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Denny Roy

Senior Fellow and Supervisor of POSCO Fellowship Program

Ph.D., Political Science, University of Chicago

Email: royd@eastwestcenter.org
Phone: 808 944-7244
Fax: 808 944-7399
Research Interests: Northeast Asian political and security issues.

Denny Roy's work has focused mostly on Asia Pacific security issues, particularly those involving China.  His interests include not only traditional military-strategic matters and foreign policy, but also international relations theory and human rights politics.

Before joining the East-West Center in 2007, Roy worked at the Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies in Honolulu for seven years, rising to the rank of Professor after starting as a Research Fellow.  In 1998--2000 Roy was a faculty member in the National Security Affairs Department at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California.  There he taught courses on China, Asian history, and Southeast Asian politics.  He also designed and taught an innovative course titled Human Rights and National Security in Asia.

From 1995 to 1998, Roy was a Research Fellow with the Strategic and Defence Studies Centre at the Australian National University in Canberra, where he studied and wrote on Northeast Asian security issues.  He also participated in educational activities with the Australian armed forces and the Australian College of Defence and Security Studies.  In January and February 1997 Roy was attached to the Singapore Armed Forces Training Institute as coordinator for Singaporean students enrolled in the SDSC’s M.A. program.

From 1990 to 1995, Roy held faculty appointments in the Political Science Departments of the National University of Singapore (Lecturer) and Brigham Young University (Assistant Professor), teaching courses on international relations and Asian politics.

Roy has five years of work and residency experience in Taiwan, Korea and Singapore.  He has made presentations at academic conferences in China, Thailand, Korea, Singapore, Taiwan, Japan and Australia.  He is conversant in Mandarin Chinese and fulfilled his graduate school foreign language qualification in Korean.

Roy is the author of Taiwan: A Political History (Cornell University Press, 2003) and China’s Foreign Relations (Macmillan and Rowman & Littlefield, 1998), co-author of The Politics of Human Rights in Asia (Pluto Press, 2000) and editor of The New Security Agenda in the Asia-Pacific Region (Macmillan, 1997).  He has also written many articles for scholarly journals such as International Security, Survival, Asian Survey, Security Dialogue, Contemporary Southeast Asia, Armed forces & Society, and Issues & Studies.

Publications

Books

The Pacific War and its Political Legacies (Westport, CT:  Praeger, 2009).

Taiwan: A Political History (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2003).  Published in Chinese as Taiwan Zhengzhi Shi (Taipei, Taiwan: Commercial Press, 2004).

The Politics of Human Rights in Asia (co-author with Kenneth Christie), (London: Pluto Press, 2000).

China's Foreign Relations (London: Macmillan Press, 1998).

The New Security Agenda in the Asia-Pacific Region (editor), (London: Macmillan Press, 1997).

A Time to Kill: Reflections on War (co-editor with Grant Skabelund and Ray Hillam), (Salt Lake City, UT: Signature Books, 1990 and 1992).

Journal Articles

"China's Democratised Foreign Policy," Survival, April-May 2009.

“Taiwan Perilously Ponders its Strategic Missile Force,” China Brief, Jamestown Foundation, Oct. 4, 2006.

“The Sources and Limits of Sino-Japanese Tensions,” Survival, Summer 2005.

“China and Southeast Asia: Balancing or Bandwagoning?” Contemporary Southeast Asia, August 2005.

“Stirring Samurai, Disapproving Dragon: Japan’s Growing Security Activity and Sino-Japan Relations,” Asian Affairs, vol. 31, no. 2 (Summer 2004).

“China’s Reaction to American Predominance,” Survival, Autumn 2003.

“A Late Honeymoon for Bush and China: Enjoy It While It Lasts,” Asian Affairs, Summer 2003.

“Rising China and U.S. Interests: Inevitable Vs. Contingent Hazards,” Orbis, Winter 2003.

“China and the War on Terrorism,” Orbis, Summer 2002.

“Realism and East Asia,” Journal of East Asian Affairs, Spring/Summer 2000.

“The Taiwan Strait Security Problem,” Survival, Spring 2000.

“Human Rights and National Security in Asia,” Issues & Studies, March-April 1999.

“Sino-U.S. Relations in Strategic Perspective,” Contemporary Southeast Asia, December 1998.

“China's Post-Deng Foreign Relations,” International Journal (Toronto), Spring 1998.

“The Foreign Policy of Great-Power China,” Contemporary Southeast Asia, September 1997.

“The Security-Human Rights Nexus in North Korea,” Journal of East Asian Affairs, January 1997.

“North Korea as an Alienated State,” Survival, Winter 1996/1997.

 “China's Threat Environment,” Security Dialogue, December 1996.

“The `China Threat’ Issue: Major Arguments,” Asian Survey, August 1996.

“Human Rights as a National Security Threat: The Case of China,” Issues & Studies, February 1996.

“Assessing the Asia-Pacific `Power Vacuum,’” Survival, Autumn 1995.

“North Korea and the `Madman’ Theory,” Security Dialogue, September 1994.

“Hegemon on the Horizon?  China's Threat to East Asian Security,” International Security, Summer 1994.

“The Myth of North Korean `Irrationality,’” Korean Journal of International Studies, Summer 1994.

“Singapore, China, and the `Soft Authoritarian’ Challenge,” Asian Survey, March 1994.

“Neorealism and Kant: No Pacific Union,” Journal of Peace Research, November 1993.

“The Unmaking of a Special Relationship: The Future of U.S.-Japan Relations,” Korean Journal of International Studies, Autumn 1993.

“Consequences of China's Economic Growth for Asia-Pacific Security,” Security Dialogue, June 1993.

“The Rabbit Awaits the Tiger: Hong Kong's View of the Peking Regime,” Issues & Studies, July 1991.

“The U.S. Print Media and the Conventional Military Balance in Europe,” Armed Forces & Society, Summer 1990.

“The Triumph of Nationalism in Peking's Hong Kong Policy,” Issues & Studies, April 1990.

“Indoctrination Versus Information: Chinese News Coverage of Poland, 1980-83,” Asian Profile, February 1989.

“North Korea's Relations with Japan: The Legacy of War,” Asian Survey, December 1988.

“China's Catalytic Role in North and South Korean Relations,” Journal of International and Area Studies, Fall 1986.

Book Chapters

"Taiwan's Response to the Rise of China," in Kevin J. Cooney and Yoichiro Sato (eds.), The Rise of China and International Security:  America and Asia Respond (New York and London:  Routledge, 2009).

“Stirring Samurai, Disapproving Dragon: Japan’s Growing Security Activity and Sino-Japan Relations,” in Yoichiro Sato and Satu Limaye (eds.), Japan in a Dynamic Asia (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2006).

“PLA Capabilities in the Next Decade: The Influence of Politics,” in Martin Edmonds and Michael M. Tsai (eds.), Defending Taiwan: The Future Vision of Taiwan’s Defence Policy and Military Strategy (London: RoutledgeCurzon, 2003). 

“Peace Without Reunification: Promise and Problems,” in The Legacy of the Relations Act (Taipei: Government Information Office, 1999).

“Tribalism in Tibet,” in Kenneth Christie (ed.), Ethnic Conflict, Tribal Politics (London: Curzon, 1998).

“Restructuring Foreign and Defence Policy: the PRC,” in Anthony McGrew (ed.), A Pacific Community? Perspectives on the Pacific Rim in Contemporary World Order (Milton Keynes, UK: The Open University, 1998).

“The Challenges and Status of the United Korea,” in Nam Sung-woo et al. (eds.), The Korean Peninsula: Prospects for Peace and Reunification (Seoul: Korean Institute for Defense Analyses, 1997).

“To Bark or Bite?  The Problem of Deception,” in Peter Kien-hong Yu (ed.), The Chinese PLA's Perception of an Invasion of Taiwan (New York: Contemporary U.S.-Asia Research Institute, 1996).

Related Publications

Taiwan’s 2008 Legislative Elections: DPP’s Pain is U.S. and PRC’s Gain
The Pacific War and Its Political Legacies
Under Foreign Pressure, Chinese Support Their Government