CHIN-HAO HUANG Associate Professor of Political Science Head of Studies in Global Affairs Division of Social Sciences Yale-NUS College Email: chinhao.huang [at] yale-nus.edu.sg Office phone: + 65 6601 5290 Office: RC3-02-05K Google Scholar ORCID Curriculum Vitae |
Chin-Hao Huang is Associate Professor of Political Science and Head of Studies in Global Affairs at Yale-NUS College and holds a joint appointment as Associate Professor in the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore. His research and teaching focus on international relations and security studies, with an empirical emphasis on China and Southeast Asia. He is the author or co-author of three books, including most recently, Power and Restraint in China's Rise (Columbia University Press, 2022), which received the 2024 T.V. Paul Book Award Honorable Mention from the the International Studies Association's Global International Relations Section. His publications have appeared in International Organization, Perspectives on Politics, Cambridge Review of International Affairs, Foreign Policy Analysis, The China Quarterly, Contemporary Southeast Asia, and Asian Survey, among others. Huang serves on the editorial boards of Contemporary Security Policy and Political Science Quarterly. His latest book in progress examines the politics of crisis and intervention in Southeast Asia.
He is the recipient of the Lee Kong Chian NUS-Stanford University Distinguished Fellowship on Contemporary Southeast Asia (2018-2019), and the American Political Science Association (APSA) Foreign Policy Section Best Paper Award (2014) for his research on China's compliance behavior in multilateral security institutions. His field work has been supported by the MacArthur Foundation, United States Institute of Peace, UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office, and the Rockefeller Foundation. He has testified and presented on China's foreign affairs before the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission, U.S. Congress. He has also served as a consultant for U.S. and European foundations, governments, and companies on their strategies and policies in the Indo-Pacific. He received the 2022 Early Career Award for achievement in research excellence from Yale-NUS College.
He teaches courses on Security in Asia-Pacific; International Relations, Conflict and Cooperation in East Asia; Chinese Foreign Policy; Empirical Qualitative Analysis, Global Affairs Capstone Honors Thesis Seminar, and Comparative Social Inquiry. Previously, at the University of Southern California, he taught classes on Environmental Politics and Challenges and International Relations: Introductory Analysis, and was one of six recipients across the university to receive the Provost's Ph.D. Achievement Award for outstanding teaching, research, and scholarship.
Until 2009, he was a researcher at the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI), and prior to that worked with the Freeman Chair in China Studies at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) in Washington, DC. His Doctor of Philosophy and Bachelor of Science are respectively from the University of Southern California and Georgetown University.