Dr. Yves-Heng Lim is a Senior Lecturer in Security Studies at the School of International Studies, Discipline of Security Studies, Macquarie University. His research focuses on the balance of power in the Indo-Pacific, the evolution of China’s strategy, with a particular interest for China’s naval strategy, and international relations theory (realism and power transition theory). Yves-Heng is author of China’s Naval  Power: an Offensive Realist Approach (Farnham: Ashgate Publishing, 2014) and of more than twenty peer-reviewed articles and book chapters. His works appeared in The Journal of Strategic Studies, The Journal of Contemporary China, Contemporary Strategy, and Asian Security. Yves-Heng was the Learning and Teaching Coordinator/Director of Education and Employability for Department of Security Studies and Criminology (now Discipline of Security Studies) betwee 2016 and 2024. He is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.

• Asia/Indo-Pacific security
• China's grand strategy and military affairs
• Naval strategy
• International relations theory: realism(s)
• International relations theory: power transition theory

Current:

• PICT/X3015 (Co-taught) Security Policy Analysis: Current and Emerging Issues
• PICT/X8025 Defence Analysis and Net Assessment (2025-)
• PICT/X8950 Crisis Simulation (2025-)

Past:

• PICT/X1012 Strategy and Security in the Indo-Pacific Region (2016-2019, 2021)
• PICT/X913 Asia Pacific Security (2017)
• PICT/X8950-5 Simulation (2018-2024)
• PICT/X8961-5 Decision Making, Scenario Planning and Simulation (2020-2024)

Yves-Heng is interested in supervising projects related to traditional security in the Indo-Pacific region.