Northern Illinois University
Department of Political Science
College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

Emphasis

• International Security
• International Relations Theory
• Regional and Global Governance
• Southeast Asia
• Qualitative Research Methods

Overview of Scholarly Activity

Professor Glas (Ph.D., University of Toronto), is an associate professor in the Department of Political Science and a faculty associate in the Center for Southeast Asian Studies. His research focuses on regional governance and diplomacy in Sourheast Asia and ASEAN, social international relations theory and interpretive and qualitative research methods. He is the author of more than 20 articles and book chapters and two books: Practicing Peace: Conflict Management in Southeast Asia and South America (Oxford University Press, 2022) and, with Professors Steven Bernstein and Marion Laurence, Norms, Practices and Social Change in Global Politics (Cambridge University Press, 2025).

Professor Glas serves as the co-chair of the American Political Science Association's Interpretive Methodologies and Methods Group and is a non-resident visiting senior fellow with the Cambodian Center for Regional Studies. He has previously been a lecturer at the University of Toronto, a British Academy visiting fellow at the London School of Economics and Political Science and a visiting fellow at the European University Institute. Professor Glas holds a Ph.D. from the University of Toronto (2017), an M.Sc. from the London School of Economics and Political Science (2008) and B.A. (Honors) from McMaster University (2007).

Professor Glas teaches courses on international relations, international relations theory, regionalism and regional organizations, research methods and politics and film. He is particularly interested in supervising research projects related to regional and global governance, US foreign policy, international organizations, social IR theory and other areas of international conflict and cooperation.

Selected Publications

Books

Bernstein, S., Glas, A. and Laurence M. (2025). Norms, Practices and Social Change in Global Politics. Cambridge University Press. Elements in International Relations Series.

Glas, A. (2022). Practicing Peace: Conflict Management in Southeast Asia & South America. Oxford University Press.

Journal Articles

Glas, A. and Plange Kwofie, E. 2026. “Environmental governance the ‘ASEAN Way.'” International Affairs. (Forthcoming)

Glas, A. and Porisky, A. (2026), “Researching Online and with Others.” Qualitative & Multi-Method Research. (Forthcoming)

Serey, R., Bivens, R.T. and Glas, A. (2024), “This is not the 90s': Myanmar and Change in ASEAN's Normative Order,” Pacific Affairs, 97(4), 773-794.

Glas, A. and Martel, S. (2024). Boundary work, overlapping identities and liminality in communities of practice: Diplomacy in ASEAN and beyond. Global Studies Quarterly, 4(1), 1-11.

Martel, S. and Glas, A. (2023). The contested meaning-making of diplomatic norms: Competence in practice in Southeast Asian multilateralism. European Journal of International Relations, 29(1), 227-252.

Porisky, A. and Glas, A. (2023). Insiders, outsiders and credible visitors in research. PS: Political Science and Politics, 56(1), 51-55.

Glas, A. and Laurence, M. (2022). Changing norms in practice: Noninterference in the UN and ASEAN. Journal of Global Security Studies, 7(2), 1-17.

Glas, A. (2021). Power, positionality and positions of power: Reflexivity in elite interviewing. PS: Political Science and Politics, 54(3), 438-442.

Glas, A. and Balogun, E. (2020). Norms in practice: People-centric governance in ASEAN and ECOWAS. International Affairs, 96(4), 1015-1032.

Soedirgo, J. and Glas, A. (2020). Toward active reflexivity: Positionality and practice in the production of knowledge. PS: Political Science and Politics, 53(3), 527-531.

Glas, A. (2018). African Union security culture in practice: African problems and African solutions. International Affairs, 94(5), 1121-1138.

Glas, A., van der Linden, C., Hoffmann, M. and Denemark, R. (2018). Understanding multilateral treaty-making as constitutive practice. Journal of Global Security Studies, 3(3), 339-357.

Glas, A. (2017). Habits of peace: Long-term regional cooperation in Southeast Asia. European Journal of International Relations, 23(4), 833-856.