Enze Han

Enze Han, Ph.D.

  • Visiting Scholar at APARC, 2021-2022
  • Lee Kong Chian NUS-Stanford Fellow on Contemporary Southeast Asia, 2021-2022

Biography

Enze Han joined the Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center (APARC) as visiting scholar and 2021-2022 Lee Kong Chian NUS-Stanford Fellow on Contemporary Southeast Asia for the spring quarter of 2022. Dr. Han is currently Associate Professor at the University of Hong Kong's Department of Politics and Public Administration. While at APARC, Dr. Han conducted research on China's increasing connectivity with mainland Southeast Asia, and how such connectivity should be analyzed through the lens of international relations, development studies, and borderland studies.

In The News

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News

Rethinking China’s Influence in Southeast Asia: The Role of Non-State Actors and Unintended Consequences

Departing from international relations scholarship and popular media accounts that tend to portray China as a great power intent on establishing a sphere of influence in Southeast Asia, Lee Kong Chian NUS-Stanford Fellow on Southeast Asia Enze Han argues for conceptualizing China as an unconventional great power whose diverse actors, particularly non-state ones, impact its influence in the region.
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