Dr. Felix Heiduk
Asia Head of Research Division
Areas of Expertise
- Asia
- Cambodia and Laos
- Indo-Pacific
- Indonesia
- Malaysia
- Myanmar
- Philippines
- Singapore
- South East Asia
- Thailand
- Vietnam
- Civil wars
- Defence and security policy / Armed forces
- Maritime security
- Political Islam / Islamism
- Regional and interstate conflicts
- Regional cooperation and alliances
Southeast Asia, intrastate conflicts, civil-military relations, terrorism, geopolitics
Working GroupsShort Curriculum vitae
Joined SWP in 2014
2011–2014 Lecturer, Department for Political Science and International Studies, University of Birmingham
2009–2010 Visiting Post-doc fellow at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard University
2007–2009 Research Associate, Asia Division of SWP
2004–2007 PhD fellowship Forum Ebenhausen
SWP Publications
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Setting the Course after Elections in Indonesia
President Prabowo Subianto and the Complex Legacy of Jokowi
SWP Comment 2024/C 12, 27.03.2024, 6 Pagesdoi:10.18449/2024C12
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The Quadrilateral Security Dialogue between Australia, India, Japan and the United States
More symptom than solution to the problem of growing instability in the Indo-Pacific
SWP Comment 2023/C 31, 12.06.2023, 7 Pagesdoi:10.18449/2023C31
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Security in the Indo-Pacific
The Asianisation of the regional security architecture
SWP Research Paper 2022/RP 11, 30.11.2022, 37 Pagesdoi:10.18449/2022RP11
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Early Contours of Philippine Foreign Policy under Ferdinand Marcos Jr.
Like father, like son
SWP Comment 2022/C 56, 26.09.2022, 6 Pagesdoi:10.18449/2022C56
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Much Diplomacy without Diplomatic Relations: Singapore’s Foreign Policy and Taiwan
in: Dealing with TaiwanContribution to a Research Paper 2022/RP 09, 09.09.2022, 91 Pages, pp. 42–49
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From Asia-Pacific to Indo-Pacific
Significance, Implementation and Challenges
SWP Research Paper 2020/RP 09, 01.07.2020, 43 Pagesdoi:10.18449/2020RP09
External publications
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Minilateralism and pathways to institutional progression: alliance formation or cooperative security governance?
in: Australian Journal of International Affairs, 1-20doi:10.1080/10357718.2024.2416566
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What Multipolar World Order and for Whom?
in: 9dashline.com, 30.04.2024 -
The Asianization of Regional Security in the Indo-Pacific
in: The Journal of East Asian Affairs (JOEAA), Vol. 36 No. 2, April 2024, pg. 53-91 -
Middle Powers in the Indo-Pacific Interregnum: The Case of Germany
The spill-over effects of the rivalry between China and the United States, especially those surrounding Washington’s concept of an emerging Indo-Pacific, aren’t confined to countries in Asia. Germany, long a major trading nation, is also struggling to redefine its policies in the face of growing pressures on middle powers, writes Felix Heiduk.
in: Global Asia, Vol.18 No.3, September 2023 -
Dancing with elephants: Asia and the Sino-American Rivalry
in: Felix Heiduk (ed.), Asian Geopolitics and the US–China Rivalry, London: Routledge, 2022doi:10.4324/9781003106814
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Security Relations Between the EU and ASEAN
In: Thomas Christiansen, Emil Kirchner, See Seng Tan (eds.), The European Union’s Security Relations with Asian Partners, Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021, Pages 301-322