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Dr. Alice Ba
Acting Chair and Emma Smith Morris Professor
International Relations and Comparative Politics
University of Delaware
402 Smith Hall
Newark, DE 19716
302-831-2355
Biography
Alice D. Ba, PhD (University of Virginia, 2000) is Emma Smith Morris Professor in the Department of Political Science and International Relations. Her work on the international relations of East and Southeast Asia examines the structures, processes, and systemic effects of regionalism and cooperative regime building, as well as relations between smaller and major powers. Recent work has also addressed the role of strategic narratives and the changing conditions of regional cooperation in Asia. The author of (Re)Negotiating East and Southeast Asia: Region, Regionalism, and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Stanford 2009), she has received US Fulbright awards for work in Beijing and Singapore. She teaches courses on Southeast Asia's world relations and development, the international relations of Asia, Chinese foreign policy, and comparative regionalisms and served as Director of Asian Studies at the University of Delaware from 2009-2014 and Acting Chair from 2023-2024.
Recent Publications
Alice D. Ba (May 2023) “Diversification’s Legitimation Challenges: ASEAN & Its Myanmar Predicament”, International Affairs 99(3): 1063-1085. https://doi.org/10.1093/ia/iiad061
Alice D. Ba (2023) “The United States and ASEAN: Bilateralism and Regionalism in a Changing Asia,”Routledge Handbook of US policy in the Indo-Pacific, eds., Oliver Turner, Nicola Nymalm, and Wali Aslam (Routledge): pp. 357-370.
Alice D. Ba (2023) “Changing Conditions, Changing Roles: ASEAN in Southeast Asia-China Relations”, The Elgar Companion to ASEAN, eds., Jorn Dorsch and Frederick Kleim (Edward Elgar Publishing): 196-210.
Alice D. Ba (2020) “Multilateralism and East Asian Transitions: The English School, Diplomacy, and A Networking Regional Order”. International Politics 57(2): 259-277. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41311-019-00202-x
Alice D. Ba (2020), “ASEAN’s Constructed Dichotomies: The Ongoing Need for Complexity-Sensitive Research Agendas”. The Pacific Review 33(3-4): 582-592, https://doi.org/10.1080/09512748.2019.1661508
Alice D. Ba (2019) “China’s ‘Belt and Road’ in Southeast Asia: Constructing the Strategic Narrative in Singapore”. Asian Perspective 43(2) (Spring): 249-272. http://doi.org/10.1353/apr.2019.0010
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