Dr Lina Gong is a Research Fellow with the Humanitarian Assistance and Disaster Relief Programme at the Centre for Non-Traditional Security Studies, S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, Nanyang Technological University (NTU). Her research interests include humanitarian studies, China’s foreign policy, global governance, and non-traditional security studies in East Asia. She has published journal articles and book chapters on humanitarian affairs, China’s foreign policy, and non-traditional security issues in Asia.

IDSS Paper

• IP24036 | China’s Global Humanitarian Role

  26 March, 2024

• IP23026 | US-China Rivalry and Implications for Humanitarian Action

  20 March, 2023

• IP23023 | HADR Cooperation: Insights from Turkey’s Response to the Earthquake

  10 March, 2023

• IP22051 | Climate Security in the Asia-Pacific and Its Relevance for Singapore

  08 September, 2022

• IP22020 | Collective HADR Responses in the Indo-Pacific: Additional Mechanisms in the Making?

  30 March, 2022

Policy Reports

• Issues, Trends and Developments in Humanitarian Civil-Military Coordination in the Asia-Pacific

  11 August, 2023

• Humanitarian Futures in Southeast Asia

  26 June, 2023

• Collective Response to Disasters in the Indo-Pacific: Opportunities and Challenges

  15 July, 2022

• The Belt and Road Initiative: Vehicle for China's Humanitarian Action?

  28 June, 2021

• Southeast Asia-China Cooperation in Disaster Management in Post-COVID Era

  29 September, 2020

• Governing Human-induced Disasters in Southeast Asia: Insights from the 2017 Marawi Conflict

  23 April, 2020

• Tackling East Asia's New Environmental Challenge – Marine Plastic Pollution

  20 June, 2019

• Advancing Marine Environmental Protection in the South China Sea

  26 November, 2018

Commentaries

• Planetary health: An alternative framework for disaster governance in ASEAN?

  17 August, 2022

• COVID-19: Is the Humanitarian Sector Prepared?

  11 March, 2020

• China’s Emerging Disaster Diplomacy: What It Means for Southeast Asia

  06 February, 2020

• Combating Marine Debris: What After the Bangkok Declaration?

  08 July, 2019

• More Plastic Bags than Fish? East Asia’s New Environmental Threat

  08 April, 2019

• CO18139 | Laos Dam Collapse: The Regional Response

  21 August, 2018

• CO17123 | China’s Efforts to Protect the Seas

  22 June, 2017

• CO17046 | China’s Pledge to Restore Blue Skies

  17 March, 2017

Commemorative / Event Reports

• ASEAN Strategic Policy Dialogue On Disaster Management (SPDDM) 2023

  28 November, 2023

• ASEAN Strategic Policy Dialogue On Disaster Management (SPDDM) 2022

  25 October, 2022

• ASEAN Strategic Policy Dialogue On Disaster Management (SPDDM) 2021

  15 November, 2021

Bulletins and Newsletters

• NTS Alert (Sep 2013)

  08 September, 2013

• NTS Alert (Sep 2012)

  21 September, 2012

• NTS Alert (Jun 2012)

  15 June, 2012

• NTS Alert (Mar 2012)

  16 March, 2012

• NTS Alert (Oct 2011 - Issue 2)

  28 October, 2011

• NTS Alert (Oct 2011 - Issue 1)

  14 October, 2011

• NTS Alert (Oct 2010 - Issue 2)

  27 October, 2010

• NTS Alert (Oct 2010 - Issue 1)

  15 October, 2010

NTS Insight

• The COVID-19 Catalyst: Implications for Disaster Governance in ASEAN

  23 December, 2020

• Marine Environmental Protection in the South China Sea: Challenges and Prospects Part 2

  20 February, 2018

• Marine Environmental Protection in the South China Sea: Challenges and Prospects Part I

  11 December, 2017

• NTS Insight (Jun 2013) | Transitional Justice in South and Southeast Asia: Integrating Judicial and Non-judicial Measures

  25 June, 2013

• NTS Insight (Mar 2013) | Nuclear Energy Development in Southeast Asia: Implications for Singapore

  14 March, 2013

• NTS Insight (Nov 2010) | Cheap but Costly: Constraints of Economic Development in the Coal Mining Industry

  30 November, 2010

• NTS Insight (Sep 2010) | Misdirected Development a Threat to Security - Analysis of Southeast Asia

  30 September, 2010

Journal Articles

• “Status-seeking through Disaster Relief Cooperation: China and India in Southeast Asia” (with Dhanasree Jayaram) in Contemporary Southeast Asia, Vol.45, No. 2, 2023. pp. 246-281
• “China’s Disaster Diplomacy in Southeast Asia” in China Review, Vol.21, No. 4, 2021, pp. 77-107
• “Humanitarian Diplomacy in the Asia-Pacific: Part I” (with Alistair D. B. Cook) in Asian Journal of Comparative Politics, doi: 10.1177/20578911211045668, 2021
• “Humanitarian diplomacy in the Asia-Pacific: Part I” (with Alistair D. B. Cook) in Asian Journal of Comparative Politics, Vol. 6, No. 3, 2021. pp. 183 - 187
• “Humanitarian diplomacy as an instrument for China’s image-building” in Asian Journal of Comparative Politics, 2021
• “Security Governance in East Asia and China’s Response to COVID-19” (with Mely Caballero-Anthony) in Fudan Journal of the Humanities and Social Sciences, 2021
• “China and southeast Asia in the 2000s: Tension management in the maritime space” (with Zha Daojiong) in The British Journal of Politics and International Relations, 2021
• “Achieving the ASEAN 2025 Vision on Disaster Management: Lessons from a Worthy Journey” (with Alistair D. B. Cook) in Achieving the ASEAN 2025 Vision on Disaster Management: Lessons from a Worthy Journey, ASEAN Risk Monitor and Disaster Management Review (2019), No. 1, 2019. pp.173 – 184.
• Alistair D. B. Cook and Lina Gong, "The Cambodian Legacy and the Responsibility to Protect in Asia," In Peace Review 23:4 (2011)
• Alistair D. B. Cook, Manpavan Joth Kaur and Lina Gong, "Applying the Ethnic Rebellion Model and Risk Assessment Model to Conflict in Myanmar." In Southeast Asian Studies: A Quarterly Journal of Translation (2011)

Edited Books / Special Issues

• ASEAN Disaster Resilience Outlook – Preparing for a Future Beyond 2025 (with Alistair D. B. Cook, Christopher Chen, and S. Nanthini), Eds. Jakarta: ASEAN Secretariat, 2021
• Humanitarianism in the Asia-Pacific: Engaging the Debate in Policy and Practice (with Alistair D. B. Cook), Eds. Singapore: Springer, 2021
• Non-Traditional Security Issues in ASEAN: Agendas for Action (with Mely Caballero-Anthony), Eds. Singapore: ISEAS – Yusof Ishak Institute, 2020

Policy Reports

• Australia-India Indo-Pacific Oceans Initiative: Regional Collaborative Arrangements in Marine Ecology in the Indo-Pacific Baseline Study (with Julius Cesar Imperial Trajano, and Margareth Sembiring), Australia-India Indo-Pacific Oceans Initiative: Regional Collaborative Arrangements in Marine Ecology in the Indo-Pacific Baseline Study, Canberra: National Security College, ANU and Australian Strategic Policy Institute, 1 July 2022

Chapters in Edited Books

• “International Humanitarianism in East Asia” (with Alistair D. B. Cook, and Oscar Gómez) in S. Roth, B. Purkayastha and T. Denskus (eds) , Handbook on Humanitarianism and Inequality. UK: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2024, pp. 411 - 425
• “Pandemics and Disasters: Approaches for Dealing with Converging Risks in Southeast Asia” (with Alistair D. B. Cook, Christopher Chen, and S. Nanthini) in , Proceedings of the 1st ASEAN Cooperation Forum on Management of Non-Traditional Security (ACF-MNS 1). Hanoi, Vietnam: DHQG, 2023, pp. 700 - 721
• “China’s Regionalism through Cooperation in Non-Traditional Security: A Study of the Lancang-Mekong Cooperation” in Tiang Boon Hoo and Jared Morgan McKinney (Eds.), Chinese Regionalism in Asia. London: Routledge, 2022, pp. 114-130
• “Future Research Directions for Humanitarian Affairs in the Asia–Pacific” (with Alistair D. B. Cook) in Alistair D. B. Cook and Lina Gong (eds.), Humanitarianism in the Asia-Pacific: Engaging the Debate in Policy and Practice. Singapore: Springer, 2021, pp 91-95
• “The Evolving Humanitarian Landscape: Rise of the Asia–Pacific Region” (with Alistair D. B. Cook) in Alistair D. B. Cook and Lina Gong (eds.), Humanitarianism in the Asia-Pacific: Engaging the Debate in Policy and Practice. Singapore: Springer, 2021, pp 1-12
• “China and Humanitarian Affairs: Thinking, Policy and Prospects” in Alistair D. B. Cook and Lina Gong (eds.), Humanitarianism in the Asia-Pacific: Engaging the Debate in Policy and Practice. Singapore: Springer, 2021, pp 13-17
• “Marine Environmental Protection in the South China Sea” (with Julius Cesar Imperial Trajano, Margareth Sembiring, and Rini Astuti) in Mely Caballero-Anthony and Lina Gong (Eds.), Non-Traditional Security Issues in ASEAN: Agendas for Action. Singapore: ISEAS - Yusof Ishak Institute, 2020, Chap 4
• Lina Gong, 2016, ‘China’s Dual Approach towards the Protection of Civilians,’ in Cecilia Jacob and Alistair D. B. Cook (eds) Civilian Protection in the Twenty-First Century: Governance and Responsibility in a Fragmented World, New Delhi: Oxford University Press, pp.147 – 168.
• 2015, ‘China’s Position on and Future Role in Implementing RtoP: Analysis of its Statements at the UN General Assembly’, in Liu Tiewa (ed.), Responsibility to Protect: China’s Perspective of International Norm Building, Beijing: Peking University Press. (In Chinese).
• 2014, ‘Making a Sale vs Making it Safe: Prospects for ASEAN-Australia Nuclear Energy Cooperation’, in Sally Percival Wood and Baogang He (eds.), The Australia-ASEAN Dialogue: Tracing 40 Years of Partnership, Palgrave Macmillan. (With Sofiah Jamil).
• Mely Caballero-Anthony, Alistair D. B. Cook, Pau Khan Khup Hangzo, Lina Gong and Manpavan Kaur, "Internal Conflict." In Non-Traditional Security in Asia: Issues, Challenges and Framework for Action (Singapore: ISEAS, 2013)

Op-Eds

• “Elevating Regional Status Through Disaster Relief: China’s Approach and Challenges”, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, 29 November 2023
• “Partnerships in disaster relief – What is Southeast Asia Expecting?”, The Korean Times, 27 November 2023
• “An Alternative Framework for Disaster Governance in Asean” (with S. Nanthini), The Straits Time, 22 August 2022
• “The Logistical Challenge of Responding to Disaster”, The Interpreter, 28 March 2022
• “HADR as a Diplomatic Tool in Southeast Asia-China Relations amid Changing Security Dynamics”, Asia Peace Programme Essays, 3 December 2021
• “Financing ASEAN Disaster Management and Resilience” (with S. Nanthini), East Asia Forum, 4 November 2021
• “The Rise of China and India’s Remote Humanitarian Aid”, East Asia Forum, 29 July 2021
• “Working together on relief can stop a China‑India border disaster”, The Interpreter, 28 September 2020