Cheng-Chwee Kuik Cheng-Chwee Kuik is a Ph.D. candidate in the Southeast Asia Studies program at the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) of the Johns Hopkins University in Washington, D.C. He is on study leave from the Universiti Kebangsaan (National University of) Malaysia (UKM) where he is a lecturer in the Program in Strategic Studies and International Relations. He is currently writing his dissertation on a comparative study of Malaysia and Singapore’s hedging behavior in the face of a rising China in the post-Cold War era. Prior to SAIS, Cheng-Chwee was a visiting fellow at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS) and the Shanghai Institute for International Studies (SIIS). He was a recipient of the British High Commissioner’s Chevening Scholarship, the ASF-Ford ASIA Fellows Award, the Fulbright Scholarship, the Lee Kong Chian Research Fellowship and the Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation Doctoral Fellowship. He received his BPA from Universiti Utara Malaysia, and M.Litt. from the University of St. Andrews, U.K. Cheng-Chwee researches and writes on smaller states’ alignment behavior, multilateralism, China’s foreign policy, and ASEAN-China relations. His publications include “China’s Evolving Multilateralism in Asia” (in Kent Calder and Francis Fukuyama, eds., East Asian Multilateralism, 2008); “The Essence of Hedging: Malaysia and Singapore’s Response to a Rising China” (in Contemporary Southeast Asia, August 2008); and “Multilateralism in China’s ASEAN Policy” (in Contemporary Southeast Asia, April 2005). He can be contacted at ckuik1@jhu.edu. | 
