• Colonial Armies in Southeast Asia, (editor with Karl A. Hack), London: RoutledgeCurzon, 2006. [334pp.] [Asian paperback version in 2009]
  
  • Chapter 1 [PDF]
  • Chapter 2 [PDF]

Articles and Chapters

• ‘Imperial Systems of Power, Colonial Forces, and the Making of Modern Southeast Asia’, (Karl Hack with Tobias Rettig), in Colonial Armies in Southeast Asia. [PDF]
  
  
• ‘Demography and Domination in Southeast Asia’, (Karl Hack and Tobias Rettig), in Colonial Armies in Southeast Asia. [PDF]
  
  
• ‘Old Security Dilemmas Resurfaced: French Military Policies in the Aftermath of the Yên Bay Mutiny, 1930’, in South East Asia Research, Vol. 10, No. 3 (November 2002), pp. 309-331. [available online via IngentaConnect]

Op-Ed Publications (Published or Forthcoming)

• Tobias Rettig, “Women Warriors in Asia”, (with Vina Lanzona) [Introduction to special thematic issue], IIAS Newsletter 48 (Summer 2008), p. 3. [1,570 words] [PDF]
  
  
• “Warrior Queens: The Rani of Jhansi Regiment”, IIAS Newsletter 48 (Summer 2008), pp. 8-9. [1,978 words] [PDF]

•  ‘Myanmar at Sixty: On the Brink of an Apocalypse or Reconciliation?’, in Knowledge@SMU, 04 June 2008 [1,850 words] [HTML]
  
  
• 7th Asian-European Editors’ Forum, (editor with Werner vom Busch), Singapore: Konrad Adenauer Foundation, 2007. [134 pp.]
  ** 7 contributions by: HE Lee Hsien Loong, Prof. Dr. Wang Gungwu, Mr. Ravindra Kumar, Dr. Lam Peng Er, Mr. Janadas Devan, Mr. Joachim Ihrcke, Mr. Suthichai Sae-yoon. [HTML]
  
  
• Covering Maritime Piracy in Southeast Asia, (editor with Werner vom Busch), Singapore: Konrad Adenauer Foundation, 2006. [121 pp.]
  ** 6 contributions by: Mr. Andreas Harsono, Mr. Eric Frécon, Dr. Sam Bateman, Mr. Jeffrey Chen, Mr. Mak Joon Num, Mr. Julian Gearing. [HTML]
  
  
• 6th Asian-European Editors’ Forum, (editor with Werner vom Busch), Singapore: Konrad Adenauer Foundation, 2005. [134 pp.]
  ** 8 chapters by: HE Dr. Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, HE Dr. Sri Mulyani Indrawati, Dr. Kuntoro Mangkusubroto, Mr. Jusuf Wanandi, Dr. Bahtiar Effendy, Ms. Zainah Anwar, Ms. Sidney Jones, Mr. Stephen A. Schwartz. [HTML]
  
  
• ‘Exporting the Nation-State to Southeast Asia’, in Academia 33, October 2003, pp. 27-29 [PDF]
  
  
• ‘The Leviathan’s Military Arm: Colonial Armies in Southeast Asia’. Report on EUROSEAS Conference Panel in London, Sept. 2001’, in IIAS (International Institute for Asian Studies) Newsletter 27 (April 2002). [PDF]
  
  
• ‘Obituary: Prof Ralph B. Smith, 1939-2000’. Online publication (H-ASIA, VSG) in December 2000, and in the ASEAS-UK Newsletter, March 2001 (abridged version).

Book Reviews (Published or Forthcoming)

• Dror, Olga and K.W. Taylor eds., Views of Seventeenth-Century Vietnam: Christoforo Borri on Cochinchina and Samuel Baron on Tonkin. SOSEA-41. Ithaca, NY: Cornell Southeast Asia Program, 2006. Book Review for Itinerario: International Journal on the History of European Expansion and Global , Vol. 31, No. 2, 2007. [submitted 18 June 2007] [PDF]
  
  
• Charney, Michael W.: Southeast Asian Warfare, 1300-1900, Leiden: Brill, 2004. Invited Book Review, Journal of Asian History, Vol. 40, No. 1, 2006, pp. 114-6. [PDF]

Organisation of International Panels

• Initiator and co-organiser (with Vina Lanzona) of panel on ‘Women Warriors in Southeast Asia’, Fifth Convention of Asia Scholars (ICAS 5), Kuala Lumpur, 04 Aug 2007.
  
  
• Co-initiator and co–organiser (with David Del Testa and Sophie Quinn-Judge) of panel ‘75 Years On: Re-Investigating Vietnam’s Revolutionary High Tide of 1930/1’, 4th EUROSEAS Conference, Paris, Sept 2004. Successful fundraising (Ford Foundation, Asia-Europe Foundation) for five participating Vietnamese scholars.
  
  
• Initiator and co-organiser (with Ian Brown) of panel ‘Colonial Armies in Southeast Asia’, 3rd EUROSEAS Conference, London, Sept 2001.

Conference Papers and Presentations

• ‘A Colonial Army and Militia Force Without Purpose? Imperial Policing of the Nghe-Tinh Soviets in North-Central Annam, 1930-31’, Social Sciences and Humanities Seminar Series, School of Social Sciences, SMU, 30 Oct 2009 [abstract]
  
  
• ‘Vietnamese Soldiers ‘Mort Pour la France’ in France during WW1 – Preliminary Findings’, Social Sciences and Humanities Seminar Series, School of Social Sciences, SMU, 17 Oct 2008.
  
  
• ‘Gendered Political Economies of Imperial War Systems in Colonial Southeast Asia (with particular reference to French Indochina and the Netherlands East Indies)’, Fifth Convention of Asia Scholars (ICAS 5), Kuala Lumpur, 04 Aug 2007.
  
  
• ‘Rationality, Morality, Identity: Recruitment Regimes, Military Labour Markets, and Desertion in French Colonial Indochina (c. 1885-1945)’, Presentation to Vietnam – Cambodia – Laos Study Group, Asia Research Institute (ARI), National University of Singapore, 7 April 2005.
  
  
• ‘Recruitment of Vietnamese Soldiers into the French Colonial Army, 1858-1945’, Presentation to Final Year History Students, Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, National University of Vietnam, Hanoi, 16 Dec 2004.
  
  
• ‘Absent, Understaffed, and Invisible Guardians of Empire: Tirailleurs and Garde indigènes in the Repression of the Nghe Tinh Soviets, 1930/31’, 4th EUROSEAS Conference, Sorbonne, Paris, Sept 2004.
  
  
• ‘Communists and Soldiers During a Time of Confrontation, Tet 1930 to Autumn 1931’, Indochina Study Group, ARI, National University of Singapore, Apr 2003.
  
  
• ‘Indochinese Soldiers in the Service of France, 1927-1945: Presentation of Work in Progress’, Asia Pacific History Seminar, SOAS, Jan 2003; ‘International Workshop on Pre-Colonial Warfare in Monsoon Asia’, SOAS, Jan 2003; Institut de Recherche sur le Sud-Est Asiatique (IRSEA), Marseille, June 2002.
  
  
• ‘French Military Policies in the Aftermath of the Yên Bay Mutiny, 1930’, 3rd EUROSEAS Conference, London, Sept 2001. Institutional Service Contributions: Professional Responsibilities
  

Institutional Service Contributions: Professional Responsibilities

• SMU Senate: service since Apr 2009, representing the School of Social Sciences.
  
  
• Socscistan: The Little Republic: co-initiator and faculty editor of the first two issues of this student-faculty magazine / newsletter (since Dec 2008)
  • Socscistan: The Little Republic Issue 1 [PDF]
  • Socscistan: The Little Republic Issue 2 [PDF]
    
    
• General Education (GE) Arts Committee (since Sept 2008).
  
  
• Student Affairs Committee, School of Economics and Social Sciences, Singapore Management University, Academic Year 2006/07.

Professional Service Contributions: Broadcasted Interviews

• Insight, Channel News Asia (12 Oct 2009, 21:30): Commenting on the earthquake in Sumatra and flooding in the Philippines (typhoon Ketsana).

• Focus, Channel 8 (26 May 2009): Commenting on the situation in Myanmar (Aung San Suu Kyi’s unwelcome visitor).

• Channel NewsAsia (20 May 2008): commenting on the tenth anniversary of Reformasi and today’s rising commodities prices.
  
  
• Focus, Channel 8 (17 Apr 2008, 22:30): Commenting on the Olympic torch protests.
  
  
• Focus, Channel 8 (27 Dec 2007, 22:30): Previously unshown quote from the earlier interview on Myanmar.
  
  
• Focus, Channel 8 (06 Dec 2007, 22:30): Commenting on the failed 29 November 2007 military coup d’état in the Philippines.
  
  
• Primetime Morning, Channel NewsAsia (20 Nov 2007, c. 08:05), Live Interview with Augustine Anthuvan regarding the new ASEAN Charter.
  
  
• 360°, Channel NewsAsia (16 Nov 2007), 20:30, Melvyn Yong-moderated roundtable discussion on the new ASEAN Charter (with Barry Desker, Dean, Rajaratnam School of International Studies, NTU, and Ambassador Holger Standertskjöld, Delegation of the European Commission to Singapore).
  
  
• Focus, Channel 8 (04 Oct 2007, 22:30): Commenting on the contemporary crisis in Myanmar [interviewer & anchor: Chun Guek Lay].