DR. LEE CHEE LEONG
Institute of China Studies
Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
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Started his research career in the think tank sector, Dr. Lee Chee Leong (Karl) is attracted to the rise of non-traditional diplomacy in the international order today. Such appeal has taken Dr. Lee into new research horizons that started with his Monash University's doctoral research on the Chinese sub-state diplomacy in China-ASEAN economic cooperation. With constructive supervision by Professor Helen Nesadurai and Associate Professor Kuik Cheng Chwee, Dr. Lee completed his doctoral thesis that unravels how a faraway and least developed sub-state of Guangxi managed to overcome its own hurdles, navigate the complexities within the Chinese state and become the frontline actor in China-ASEAN economic cooperation. Following his doctoral completion, Dr. Lee's research on non-traditional diplomacy has expanded into Taiwan’s quasi-state diplomacy in Southeast Asia. Such quest has led him spending at great length in comprehending the concept of soft power, a concept that finds its relevance to Taiwan, which has no official diplomatic with Southeast Asia but is heavily connected to the region and has to rely on soft power in its engagements with these Southeast Asian nations. By comparing different case studies of Taiwan's quasi-state engagement within Southeast Asia, Dr. Lee has developed the soft power diffusion process to explain how such phenomenon operates in the real world. His ongoing and incoming research projects include Unpacking ‘De-risking’ China in the Indo-Pacific Region: Economic Statecraft (ES) & Geoeconomics, Taiwan's New Southbound Policy (NSP) and NSP+: The Domestic-International Dichotomy, The Taiwanese Connections in Nvidia's Global AI Supply Chain and Taiwan and Ireland: The Story of Two Tech Powerhouses. To date, Dr. Lee was the recipient of several scholarships and fellowships in Malaysia and overseas: University of Malaya’s Graduate Fellowship (2010-2011); Monash University’s Merit Scholarship (2016-2019); Chinese Government Scholarship (2018-2019); and Taiwan Fellowship (2020). Prior to his appointment as Senior Lecturer at the Institute of China Studies (ICS), he was the Visiting Scholar at Guangxi University for Nationalities (GXUN) (2018-2019), Taiwan Fellow at National Chengchi University (NCCU) (2020) and Associate Fellow at ICS UM (2016-2019). He welcomes any potential PhD candidate who would like to work on Taiwan-Southeast Asia relations, comparative cases of ES between Asia and Europe, US-China-ASEAN semiconductor geoeconomics and case studies of donut economies in Asia. He is also willing to discuss with potential doctoral candidates on proposals related to the Chinese sub-state (provincial and city) diplomacy toward ASEAN, comparative cases of sub-state diplomacy between Asia and Europe as well as conceptual innovations of sub-state diplomacy vis-a-vis soft power.
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Taiwan's Soft Power In Malaysia : Variations Of Quasi-state Diplomacy Under The New Southbound Policy |
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Mapping Taiwan's Co-optive Power In Malaysia: Traces Of Quasi-state Diplomacy |
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Conceptualising Taiwan’s Soft Power Projection in its ‘New Southbound Policy’
Looking South: Comparing the Regional Policies of Taiwan and South Korea
Introduction: Southeast Asia and Taiwan’s New Southbound Policy (NSP)
Malaysian Politics after Sheraton Move 2020: Inter-Coalition and Intra-Coalition Political Dynamics
Southward Bound: Examining the Regional Policies of Taiwan and South Korea
Taiwan and Southeast Asia: Soft Power and Hard Truths Facing China's Ascendancy
Introduction-Looking South: Comparing the Regional Policies of Taiwan and South Korea
Conceptualising Taiwan's Soft Power Projection in its 'New Southbound Policy'
Malaysia's Political Contestations in the COVID-19 Era and Their Economic Impacts: An Assessment
Reconfiguring Taiwan s Soft Power in Malaysia: "Blue Ocean" Collaborations under the New Southbound Policy (NSP)