RESEARCH

Sae-Phoo, Lin. 2026. “Guarding economic interests abroad: FDI, political instability, and the proliferation of Chinese police training.” Review of International Political Economy. 

DOI: 10.1080/09692290.2026.2696441

Note: Updated replication materials are available on Harvard Dataverse (https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/WGTAVO). The revised analyses confirm the substantive findings and robustness of the published article.

Sae-Phoo, Lin, Shaka Y.J. Li, and Raras Cahyafitri. 2026. “When Repressed Civil Society Attracts Foreign Investors: The Dual Dimensions of Chinese Foreign Direct Investment in Southeast Asia.” Uluslararası İlişkiler–International Relations 23(90): 73-97. 

DOI: 10.33458/uidergisi.1760185

Sae-Phoo, Lin and Kevin Nielsen M. Agojo. 2025. “How Does Populist Foreign Policy Facilitate Illiberal Practices? Philippine Policing Cooperation with China under Duterte.” Cambridge Review of International Affairs 38(5): 678-701.

DOI: 10.1080/09557571.2025.2539175

“Populism, charismatic leadership, and performativity: The police in the ‘wars’ on drugs in the Philippines and Indonesia.” with Kevin Nielsen M. Agojo.

Proposal accepted for the special issue of Political Studies Review (PSR), “Understanding Populism in East and Southeast Asia.”

“A World Safe for Capital? The Political Economy of U.S. Police Assistance.” with Isabella Bellezza.

“Cursed by Critical Minerals? A Quasi-Experimental Study of Rare Earth Mining and Conflict in Northern Myanmar.”

Contributor. China’s Foreign Police Training Dataset, Version 1.0. By Sheena Chestnut Greitens, Isaac Kardon, and Cameron Waltz (forthcoming).