Ph.D. Candidate

Research Interest
Regional security cooperation, maritime security, regionalism, Northeast and Southeast Asia

Background
Shafiah Muhibat obtained a Master of Science degree in Theory and History of International Relations from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), United Kingdom. Since December 2000, she has been a Researcher at the Jakarta-based Centre for Strategic and International Studies (currently on study leave). She has done and assisted in extensive research on politics and regional security in Southeast Asia and the Asia Pacific, and has special interest in issues of regional security cooperation and maritime security. Until the beginning of 2009 she was also a lecturer at a private university in Jakarta and was actively involved in the Council for Security Cooperation in the Asia Pacific (CSCAP), which is a track-two cooperation working on security issues in the Asia Pacific. Since October 2009, she is a PhD Candidate at IFSH with full scholarship from the German Academic Exchange Service (Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst – DAAD).

Languages
English, Indonesian, German

Current Project
Dissertation’s working title: “Evolving Approaches to Regional Cooperative Security: the case of securing the sea-lanes of communication in East Asia.”

Contact
Institut für Friedensforschung und Sicherheitspolitik
Beim Schlump 83
D-20144 Hamburg
Telefon: +49-40-866077-84
Telefax: +49-40-866 3615
E-mail: muhibat@ifsh.de