6/6: Written and revised between Asia and Europe — @UniofOxford, @Politics_Oxford, @StAntsCollege, @UnivOxford, @NUSingapore, @nus_ari, @asian_peace, @sgSMU, @sgSMUSOSS

5/6: Warm gratitude to @OUPPolitics especially Dominic Byatt and Phoebe Aldridge-Turner, plus their colleagues Rajalakshmi Ezhumalai and Anthony Mercer

4/6: and to those who provided comments at various stages—including @wbain.bsky.social, @CourtneyFung, Robbie Shilliam, Chris Reus-Smit, Naoko Shimazu, Quỳnh Phạm, Heloise Weber

3/6: Thanks to many mentors, assessors, and those who were there at an early stage—including Eddie Keene, Karma Nabulsi, Neil MacFarlane, and Jennifer Welsh

2/6: My deepest intellectual debt is to my supervisor—Andy Hurrell