Honors and Awards

• The University of Hong Kong

Sino-British Fellowship Trust Visitorship Award 2023-2024

• Lee Kong Chian NUS-Stanford Initiative on Southeast Asia

Fellow on Contemporary Southeast Asia, 2021-2022

• The University of Hong Kong

Social Sciences Outstanding Research Output Award for Basic Research 2019-2020

• KCL/HKU Fellowship

Visiting fellow at the Lau China Institute at King’s College London, U.K., Fall 2019

• NASA Research Announcement Research Opportunities in Space and Earth, U.S.A.

CI with the Smithsonian Institution, “Complex Forest Landscapes and Sociopolitical Drivers of Deforestation  – The Interplay of Land-use Policies, Armed Conflict, and Human Displacement in Myanmar,” 2018-2020

• British Council / Newton Fund, U.K.

GBP 49,322, Institutional Links Grant with Chiang Mai University of Thailand, 2017-2018

• East Asia Institute, South Korea

EAI Fellowship, summer 2017

• The Leverhulme Trust, U.K.

GBP 50,000, Research Grant, May 2016 – 2017

• Anne’s College, University of Oxford, U.K.

Plumer Visiting Research Fellowship, Michaelmas Term, 2016

• The Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, U.S.A.

Member at School of Social Science, 2015-2016

Books

• Enze Han, The Ripple Effect: China’s Complex Presence in Southeast Asia (Oxford University Press, hardcover & paperback 2024).

• 韓恩澤, 強鄰在側：中泰邊區博弈下緬甸的國家命運 （香港：香港中文大學出版社， 2022）.

• Enze Han, Asymmetrical Neighbors: Borderland State Building between China and Southeast Asia (New York & London: Oxford University Press, hardcover & paperback 2019).

• Enze Han & Joseph O’Mahoney, British Colonialism and the Criminalization of Homosexuality: Queens, Crime and Empire (London & New York: Routledge, 2018).

• Enze Han, Contestation and Adaptation: The Politics of National Identity in China (New York & London: Oxford University Press, hardcover 2013 & paperback 2016).

Articles

• Sirada Khemanitthathai & Enze Han, “State Failure and Dilemma of Security Cooperation among Neighboring Countries in the Global South: Evidence from Myanmar and Thailand,” forthcoming, European Journal of International Security.

• Wilfred Chow, Sirada Khemanitthathai & Enze Han, “Under China’s Shadow: Authoritarian Rule and Domestic Political Divisions in Thailand,” forthcoming, International Relations of the Asia Pacific.

• Enze Han, “Competing Regimes and Multiple Stakeholders: How China Hedges its Relations with Myanmar,” forthcoming, East Asian Policy.

• D. G. Kim & Enze Han, “Yellow Peril or Model Minority? Janus-Faced Anti-Asian Racism in the United States,” forthcoming, Political Science Research and Methods.

• Ronan Fu, Weiwen Yin & Enze Han, “Casualty Sensitivity and Attitudes towards the Use of Force: Experimental Evidence from Taiwan,” forthcoming, Conflict Management and Peace Science.

• Enze Han, “Modes of Securitization and De-securitization of Transnational Kinship Ties: Overseas Chinese in Southeast Asia amidst Rising Chinese Power,” forthcoming, Journal of Global Security Studies.

• Enze Han & Xiaojun Li, “Erosion of International Organization’s Legitimacy during the U.S.-China Conflict: Evidence from the International Court of Justice,” Canadian Journal of Political Science, 57, no. 1 (2024): 21-42.

• Fiona Adamson & Enze Han, “Diasporic Geopolitics, Rising Powers and the Future of International Order,” Review of International Studies, 50, no. 3 (2024): 476-493.

• Wilfred Chow & Enze Han, “Rugged Terrain, Forest Coverage, and Insurgency in Myanmar,” Conflict Management and Peace Science, 41, no. 3 (2024): 218-237.

• Enze Han & Lingbo Zhao, “Naturalized Athletes and Racialized National Identity in China,” Journal of Contemporary China, 33, no. 145 (2024): 52-64.

• Haohan Chen, Zifeng Wang & Enze Han, “Infectious Disease and Political Violence: Evidence from Malaria and Civil Conflicts in Sub-Saharan Africa,” Research and Politics, 10, no. 2 (2023): 1-7.

• Enze Han & Sirada Khemanitthathai, “Through the Prism of Migration: History of Migration and Contemporary Chinese Engagements with Thailand,” Journal of Contemporary China, 32, no. 142 (2023): 620-634.

• Enze Han & Daniel Marwecki, “Racialized International Order? Traces of ‘Yellow Peril’ Trope in Germany’s Public Discourse toward China,” Cambridge Review of International Affairs, 36, no. 3 (2023): 391-409.

• Wilfred Chow & Enze Han, “Descriptive Legitimacy and International Organizations: Evidence from United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees,” The Journal of Politics, 85, no. 2 (2023): 257-371.

• Enze Han, “Overconfidence, Missteps, and Tragedy: Dynamics of Myanmar’s International Relations and the Genocide of the Rohingya,” The Pacific Review, 36, no. 3 (2023): 581-602.

• Courtney Fung, Enze Han, Kai Quek & Austin Strange, “Conditioning China’s Influence: Intentionality, Intermediaries, and Institutions,” Journal of Contemporary China, 32, no. 139 (2023): 1-16.

• Truston Jianheng Yu & Enze Han, “Indonesia’s Relations with China in the Age of COVID-19,” Journal of Current Southeast Asian Affairs, 42, no. 1 (2023): 45-62.

• Enze Han, “Racialized Threat Perception within the International Society: From Japan to China,” Chinese Journal of International Politics, 15, no. 3 (2022): 272-288.

• Enze Han, “Entrenching Authoritarian Rule and Thailand’s Foreign Policy Dilemma as a Middle Power,” Asia Policy, 17, no. 4 (2022): 181-198.

• Enze Han, “Re-encountering the Familiar Other: Contesting ‘Re-Sinicization’ in Thailand,” Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography, no. 43 (2022): 270-286.

• David Brenner & Enze Han, “Forgotten Conflicts: Producing Knowledge and Ignorance in Security Studies,” The Journal of Global Security Studies 7, no. 1 (2022): 1-17.

• Enze Han & Qiongyu Huang, “Global Commodity Markets, Chinese Demand for Maize, and Deforestation in Northern Myanmar,” Land, 10, no. 1232 (2021): 1-18.

• Enze Han, “Non-State Chinese Actors and Their Impact on Relations between China and Mainland Southeast Asia,” ISEAS Trends in Southeast Asia, no. 1 (2021): 1-19.

• Enze Han, “Mainland Southeast Asia’s Environmental Challenges from China,” ISEAS Perspective, no. 82 (2020): 1-6.

• Enze Han, “Chinese Civil War and Implications for Borderland State Building in Upland Southeast Asia,” The China Quarterly 241 (2020): 214-235.

• Enze Han, “Myanmar’s Internal Ethnic Conflicts and Their Implications for China’s Regional Grand Strategy,” Asian Survey 60, no. 3 (2020): 466-489.

• Enze Han, “State Building as Neighborhood Effects: Borderland Politics in Upland Southeast Asia,” The Pacific Review 33, no. 2 (2020): 305-330.

• Enze Han & Cameron Thies, “External Threat, Internal Challenges, and State Building in East Asia,” Journal of East Asian Studies 19, no. 3 (2019): 339-360.

• Wilfred Chow, Enze Han & Xiaojun Li, “Brexit Identities and British Public Opinion on China,” International Affairs 95, no. 6 (2019): 1369-87.

• Enze Han, “Bifurcated Homeland and Diaspora Politics in China and Taiwan towards the Overseas Chinese in Southeast Asia,” Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies 45, no. 4 (2019): 577-94.

• Enze Han, “Under the Shadow of Sino-US Great Power Competition: Myanmar and Thailand’s Alignment Choices,” Chinese Journal of International Politics 11, no. 1 (2018): 81-104.

• Enze Han & Christopher Paik, “Ethnic Integration and Development in China,” World Development 93 (2017): 31-42.

• Enze Han, “Geopolitics, Ethnic Conflicts along the Border, and Chinese Foreign Policy Changes toward Myanmar,” Asian Security 13, no. 1 (2017): 59-73.

• Mattias Stepan, Enze Han & Tim Reeskens, “Building the New Socialist Countryside: Tracking Public Policy and Public Opinion Changes in China,” The China Quarterly, 226 (2016): 456-476.

• Enze Han & Harris Mylonas, “Interstate Relations, Perceptions, and Power Balance: Explaining China’s Policies toward Ethnic Groups, 1949-1965,” Security Studies 23, no. 1 (2014): 148-81.

• Enze Han, Joseph O’Mahoney & Christopher Paik, “Keeping Up with the Joneses: The Role of Constructed Economic Interests in Ethnic Group Mobilization,” Conflict Management & Peace Science 31, no. 1 (2014): 49-69.

• Enze Han & Christopher Paik, “Dynamics of Political Resistance in Tibet: Religious Repression and Controversies of Demographic Change,” The China Quarterly, 217 (2014): 69-98.

• Enze Han & Joseph O’Mahoney, “British Colonialism and the Criminalization of Homosexuality,” Cambridge Review of International Affairs, 27, no. 2 (2014): 268-88.

• Enze Han, “Transnational Ties, HIV/AIDS Prevention and State-Minority Relations in Sipsongpanna, Southwest China,” Journal of Contemporary China 22, no. 82 (2013): 594-611.

• Enze Han, “External Cultural Ties and the Politics of Language in China,” Ethnopolitics 12, no. 1 (2013): 30-49.

• Enze Han, “From Domestic to International: The Politics of Ethnic Identity in Xinjiang and Inner Mongolia,” Nationalities Papers 39, no. 6 (2011): 941-962.

• Enze Han, “The Dog That Hasn’t Barked: Assimilation and Resistance in Inner Mongolia, China,” Asian Ethnicity 12, no. 1 (2011): 55-75.

• Enze Han, “Boundaries, Discrimination, and Inter-Ethnic Conflict in Xinjiang, China,” International Journal of Conflict and Violence 4, no. 2 (2010): 172-184.

Book Chapters

• Enze Han, “Comparative Nation-building in the Borderlands between China, Myanmar, and Thailand,” in Lu Zhouxiang ed., The Routledge Handbook of Nationalism in East and Southeast Asia (New York and London: Routlege, 2023).

• Enze Han, “Five-Point Consensus and China’s Role in Myanmar,” in Seeking Strategic Options for Myanmar: Reviewing Five-Point Consensus and Anticipating the Future of Democracy in Myanmar (Jakarta: Center for Strategic and International Studies Pakarti Centre, 2022).

• Enze Han, “Positionality and Subjectivity in Field Research on China and Southeast Asia,” in Peter Krause and Ora Szekely eds., Cautionary Tales: An Unorthodox Guide to Fieldwork (New York: Columbia University Press, 2020).

• Enze Han, “Ethnic Identity and Inter-Ethnic Relations in Contemporary China,” in Kevin Latham ed., Routledge Handbook of Chinese Culture and Society (London & New York: Routledge, 2020).

• Enze Han, “Borderland Ethnic Politics and Changing Sino-Myanmar Relations,” in Mandy Sadan ed., War and Peace in the Borderlands of Myanmar: The Kachin Ceasefire, 1994-2011 (Copenhagen: NIAS Press, 2016).

• Enze Han, “China as “Offshore Balancer” and South Asia’s Regional Security Complex,” in Lowell Dittmer and Maochun Yu eds., Routledge Handbook of Chinese Security (London and New York: Routledge, 2015) (with Lawrence Saez).

• Enze Han, “Modernization, Economic Development and Inter-Ethnic Relations in Contemporary China,” in Suijian Guo and Baogang Guo eds., Challenges Facing Chinese Political Development (Lexington Books, 2007).

Book Reviews

• Enze Han, Review of “Donald K. Emerson ed., The Deer and the Dragon: Southeast Asia and China in the 21^st Century,” South East Asia Research, 2022.

• Enze Han, Review of “Wasana Wongsurawat, The Crown and the Capitalists: The Ethnic Chinese and the Founding of the Thai Nation,” Asian Ethnology 80, no. 1 (2021): 285-296.

• Enze Han, Review of “Nianshen Song, Making borders in modern East Asia: Tumen River demarcation, 1881-1919,” H-Diplo, (January 2019).

• Enze Han, Review of “Herrick et al, China’s Peaceful Rise: Perceptions, Policy and Misperceptions,” Cambridge Review of International Affairs 30, no. 5-6 (2017): 583-585.

• Enze Han, Review of “Andrew Martin Fischer, The Disempowered Development of Tibet in China: A Study in the Economics of Marginalization,” The China Quarterly, no. 222 (2015): 569-570.

• Enze Han, Review of “Tenzin Jinba, In the Land of Eastern Queendom: The Politics of Gender and Ethnicity on the Sino-Tibetan Border,” The China Quarterly, no. 218 (2014): 570-572.

• Enze Han, Review of “Emily Yeh, Taming Tibet: Landscape Transformation and the Gift of Chinese Development,” Environment and Planning D: Society and Space (2014).

• Enze Han, Review of “Steve Chan, Looking for Balance: China, the United States, and Power Balancing in East Asia,” The China Quarterly, no. 215 (2013): 780-81.