Associate Professor Khoo's research interests pertain to Chinese foreign policy; Asian security; international relations theory; and cold war studies.
Nicholas is author of China's Foreign Policy Since 1978: Return to Power (Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar, 2020); author of Collateral Damage: Sino-Soviet Rivalry and the Termination of the Sino-Vietnamese Alliance (New York: Columbia University Press, 2011); co-author of China's Foreign Policy Since 1949: The Emergence of a Great Power (Routledge, 2022) ; co-author of Security at a Price: The International Politics of U.S. Missile Defense (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2017), and co-author of Asian Security and the Rise of China: International Relations in an Age of Volatility (Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar, 2013).
Khoo, N., Nicklin, G., & Tan, A. C. (2024). Introduction. In N. Khoo, G. Nicklin & A. C. Tan (Eds.), Indo-Pacific security: US-China rivalry and regional states' responses. (pp. 1-7). London, UK: World Scientific Publishing Europe. doi: 10.1142/9781800614857_0001
Chapter in Book - Research
Khoo, N. (2024). The Trump Administration and the unravelling of the United States' China Engagement Policy. In N. Khoo, G. Nicklin & A. C. Tan (Eds.), Indo-Pacific security: US-China rivalry and regional states' responses. (pp. 9-25). London, UK: World Scientific Publishing Europe. doi: 10.1142/9781800614857_0002
Chapter in Book - Research
Khoo, N., Nicklin, G., & Tan, A. C. (Eds.). (2024). Indo-Pacific security: US-China rivalry and regional states' responses. London, UK: World Scientific Publishing Europe, 177p. doi: 10.1142/q0439
Edited Book - Research
Khoo, N. (2023). Great power rivalry and Southeast Asian agency: Southeast Asia in an era of US-China strategic competition [Note]. Political Science. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1080/00323187.2023.2186251
Journal - Research Other
Eng, R., Young, J., Takahashi, S., & Khoo, N. (moderator) (2022). [A roundtable book review of These islands are ours: The social construction
of territorial disputes in Northeast Asia]. New Zealand Journal of Asian Studies, 24(1), 113-120. [Book Review].
Journal - Professional & Other Non-Research Articles
Khoo, N. (2022). NZ needs to rethink its nuclear diplomacy: Wholesale elimination of nuclear weapons now simply implausible. National Business Review, (10 September). Retrieved from https://www.nbr.co.nz/guest-opinion/nz-needs-to-rethink-its-nuclear-diplomacy
Journal - Professional & Other Non-Research Articles
Khoo, N. (2022). NZ must formulate response to US national Security Strategy. National Business Review, (15 October). Retrieved from https://www.nbr.co.nz/guest-opinion/kiwi-response-to-biden
Journal - Professional & Other Non-Research Articles
Benvenuti, A., Chung, C.-P., Khoo, N., & Tan, A. (2022). China's foreign policy: The emergence of a great power. Abingdon, UK: Routledge, 220p. doi: 10.4324/9781003088288
Authored Book - Research
Patman, R., Tan, L., & Khoo, N. (2022, August). World affairs. Verbal presentation at the Otago Politics Day School, Dunedin, New Zealand.
Conference Contribution - Verbal presentation and other Conference outputs
Khoo, N. (2022). [Review of the book These islands are ours: The social construction of territorial disputes in Northeast Asia]. Asian Studies Review, 46(3), 554-555. doi: 10.1080/10357823.2022.2040080
Journal - Research Other
Khoo, N., & Tan, A. (2021). Editors foreword: Indo-Pacific special issue. National Security Journal, 3(2), 1-2. [Editorial].
Journal - Research Other
Khoo, N., & Qingmin, Z. (2021). 'Mirror, mirror on the wall': China and the concept of multipolarity in the post Cold War era. In B. Zala (Ed.), National perspectives on a multipolar order: Interrogating the global power transition. (pp. 21-41). Manchester, UK: Manchester University Press. doi: 10.7765/9781526159380.00009
Chapter in Book - Research
Khoo, N. (2021). The Trump administration and the United States' China engagement policy. National Security Journal, 31(1). doi: 10.36878/nsj20210317.01
Journal - Research Article
Khoo, N. (2021). Retooling great power nonproliferation theory: Explaining China's North Korea nuclear weapons policy. The Pacific Review, 34(4), 523-546. doi: 10.1080/09512748.2019.1689287
Journal - Research Article
Khoo, N. (2020). China's foreign policy since 1978: Return to power. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar, 192p. doi: 10.4337/9781839103056
Authored Book - Research
Khoo, N. (2019, March). Neither friendship nor force: China's policy toward North Korea's nuclear weapons programme. Verbal presentation at the International Studies Association (ISA) Conference: Power of Rules and Rules of Power, Toronto, Canada.
Conference Contribution - Verbal presentation and other Conference outputs
Khoo, N. (2019). [Review of the book China under Mao: A revolution derailed]. Journal of Asian Security & International Affairs, 6(2), 217-219. doi: 10.1177/2347797019842704
Journal - Research Other
Khoo, N. (2018, April). Still crazy after all these years? North Korea and the rise of hard internal balancing in unipolarity. Verbal presentation at the International Studies Association (ISA) Conference: Power of Rules and Rules of Power, San Francisco, California.
Conference Contribution - Verbal presentation and other Conference outputs
Khoo, N., Szalontai, B., & Radchenko, S. (2018). The USSR, Asia, and the end of the Cold War: Perspectives on Unwanted visionaries [Forum]. Journal of Cold War Studies, 20(4), 212-226. doi: 10.1162/jcws_c_00842
Journal - Research Other
Khoo, N. (2018). Interstate rivalry in East Asia. In D. S. Reveron, N. K. Gvosdev & J. A. Cloud (Eds.), The Oxford handbook of U.S. national security. (pp. 573-590). New York, NY: Oxford University Press. doi: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190680015.013.30
Chapter in Book - Research
Khoo, N., & Steff, R. (2017). Security at a price: The international politics of U.S. Ballistic Missile Defense. Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield, 163p.
Authored Book - Research
Jones, D. M., & Khoo, N. (2017). Donald Trump and the new Jacksonians. Policy, 33(1), 42-49.
Journal - Research Article
Southgate, L., & Khoo, N. (2016). Enter the vanguard state: Reinterpreting ASEAN's response to the South China Sea issue. Journal of Asian Security & International Affairs, 3(2), 221-244. doi: 10.1177/2347797016645454
Journal - Research Article
Khoo, N., & Steff, R. (2016, March). Hard balancing in the age of American unipolarity: Russia and U.S. missile defence during the Bush administration (2001‐08). Verbal presentation at the 57th International Studies Association (ISA) Annual Convention, Atlanta, USA.
Conference Contribution - Verbal presentation and other Conference outputs
Khoo, N. (2016). ASEAN's relations with the great powers in the post-cold war era: Challenges and opportunities. Auckland, New Zealand: Asia New Zealand Foundation. 29p.
Working Paper; Discussion Paper; Technical Report
Tan, A. C., & Khoo, N. (2015). Reconceptualizing Asian international relations. Journal of Asian Security & International Affairs, 2(2), 129-132. doi: 10.1177/2347797015586114
Journal - Research Other
Khoo, N. (2015). China's East Asia policy since 2009. In A. T. H. Tan (Ed.), Security and conflict in East Asia. (pp. 51-59). Abingdon, UK: Routledge.
Chapter in Book - Research
Khoo, N. (2015). The ASEAN security community: A misplaced consensus. Journal of Asian Security & International Affairs, 2(2), 180-199. doi: 10.1177/2347797015586126
Journal - Research Article
Khoo, N. (2015). [Review of the book Return of the dragon: Rising China and regional security]. Asian Politics & Policy, 7(1), 157-158. doi: 10.1111/aspp.12159
Journal - Research Other
Khoo, N. (2014). China's policy toward Japan: Looking for a great power peace in the wrong places. Georgetown Journal of Asian Affairs, 1(1), 49-76. Retrieved from http://issuu.com/georgetownsfs/docs/gjaa_1.1_electronic/133
Journal - Research Article
Khoo, N. (2014). [Review of the book War, conflict and security in Japan and Asia-Pacific, 1941-52: The writings of Louis Allen]. Journal of Cold War Studies, 16(3), 220-221. [Book Review].
Journal - Research Other
Khoo, N. (2014). Southeast Asia and the rise of China: The search for security. Asian Politics & Policy, 6(3), 482-483. doi: 10.1111/aspp.12126
Journal - Research Other
Steff, R., & Khoo, N. (2014). Hard balancing in the age of American unipolarity: The Russian response to US Ballistic Missile Defense during the Bush Administration (2001-2008). Journal of Strategic Studies, 37(2), 222-258. doi: 10.1080/01402390.2013.866556
Journal - Research Article
Khoo, N. (2014). Is realism dead? Academic myths and Asia's international politics. Orbis, 58(2), 182-197. doi: 10.1016/j.orbis.2014.02.007
Journal - Research Article
Khoo, N., & Steff, R. (2014). "This program will not be a threat to them": Ballistic Missile Defense and US relations with Russia and China. Defense & Security Analysis, 30(1), 17-28. doi: 10.1080/14751798.2013.864869
Journal - Research Article
Khoo, N. (2013, December). Hard-balancing the hegemon: China's response to U.S. ballistic missile defence. Verbal presentation at the New Zealand Political Studies Association (NZPSA) Conference, Christchurch, New Zealand.
Conference Contribution - Verbal presentation and other Conference outputs
Khoo, N. (2013). [Review of the book China and Coexistence: Beijing's National Security Strategy for the Twenty-First Century]. Political Science Quarterly, 128(3), 543-544. doi: 10.1002/polq.12088
Journal - Research Other
Jones, D. M., & Khoo, N. (2013). The delusions of Asian engagement. Quadrant, 57(1/2), 26-29.
Journal - Research Article
Jones, D. M., Khoo, N., & Smith, M. L. R. (2013). Asian security and the rise of China: International relations in the age of volatility. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar Elgar, 291p.
Authored Book - Research
Khoo, N., & Bailey, J. (2013). Fear and China's rise: Responses from Northeast Asia. In X. Huang & R. Patman (Eds.), China and the international system: Becoming a world power. (pp. 154-168). Abingdon, UK: Routledge.
Chapter in Book - Research
Khoo, N. (2013). The false promise of economic interdependence: Chinese foreign policy in North-East Asia. In A. T. H. Tan (Ed.), East and South-East Asia: International relations and security perspectives. (pp. 47-55). Abingdon, UK: Routledge.
Chapter in Book - Research
Khoo, N. (2013). [Review of the book Strong society, smart state: The rise of public opinion in China's Japan Policy]. Asian Politics & Policy, 5(3), 469-470. doi: 10.1111/aspp.12044
Journal - Research Other
Khoo, N. (2012). [Review of the book Worse than a monolith: Alliance politics and problems of coercive diplomacy in Asia]. International Affairs, 88(2), 447-448. [Book Review].
Journal - Research Other
Khoo, N. (2012). [Review of the book China among unequals: Asymmetric foreign relationships in Asia]. Pacific Affairs, 85(4), 801-803. [Book Review].
Journal - Research Other
Khoo, N., & Smith, M. L. R. (2011). What the WikiLeaks documents tell us about Asian security. Yale Journal of International Affairs, 6(2), 133-136.
Journal - Research Other
Khoo, N. (2011). Collateral damage: Sino-Soviet rivalry and the termination of the Sino-Vietnamese alliance. New York: Columbia University Press, 267p.
Authored Book - Research
Khoo, N. (2011). Fear factor: Northeast Asian responses to China's rise. Asian Security, 7(2), 95-118. doi: 10.1080/14799855.2011.581601
Journal - Research Article
Khoo, N. (2011). [Review of the book Chinese strategic thought toward Asia]. International Affairs, 87(3), 756-757. doi: 10.1111/j.1468-2346.2011.00999.x
Journal - Research Other
Khoo, N. (2010). Breaking the ring of encirclement: The Sino-Soviet rift and Chinese policy toward Vietnam, 1964-1968. Journal of Cold War Studies, 12(1), 3-42.
Journal - Research Article
Khoo, N. (2010). Revisiting the termination of the Sino-Vietnamese alliance, 1975-1979. European Journal of East Asian Studies, 9(2), 321-361. doi: 10.1163/156805810X548784
Journal - Research Article
Khoo, N. (2009). Deconstructing the ASEAN security community: A review essay [Reprint from International Relations of the Asia-Pacific, 2004, 4(1), 35-46]. In S. S. Tan (Ed.), International relations theory and ASEAN. (pp. 328-338). Abingdon, UK: Routledge.
Chapter in Book - Other