Dr Tran Truong Thuy is Senior Research Fellow and Director of the Foundation for East Sea Studies and concurrently Deputy Director General of the Bien Dong Institute at the Diplomatic Academy of Vietnam (DAV). Before joining the DAV, he worked as a policy analyst at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He has written quite extensively on regional security and maritime issues and has contributed a number of reports and policy recommendations for the government and various agencies. Thuy is editor and co-author of The South China Sea: Cooperation for Regional Security and Development (2010) and The