Articles
‘Knowledge Power or Diplomacy? University Alliances and the Belt and Road Initiative’ (2024), Higher Education, 87(6): 1693-1708 (with Tolga Demiryol) (download).
‘Crafting innovation hubs: Future cities and global challenges’ (2023), British Journal of Politics and International Relations (with Tero Erkkilä and Juho Mölsa) (download).
‘Politics of on-demand food delivery: Policy design and the power of algorithms’ (2023), Review of Policy Research, 40(5): 646-664 (with Catherine Gomes) (download).
‘International academic or citizen scholar?: Singaporean returnees in the global city’ (2023), Cities 137(June 2023): 104327 (with Yasmin Y Ortiga and Jue Wang) (download).
‘Politics of internationalisation and the migration-higher education nexus’ (2023), Globalisation, Societies and Education 21(2): 222-235 (with Lucie Cerna) (download).
‘Talent migration governance and the COVID-19 pandemic: Comparing Germany and Singapore’ (2023), Journal of Immigrant & Refugee Studies 21(1): 73-88 (with Lucie Cerna) (download).
‘Sticky and slippery destinations for academic mobility: the case of Singapore’ (2021), Higher Education 82(4): 749-764 (download).
‘Competing for Academic Labor: Research and Recruitment Outside the Academic Center’ (2020), Minerva 58: 607-624 (with Yasmin Y. Ortiga and Jue Wang) (download).
'Defining “Talent”: Insights from Management and Migration Literatures for Policy Design' (2019), Policy Studies Journal 47(3): 819-848 (with Lucie Cerna) (download).
‘Collaboration patterns of mobile academics: the impact of international mobility’ (2019), Science and Public Policy 46(3): 450-462 (with Jue Wang, Rosalie Hooi and Andrew X. Li) (download).
'Working Within the Aspiring Center: Professional Status and Mobilities Among Migrant Faculty in Singapore' (2019), Higher Education Policy 32(2): 149-166 (with Yasmin Y. Ortiga, Gunjan Sondhi and Jue Wang) (download).
‘Higher Education Regionalism in Asia: What Implications for Europe?’ (2019), European Journal of Higher Education 9(1): 87-101 (with Exequiel Cabanda and Ee Siong Tan) (download).
'Academic "Centres," Epistemic Differences and Brain Circulation' (2018), International Migration 56(5): 90-105 (with Yasmin Y. Ortiga, Gunjan Sondhi and Jue Wang) (download).
'Higher education regionalism in Europe and Southeast Asia: Comparing policy ideas' (2017), Policy and Society 36(1): 143-159 (with Pauline Ravinet) (download).
'Image and Substance Failures in Regional Organisations: Causes, Consequences, Learning and Change?' (2016), Politics and Governance 4(3): 50-61 (with Michael Howlett and Kei Koga) (download).
'The emergent terrains of "higher education regionalism": how and why higher education is an interesting case for comparative regionalism' (2016), European Journal of Higher Education 6(3): 271-287 (with Pauline Ravinet) (download).
'The unexpected negotiator at the table: How the European Commission's expertise informs intergovernmental EU policies' (2015), Politics and Governance 3(1): 61-72 (with Marianne Riddervold) (download).
'The regional dimension in the global competition for talent: Lessons from framing the European Scientific Visa and Blue Card' (2014), Journal of European Public Policy 21(1): 76-95 (with Lucie Cerna) (download).
'The EU-Senegal mobility partnership: from launch to suspension and negotiation failure' (2012), Journal of Contemporary European Research 8(4): 408-427 (with Marie Gibert) (download).
'Constructing an Internal Market for Research through Sectoral and Lateral Strategies: Layering, the European Commission and the Fifth Freedom' (2012), Journal of European Public Policy 19(7): 1052-1070 (download).
'The European Security Agenda and the "External Dimension" of EU Asylum and Migration Cooperation' (2009), Perspectives on European Society and Politics 10(4): 541-559 (download).
'The European Union and the Fight against Human Trafficking' (2008), STAIR - St Antony's International Review 4(1): 76-95 (download).
Book chapters, encyclopedia and symposium entries
‘Regional cooperation in higher education’ (2024) in Handbook on Regional Cooperation and Integration (Philippe De Lombaerde, ed.), Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, pp. 266-288 (with Jeroen Huisman and Maria Pilar Lorenzo) (download).
‘Policy Framing in Higher Education in Western Europe: (Some) Uses and (Many) Promises’ (2023) in Comparative Higher Education Politics. Policymaking in North America and Western Europe (Jens Jungblut, Martin Maltais, Erik C Ness, and Deanna Rexe, eds.), Dordrecht: Springer, pp. 231-257 (with Mari Elken and Jens Jungblut) (download).
‘Actors and Actorhood in Higher Education Regionalisms’ (2022) in From actors to reforms in (higher) education. Festschrift for Pavel Zgaga (Manja Klemenčič, ed.), Dordrecht: Springer, pp. 127-140 (download).
‘The Politics of Academic Knowledge and Time in the Worlds of Higher Education’ (2021), International Politics Review 9(1): 134-138 (download).
‘Lisbon Treaty’ (2020) in The SAGE Encyclopedia of Higher Education, 5v (Marilyn J. Amey and Miriam E. David, eds.), Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications, volume 3, pp. 1007-1009 (download).
'Designing the export of nurses: whither “Asian values” in emigration policies of the Philippines?' (2019) in Public Policy Research in the Global South (Heike Grimm ed.), Wiesbaden: Springer Fachmedien, pp. 197-213 (with Exequiel Cabanda) (download).
‘Designing Global Public Policies in the 21st Century' (2019) in Oxford Handbook on Global Public Policy and Transnational Administration (Diane Stone and Kim Moloney eds.), Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 437-452 (with Pauline Ravinet) (download).
'Multi-level, Multi-actor and Multi-issue Dimensions of Governance of the European Higher Education' (2018) in European Higher Education Area: The Impact of Past and Future Policies (Adrian Curaj, Ligia Deca and Remus Pricopie eds.), SpringerOpen, pp. 321-334 (with Martina Vukasovic, Jens Jungblut, Mari Elken and Pauline Ravinet) (download).
'The Politics of Scholarly Exchange: Taking the Long View on the Rhodes Scholarships' (2018) in Global Exchanges: Scholarships and Transnational Circulations in the Modern World (Ludovic Tournes and Giles Scott-Smith eds.), Oxford: Berghahn, pp. 33-49 (with Tamson Pietsch) (download).
'Is Securitizing Migration a Mandatory Choice? Lessons from the EU and China' (2016) in Security Relations between China and the European Union: From Convergence to Cooperation (Emil J Kirchner, Thomas Christiansen and Han Dorussen eds.), Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 209-228 (with Els van Dongen and Harlan Koff) (download).
'Introduction' (2016) in The Transnational Politics of Higher Education, Abingdon: Routledge, pp. 1-20 (with Isaac Kamola and Tamson Pietsch) (download).
'Administrators and free movement of researchers in Europe' (2016) in The Transnational Politics of Higher Education, Abingdon: Routledge, pp. 156-177 (download).
'The Rise of "Higher Education Regionalism": An Agenda for Higher Education Research' (2015) in Handbook of Higher Education Policy and Governance (Jeroen Huisman, Harry de Boer, David Dill, and Manuel Souto-Otero eds.), Houndmills: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 361-378 (with Pauline Ravinet).
'Building a European knowledge area: an introduction to the dynamics of policy domains on the rise' (2014) in Building the knowledge economy in Europe, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, pp. 1-26 (with Åse Gornitzka) (download).
'The evolution of the European Research Area as an idea in European Integration' (2014) in Building the knowledge economy in Europe, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, pp. 27-50 (download).
'Translating the "European Charter for Researchers and the Code of Conduct for the Recruitment of Researchers" in national arenas: Norway vs. Spain' (2014) in Building the knowledge economy in Europe, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, pp. 51-80 (with Jose Real-Dato) (download).
'The "Republic of Research Administrators" in Europe: how to get the researchers moving' (2014), PS: Political Science & Politics 47(3): 612-615 (download).
'Tilting the talent balance: from Europe to Asia - Germany and Singapore in comparison' (2014) in Migration of skilled labour from Asia to Germany and Europe (Axel Kreienbrink ed.), Nuremberg: Bundesamt für Migration und Flüchtlinge, pp. 124-151 (with Lucie Cerna) (download).
'Transformation through Layering(s)? The Case of Researcher Mobility in the Construction of the European Research Area' (2012) in Effects of higher education reforms: change dynamics (Martina Vukasovic et al. eds.), Rotterdam: Sense, pp. 79-96.
'EU Mobility Partnerships and Gender: Origin and Implications' (2012) in Transnational Migration, Gender and Rights (Ragnhild Sollund ed.), Bingley: Emerald, pp. 11-31.
'The Free Movement of Sex Workers in the European Union' (2010) in Migrants and Minorities: the European Response (Adam Luedtke ed.), Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Press, pp. 98-123 (download).