Biography

Alan joined the Department in 1999 and he is a Senior Lecturer in International Relations. Prior to this he was a British Academy Post-Doctoral Fellow at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth where is also completed his PhD.

Current Research

He is currently conducting research on ASEAN’s community building project and has published articles on this in International Relations of the Asia Pacific and Contemporary Southeast Asia.

Selected Recent Publications 

• Collins, A. (2008) ‘A People-oriented ASEAN: A Door Ajar or Closed for Civil Society Organizations’, Contemporary Southeast Asia, 30/2 (August), pp. 313-331.
• Collins, A. (2008) ‘Sino-US Relations: A nascent security regime?’ in Jean-Marc Coicaud and Nicholas Wheeler (eds) National Interest and International Solidarity (Tokyo: United Nations University Press), pp. 56-83.
• Collins, A. (2007) ‘Forming a Security Community: Lessons from ASEAN’, International Relations of the Asia-Pacific, 7/2 (2007), pp. 203-225.
• Collins, A. (2007) ‘Chinese educationalists in Malaysia: defenders of Chinese identity’, Asian Survey, 46/2 (March/April 2006), pp. 298-318.