defensive soft power’ can be used to understand the process through which Beijing made such representations and projections. ‘Defensive soft power’, extending on Nye’s soft power is operationally defined as the reactionary activities taken in response to actions that harm…
Asean's norm adherence and its unintended consequences in Hadr and SAR operations
This paper examines the effects and expressions of norm compliance in Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and the ‘unintended consequences’ arising from such compliance. This is done through an analysis of ASEAN's responses in humanitarian assistance and disaster relief (HADR) efforts in the Typhoon Haiyan disaster and in the search for missing flight MH370. It argues that the lethargic ASEAN responses in the Haiyan disaster and the un…
Liminal sovereignty practices: Rethinking the inside/outside dichotomy
Sovereignty is the core concept of international relations. Almost without exception, approaches to sovereignty in IR have followed a binary framing where sovereignty is seen to consist of two components: ‘internal’ versus ‘external’ sovereignty, ‘positive’ versus ‘negative’ sovereignty, and so on. These dichotomies stem from the prevailing understanding of sovereignty as the boundary between the inside and the outside of the state. This article …
Field Overlaps, Normativity, and the Contestation of Practices in China's Belt and Road Initiative
China's Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) is a cornerstone of Xi Jinping's foreign policy. Chinese ministries, companies, and universities set up diplomatic networks, build roads and harbors, and facilitate scientific projects and educational programs to implement the BRI. Whereas some see the BRI as an integration project, others contend that it challenges the existing international order. We introduce the concept of field overlaps to study the nor…
Asean's norm adherence and its unintended consequences in Hadr and SAR operations
This paper examines the effects and expressions of norm compliance in Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and the ‘unintended consequences’ arising from such compliance. This is done through an analysis of ASEAN's responses in humanitarian assistance and disaster relief (HADR) efforts in the Typhoon Haiyan disaster and in the search for missing flight MH370. It argues that the lethargic ASEAN responses in the Haiyan disaster and the un…
The disturbance and endurance of norms in Asean: Peaceful but stressful
Since the Cold War, South-East Asia has been marked by a period of relative calm and stability. Yet this peace belies ongoing tensions, mistrust and stress in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and among its member states. Within the scholarship on ASEAN, not enough attention is devoted to these underlying currents. How and in what way do tensions stress the ASEAN norms? What are some of the coping mechanisms adopted by ASEAN and …
Institutional Habitus, State identity, and China's Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Foreign ministries play a critical role in international relations and are the main interface of diplomacy. Yet, in international relations scholarship, foreign ministries are relatively neglected as an object of scholarly analysis and feature very little around discussions of state's agency and identity. Using China's Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA) as a foil, I suggest that foreign ministries develop dispositions, perceive the social world a…
The ‘Chinese Dream’ and the ‘Belt and Road Initiative’: Narratives, practices, and sub-state actors
The ‘Chinese Dream’ (CD) and the ‘Belt Road Initiative’ (BRI) are signature programs of President Xi Jinping. Much of the scholarships on these two projects have concerned itself with either domestic propagandistic effects or external foreign policy impact. These concerns have underpinned the literature’s focus on material expressions of such projects, be it through infrastructural construction in the case of the BRI or propaganda tools in the ex…
Diplomatic Control, Foreign Policy, and Change under Xi Jinping: A Field-Theoretic Account
This article outlines how Xi Jinping has exercised control over diplomatic actors, particularly China's Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and draws out the effects of this control for the ministry and for Chinese foreign policy. Leveraging Bourdieu's (1984) concept of “field,” I demonstrate how Xi has – through processes of socialisation, restriction, and displays of fealty – bred local diplomatic field incentives in which actors exhibit more loyal, a…
Defending China’s National Image and ‘Defensive Soft Power: The Case of Hong Kong’s ‘Umbrella Revolution
This study examines the pro-democracy protests of Hong Kong in 2014 and how the protests became sites for Beijing’s representations of Chinese national image(s). It argues that ‘defensive soft power’ can be used to understand the process through which Beijing made such representations and projections. ‘Defensive soft power’, extending on Nye’s soft power is operationally defined as the reactionary activities taken in response to actions that harm…
Singapore's conception of the liberal international order as a small state
The liberal international order (LIO) is undergoing significant challenges, and this has given rise to debates about its purported decline. In this context, most studies of the LIO focus on major powers with little attention paid to small states' conceptualizations of the LIO despite its ubiquity in international life. Focusing on the Singaporean case as a small state, it asks the question: how does Singapore conceptualize the LIO and what are th…
Asean's norm adherence and its unintended consequences in Hadr and SAR operations
This paper examines the effects and expressions of norm compliance in Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and the ‘unintended consequences’ arising from such compliance. This is done through an analysis of ASEAN's responses in humanitarian assistance and disaster relief (HADR) efforts in the Typhoon Haiyan disaster and in the search for missing flight MH370. It argues that the lethargic ASEAN responses in the Haiyan disaster and the un…
Defending China’s National Image and ‘Defensive Soft Power: The Case of Hong Kong’s ‘Umbrella Revolution
This study examines the pro-democracy protests of Hong Kong in 2014 and how the protests became sites for Beijing’s representations of Chinese national image(s). It argues that ‘defensive soft power’ can be used to understand the process through which Beijing made such representations and projections. ‘Defensive soft power’, extending on Nye’s soft power is operationally defined as the reactionary activities taken in response to actions that harm…
Diplomatic Control, Foreign Policy, and Change under Xi Jinping: A Field-Theoretic Account
This article outlines how Xi Jinping has exercised control over diplomatic actors, particularly China's Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and draws out the effects of this control for the ministry and for Chinese foreign policy. Leveraging Bourdieu's (1984) concept of “field,” I demonstrate how Xi has – through processes of socialisation, restriction, and displays of fealty – bred local diplomatic field incentives in which actors exhibit more loyal, a…
The disturbance and endurance of norms in Asean: Peaceful but stressful
Since the Cold War, South-East Asia has been marked by a period of relative calm and stability. Yet this peace belies ongoing tensions, mistrust and stress in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and among its member states. Within the scholarship on ASEAN, not enough attention is devoted to these underlying currents. How and in what way do tensions stress the ASEAN norms? What are some of the coping mechanisms adopted by ASEAN and …
The ‘Chinese Dream’ and the ‘Belt and Road Initiative’: Narratives, practices, and sub-state actors
The ‘Chinese Dream’ (CD) and the ‘Belt Road Initiative’ (BRI) are signature programs of President Xi Jinping. Much of the scholarships on these two projects have concerned itself with either domestic propagandistic effects or external foreign policy impact. These concerns have underpinned the literature’s focus on material expressions of such projects, be it through infrastructural construction in the case of the BRI or propaganda tools in the ex…
Institutional Habitus, State identity, and China's Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Foreign ministries play a critical role in international relations and are the main interface of diplomacy. Yet, in international relations scholarship, foreign ministries are relatively neglected as an object of scholarly analysis and feature very little around discussions of state's agency and identity. Using China's Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA) as a foil, I suggest that foreign ministries develop dispositions, perceive the social world a…
Liminal sovereignty practices: Rethinking the inside/outside dichotomy
Sovereignty is the core concept of international relations. Almost without exception, approaches to sovereignty in IR have followed a binary framing where sovereignty is seen to consist of two components: ‘internal’ versus ‘external’ sovereignty, ‘positive’ versus ‘negative’ sovereignty, and so on. These dichotomies stem from the prevailing understanding of sovereignty as the boundary between the inside and the outside of the state. This article …
Field Overlaps, Normativity, and the Contestation of Practices in China's Belt and Road Initiative
China's Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) is a cornerstone of Xi Jinping's foreign policy. Chinese ministries, companies, and universities set up diplomatic networks, build roads and harbors, and facilitate scientific projects and educational programs to implement the BRI. Whereas some see the BRI as an integration project, others contend that it challenges the existing international order. We introduce the concept of field overlaps to study the nor…
Singapore's conception of the liberal international order as a small state
The liberal international order (LIO) is undergoing significant challenges, and this has given rise to debates about its purported decline. In this context, most studies of the LIO focus on major powers with little attention paid to small states' conceptualizations of the LIO despite its ubiquity in international life. Focusing on the Singaporean case as a small state, it asks the question: how does Singapore conceptualize the LIO and what are th…
Response to Ketian Zhang’s Review of China’s Rising Foreign Ministry: Practices and Representations of Assertive Diplomacy
China’s conception of regional security order: An analysis of Defence White Papers from 2010 to 2019
China’s re-emergence as a military power has generated renewed debates about its security building practices regionally and globally. At the same time, it is increasingly perceived as a challenger to the Western-led international order. Intervening in this debate, we develop a first-cut analysis of Chinese conceptions of regional security orders by analysing China’s Defence White Papers (DWP) from 2010 to 2019. We conceive of regional security or…
Contested actors and moral strategies in the diplomacy of Taiwan and the Central Tibetan Administration
Political science (12 works) · Law (10 works) · Law (10 works) · Sociology (10 works) · China (8 works) · International Relations and Foreign Policy (8 works) · Politics (8 works) · Economics (5 works) · Political economy (5 works) · Diplomacy (4 works)