Dr. Evelyn Goh is a Consultant with Sea-Change Partners, specializing in US – China relations, US foreign policy in Asia, the concepts and role of power in international relations, and environmental security. She also serves as a Reader in International Relations at the Royal Holloway Department of Politics and International Relations at the University of London. Prior to that, Dr. Goh was University Lecturer in International Relations and Fellow of St. Anne’s College at Oxford University and Assistant Professor at the Institute of Defence and Strategic Studies and the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. She has also served as visiting faculty at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy at the National University of Singapore.
Her main research interests relate to the security and international relations of the Asia-Pacific region, with special focus on U.S. foreign policy, China’s international relations, and U.S.-China relations. She is the author of Constructing the U.S. Rapprochement with China, 1961-1974: From Red Menace to Tacit Ally, (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005), and she has also published on the diplomatic history of U.S.-China relations; contemporary U.S. foreign policy; American and Chinese strategy in the Asia-Pacific; and environmental security in East Asia. She is currently engaged in research on China-Southeast Asian relations and environmental politics on the Mekong River; Southeast Asian strategies toward China and the United States; and a new book project on the development of U.S. strategies of engagement toward China in the 1990s. She teaches postgraduate courses on U.S. foreign policy, China’s international relations, and Cold War history and politics.
She holds BA and MPhil degrees in Geography and Environmental Development from Oxford and Cambridge Universities, and she completed a doctorate in International Relations at Nuffield College at Oxford University.