Barbora Valockova is a Research Fellow at the Centre on Asia and Globalisation (CAG), Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore. Her research examines how Southeast Asia and its middle-power partners navigate geopolitical shifts across maritime, economic, and critical infrastructure security, and the normative, institutional, and policy mechanisms they employ to maintain agency in the regional order. She also serves as the main editor and moderator of CAG’s Counterpoint Southeast Asia webinar and policy brief series. Barbora obtained her PhD in Public Policy and Global Affairs from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. She received a master’s degree in economic law and a bachelor’s degree in political science from Sciences Po Paris.

Barbora’s ongoing projects include: “ASEAN’s Evolving Economic Security Mechanisms through the Lens of Historical Institutionalism” (forthcoming in Contemporary Southeast Asia special issue on economic security, with Mae Chow); “Infrastructural Norm Entrepreneurship: Norm Contestation and Agency in Southeast Asian Submarine Cable Governance” (manuscript in preparation, with Mae Chow); and “When Strategic Autonomies Meet: Practice Compatibility in EU–ASEAN and EU–Central Asia Cooperation” (manuscript in preparation, with Zhanibek Arynov and Scarlet Xu Ni). In October 2025, Barbora co-organized and co-chaired a workshop titled "Maritime Security Order in the South China Sea: Navigating Actors, Frameworks, and Practices" with Yongwook Ryu. They are currently preparing a special issue featuring articles by the workshop’s presenters.

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