According to Stanford’s influential bibliometric study (which measures citations, h-index, co-authorship adjusted hm-index, and citations to papers in different authorship positions), over 2020-25, Lee was in the top 0.1% of all UK-based academics across all disciplines. Within International Relations, Lee was ranked in the top 0.2% globally (ranked 32nd), and the top 0.1% in the UK (4th). You can view Lee’s Google Scholar profile here.

Edited volumes

• Polyalignment and the Second Cold War: Navigating Great Power Rivalry, special issue of Third World Quarterly 47:3 (2026), co-edited with Jessica DiCarlo, Shahar Hameiri and Seth Schindler
• The Political Economy of Southeast Asia: Politics and Uneven Development under Hyperglobalisation, 4th edition, co-edited with Toby Carroll and Shahar Hameiri (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2020)
• Rising Powers and State Transformation, Third World Quarterly 40:8 (2019), 1397-1589: special issue, co-edited with Shahar Hameiri and John Heathershaw, Reprinted as Rising Powers and State Transformation (Abingdon: Routledge, 2020)
• Political Economy, State Transformation and the New Security Agenda, International Politics 57:4 (2015), 371-501: special issue, co-edited with Shahar Hameiri

Journal articles

• The Emergence and Politics of Polyalignment (with Jessica DiCarlo, Shahar Hameiri and Seth Schindler), Third World Quarterly 47:3 (2026): 2627-2646
• Indonesia, Nickel, and the Political Economy of Polyalignment in the Second Cold War (with Trissia Wijaya), Third World Quarterly 47:3 (2026): 2667-2686
• Atlas Shrugged: Decoding Trump’s National Security Strategy, American Affairs 10:1 (2026): 228-251
• Explaining China’s Approach to the Global Governance of Sovereign Debt Distress: A State Transformation Analysis (with Shahar Hameiri), Review of International Political Economy 32:4 (2025): 945-969
• Development Financing in the Second Cold War: The Miserly Convergence of Western Donors and China (with Shahar Hameiri), Development and Change 56:1 (2025): 3-30
• Trump’s Tariff Gamble and the Decay of Neoliberal Order, American Affairs 9:2 (2025): 207-227
• Why the West’s Alternative to China’s International Infrastructure Financing is Failing (with Shahar Hameiri), European Journal of International Relations 30:3 (2024): 697-724
• China, International Competition and the Stalemate in Sovereign Debt Restructuring: Beyond Geopolitics (with Shahar Hameiri), International Affairs 100:2 (2024): 691-710
• Explaining the Failure of Global Health Governance During COVID-19 (with Shahar Hameiri), International Affairs 98:6 (2022): 2057-76
• COVID-19 and the Failure of the Neoliberal Regulatory State (with Shahar Hameiri), Review of International Political Economy 29:4 (2022), 1027-1052 — Winner of the Australian International Political Economy Network’s Richard Higgott Journal Article Prize, 2022
• Explaining Myanmar’s Response to China’s Belt and Road Initiative: From Disengagement to Embrace (with Khin Ma Ma Myo), Asian Perspective 45:2 (2021): 301-324
• Evaluating the Success of International Sanctions: A New Research Agenda (with Clara Portela), Revista CIDOB d’Afers Internacionals 125 (2020): 39-60
• Does China’s Belt and Road Initiative Challenge the Liberal, Rules-Based International Order?, Fudan Journal of the Humanities and Social Sciences 13:1 (2020), 113-133
• China’s Responses to Threats to its Overseas Economic Interests: Softening Non-Interference and Cultivating Hegemony (with Yizheng Zou), Journal of Contemporary China 29:121 (2019): 92-108 (Reprinted in Zhao, S. (ed.) China’s Big Power Ambition under Xi Jinping: Narratives and Driving Forces (Abingdon: Routledge, 2022), 186-202)
• Theorizing Foreign and Security Policy in an Era of State Transformation: A New Framework and Case Study of China, Journal of Global Security Studies 4:4 (2019): 579-597
• Reframing the Rising Powers Debate: State Transformation and Foreign Policy (with Shahar Hameiri and John Heathershaw), Third World Quarterly 40:8 (2019): 1397-1414
• Understanding China’s “Belt and Road Initiative”: Beyond “Grand Strategy” to a State Transformation Analysis (with Jinghan Zeng), Third World Quarterly 40:8 (2019): 1415-1439
• The Development-Insecurity Nexus in China’s Near-Abroad: Rethinking Cross-border Economic Integration in an Era of State Transformation (with Shahar Hameiri and Yizheng Zou), Journal of Contemporary Asia 49:3 (2018): 473-499
• Security Governance and the Politics of State Transformation: Moving from Description to Explanation (with Shahar Hameiri and Adam Sandor), Journal of Global Security Studies 3:4 (2018): 463-483
• China Challenges Global Governance? The Case of Chinese International Development Finance and the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (with Shahar Hameiri), International Affairs 94:3 (2018), 573-93
• Rethinking the Role of State-Owned Enterprises in China’s Rise (with Yizeng Zou), New Political Economy 22:6 (2017), 743-760
• Beyond Hybridity to the Politics of Scale: International Intervention and ‘Local’ Politics (with Shahar Hameiri), Development and Change 48:1 (2017), 54-77
• Global Governance as State Transformation (with Shahar Hameiri), Political Studies 64:4 (2016): 793-810
• Explaining the Failure of the ASEAN Economic Community: The Primacy of Domestic Political Economy, Pacific Review 29:5 (2016): 647-70
• Rising Powers and State Transformation: The Case of China (with Shahar Hameiri), European Journal of International Affairs 22:1 (2016): 72-98
• Probing the Links Between Political Economy and Non-Traditional Security: Themes, Approaches and Instruments (with Shahar Hameiri), International Politics 52:4 (2015), 371-388
• The Political Economy of Non-Traditional Security: Explaining the Governance of Avian Influenza in Indonesia (with Shahar Hameiri), International Politics 52:4 (2015), 445-465
• Regulatory Regionalism and Anti-Money-Laundering Governance in Asia (co-authored with Shahar Hameiri), Australian Journal of International Affairs 69:2 (2015), 144-163
• Explaining Myanmar’s Regime Transition: The Periphery is Central, Democratization 21:5 (2014), 780-802
• The Political Economy of Myanmar’s Transition, Journal of Contemporary Asia 44:1 (2014), 144-170
• Sovereignty, Social Order, and Intervention in Revolutionary Times, Review of International Studies 39:5 (2013), 1149-1167
• The Politics and Governance of Non-Traditional Security (with Shahar Hameiri), International Studies Quarterly 57:3 (2013), 462-473
• Beyond Securitisation: Explaining the Scope of Security Policy in Southeast Asia, International Relations of the Asia-Pacific 11:3 (2011), 403-432
• (Post-)Colonial Statebuilding in East Timor: Bringing Social Conflict Back In, Conflict, Security and Development 10:4 (2010), 547-575
• ASEAN’s Unchanged Melody? The Theory and Practice of Non-Intervention in Southeast Asia, Pacific Review 23:3 (2010), 479-502
• Democratisation and Foreign Policy in Southeast Asia: The Case of the ASEAN Inter-Parliamentary Myanmar Caucus, Cambridge Review of International Affairs 27:3 (2009), 387-406
• ASEAN’s Albatross: ASEAN’s Burma Policy, from Constructive Engagement to Critical Disengagement, Asian Security 4:3 (2008), 271-93
• ‘The Others’: Gender and Conscientious Objection in the First World War, Nordic Review of Masculinity Studies 3:2 (2008), 99-113
• ASEAN Intervention in Cambodia: From Cold War to Conditionality, Pacific Review 20:4 (2007), 523-50

Book chapters

• From the Void to COVID: Explaining the Left’s Support for Pandemic Authoritarianism, in Elena L. Lange and Geoff Shullenberger (eds.) COVID-19 and the Left: The Tyranny of Fear (Abingdon: Routledge, 2024), 23-39
• Globalization, State Transformation and Global Governance (with Shahar Hameiri), in Wil Hout and Jane Hutchison (eds.) Handbook on Governance and Development (Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2022), 64-77
• Security Order and State Transformation in Asia: Beyond Geopolitics and Grand Strategy, in Felix Heiduk (ed.) Asian Geopolitics and the US-China Rivalry (Abingdon: Routledge, 2022), 65-80
• Understanding Chinese Corporations: Beyond “China Inc.”, in Nick Buxton (ed.) State of Power 2020: The Corporation (Amsterdam: TNI, 2020), 21-32
• 非传统安全的政治与治理 [The Politics and Governance of Non-Traditional Security] (with Shahar Hameiri), in Yu Xiaofeng (ed.) Theoretical Frontiers of Non-traditional Security Studies (Hangzhou: Zhejiang University Press, 2020), 125-152 [translation of 2013 International Studies Quarterly article]
• Theorising Political Economy in Southeast Asia (with Shahar Hameiri), in Toby Carroll, Shahar Hameiri and Lee Jones (eds.) The Political Economy of Southeast Asia: Politics and Uneven Development under Hyperglobalisation, 4th edition (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2020), 3-34
• Southeast Asian Regional Governance: Political Economy, Regulatory Regionalism and ASEAN Integration (with Shahar Hameiri), in Toby Carroll, Shahar Hameiri and Lee Jones (eds.) The Political Economy of Southeast Asia: Politics and Uneven Development under Hyperglobalisation, 4th edition (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2020), 199-224
• Sanctioning Apartheid: Comparing the South African and Palestinian Campaigns for Boycotts, Disinvestment, and Sanctions, in David Feldman (ed.) Boycotts Past and Present: From the American Revolution to the Campaign to Boycott Israel (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019), 197-217
• Against Hybridity in the Study of Peacebuilding and Statebuilding (with Shahar Hameiri), in Joanne Wallis et al. (eds.) Hybridity on the Ground in Peacebuilding and Development: Critical Conversations (Canberra: ANU Press, 2018), 99-112
• Political Economy, in Adam Simpson, Nicholas Farrelly and Ian Holliday (eds.), Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Myanmar (London: Routledge, 2018), 181-191
• ASEAN Norms and Practices, in Mari Elka Pangestu and Rastam Mohd Isa (ed.) ASEAN FutureForward: Anticipating the Next 50 Years (Institute of Strategic and International Studies Malaysia: Kuala Lumpur, 2017), 89-98
• Understanding Myanmar’s Ceasefires: Geopolitics, Political Economy and Statebuilding, in Mandy Sadan (ed.) War and Peace in the Borderlands of Myanmar: The Kachin Ceasefire, 1994-2011 (Copenhagen: NIAS Press, 2016), 95-113
• State Theory and State Building: Towards a Gramscian Analysis, in Robert Egnell and Peter Haldén (eds.) New Agendas in State Building: Hybridity, Contingency and History (London: Routledge, 2013), 70-91
• State-building versus State Formation in East Timor, in Berit Bliesemann de Guevara (ed.) Statebuilding and State-Formation: The Political Sociology of Intervention (London: Routledge, 2012), 95-113
• State Power, Social Conflicts and Security Policy in Southeast Asia, in Richard Robison (ed.) The Routledge Handbook of Southeast Asian Politics (Routledge: London, 2011), 346-360

Book reviews

• Review of Muyang Chen, The Latecomer’s Rise: Policy Banks and the Globalization of China”s Development Finance, in Cambridge Review of International Affairs 38(1): 130-31
• Review of Renaud Egreteau, Caretaking Democratization: The Military and Political Change in Myanmar, in SOJOURN 32:3 (2017): 748-750
• Review of Garry Rodan and Caroline Hughes, The Politics of Accountability in Southeast Asia: The Dominance of Moral Ideologies, in SOJOURN 30:1 (2015): 271-273
• Review of Andrew MacGregor Marshall, A Kingdom in Crisis: Thailand’s Struggle for Democracy in the Twenty-First Century, New Mandala, 12 November 2014
• Review of Jeni Whalan, How Peace Operations Work: Power, Legitimacy and Effectiveness, in Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding 8:2-3 (2014), 268-271
• Review of Michael D. Barr, The Ruling Elite of Singapore, in ASEASUK News 55 (2014), 17-19
• Critical Interventions on Statebuilding, Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding 5:2 (2011), 235-239
• Reviews of Donald K. Emmerson (ed.), Hard Choices: Security, Democracy and Regionalism in Southeast Asia and Helen E.S. Nesadurai and J.S. Djiwandono (eds.), Southeast Asia in the Global Economy: Security, Competitiveness and Social Protection in ASEASUK News 46 (2009), 40-42, 45-46
• Liberalism and Democratization in East Asia, Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding 3:2 (2009), 277-283
• World Systems Theory for the Twenty-First Century, Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding 3:1 (2009), 130-132
• The Dragon and the Elephant, China Review 44 (2008), 14
• Absent Sovereigns?, Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding 1:3 (2007), 383-88

Other publications

• Saving Britain’s Universities: Academic Freedom, Democracy and Renewal (with Philip Cunliffe) (Canterbury: Cieo, 2020)
• Beyond “Land Grabs”: A Better Political Economy of the Rohingya Crisis, global-e 10:80 (2017)
• Open Access Publishing in Kyle Grayson and Alasdair R. Young (eds.) PSA Guide to Publishing (London: Political Studies Association, 2015), 47-53
• Murdoch International: The “Murdoch School” in International Relations (with Shahar Hameiri), Asia Research Centre Working Paper 177, December 2014
• Evaluating the “Success” of International Economic Sanctions: Multiple Goals, Interpretive Methods and Critique (with Clara Portela), Centre for the Study of Global Security and Development working paper 3, 2014
• ASEAN and the Norm of Non-Interference in Southeast Asia: A Quest for Social Order, Nuffield College Politics Group Working Paper 2009-02 (2009)
• International Relations Scholarship and the Tyranny of Policy Relevance, Journal of Critical Globalization Studies 1:1 (2009), 125-131