Joey Long

A former NUS history major, Joey Long received his Ph.D. in history from the University of Cambridge in 2006. His main fields of interest are the cold and hot wars in post-WWII Southeast Asia, the history of American foreign relations with Asia, the history of Singapore, and Asia-Pacific security. Before joining NUS, Long was the director of the history program at Nanyang Technological University. He was also previously an assistant professor at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, and a visiting history and public policy scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, DC. In addition to articles published in Contemporary Southeast Asia, Diplomatic History, European Journal of International Relations, Journal of Southeast Asian Studies, South East Asia Research, and a number of edited volumes, Long is the author of Safe for Decolonization: The Eisenhower Administration, Britain, and Singapore. Fellowships and awards he has received include a Fulbright Grant, the Lawrence Gelfand-Armin Rappaport Fellowship from the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations, and the Holland Rose Trust Award from the University of Cambridge.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:

• “Desecuritization and After Desecuritization: The Water Issue in Singapore-Malaysia Relations,” in Perspectives on the Security of Singapore: The First 50 Years, ed. Barry Desker and Ang Cheng Guan (London: Imperial College Press; Singapore: World Scientific, 2015), 103-120.
• “America’s Military Interventionism: A Social Evolutionary Interpretation,” European Journal of International Relations 18 (September 2012): 509-538 (with Shiping Tang).
• Safe for Decolonization: The Eisenhower Administration, Britain, and Singapore (Kent, OH: Kent State University Press, 2011).
• “Bringing the International and Transnational Back In: Singapore, Decolonization, and the Cold War,” in Singapore in World History, ed. Derek Heng and Syed Muhd Khairuddin (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2011), 205-223.
• “Mixed up in power politics and the Cold War: The Americans, the ICFTU and Singapore’s labour movement, 1955-1960,” Journal of Southeast Asian Studies 40 (June 2009): 323-351.
• “Winning Hearts and Minds: U.S. Psychological Warfare Operations in Singapore, 1955-1961,” Diplomatic History 32 (November 2008): 899-930.