Yohanes Sulaiman is an Associate Professor in International Relations at Universitas Jenderal Achmad Yani, Cimahi, Indonesia. His recent publications include “Indonesia Between United States and China in Post-Covid-19 Bipolar World Order,” in Asia Policy16.1 (January 2021); “Underbalancing the Dragon: Unstrategic Indonesia,” in Donald K. Emmerson, The Deer and the Dragon: Southeast Asia and China in the 21st Century (2020); “What Threat? Leadership, Strategic Culture, and Indonesian Foreign Policy in South China Sea” in Asian Politics & Policy, Vol. 11, No. 4 (October 2019); “Whither Indonesia’s Indo-Pacific Strategy,” Institut français des relations internationales (2019); and “Indonesia’s Strategic Culture: The Legacy of Independence” in Ashley J. Tellis, Alison Szalwinski, and Michael Wills, eds, Strategic Asia 2016-17: Understanding Strategic Culture in the Asia-Pacific (2016).
His interests include Indonesian strategic culture and diplomatic history; East Asian security and politics; and civil-military relations. He has a PhD and MA in political science from the Ohio State University and BA from the University of Wisconsin–Madison. His interests include Indonesian strategic culture and diplomatic history, East and Southeast Asian security and politics.