Dr Justin Hastings

PhD, University of California, Berkeley
MA,
AB, Princeton University

Publications

Books

No Man’s Land: Globalization, Territory, and Clandestine Groups in Southeast Asia (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2010).

• Also licensed to NUS Press, Singapore.

Refereed Journal Articles

“Illicit Flows in the Hong Kong-China-Taiwan Triangle,” Issues & Studies 45 no. 2 (June 2009), pp. 185-220.

“Geographies of State Failure and Sophistication in Maritime Piracy Hijackings,” Political Geography 28 no. 4 (May 2009), pp. 213-223.

“Geography, Globalization, and Terrorism: The Plots of Jemaah Islamiyah,” Security Studies 17 no. 3 (July-September 2008), pp. 505-530.

"Perceiving a Single Chinese State: Escalation and Violence in Uighur Protests," Problems of Post-Communism 52 no. 1 (January/February 2005), pp. 28-38.

Book Chapters

"Corruption’s Corrosive Effect on Counterinsurgency: The Free Aceh Movement in Southeast Asia,” in Michaelene Cox, ed., State of Corruption, State of Chaos: The Terror of Political Malfeasance (Lexington Books: Lanham, MD, 2008).

Working Papers

“Non-state Nuclear Proliferation? Reappraising the AQ Khan Network” (article MS under review).

“Charting the Course of Uyghur Unrest” (article MS under review).

“Consequences of the Nuclear Renaissance for Non-state Proliferation” in Adam Stulberg and Matthew Fuhrmann, eds., The Nuclear Renaissance and International Security (book chapter in edited volume to be submitted to Stanford University Press).

“Technology and Knowledge Transfer in WMD Proliferation Networks: Towards an Integrative Framework” (with Adam Stulberg) (article MS)

“Targeting in Maritime Piracy Attacks” (article MS)

Research in Progress

“Illicit Activities, Economic Development, and National Security in Southeast Asian Border Areas” (long-term research project)

“Global Maritime Piracy Incidents” (dataset)

Non-refereed Reports and Articles

“Threats from the Periphery: The Challenge of Terrorists, Smugglers, and Pirates in Southeast Asia’s Border Regions,” essay for the National Asia Research Program, National Bureau for Asian Research, Seattle, WA, June 2010.

“Border Fictions and Realities,” op-ed in AsiaViews, a Southeast Asian public affairs magazine, January 2010.

“Obama must choose wisely in al-Qaida fight,” op-ed in Atlanta Journal-Constitution, November 16, 2008.

“Jemaah Islamiyah,” full-length article for FBI counterterrorism training manual, Combating Terrorism Center, United States Military Academy, West Point, NY, January 2008.

"Cognitive Reform of the Non-Proliferation Treaty,” in Brad Glosserman (ed.), " Fighting the Spread of WMD: Views from the Next Generation," Issues and Insights, January 2006, Vol. 6, No. 4, Center for Strategic and International Studies Pacific Forum, Honolulu, HI.

"Warm and fuzzy feelings are greatly overrated: Decreasing the chance of conflict over Taiwan,” in Brad Glosserman (ed.), "New Views of Cross-Strait Challenges," Issues and Insights, January 2006, Vol. 6, No. 3, Center for Strategic and International Studies Pacific Forum, Honolulu, HI.

"The AQ Khan Network, Geography, and Political Will," in Brad Glosserman (ed.), "New Security Challenges and Opportunities in East Asia: Views from the Next Generation," Issues and Insights, September 2005, Vol. 5, No. 7, Center for Strategic and International Studies Pacific Forum, Honolulu, HI.

China’s Environmental Security: Implications for US Interests and Military-to-Military Engagement, (with Lynn Yang and Alexandra Szczepanowska), October 1999, Institute for Defense Analyses, Alexandria, VA.

Conference Papers

“Targeting in Maritime Piracy Attacks.”

• International Studies Association 2010 Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA. February 2010.

“Technology and Knowledge Transfer in WMD Proliferation Networks: Towards an Integrative Framework.” (with Adam Stulberg).

• International Studies Association 2010 Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA. February 2010.

"The AQ Khan Network: A Reappraisal."

• American Political Science Association 2009 Annual Meeting, Toronto, ON. September 2009.
• International Security Studies Section/International Security and Arms Control 2009 Annual Meeting, Monterey, CA. October 2009.

“State Capacity and Sophistication in Piratical Hijackings.”

• International Studies Association-West 2008 Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA. September 2008.

"Smuggling Flows and the Political Geography of the Hong Kong-China-Taiwan Triangle."

• American Political Science Association 2007 Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL. August 2007.

"Geography and Clandestine Transnational Networks: Using Jemaah Islamiyah to Understand Nuclear Proliferation Networks."

• American Political Science Association 2006 Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, PA. September 2006.

"Perceiving a Single Chinese State: Escalation and Violence in Uighur Protests."

• Department of Political Science Graduate Student Conference, University of California, Berkeley, CA. April 2004.

Invited Presentations

“Charting the Course of Uyghur Unrest in China and Central Asia”

• Centre for Chinese Studies, University of Indonesia, Depok, Indonesia, 7 January 2010.

“The Political Geography of the AQ Khan Network and Implications for the Non-Proliferation Regime”

• Public Policy and Nuclear Threats 2009 Winter Conference, Washington, DC, 20 February 2009.

"Thinking about Territory, Ideas, and the Transnational Activities of Clandestine Organizations"

• Confronting Terrorist Organizations Conference, UCSD, La Jolla, CA, 5 May 2007.

"Blowing Things Up: Globalization and the Political Geography of Insurgents, Pirates, and Terrorists in Southeast Asia"

• International Security and Social Science Seminar, CISAC, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, 7 December 2006.

"Geography and Clandestine Transnational Networks in Southeast Asia”

• Security Intelligence Division, Ministry of Defence, Singapore, 27 January 2006.
• Institute of Defence and Strategic Studies, Singapore, 1 February 2006.

“North Korea and Cognitive Reform of the Non-Proliferation Treaty”

• Public Policy and Nuclear Threats 2006 Winter Conference, Santa Monica, CA, 3 February 2006.