The seminar on Southeast Asia Security and International Relations is part of the Weatherhead Center's work with Singapore's Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS), formerly the Institute of Defence and Strategic Studies (IDSS). Professor Iain Johnston has collaborated with the RSIS on conferences in Singapore and in Cambridge. He also spent six months at the RSIS as the S. Rajaratnam Professor of Strategic Studies. This seminar is another step in an emerging agenda of scholarly cooperation between the RSIS and the Weatherhead Center. It is designed to feature presentations from RSIS faculty and graduate students, as well as other scholars working on Southeast Asia security and international affairs. Professors Amitav Acharya, Leonard Christopher Sebastian, and Asad-ul Iqbal Latif have been RSIS visiting scholars from Singapore at the Weatherhead Center in past years. The visiting scholar for 2007-2008 is David Capie, senior lecturer in international relations, Victoria University of Wellington at New Zealand.