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 will be available on Harvard Dataverse (https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/WGTAVO) once China’s Foreign Police Training Dataset is released. Please refer to the following webpage for information on the data source: http://www.sheenagreitens.com/data.html. 

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.”

“Project Contestation in the Green Belt and Road Initiative: Hydropower and Global China in the Mekong Subregion,” with Wai Yan Phyo Naing and Bo Li.

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

“Geopoliticised Aid? Australian Development Assistance and Strategic Competition in the Pacific,” with Bo Li and Graeme Smith.

“Cursed by Critical Minerals? Rare Earth Mining and Conflict in Myanmar.”

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