Logan Masilamani
B.A.(1st Class Honours) (SFU), M.A. (SFU), PhD (International Relations) Monash UniversityImage
Email:
logan.masilamani@kpu.ca
Surrey Office: Fir 245
Originally from Singapore, he has made Canada home since the 1980s. He obtained his bachelor's and master's degrees at SFU, going on to complete his doctorate in international relations at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia. Logan has been teaching at Simon Fraser University for the past two decades as a sessional instructor. he specializes in international relations, concentrating on conflict resolution in Southeast Asia. His past and current research focuses on constructive engagement in ASEAN and Burma, human security, the military industrial complex in the Southeast Asian region, South Asian politics, and the political development of Southeast Asian countries.
Courses taught
- POLI 1110 Ideology and Politics
- POLI 1120 Canadian Government and Politics
- POLI 1123 Politics in the City
- POLI 1125 Introduction to Political Science
- POLI 1145 Comparing Countries: Introduction to Comparative Politics
- POLI 1150 Introduction to International Relations
- POLI 2131 Politics of the European Union
- POLI 2140 Comparative Politics of Asia
- POLI 2150 States, Markets, Globalization: International Political Economy
- POLI 2235 British Columbia Government and Politics
- POLI 3100 American Government and Politics
- POLI 3146 Government and Politics of India
- POLI 3160 International Organization
- POLI 4191 Selected Topics in International Politics
- POLI 4335 The Politics of Radical Islamism
Areas of Interest
- Security Studies: Southeast Asia, South Asia, and the Pacific regions
- International Political Economy: South and Southeast Asian regions
- Regionalism: Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN)
Scholarly Work
- Confucianism: A Living Ideology - Political Ideologies and Worldviews: An Introduction
- Academic Conference Papers
- Logan Masilamani (2021) The “ASEAN Way”: The Normative-Pragmatic Underpinnings with Burma, Center for International Law, National University of Singapore, Singapore
- Logan Masilamani (2018) The ASEAN Way, Hawaii University International Conferences on Arts, Humanities, Social Sciences & Education (AHSE). Honolulu, USA
- Logan Masilamani. (2005) Constructive Engagement: Myanmar and ASEAN, British Columbia Political Science Association, Nanaimo, Canada
- Logan Masilamani. (1998) ASEAN's Position in the Spratly Islands Dispute, BC International Relations Conference, Simon Fraser University, Canada.
- Invited Presentations
- Logan Masilamani and Ross Pink (2017) Is Winter Coming: The Threat of North Korea, Kwantlen Polytechnic University, Canada
- Logan Masilamani. (2007) ASEAN in Southeast Asia, Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies, Honolulu, USA
- Publications
- The Principles of the US Rebalance: Southeast Asia's Measured Response: The Indonesian Quarterly, September 2020
- The "ASEAN Way": The Normative-Pragmatic Underpinnings of Constructive Engagement with Burma, The Indonesian Quarterly, March 2014
- The "ASEAN Way": The Structural Underpinnings of Constructive Engagement, Foreign Policy Journal, October 2014