Dung Phan is a PhD Candidate in International Relations at the Coral Bell School of Asia Pacific Affairs, Australian National University. Prior to joining ANU, he worked as a Research Officer with the Vietnam Studies Program at the ISEAS – Yusof Ishak Institute in Singapore. His research focuses on Vietnam’s foreign policy, memory politics, and Vietnam’s experiences with war, peace, and reconciliation. His PhD project examines Vietnamese agency in the transnational memory politics of Agent Orange/dioxin. His work has been published in Review of International Studies, Asia Policy, The Pacific Review, and Journal of Contemporary History, and Millennium. 

Commentaries

• Tunnels of Memory: Agent Orange and Vietnam’s Asymmetric Struggle for Justice
• Trump’s Aid Freeze Could Disrupt Progress in US-Vietnam Reconciliation (Fulcrum)
• Vietnam’s Era of ‘National Rise’: Great Expectations (Fulcrum)
• Nghệ thuật cân bằng quan hệ với các nước lớn [The art of balancing relations with major powers] (Thanh Nien) 
• Nguyen Phu Trong’s Foreign Policy Legacy: Shaping Vietnam’s Great Power Balance (Fulcrum)
• The Enduring Relevance of Vietnam’s “Three Nos” Policy (Fulcrum)
• The Case for Vietnam’s Mekong Energy Diplomacy (Fulcrum)
• Troubled Waters Ahead for Philippine-Vietnam Strategic Partnership on the South China Sea (Fulcrum)
• Can Vietnam Reach Its Offshore Wind Power Goals? (Fulcrum)
• Global Minimum Tax: Boon or Bane for Vietnam’s Economy? (Fulcrum)
• Vietnam and Singapore: Chicken Rice, Apom, Milk Tea and a Shared Strategic Outlook (Fulcrum)
• Recalibrating Vietnam’s Electricity Cooperation with Laos (Fulcrum)
• Vietnam’s Relations with the United States: Time For an Upgrade (Fulcrum)
• Vietnamese Private Enterprises’ Covid-19 Donations: Not All about Altruism (Fulcrum)
• Why Vietnamese Private Conglomerates Are Venturing Into Social Housing (Fulcrum)
• What’s Behind Vietnam’s ‘Bamboo Diplomacy’ Discourse? (Fulcrum)
• Russian Invasion of Ukraine Poses Geopolitical Quandaries for Vietnam (Fulcrum)
• High Vaccination Rates Bring Hope to Vietnam’s 2022 Economic Outlook (Fulcrum)
• Deepening US-Vietnam Ties: Less Geopolitics, More Human Security (Fulcrum)
• Vietnam’s Mekong Middle Power Diplomacy (Fulcrum)
• Agent Orange: Vietnam’s ‘Struggle for Justice’ Continues (Fulcrum)
• Nguyen Phu Trong’s Beijing trip: Safeguarding regime-state security (9DashLine)
• Japan's Vaccine Diplomacy: Quantity over Quality (9DashLine)
• Elevating India-Vietnam Maritime Cooperation in the Indo-Pacific Threater (9DashLine)
• Vietnamese War Victims’ Struggle for Justice: A Tale of Two Lawsuits (The Diplomat)
• Vietnam War Legacies and America’s Controversial Support for Ukraine (The Diplomat)
• How the US Can Mediate the Japan-South Korea Dispute (The Diplomat) 
• Rethinking India’s economic policy towards Vietnam (East Asia Forum)
• Managing the Vietnam–Indonesia North Natuna Sea dispute (East Asia Forum)
• How Abe’s diplomatic activism elevated Vietnam–Japan ties (East Asia Forum)
• Australia's middle power role in combating illegal fishing (East Asia Forum)