Myanmar: Dealing with Complexity
The Straits Times, 18 June 2008

The Case Against the West
Foreign Affairs, May/June 2008

La potenza low profile
Aspenia 41, May 2008

South by South Text
Hindustan Times, 21 May 2008

Europe is a Geopolitical Dwarf
Financial Times, 21 May 2008

Tibet, il moralismo produce Danni
Corriere della Sera, 18 May 2008

Tibet Through Chinese Eyes
Newsweek, 5 May 2008

Le protectionnisme européen: un redoutable défi à l’échelle mondiale
Diplomatie April/May 2008

China’s View of Tibet
LA Times, 25 April 2008

China Returns to Its Global Roots
The Globalist, 21 April 2008

Not Higher, Faster, Stronger
Hindustan Times, 16 April 2008

The Sermons of Cowards
The Guardian, 28 March 2008

A Choice of Past Present Or Future
The Straits Times, 27 March 2008

Can India Save the World?
Hindustan Times, 21 March 2008

Le découplage économique entre les pays industrialisés et l’Asie émergente est un mythe
By Ram Etwareea, Le Temps, 8 March 2008

Smart Power, Chinese Style
American Interest, Vol. III No. 4 March/April 2008

The Myth of Western Aid
Development & Cooperation, No. 02 2008 Volume 49 February 2008

Ringing in the Asian Century
LA Times, 19 February 2008

La positiva ascensión de Asia
El Pais, 13 February 2008

If The World Could Vote
Newsweek, 14 January 2008

Make Way For The Rise Of Asia
Newsweek, 19 December 2007

The Big East
Internationale Politik, Winter 2007

A Tale of Two Dictatorships
Project Syndicate, October 2007

Wake up Washington: The US Risks Losing Asia
Global Asia, Fall 2007

Review Essay - Charting a New Course
Survival, Vol. 49, No. 3, Autumn 2007

Tough Truths About Free Trade
Newsweek International, 30 July 2007

Can India lead?
The Wall Street Journal, 5 April 2007

S'pore Journalists Have a Difficult Job
Taken from speech at MediaCorp News Awards
TODAYonline, 9 February 2007

From Confucius to Kennedy: Principles of East Asian Governance
World Bank East Asia: Visions Volume, January 2007

India: Emerging as Eastern or Western Power
Yale Global Online, 19 December 2006

The Korean Enigma
Korea Foundation Newsletter, Vol. 15, No. 4, November 2006

Asians Puzzle Over U.S. Fundamentalism
Newsweek, 13 November 2006

Shared Wisdom
Newsweek, 21-28 August 2006

Creating a Citizen Community in East Asia
Japan Center for Economic Research (JCER) Bulletin, April 2006

The Opportunity of the Cartoon Crisis
Yale Global Online, 9 February 2006

The Goals of Universal Primary and Secondary Education in the 21st Century: Reviving the Spirit of Socrates
American Academy of Arts and Sciences (to be published in a volume)

A Chance for New Leadership in Changing World
A Global Agenda: Issues before the 60th General Assembly of the United Nations, Special Anniversary Edition, edited by Angela Drakulich, UNA-USA, 2005

Singapore in the United Nations Security Council
The Little Red Dot: Reflections by Singapore's Diplomats, edited by Tommy Koh & Chang Li Lin, Institute of Policy Studies and World Scientific Publishing Co.Pte.Ltd., 2005

Singapore's Position in the World: The Little-Understood State
Singapore Perspectives 2005: People and Partnerships, edited by Gillian Koh, Institute of Policy Studies and Marshall Cavendish Academic, 2005

Cooking Progress
Hindustan Times, 19 December 2005

The Impending Demise of the Postwar System
Survival, IISS Journal, Vol. 47, No. 4, 6 December 2005

L'America ha bisogno di Pechino
Corriere della Sera (Italy), 21 November 2005

Understanding China
Foreign Affairs, September/October 2005

Asia's Destiny, America's Choice
The American Interest, Autumn 2005

Making of Modern Asia
Time Magazine, 22 August 2005

Indonesia: Seizing a new window of opportunity
Essay for Volume of President SBY's Essays, 11 July 2005

The Asian Century
Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung, 24 July 2005 English translation

Dealing with the Muslim World: Five Western Mistakes
The Globalist, 9 March 2005

Growing global buzz on China and India
The Straits Times, 28 January 2005

A New Asia Finds Itself
Newsweek, Inc, January 2005 Issue

A Gaping Silence
Newsweek International: Special Davos Edition, December 2004 – February 2005

The Permanent and Elected Council Members
The UN Security Council: From the Cold War to the 21st Century, edited by David Malone, London: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2004

Rehabilitating America
Far Eastern Economic Review, 168(1), December 2004

The West and the Rest
Prince Claus Fund Journal # 11: Special Issue on Asylum & Migration, Prince Claus Fund for Culture and Development, December 2004

Why America Must Rediscover Asia
Following re-election, Bush needs to make up ground in the world's most dynamic region
Time Asia, Thursday, 4 November 2004

When Asia Emerges, How Will the World Change?
AsiaViews, paper presented at the Asian Voices seminar, Sasakawa Peace Foundation (March 2, 2004)
USA, 12 April 2004

The United Nations and the United States: An Indispensable Partnership
Unilateralism & U.S. Foreign Policy: International Perspectives, edited by David M. Malone and Yuen Foong Khong, Center on International Cooperation Studies in Multilateralism, 2003

Wake-up Call to the West?
Carngie Council on Ethics and International Affairs, Mar/April 2002

The Straits Times National Day Special - Back to the Future
The Straits Times (Singapore), Aug 9, 2001

Bridging the Divide: The Singapore Experience
Davos World Economic Forum daily newspaper, January 2001

Following Singapore's lead on the road of development
Earth Times, Jan 15, 2001

Asia's Lost Millenium
AsiaWeek, 2000

Past Lessons, Future Tests
Asia must learn how to develop, implement and maintain the right social software -- Meritocracy, Peace, Honesty
AsiaWeek, Dec 31, 1999 - Jan 7, 2000 Vol. 25 NO. 52

Singapore: Recipes for a Crowded Planet
UNDP Human Development Report, Autumn 1998

Can Asians Think?
The National Interest, Summer 1998

Seven Paradoxes on Asia-Pacific Security
Text of speech at Europe Asia Forum, Singapore, 21 February 1998

An Asia-Pacific Consensus
Foreign Affairs, September/October 1997

The ASEAN 'Magic'
Gaiko Forum, April 1996

The Pacific Impulse
Survival, International Institute for Strategic Studies, Spring 1995

The Pacific Way
Foreign Affairs, January/February 1995

Asia and a United States in Decline
The Washington Quarterly, Spring 1994

Pol Pot: The Paradox of Moral Correctness
Terrorism, Vol. 16, 1993

The Dangers of Decadence: What the Rest can teach the West
Foreign Affairs, September/October 1993

The End of an Epoch
Text of speech at National University of Singapore Convocation Ceremony, 1 September 1993

An Asian Perspective on Human Rights and Freedom of the Press
Text of lecture at Seminar on “Asian and American Perspectives on Capitalism and Democracy,” 28-30 January 1993

Japan Adrift
Foreign Policy, No. 88, Fall 1992

The West and the Rest
The National Interest, No. 28, Summer 1992

The Ten Commandments for Developing Countries in the Nineties
Environment Guardian, 21 September 1990

US Doesn’t Bear Excessive Share of UN Costs
The Wall Street Journal, 30 October 1986

The Kampuchean Problem: A Southeast Asian Perception
Foreign Affairs, Winter 1983/1984