Chin-Hao Huang is Associate Professor of Political Science at the National University of Singapore, with appointments in both the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy and Yale-NUS College. From July 2024, he serves as co-chair of the international affairs program at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy. He is also the Head of Studies for Global Affairs and the J Y Pillay Fellow at Yale-NUS College. Huang’s research and teaching focus on international relations, with an empirical emphasis on China and Southeast Asia. His work examines the extent to which the conventional narrative of power politics accounts for patterns of cooperation and conflict in historical and contemporary Asia, and how countries with disparate capacities in the region develop the requisite norms, consensus, and institutional mechanisms to achieve security.

He has written three books, including, most recently, Power and Restraint in China’s Rise (Columbia, 2022), which received Honorable Mention for the T.V. Paul Best Book in Global International Relations. Other books include State Formation through Emulation: The East Asian Model (Cambridge, 2022) and Identity in the Shadow of a Giant: How the Rise of China is Changing Taiwan (Bristol, 2021). Beyond these books, his research has appeared in disciplinary journals such as International Organization, Perspectives on Politics, Foreign Policy Analysis, Cambridge Review of International Affairs, The China Quarterly, The China Journal, Asian Survey, Contemporary Southeast Asia, and International Peacekeeping, and in edited volumes through Oxford University Press and Routledge, among others. He currently serves on the editorial boards of Political Science Quarterly and Contemporary Security Policy. Huang’s work has been featured in media outlets including CNBC Asia, ABC News, Bloomberg, BBC, and Financial Times.

Raised in Bangkok, Thailand, he is a graduate of Georgetown University and the University of Southern California, where he received his Ph.D. In 2014, he was awarded the American Political Science Association’s Foreign Policy Section Best Paper Award, and he was the recipient of the Lee Kong Chian NUS-Stanford University Distinguished Fellowship on Contemporary Southeast Asia in 2018-2019. Huang has testified on China’s foreign affairs before the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission, U.S. Congress. He has also served as a consultant for U.S. and European foundations, governments, and companies on their strategies and policies in Asia. Until 2009, he was a researcher at the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, and prior to that worked with the Freeman Chair in China Studies at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, D.C.



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