Christopher B. Roberts is a Senior Lecturer at the National Security College within the Australian National University. He is also a Visiting Fellow with UNSW at the Australian Defence Force Academy and has previously been employed as an academic at the University of Canberra as well as the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies in Singapore. Having lived in Japan and Singapore for over five years, Christopher has extensive field experience in Asia including all the ASEAN nations. Christopher specialises in Southeast Asian security, politics and institutional developments. He has received various awards for his research including the Australian government’s ‘Endeavour Australia Cheung Kong Award’ in 2005. Between 2005 and 2007 Christopher also undertook two region-wide surveys examining elite and grassroots perceptions concerning regional threat perceptions, levels of trust, political values and notions of kinship and identity. Aside from an earlier book entitled ‘ASEAN’s Myanmar Crisis’ (ISEAS), Christopher has completed more than thirty other journal articles, book chapters, conference papers, commentaries and reports on issues relevant to the politics and security of the Asia-Pacific.