Prof. Joseph Chin Yong Liow is Dean and Professor of Comparative and International Politics at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore. He held the inaugural Lee Kuan Yew Chair in Southeast Asia Studies at the Brookings Institution, Washington DC, where he was also a Senior Fellow in the Foreign Policy Program. Prof. Liow’s research interests encompass Muslim politics and social movements in Southeast Asia and the international politics and economics of the Asia-Pacific region. He is the author, co-author, or editor of 14 books. His most recent books include Ambivalent Engagement: The United States and Regional Security in Southeast Asia after the Cold War (Brookings 2017), Religion and Nationalism in Southeast Asia (Cambridge University Press, 2016), and Dictionary of the Modern Politics of Southeast Asia (Routledge, 2014). He received a B.A. with honors in Political Science from the University of Madison-Winsconsin, M.Sc. in Strategic Studies from Nanyang Technological University, and Ph.D in International Relations from London School of Economics.