Paul Evans (PhD with distinction Dalhousie University 1982) retired from UBC in June 2023 after 43 years of university teaching. He is currently Professor Emeritus.
His principal academic appointments have been at Acadia University, 1980-81; York University, 1981-99 where he directed the Joint Centre for Asia Pacific Studies; and UBC, 1999-2023 where he directed the Institute of Asian Research and held the HSBC Chair in Asian Research. He has had visiting appointments at several universities and think tanks including The Australian National University, National Chengchi University, The East-West Center in Hawaii, Harvard University, the National Institute for Research Advancement (Tokyo), Hong Kog University, Singapore Management University, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, and the National University of Singapore.
Between 2005 and 2008, he was seconded from UBC to serve as the Co-CEO of the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada. And between 2020 and 2023 he held the HSBC Chair in Asian Research at UBC.
An advocate of cooperative and human security, he has been studying and long promoted policy-related activity on track-two security processes and the construction of multilateral institutions. He was a co-founder of the Council for Security Cooperation in Asia Pacific (CSCAP), the Canadian Consortium on Human Security, and a co-founder of the Canada-Korea Forum. He has directed exchange and partnership projects with fifteen research institutes in Asia and the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs funded by governments and foundations in Canada, Japan, the United States, China, Taiwan, South Korea, Thailand and Indonesia. Between 1990 and 2002 he organized two dozen meetings involving participants from North Korea.
He is currently a Canadian representative on the ASEAN Regional Forum’s Experts and Eminent Persons Group and a Senior Fellow at the East Asia Institute at the National University of Singapore .
He sits on the editorial boards of The Pacific Review, the Chinese Journal of International Politics, the China Quarterly for International Strategic Studies, and Mexico y la Cuenca del Pacifico.
The author or editor of seven books, his first was a biography of John Fairbank, his most popular the two editions of a lexicon of Asia Pacific security terminology (with David Capie), and his most recent Engaging China: Myth, Aspiration and Strategy in Canadian Policy from Trudeau to Harper, published in 2014.
His recent writings and media commentaries have focused on issues in Canada-China relations, Asian security dynamics, and the emergence of techno-nationalism as a defining force in regional affairs. Some of them are available here and on his blog. His condensed academic CV is available here, and his complete academic CV is available here.
He is married to Catherine Evans and they plan to remain resident in Vancouver.
[Books | Reports | Essays | 中文著作 ]
Engaging China: Myth Aspiration and Strategy in Canadian Policy from Trudeau to Harper. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2014
With David Capie, The Asia-Pacific Security Lexion, 2nd revised and expanded edition.Singapore: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, 2007, pp.xv, 248.
With David Capie, The Asia-Pacific Security Lexicon. Singapore: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, 2002, pp.xv, 224. [Translated into Japanese, Chinese, Korean, Mongolian, Thai, and Vietnamese]
With Navnita Chadha Behera and Gowher Rizvi, Beyond Boundaries: A Report on the State of Non-Official Dialogues on Peace, Security and Cooperation in South Asia. Toronto: Joint Centre for Asia Pacific Studies, 1998, pp.315.
Editor and Contributor, Studying Asia Pacific Security: The Future of Research, Training and Dialogue Activities. Toronto: Join Centre for Asia Pacific Studies, 1994, pp.388. “Preface” (with Jusuf Wanandi), pp.1-3 and “The Dialogue Process on Asia Pacific Security Issues: Inventory and Analysis,” pp. 297-318.
With B. Michael Frolic, co-editor and contributor, Reluctant Adversaries: Canada and the People’s Republic of China, 1949-1970. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1991, pp.xii, 288. “Introduction,” pp.3-17 and “Epilogue: Canadian Recognition Initiatives, 1958-68,” pp.65-69. Chinese translation published by the Tianjin University Press, 1996.
John Fairbank and the American Understanding of Modern China. New York and Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1988, pp.xiv, 366. Chinese translation published by the Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences, 1995.
“The Future of Canada’s relationship with China,” with Wendy Dobson, Institute for Research on Public Policy, November 2015.
(for PDF version of this report, click here.)
With Don Campbell and Pierre Lortie, Securing Canada’s Place in Asia: Means, Institutions and Mechanisms, Task Force Report to the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada, 52 pp., 6 September 2012.
Ralph Cossa and Paul Evans, The ASEAN Regional Forum at 25: Moving Forward or Still Standing? – Issues & Insights Vol. 19, Working Paper #7. July 22, 2019, 37 pages.
With Xiaojun Li and Pascale Massot, “National Survey Results and Findings of Canadian Public Attitudes on China and Canada-China Relations,” 31 October 2019, 10 pp. Available along with links to three previous surveys at IAR Reports, https://sppga.ubc.ca/research-impact/publications
“Canadian Universities and China: Research Collaboration in Question,” Institute for Peace and Diplomacy, 18 September 2022, https://sppga.ubc.ca/news/october-2019-national-survey-results-and-findings-on-canadian-public-attitudes-on-china-and-canada-china-relations/
With David Dewitt and Brian Job, “Building Cooperative Security in Asia-Pacific: Canadian Track-Two Initiatives, 1989-2005,” Research Report, School of Public Policy and Global Affairs, University of British Columbia, 30 November 2024, https://sppga.ubc.ca/news/building-cooperative-security-in-asia-pacific/.
“Historians and Chinese World Order: Fairbank, Wang and the Matter of ‘Indeterminate Relevance’,” in Zheng Yongnian, ed., China and International Relations: The Chinese View and the Contribution of Wang Gungwu. London: Routledge: July 2010.
“Dancing with the Dragon,” lead essay in the Literary Review of Canada, April 2013.
“Between Truth and Power: Kim Kyung-Won, 1936-2012,” in Han Sung-Joo, editor,Thoughts and Wishes of a Liberal: Writings of Dr. Kim Kyung-Won, Seoul: Joong An Books and Company, 2013, pp. 36-58.
“A Farewell to Trans-Pacific Cosmopolitanism? On the Passing of Robert Scalapino, Kim Kyung Won and Yamamoto Tadashi,” Global Asia, Vol. 8, No. 4, Winter 2013, pp. 83-88.
“Human Security and East Asia”, in Martin and Owen, eds., The Routledge Handbook of Human Security Routledge 2014, pp. 272-82
“Close Encounters: How Best to Deal with a Rising China,” Literary Review of Canada, July-August 2015.
“Middle Powerism in the 21st Century: Mission Impossible?“, Global Asia, Vol. 11, No.1, Spring 2016.
“Co-operative Security 2.0,” with Chen Dongxiao, Global Asia, Cover Story, Vol.11, No.1, Spring 2016.
“Canada-China Relations and the Evolving Roles of Universities: Towards Partnerships 2.0.” in Ruth Hayhoe, et al., eds., “Canadian Universities in China’s Transformation: An Untold Story (McGill-Queens University Press, 2017).
“Techno-Nationalism in China-US Relations: Implications for Universities,” East Asian Policy, Vol. 12, No. 2, April/June 2020, pp. 80-92.
With Cheng-Chwee Kuik, “Middle Power Agency in an Indo-Pacific Era,” lead essay in Global Asia, Vol 18, No. 3, September 2023. https://www.globalasia.org/v18no3/cover/middle-power-agency-in-an-indo-pacific-era_paul-evanscheng-chwee-kuik
“Canada’s Asian Dream After America First,” East Asia Forum, lead article, 20 April 2025, https://eastasiaforum.org/2025/04/20/canadas-asian-dream-after-america-first/.
With David Dewitt and Brian Job, “Cooperative Security in the Asia-Pacific: Canadian Track-Two Initiatives, 1989-2005,” International Journal, 24 April 2025, https://doi.org/10.1177/00207020251337746
“Navigating the US-China Confrontation: Lessons from John Fairbank and the 1950s,” featured lecture, Institute of East Asian Studies Colloquium, University of California at Berkeley, 3 December 2019.
Testimony to the Special Parliamentary Committee on Canada-China Relations, by video conference, 24 February 2020. https://www.ourcommons.ca/Committees/en/CACN/Meetings
“What Remains of the Middle Power: Canada and China in the Era of American First,” Distinguished Public Lecture, National University of Singapore, Singapore, 17 January 2025, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RLRIXYu-6NU.
“The Future Trajectory of Canada-China Relations,” Centre on Contemporary China and the World, Hong Kong University, 19 February 2025, https://cccw.hku.hk/events/past-events/the-future-trajectory-of-canada-china-relations-guest-talk/
“Canada Contemplates the Harsh Realities of One World Two Systems,” East Asia Forum, 26 July 2020. https://www.eastasiaforum.org/2020/07/26/canada-contemplates-the-harsh-realities-of-one-world-two-systems/
“Canada Caught in the Vortex of US-China Techno-nationalism,” East Asia Forum, 26 February 2019, https://www.eastasiaforum.org/2019/02/26/canada-caught-in-the-vortex-of-us-china-techno-nationalism/.
(with Yuen Pau Woo), “Anti-China Sentiment is Becoming Anti-Chinese Prejudice,” op. ed., Globe and Mail, 21 June 2021. https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-anti-china-sentiment-is-becoming-anti-chinese-prejudice-in-canada/
“Canada’s New Indo-Pacific Strategy Bids Au Revoir to Middle Power Ambitions,” East Asia Forum, 19 December 2022. https://www.eastasiaforum.org/2022/12/19/canadas-new-indo-pacific-strategy-bids-au-revoir-to-middle-power-ambitions/
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“理解和运用“保护的责任”原则：走向一致 [Interpreting and Applying the Responsibility to Protect: Paths to Common Ground]”, 新型大国关系：机遇与挑战 [New Type of Great Power Relations: Opportunities and Challenges], February 2015.
“诠释与落实“保护的责任”：通往共同点的途径 [Interpreting and Applying the Responsibility to Protect: A Path to Common Ground]”, 国际政治研究[The Journal of International Studies (Peking University)], Summer 2014.
“人的安全与东亚：回顾与展望 [East Asia and Human Security:Review and Prospects]”, 世界经济与政治 [World Economics and Politics], June 2004.
“新开端：加拿大与中华人民共和国（1949-1970）[Reluctant Adversaries: Canada and the People’s Republic of China, 1949-1970], 河南人民出版社, September 1995.
“费正清看中国 [John Fairbank and the American Understanding of Modern China]”, 上海人民出版社, May 1995.
The second instalment to the biography of John Fairbank published in 1988 [here] looking at his influence and meaning 30 years after his death in an era of US-China confrontation.
Ongoing public opinion studies of Canadian views on China and Canada-China relations as well as mainstream media narratives and English and Chinese language social media coverage.
Paul Evans (PhD with distinction Dalhousie University 1982) retired from UBC in June 2023 after 43 years of university teaching. He is currently Professor Emeritus.
His principal academic appointments have been at Acadia University, 1980-81; York University, 1981-99 where he directed the Joint Centre for Asia Pacific Studies; and UBC, 1999-2023 where he directed the Institute of Asian Research and held the HSBC Chair in Asian Research. He has had visiting appointments at several universities and think tanks including The Australian National University, National Chengchi University, The East-West Center in Hawaii, Harvard University, the National Institute for Research Advancement (Tokyo), Hong Kog University, Singapore Management University, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, and the National University of Singapore.
Between 2005 and 2008, he was seconded from UBC to serve as the Co-CEO of the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada. And between 2020 and 2023 he held the HSBC Chair in Asian Research at UBC.
An advocate of cooperative and human security, he has been studying and long promoted policy-related activity on track-two security processes and the construction of multilateral institutions. He was a co-founder of the Council for Security Cooperation in Asia Pacific (CSCAP), the Canadian Consortium on Human Security, and a co-founder of the Canada-Korea Forum. He has directed exchange and partnership projects with fifteen research institutes in Asia and the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs funded by governments and foundations in Canada, Japan, the United States, China, Taiwan, South Korea, Thailand and Indonesia. Between 1990 and 2002 he organized two dozen meetings involving participants from North Korea.
He is currently a Canadian representative on the ASEAN Regional Forum’s Experts and Eminent Persons Group and a Senior Fellow at the East Asia Institute at the National University of Singapore .
He sits on the editorial boards of The Pacific Review, the Chinese Journal of International Politics, the China Quarterly for International Strategic Studies, and Mexico y la Cuenca del Pacifico.
The author or editor of seven books, his first was a biography of John Fairbank, his most popular the two editions of a lexicon of Asia Pacific security terminology (with David Capie), and his most recent Engaging China: Myth, Aspiration and Strategy in Canadian Policy from Trudeau to Harper, published in 2014.
His recent writings and media commentaries have focused on issues in Canada-China relations, Asian security dynamics, and the emergence of techno-nationalism as a defining force in regional affairs. Some of them are available here and on his blog. His condensed academic CV is available here, and his complete academic CV is available here.
He is married to Catherine Evans and they plan to remain resident in Vancouver.
[Books | Reports | Essays | 中文著作 ]
Engaging China: Myth Aspiration and Strategy in Canadian Policy from Trudeau to Harper. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2014
With David Capie, The Asia-Pacific Security Lexion, 2nd revised and expanded edition.Singapore: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, 2007, pp.xv, 248.
With David Capie, The Asia-Pacific Security Lexicon. Singapore: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, 2002, pp.xv, 224. [Translated into Japanese, Chinese, Korean, Mongolian, Thai, and Vietnamese]
With Navnita Chadha Behera and Gowher Rizvi, Beyond Boundaries: A Report on the State of Non-Official Dialogues on Peace, Security and Cooperation in South Asia. Toronto: Joint Centre for Asia Pacific Studies, 1998, pp.315.
Editor and Contributor, Studying Asia Pacific Security: The Future of Research, Training and Dialogue Activities. Toronto: Join Centre for Asia Pacific Studies, 1994, pp.388. “Preface” (with Jusuf Wanandi), pp.1-3 and “The Dialogue Process on Asia Pacific Security Issues: Inventory and Analysis,” pp. 297-318.
With B. Michael Frolic, co-editor and contributor, Reluctant Adversaries: Canada and the People’s Republic of China, 1949-1970. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1991, pp.xii, 288. “Introduction,” pp.3-17 and “Epilogue: Canadian Recognition Initiatives, 1958-68,” pp.65-69. Chinese translation published by the Tianjin University Press, 1996.
John Fairbank and the American Understanding of Modern China. New York and Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1988, pp.xiv, 366. Chinese translation published by the Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences, 1995.
“The Future of Canada’s relationship with China,” with Wendy Dobson, Institute for Research on Public Policy, November 2015.
(for PDF version of this report, click here.)
With Don Campbell and Pierre Lortie, Securing Canada’s Place in Asia: Means, Institutions and Mechanisms, Task Force Report to the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada, 52 pp., 6 September 2012.
Ralph Cossa and Paul Evans, The ASEAN Regional Forum at 25: Moving Forward or Still Standing? – Issues & Insights Vol. 19, Working Paper #7. July 22, 2019, 37 pages.
With Xiaojun Li and Pascale Massot, “National Survey Results and Findings of Canadian Public Attitudes on China and Canada-China Relations,” 31 October 2019, 10 pp. Available along with links to three previous surveys at IAR Reports, https://sppga.ubc.ca/research-impact/publications
“Canadian Universities and China: Research Collaboration in Question,” Institute for Peace and Diplomacy, 18 September 2022, https://sppga.ubc.ca/news/october-2019-national-survey-results-and-findings-on-canadian-public-attitudes-on-china-and-canada-china-relations/
With David Dewitt and Brian Job, “Building Cooperative Security in Asia-Pacific: Canadian Track-Two Initiatives, 1989-2005,” Research Report, School of Public Policy and Global Affairs, University of British Columbia, 30 November 2024, https://sppga.ubc.ca/news/building-cooperative-security-in-asia-pacific/.
“Historians and Chinese World Order: Fairbank, Wang and the Matter of ‘Indeterminate Relevance’,” in Zheng Yongnian, ed., China and International Relations: The Chinese View and the Contribution of Wang Gungwu. London: Routledge: July 2010.
“Dancing with the Dragon,” lead essay in the Literary Review of Canada, April 2013.
“Between Truth and Power: Kim Kyung-Won, 1936-2012,” in Han Sung-Joo, editor,Thoughts and Wishes of a Liberal: Writings of Dr. Kim Kyung-Won, Seoul: Joong An Books and Company, 2013, pp. 36-58.
“A Farewell to Trans-Pacific Cosmopolitanism? On the Passing of Robert Scalapino, Kim Kyung Won and Yamamoto Tadashi,” Global Asia, Vol. 8, No. 4, Winter 2013, pp. 83-88.
“Human Security and East Asia”, in Martin and Owen, eds., The Routledge Handbook of Human Security Routledge 2014, pp. 272-82
“Close Encounters: How Best to Deal with a Rising China,” Literary Review of Canada, July-August 2015.
“Middle Powerism in the 21st Century: Mission Impossible?“, Global Asia, Vol. 11, No.1, Spring 2016.
“Co-operative Security 2.0,” with Chen Dongxiao, Global Asia, Cover Story, Vol.11, No.1, Spring 2016.
“Canada-China Relations and the Evolving Roles of Universities: Towards Partnerships 2.0.” in Ruth Hayhoe, et al., eds., “Canadian Universities in China’s Transformation: An Untold Story (McGill-Queens University Press, 2017).
“Techno-Nationalism in China-US Relations: Implications for Universities,” East Asian Policy, Vol. 12, No. 2, April/June 2020, pp. 80-92.
With Cheng-Chwee Kuik, “Middle Power Agency in an Indo-Pacific Era,” lead essay in Global Asia, Vol 18, No. 3, September 2023. https://www.globalasia.org/v18no3/cover/middle-power-agency-in-an-indo-pacific-era_paul-evanscheng-chwee-kuik
“Canada’s Asian Dream After America First,” East Asia Forum, lead article, 20 April 2025, https://eastasiaforum.org/2025/04/20/canadas-asian-dream-after-america-first/.
With David Dewitt and Brian Job, “Cooperative Security in the Asia-Pacific: Canadian Track-Two Initiatives, 1989-2005,” International Journal, 24 April 2025, https://doi.org/10.1177/00207020251337746
“Navigating the US-China Confrontation: Lessons from John Fairbank and the 1950s,” featured lecture, Institute of East Asian Studies Colloquium, University of California at Berkeley, 3 December 2019.
Testimony to the Special Parliamentary Committee on Canada-China Relations, by video conference, 24 February 2020. https://www.ourcommons.ca/Committees/en/CACN/Meetings
“What Remains of the Middle Power: Canada and China in the Era of American First,” Distinguished Public Lecture, National University of Singapore, Singapore, 17 January 2025, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RLRIXYu-6NU.
“The Future Trajectory of Canada-China Relations,” Centre on Contemporary China and the World, Hong Kong University, 19 February 2025, https://cccw.hku.hk/events/past-events/the-future-trajectory-of-canada-china-relations-guest-talk/
“Canada Contemplates the Harsh Realities of One World Two Systems,” East Asia Forum, 26 July 2020. https://www.eastasiaforum.org/2020/07/26/canada-contemplates-the-harsh-realities-of-one-world-two-systems/
“Canada Caught in the Vortex of US-China Techno-nationalism,” East Asia Forum, 26 February 2019, https://www.eastasiaforum.org/2019/02/26/canada-caught-in-the-vortex-of-us-china-techno-nationalism/.
(with Yuen Pau Woo), “Anti-China Sentiment is Becoming Anti-Chinese Prejudice,” op. ed., Globe and Mail, 21 June 2021. https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-anti-china-sentiment-is-becoming-anti-chinese-prejudice-in-canada/
“Canada’s New Indo-Pacific Strategy Bids Au Revoir to Middle Power Ambitions,” East Asia Forum, 19 December 2022. https://www.eastasiaforum.org/2022/12/19/canadas-new-indo-pacific-strategy-bids-au-revoir-to-middle-power-ambitions/
“理解和运用“保护的责任”原则：走向一致 [Interpreting and Applying the Responsibility to Protect: Paths to Common Ground]”, 新型大国关系：机遇与挑战 [New Type of Great Power Relations: Opportunities and Challenges], February 2015.
“诠释与落实“保护的责任”：通往共同点的途径 [Interpreting and Applying the Responsibility to Protect: A Path to Common Ground]”, 国际政治研究[The Journal of International Studies (Peking University)], Summer 2014.
“人的安全与东亚：回顾与展望 [East Asia and Human Security:Review and Prospects]”, 世界经济与政治 [World Economics and Politics], June 2004.
“新开端：加拿大与中华人民共和国（1949-1970）[Reluctant Adversaries: Canada and the People’s Republic of China, 1949-1970], 河南人民出版社, September 1995.
“费正清看中国 [John Fairbank and the American Understanding of Modern China]”, 上海人民出版社, May 1995.
The second instalment to the biography of John Fairbank published in 1988 [here] looking at his influence and meaning 30 years after his death in an era of US-China confrontation.
Ongoing public opinion studies of Canadian views on China and Canada-China relations as well as mainstream media narratives and English and Chinese language social media coverage.
Paul Evans (PhD with distinction Dalhousie University 1982) retired from UBC in June 2023 after 43 years of university teaching. He is currently Professor Emeritus.
His principal academic appointments have been at Acadia University, 1980-81; York University, 1981-99 where he directed the Joint Centre for Asia Pacific Studies; and UBC, 1999-2023 where he directed the Institute of Asian Research and held the HSBC Chair in Asian Research. He has had visiting appointments at several universities and think tanks including The Australian National University, National Chengchi University, The East-West Center in Hawaii, Harvard University, the National Institute for Research Advancement (Tokyo), Hong Kog University, Singapore Management University, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, and the National University of Singapore.
Between 2005 and 2008, he was seconded from UBC to serve as the Co-CEO of the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada. And between 2020 and 2023 he held the HSBC Chair in Asian Research at UBC.
An advocate of cooperative and human security, he has been studying and long promoted policy-related activity on track-two security processes and the construction of multilateral institutions. He was a co-founder of the Council for Security Cooperation in Asia Pacific (CSCAP), the Canadian Consortium on Human Security, and a co-founder of the Canada-Korea Forum. He has directed exchange and partnership projects with fifteen research institutes in Asia and the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs funded by governments and foundations in Canada, Japan, the United States, China, Taiwan, South Korea, Thailand and Indonesia. Between 1990 and 2002 he organized two dozen meetings involving participants from North Korea.
He is currently a Canadian representative on the ASEAN Regional Forum’s Experts and Eminent Persons Group and a Senior Fellow at the East Asia Institute at the National University of Singapore .
He sits on the editorial boards of The Pacific Review, the Chinese Journal of International Politics, the China Quarterly for International Strategic Studies, and Mexico y la Cuenca del Pacifico.
The author or editor of seven books, his first was a biography of John Fairbank, his most popular the two editions of a lexicon of Asia Pacific security terminology (with David Capie), and his most recent Engaging China: Myth, Aspiration and Strategy in Canadian Policy from Trudeau to Harper, published in 2014.
His recent writings and media commentaries have focused on issues in Canada-China relations, Asian security dynamics, and the emergence of techno-nationalism as a defining force in regional affairs. Some of them are available here and on his blog. His condensed academic CV is available here, and his complete academic CV is available here.
He is married to Catherine Evans and they plan to remain resident in Vancouver.
[Books | Reports | Essays | 中文著作 ]
Engaging China: Myth Aspiration and Strategy in Canadian Policy from Trudeau to Harper. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2014
With David Capie, The Asia-Pacific Security Lexion, 2nd revised and expanded edition.Singapore: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, 2007, pp.xv, 248.
With David Capie, The Asia-Pacific Security Lexicon. Singapore: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, 2002, pp.xv, 224. [Translated into Japanese, Chinese, Korean, Mongolian, Thai, and Vietnamese]
With Navnita Chadha Behera and Gowher Rizvi, Beyond Boundaries: A Report on the State of Non-Official Dialogues on Peace, Security and Cooperation in South Asia. Toronto: Joint Centre for Asia Pacific Studies, 1998, pp.315.
Editor and Contributor, Studying Asia Pacific Security: The Future of Research, Training and Dialogue Activities. Toronto: Join Centre for Asia Pacific Studies, 1994, pp.388. “Preface” (with Jusuf Wanandi), pp.1-3 and “The Dialogue Process on Asia Pacific Security Issues: Inventory and Analysis,” pp. 297-318.
With B. Michael Frolic, co-editor and contributor, Reluctant Adversaries: Canada and the People’s Republic of China, 1949-1970. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1991, pp.xii, 288. “Introduction,” pp.3-17 and “Epilogue: Canadian Recognition Initiatives, 1958-68,” pp.65-69. Chinese translation published by the Tianjin University Press, 1996.
John Fairbank and the American Understanding of Modern China. New York and Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1988, pp.xiv, 366. Chinese translation published by the Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences, 1995.
“The Future of Canada’s relationship with China,” with Wendy Dobson, Institute for Research on Public Policy, November 2015.
(for PDF version of this report, click here.)
With Don Campbell and Pierre Lortie, Securing Canada’s Place in Asia: Means, Institutions and Mechanisms, Task Force Report to the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada, 52 pp., 6 September 2012.
Ralph Cossa and Paul Evans, The ASEAN Regional Forum at 25: Moving Forward or Still Standing? – Issues & Insights Vol. 19, Working Paper #7. July 22, 2019, 37 pages.
With Xiaojun Li and Pascale Massot, “National Survey Results and Findings of Canadian Public Attitudes on China and Canada-China Relations,” 31 October 2019, 10 pp. Available along with links to three previous surveys at IAR Reports, https://sppga.ubc.ca/research-impact/publications
“Canadian Universities and China: Research Collaboration in Question,” Institute for Peace and Diplomacy, 18 September 2022, https://sppga.ubc.ca/news/october-2019-national-survey-results-and-findings-on-canadian-public-attitudes-on-china-and-canada-china-relations/
With David Dewitt and Brian Job, “Building Cooperative Security in Asia-Pacific: Canadian Track-Two Initiatives, 1989-2005,” Research Report, School of Public Policy and Global Affairs, University of British Columbia, 30 November 2024, https://sppga.ubc.ca/news/building-cooperative-security-in-asia-pacific/.
“Historians and Chinese World Order: Fairbank, Wang and the Matter of ‘Indeterminate Relevance’,” in Zheng Yongnian, ed., China and International Relations: The Chinese View and the Contribution of Wang Gungwu. London: Routledge: July 2010.
“Dancing with the Dragon,” lead essay in the Literary Review of Canada, April 2013.
“Between Truth and Power: Kim Kyung-Won, 1936-2012,” in Han Sung-Joo, editor,Thoughts and Wishes of a Liberal: Writings of Dr. Kim Kyung-Won, Seoul: Joong An Books and Company, 2013, pp. 36-58.
“A Farewell to Trans-Pacific Cosmopolitanism? On the Passing of Robert Scalapino, Kim Kyung Won and Yamamoto Tadashi,” Global Asia, Vol. 8, No. 4, Winter 2013, pp. 83-88.
“Human Security and East Asia”, in Martin and Owen, eds., The Routledge Handbook of Human Security Routledge 2014, pp. 272-82
“Close Encounters: How Best to Deal with a Rising China,” Literary Review of Canada, July-August 2015.
“Middle Powerism in the 21st Century: Mission Impossible?“, Global Asia, Vol. 11, No.1, Spring 2016.
“Co-operative Security 2.0,” with Chen Dongxiao, Global Asia, Cover Story, Vol.11, No.1, Spring 2016.
“Canada-China Relations and the Evolving Roles of Universities: Towards Partnerships 2.0.” in Ruth Hayhoe, et al., eds., “Canadian Universities in China’s Transformation: An Untold Story (McGill-Queens University Press, 2017).
“Techno-Nationalism in China-US Relations: Implications for Universities,” East Asian Policy, Vol. 12, No. 2, April/June 2020, pp. 80-92.
With Cheng-Chwee Kuik, “Middle Power Agency in an Indo-Pacific Era,” lead essay in Global Asia, Vol 18, No. 3, September 2023. https://www.globalasia.org/v18no3/cover/middle-power-agency-in-an-indo-pacific-era_paul-evanscheng-chwee-kuik
“Canada’s Asian Dream After America First,” East Asia Forum, lead article, 20 April 2025, https://eastasiaforum.org/2025/04/20/canadas-asian-dream-after-america-first/.
With David Dewitt and Brian Job, “Cooperative Security in the Asia-Pacific: Canadian Track-Two Initiatives, 1989-2005,” International Journal, 24 April 2025, https://doi.org/10.1177/00207020251337746
“Navigating the US-China Confrontation: Lessons from John Fairbank and the 1950s,” featured lecture, Institute of East Asian Studies Colloquium, University of California at Berkeley, 3 December 2019.
Testimony to the Special Parliamentary Committee on Canada-China Relations, by video conference, 24 February 2020. https://www.ourcommons.ca/Committees/en/CACN/Meetings
“What Remains of the Middle Power: Canada and China in the Era of American First,” Distinguished Public Lecture, National University of Singapore, Singapore, 17 January 2025, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RLRIXYu-6NU.
“The Future Trajectory of Canada-China Relations,” Centre on Contemporary China and the World, Hong Kong University, 19 February 2025, https://cccw.hku.hk/events/past-events/the-future-trajectory-of-canada-china-relations-guest-talk/
“Canada Contemplates the Harsh Realities of One World Two Systems,” East Asia Forum, 26 July 2020. https://www.eastasiaforum.org/2020/07/26/canada-contemplates-the-harsh-realities-of-one-world-two-systems/
“Canada Caught in the Vortex of US-China Techno-nationalism,” East Asia Forum, 26 February 2019, https://www.eastasiaforum.org/2019/02/26/canada-caught-in-the-vortex-of-us-china-techno-nationalism/.
(with Yuen Pau Woo), “Anti-China Sentiment is Becoming Anti-Chinese Prejudice,” op. ed., Globe and Mail, 21 June 2021. https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-anti-china-sentiment-is-becoming-anti-chinese-prejudice-in-canada/
“Canada’s New Indo-Pacific Strategy Bids Au Revoir to Middle Power Ambitions,” East Asia Forum, 19 December 2022. https://www.eastasiaforum.org/2022/12/19/canadas-new-indo-pacific-strategy-bids-au-revoir-to-middle-power-ambitions/
“理解和运用“保护的责任”原则：走向一致 [Interpreting and Applying the Responsibility to Protect: Paths to Common Ground]”, 新型大国关系：机遇与挑战 [New Type of Great Power Relations: Opportunities and Challenges], February 2015.
“诠释与落实“保护的责任”：通往共同点的途径 [Interpreting and Applying the Responsibility to Protect: A Path to Common Ground]”, 国际政治研究[The Journal of International Studies (Peking University)], Summer 2014.
“人的安全与东亚：回顾与展望 [East Asia and Human Security:Review and Prospects]”, 世界经济与政治 [World Economics and Politics], June 2004.
“新开端：加拿大与中华人民共和国（1949-1970）[Reluctant Adversaries: Canada and the People’s Republic of China, 1949-1970], 河南人民出版社, September 1995.
“费正清看中国 [John Fairbank and the American Understanding of Modern China]”, 上海人民出版社, May 1995.
The second instalment to the biography of John Fairbank published in 1988 [here] looking at his influence and meaning 30 years after his death in an era of US-China confrontation.
Ongoing public opinion studies of Canadian views on China and Canada-China relations as well as mainstream media narratives and English and Chinese language social media coverage.
