Kumar Ramakrishna

Dr. Kumar Ramakrishna is a counterinsurgency theorist. He is Head (Centre of Excellence for National Security) at S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies in Singapore.

Education

• BSc (1st Class Hons), NUS
• Master of Defence Studies, University of New South Wales
• PhD, Royal Holloway, University of London

Professional Activities

• US Asia Foundation Freeman Fellow (June 2002)
• Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade Special Visitor (February 2003)
• Visiting Fellow, Institute of National Strategic Studies, National Defense University, Washington D.C., USA (April-June 2003)
• Malaysian International Visitors Programme Fellow, (February 2004)
• Exco Member, Political Science Association of Singapore
• Member, Government Parliamentary Committee (GPC) Resource Panel on Home Affairs and Law
• Member, Institute of Southeast Asian Studies Board of Trustees

Selected Publications

• “The Malayan Rebellion 1948-60”, in Revolutions and Revolutionary Movements, James DeFronzo, (Ed.), (Westview-Perseus, 2005);
• ‘The Making of the Jemaah Islamiyah Terrorist’, in Teaching Terror: Knowledge Transfer in the Terrorist World (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press 2005;
• ‘Countering Radical Islam in Southeast Asia — The Need to Address the Functional and Ideological “Enabling Environment”’, in Paul J. Smith. (Ed.), Terrorism and Transnational Violence in Southeast Asia: Challenges to State and Regional Stability (New York: M.E. Sharpe, 2004);
• ‘Terrorism in Southeast Asia: The Ideological and Political Dimensions’, Southeast Asian Affairs 2004, (Singh and Chin, eds.) Singapore: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, 2004;
• ‘Making Malaya Safe for Decolonization: The Rural Chinese Factor in the Counterinsurgency Campaign’, in The Transformation of Southeast Asia: International Perspectivs on Decolonization, (Frey, Pruessen and Tan, eds.) New York: M.E. Sharpe, 2003, pp. 161-179;
• After Bali: The Threat of Terrorism in Southeast Asia (Singapore: World Scientific-Institute of Defence and Strategic Studies, 2003) (co-editor);
• The New Terrorism: Anatomy, Trends and Counter-Strategies (Singapore: Eastern Universities Press, 2002) (co-editor);
• Emergency Propaganda: The Winning of Malayan Hearts and Minds, 1948-1958 (Richmond, Surrey: Curzon, 2002); *‘Content, Credibility and Context: Propaganda, Government Surrender Policy and the Malayan Communist Terrorist Mass Surrenders of 1958’, in The Clandestine Cold War in Asia, 1945-65, (Aldrich, Rawnsley and Rawnsley, Eds.) London: Frank Cass, 2000;
• ‘The Southeast Asian Approach to Counter-Terrorism: Learning from Indonesia and Malaysia’, Journal of Conflict Studies (forthcoming Summer 2005);
• ‘Interstate and Intrastate Dynamics in Southeast Asia’s War on Terror’, SAIS Review, Vol. 24, No. 1 (Winter-Spring 2004), pp. 91-105 (co-author);
• “Anatomy of a Collapse: Explaining the Malayan Communist Mass Surrenders of 1958”, War and Society, Vol. 21, No. 2 (Oct. 2003), pp. 109-133;
• ‘Forging an Indirect Strategy in Southeast Asia’, The Washington Quarterly, Vol. 25, No. 2 (Spring 2002), pp. 161-176;
• ‘“Bribing the Reds to Give Up”: Rewards Policy in the Malayan Emergency’, War in History, Vol. 9, No. 3 (2002), pp. 332-353;
• ‘The US Foreign Policy of Praetorian Unilateralism and the Implications for Southeast Asia’, in September 11 and Political Freedoms: Asian Perspectives, ed. by Uwe Johannen et al. (Singapore: Select Publishing, 2002), pp. 116-141.