From 12:00 pm to 12:45 pm HST, Ms. Nguyen will present on her project Maritime Law Enforcement in the South China Sea as a Destabilizing Force? Preliminary Findings. Hong Kong To Nguyen (VNM) is a PhD student in International Relations at Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University. She received a BA in philosophy and political science from Columbia University and an MSc. in International Relations from Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University. As a current Japanese government (MEXT) scholar, she is studying maritime security and international law in the South China Sea. Besides graduate school, Nguyen is also a part-time researcher at the Centre for Interdisciplinary Social Research of Phenikaa University. She has written for Project Syndicate, The Diplomat, the Mekong Review, ISEAS Perspectives, and NBR’s Asia Policy.