2024
Edited Book - Research
Khoo, N., Nicklin, G., & Tan, A. C. (Eds.). (2024). Indo-Pacific security: US-China rivalry and regional states' responses. London, UK: World Scientific Publishing Europe, 177p. doi: 10.1142/q0439
Chapter in Book - Research
Khoo, N. (2024). New Zealand’s foreign policy in a changing strategic environment. In A.-M. Schleich (Ed.), Perspectives of two island nations: Singapore-New Zealand. (pp. 81-99). Singapore: World Scientific. doi: 10.1142/9789811287541_0006
Khoo, N., Nicklin, G., & Tan, A. C. (2024). Introduction. In N. Khoo, G. Nicklin & A. C. Tan (Eds.), Indo-Pacific security: US-China rivalry and regional states' responses. (pp. 1-7). London, UK: World Scientific Publishing Europe. doi: 10.1142/9781800614857_0001
Khoo, N. (2024). The Trump Administration and the unravelling of the United States' China Engagement Policy. In N. Khoo, G. Nicklin & A. C. Tan (Eds.), Indo-Pacific security: US-China rivalry and regional states' responses. (pp. 9-25). London, UK: World Scientific Publishing Europe. doi: 10.1142/9781800614857_0002
2023
Journal - Research Other
Khoo, N. (2023). Great power rivalry and Southeast Asian agency: Southeast Asia in an era of US-China strategic competition [Note]. Political Science. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1080/00323187.2023.2186251
2022
Authored Book - Research
Benvenuti, A., Chung, C.-P., Khoo, N., & Tan, A. (2022). China's foreign policy: The emergence of a great power. Abingdon, UK: Routledge, 220p. doi: 10.4324/9781003088288
Journal - Research Other
Khoo, N. (2022). [Review of the book These islands are ours: The social construction of territorial disputes in Northeast Asia]. Asian Studies Review, 46(3), 554-555. doi: 10.1080/10357823.2022.2040080
Journal - Professional & Other Non-Research Articles
Khoo, N. (2022). A dismal year for autocrats raises questions for NZ. Newsroom: Ideasroom, (18 December). Retrieved from https://www.newsroom.co.nz/ideasroom/a-dismal-year-for-autocrats-raises-questions-for-nz
Eng, R., Young, J., Takahashi, S., & Khoo, N. (moderator) (2022). [A roundtable book review of These islands are ours: The social construction
of territorial disputes in Northeast Asia]. New Zealand Journal of Asian Studies, 24(1), 113-120. [Book Review].
Khoo, N. (2022). European powers are back in NZ's strategic calculations. Stuff, (22 January). Retrieved from https://www.stuff.co.nz/opinion/127501656/european-powers-are-back-in-nzs-strategic-calculations
Khoo, N. (2022). The power of geography: What the Ukraine crisis teaches us. Jakarta Post, (15 February). Retrieved from https://www.thejakartapost.com/paper/2022/02/14/the-power-of-geography-what-the-ukraine-crisis-teaches-us.html
Khoo, N. (2022). Nato fails to understand Moscow's strategy in escalating tensions. Stuff, (17 February). Retrieved from https://www.stuff.co.nz/world/europe/127790437/nato-fails-to-understand-moscows-strategy-in-escalating-tensions
Khoo, N. (2022). Russian invasion of Ukraine shatters conventional wisdom. New Zealand Herald, (4 March). Retrieved from https://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/nicholas-khoo-russian-invasion-of-ukraine-shatters-conventional-wisdom/TKGN3FNL7SQXMFPSA7GK7MXBT4/
Khoo, N. (2022). A sanctions hammer for New Zealand foreign policy? Stuff, (17 March). Retrieved from https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/opinion/128082775/a-sanctions-hammer-for-new-zealand-foreign-policy
Khoo, N. (2022). Arms control at the mercy of great power politics. Newsroom: Ideasroom, (20 April). Retrieved from https://www.newsroom.co.nz/ideasroom/arms-control-at-the-mercy-of-great-power-politics
Khoo, N. (2022). New Zealand must lead the response to China's agreement with the Solomon Islands. Stuff, (3 May). Retrieved from https://www.stuff.co.nz/opinion/128489174/new-zealand-must-lead-the-response-to-chinas-agreement-with-the-solomon-islands
Khoo, N. (2022). Defining what victory in Ukraine looks like vital to the future world order. Stuff, (7 June). Retrieved from https://www.stuff.co.nz/opinion/128875737/defining-what-victory-in-ukraine-looks-like-vital-to-the-future-world-order
Khoo, N. (2022). New Zealand will not join the US coalition against China anytime soon. The Diplomat, (6 July). Retrieved from https://thediplomat.com/2022/07/new-zealand-will-not-join-the-us-coalition-against-china-anytime-soon/
Khoo, N. (2022). Can the Anzac alliance meet increasing geopolitical challenges? Stuff, (10 August). Retrieved from https://www.stuff.co.nz/opinion/129520670/can-the-anzac-alliance-meet-increasing-geopolitical-challenges
Khoo, N. (2022). NZ needs to rethink its nuclear diplomacy: Wholesale elimination of nuclear weapons now simply implausible. National Business Review, (10 September). Retrieved from https://www.nbr.co.nz/guest-opinion/nz-needs-to-rethink-its-nuclear-diplomacy
Khoo, N. (2022). NZ must formulate response to US national Security Strategy. National Business Review, (15 October). Retrieved from https://www.nbr.co.nz/guest-opinion/kiwi-response-to-biden
Khoo, N. (2022). Three lessons for New Zealand from the Ukraine war. Newsroom: Ideasroom, (19 October). Retrieved from https://www.newsroom.co.nz/ideasroom/three-lessons-for-new-zealand-from-the-ukraine-war
Khoo, N. (2022). Why NZ's morality narrative on Ukraine doesn't work. Stuff, (12 November). Retrieved from https://www.stuff.co.nz/opinion/130422025/why-nzs-morality-narrative-on-ukraine-doesnt-work
Khoo, N. (2022). Ukraine war a testing ground. Newsroom: Ideasroom, (17 November). Retrieved from https://www.newsroom.co.nz/ideasroom/ukraine-war-a-testing-ground
Conference Contribution - Verbal presentation and other Conference outputs
Patman, R., Tan, L., & Khoo, N. (2022, August). World affairs. Verbal presentation at the Otago Politics Day School, Dunedin, New Zealand.
2021
Chapter in Book - Research
Khoo, N., & Qingmin, Z. (2021). 'Mirror, mirror on the wall': China and the concept of multipolarity in the post Cold War era. In B. Zala (Ed.), National perspectives on a multipolar order: Interrogating the global power transition. (pp. 21-41). Manchester, UK: Manchester University Press. doi: 10.7765/9781526159380.00009
Journal - Research Article
Khoo, N. (2021). The Trump administration and the United States' China engagement policy. National Security Journal, 31(1). doi: 10.36878/nsj20210317.01
Khoo, N. (2021). Retooling great power nonproliferation theory: Explaining China's North Korea nuclear weapons policy. The Pacific Review, 34(4), 523-546. doi: 10.1080/09512748.2019.1689287
Journal - Research Other
Khoo, N., & Tan, A. (2021). Editors foreword: Indo-Pacific special issue. National Security Journal, 3(2), 1-2. [Editorial].
Journal - Professional & Other Non-Research Articles
Khoo, N. (2021). What constitutes a predictable US-Russia relationship. Otago Daily Times, (26 April). Retrieved from https://www.odt.co.nz/opinion/what-constitutes-predictable-us-russia-relationship
Khoo, N. (2021). China is interfering in New Zealand's internal affairs: What are we going to do about it? Stuff, (22 July). Retrieved from https://www.stuff.co.nz/opinion/125817291/china-is-interfering-in-new-zealands-internal-affairs--what-are-we-going-to-do-about-it
Khoo, N. (2021). Australia has learnt about China the hard way: When will NZ wise up? Stuff, (18 September). Retrieved from https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/china-and-nz/126415734/australia-has-learnt-about-china-the-hard-way-when-will-nz-wise-up
Khoo, N. (2021). The US-China relationship: It's our problem too. Stuff, (10 December). Retrieved from https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/opinion/127223121/the-uschina-relationship--its-our-problem-too
2020
Authored Book - Research
Khoo, N. (2020). China's foreign policy since 1978: Return to power. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar, 192p. doi: 10.4337/9781839103056
Journal - Professional & Other Non-Research Articles
Khoo, N. (2020). Trump to go, but nature of his loss reveals much. Otago Daily Times, (9 November). Retrieved from https://www.odt.co.nz/opinion/trump-go-nature-his-loss-reveals-much
Khoo, N. (2020). May be method in Trump's bid to dispute win. Otago Daily Times, (25 November). Retrieved from https://www.odt.co.nz/opinion/may-be-method-trump%E2%80%99s-bid-dispute-win
2019
Journal - Research Other
Khoo, N. (2019). [Review of the book China under Mao: A revolution derailed]. Journal of Asian Security & International Affairs, 6(2), 217-219. doi: 10.1177/2347797019842704
Conference Contribution - Verbal presentation and other Conference outputs
Khoo, N. (2019, March). Neither friendship nor force: China's policy toward North Korea's nuclear weapons programme. Verbal presentation at the International Studies Association (ISA) Conference: Power of Rules and Rules of Power, Toronto, Canada.
2018
Chapter in Book - Research
Khoo, N. (2018). Interstate rivalry in East Asia. In D. S. Reveron, N. K. Gvosdev & J. A. Cloud (Eds.), The Oxford handbook of U.S. national security. (pp. 573-590). New York, NY: Oxford University Press. doi: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190680015.013.30
Journal - Research Other
Khoo, N., Szalontai, B., & Radchenko, S. (2018). The USSR, Asia, and the end of the Cold War: Perspectives on Unwanted visionaries [Forum]. Journal of Cold War Studies, 20(4), 212-226. doi: 10.1162/jcws_c_00842
Conference Contribution - Verbal presentation and other Conference outputs
Khoo, N. (2018, April). Still crazy after all these years? North Korea and the rise of hard internal balancing in unipolarity. Verbal presentation at the International Studies Association (ISA) Conference: Power of Rules and Rules of Power, San Francisco, California.
2017
Authored Book - Research
Khoo, N., & Steff, R. (2017). Security at a price: The international politics of U.S. Ballistic Missile Defense. Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield, 163p.
Journal - Research Article
Jones, D. M., & Khoo, N. (2017). Donald Trump and the new Jacksonians. Policy, 33(1), 42-49.
2016
Journal - Research Article
Southgate, L., & Khoo, N. (2016). Enter the vanguard state: Reinterpreting ASEAN's response to the South China Sea issue. Journal of Asian Security & International Affairs, 3(2), 221-244. doi: 10.1177/2347797016645454
Conference Contribution - Verbal presentation and other Conference outputs
Khoo, N., & Steff, R. (2016, March). Hard balancing in the age of American unipolarity: Russia and U.S. missile defence during the Bush administration (2001‐08). Verbal presentation at the 57th International Studies Association (ISA) Annual Convention, Atlanta, USA.
Working Paper; Discussion Paper; Technical Report
Khoo, N. (2016). ASEAN's relations with the great powers in the post-cold war era: Challenges and opportunities. Auckland, New Zealand: Asia New Zealand Foundation. 29p.
2015
Chapter in Book - Research
Khoo, N. (2015). China's East Asia policy since 2009. In A. T. H. Tan (Ed.), Security and conflict in East Asia. (pp. 51-59). Abingdon, UK: Routledge.
Journal - Research Article
Khoo, N. (2015). The ASEAN security community: A misplaced consensus. Journal of Asian Security & International Affairs, 2(2), 180-199. doi: 10.1177/2347797015586126
Journal - Research Other
Tan, A. C., & Khoo, N. (2015). Reconceptualizing Asian international relations. Journal of Asian Security & International Affairs, 2(2), 129-132. doi: 10.1177/2347797015586114
Khoo, N. (2015). [Review of the book Return of the dragon: Rising China and regional security]. Asian Politics & Policy, 7(1), 157-158. doi: 10.1111/aspp.12159
2014
Journal - Research Article
Khoo, N. (2014). China's policy toward Japan: Looking for a great power peace in the wrong places. Georgetown Journal of Asian Affairs, 1(1), 49-76. Retrieved from http://issuu.com/georgetownsfs/docs/gjaa_1.1_electronic/133
Steff, R., & Khoo, N. (2014). Hard balancing in the age of American unipolarity: The Russian response to US Ballistic Missile Defense during the Bush Administration (2001-2008). Journal of Strategic Studies, 37(2), 222-258. doi: 10.1080/01402390.2013.866556
Khoo, N. (2014). Is realism dead? Academic myths and Asia's international politics. Orbis, 58(2), 182-197. doi: 10.1016/j.orbis.2014.02.007
Khoo, N., & Steff, R. (2014). "This program will not be a threat to them": Ballistic Missile Defense and US relations with Russia and China. Defense & Security Analysis, 30(1), 17-28. doi: 10.1080/14751798.2013.864869
Journal - Research Other
Khoo, N. (2014). [Review of the book War, conflict and security in Japan and Asia-Pacific, 1941-52: The writings of Louis Allen]. Journal of Cold War Studies, 16(3), 220-221. [Book Review].
Khoo, N. (2014). Southeast Asia and the rise of China: The search for security. Asian Politics & Policy, 6(3), 482-483. doi: 10.1111/aspp.12126
2013
Authored Book - Research
Jones, D. M., Khoo, N., & Smith, M. L. R. (2013). Asian security and the rise of China: International relations in the age of volatility. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar Elgar, 291p.
Chapter in Book - Research
Khoo, N., & Bailey, J. (2013). Fear and China's rise: Responses from Northeast Asia. In X. Huang & R. Patman (Eds.), China and the international system: Becoming a world power. (pp. 154-168). Abingdon, UK: Routledge.
Khoo, N. (2013). The false promise of economic interdependence: Chinese foreign policy in North-East Asia. In A. T. H. Tan (Ed.), East and South-East Asia: International relations and security perspectives. (pp. 47-55). Abingdon, UK: Routledge.
Journal - Research Article
Jones, D. M., & Khoo, N. (2013). The delusions of Asian engagement. Quadrant, 57(1/2), 26-29.
Journal - Research Other
Khoo, N. (2013). [Review of the book China and Coexistence: Beijing's National Security Strategy for the Twenty-First Century]. Political Science Quarterly, 128(3), 543-544. doi: 10.1002/polq.12088
Khoo, N. (2013). [Review of the book Strong society, smart state: The rise of public opinion in China's Japan Policy]. Asian Politics & Policy, 5(3), 469-470. doi: 10.1111/aspp.12044
Conference Contribution - Verbal presentation and other Conference outputs
Khoo, N. (2013, December). Hard-balancing the hegemon: China's response to U.S. ballistic missile defence. Verbal presentation at the New Zealand Political Studies Association (NZPSA) Conference, Christchurch, New Zealand.
2012
Journal - Research Other
Khoo, N. (2012). [Review of the book Worse than a monolith: Alliance politics and problems of coercive diplomacy in Asia]. International Affairs, 88(2), 447-448. [Book Review].
Khoo, N. (2012). [Review of the book China among unequals: Asymmetric foreign relationships in Asia]. Pacific Affairs, 85(4), 801-803. [Book Review].
2011
Authored Book - Research
Khoo, N. (2011). Collateral damage: Sino-Soviet rivalry and the termination of the Sino-Vietnamese alliance. New York: Columbia University Press, 267p.
Journal - Research Article
Khoo, N. (2011). Fear factor: Northeast Asian responses to China's rise. Asian Security, 7(2), 95-118. doi: 10.1080/14799855.2011.581601
Journal - Research Other
Khoo, N., & Smith, M. L. R. (2011). What the WikiLeaks documents tell us about Asian security. Yale Journal of International Affairs, 6(2), 133-136.
Khoo, N. (2011). [Review of the book Chinese strategic thought toward Asia]. International Affairs, 87(3), 756-757. doi: 10.1111/j.1468-2346.2011.00999.x
2010
Journal - Research Article
Khoo, N. (2010). Breaking the ring of encirclement: The Sino-Soviet rift and Chinese policy toward Vietnam, 1964-1968. Journal of Cold War Studies, 12(1), 3-42.
Khoo, N. (2010). Revisiting the termination of the Sino-Vietnamese alliance, 1975-1979. European Journal of East Asian Studies, 9(2), 321-361. doi: 10.1163/156805810X548784
2009
Chapter in Book - Other
Khoo, N. (2009). Deconstructing the ASEAN security community: A review essay [Reprint from International Relations of the Asia-Pacific, 2004, 4(1), 35-46]. In S. S. Tan (Ed.), International relations theory and ASEAN. (pp. 328-338). Abingdon, UK: Routledge.
BA (California, Irvine) MA (Johns Hopkins) M Phil PhD(Columbia) 
