Email: oliver_hen@hotmail.com Oliver Hensengerth is a visiting scholar at the Center for Transatlantic Relations in the Transatlantic Post-doc Fellowship for International Relations and Security (TAPIR). In 2006, he concluded his PhD at the Department of East Asian Studies at the University of Leeds, UK. His regional focus is on Cambodia, China, Vietnam and the Mekong subregion. Thematically, his work focuses on China’s foreign and security policy, human and energy security, and transboundary water cooperation in international river basins in China, Southeast Asia and Northeast Asia with a focus on cooperation along the Mekong river. Before coming to the Center for Transatlantic Relations, he has worked at the Institute for Development and Peace (INEF) at the University of Duisburg-Essen in Germany. At INEF, he was a researcher in the project ‘Social and Political Fractures after Wars: The Role of Youth Violence in Cambodia and Guatemala’. In the project, he conducted extensive field work on the emergence and the situation of youth violence in post-1993 Cambodia. Selected publications include: ‘Vietnam’s Security Cooperation in Mekong Basin Governance,’ in Journal of Vietnamese Studies (Berkeley: Center for Southeast Asia Studies), Vol. 3, No. 2, 2008, pp. 101-127. ‘Sub-Regional Cooperation in Southeast Asia: The Mekong Basin,’ in European Journal of East Asian Studies (Lyon: Institut d’Asie Orientale), Vol. 4, No. 2, 2005, pp. 263-285 (with Jörn Dosch). ‘China,’ in Encyclopedia of World Poverty (Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, 2006), pp. 158-164. ‘Vietnam,’ in: Encyclopedia of World Poverty (Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, 2006), pp. 1135-1137. The Burmese Communist Party in the State-to-State Relations between China and Burma. Leeds East Asian Papers No. 67, October 2005. ‘Vietnam’s Foreign Policy Towards the GMS,’ in Jörn Dosch, Colin Dürkop and Nguyen Xuan Thang (eds.), Economic and Non-traditional Security Cooperation in the Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS) (Singapore: Konrad-Adenauer-Foundation, 2005), pp. 127-139.
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