Dr Lena Tan

Lecturer

Lena received her PhD from the university of Massachusetts Amherst in 2007. While completing her dissertation, she was a teaching assistant at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and a visiting lecturer at Mount Holyoke College. Her dissertation focused on the role of identity in the decisions that states make regarding territorial disengagement.

Research interests include: IR theory, constructivism, identity, decolonisation, and Southeast Asian politics and security.

Publications include a book chapter on Indonesia’s disengagement from East Timor, and a reader on Asian politics (co-edited with Howard Wiarda).