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Curriculum Vitae
Thailand’s Trade Policy Strategy and Capacity (in Thai), co-authored with Dr Razeen Sally, Bangkok: Department of International Relations, Chulalongkorn University, 2008. Ten Years After the Economic Crisis: Thai Democracy at a Three-Way Crossroads (in Thai), Bangkok: Double AA Publishers, 2007. Great Issues in Thailand's Public and Foreign Policies in the Next Decade (in Thai), co-edited with Abhinya Rattanamongkolmas, Bangkok: The Institute of Security and International Studies, 1994. ARTICLES AND BOOK CHAPTERS: “Thaksin: Competitive Authoritarian and Flawed Dissident” in John Kane, Haig Patapan and Benjamin Wong (eds), Dissident Democrats: The Challenge of Democratic Leadership in Asia, New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008. “Mainland Southeast Asia, ASEAN and the Major Powers in East Asian Regional Order” in Jun Tsunekawa (ed.), Regional Order in East Asia: ASEAN and Japan Perspectives, Tokyo: National Institute for Defense Studies, 2007. “World War II and Thailand After 60 Years: Legacies and Latent Side-Effects” in David Koh (ed.), World War II: Transient and Enduring Legacies for East and Southeast Asia 60 Years On, Singapore: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, 2007. “The Malay-Muslim Insurgency in Southern Thailand” in Andrew T.H. Tan (ed.), A Handbook of Terrorism and Insurgency in Southeast Asia, Singapore: Edward Elgar, 2007. “Thaksin’s Political Zenith and Nadir” in Southeast Asian Affairs 2006, Singapore: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, 2006. “Thailand” in Russell H.K. Heng and Rahul Sen (eds), Regional Outlook: Southeast Asia, 2006-2007, Singapore: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, 2006. “Thai Politics After the 6 February 2005 General Election”, Trends Series, Singapore: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies (ISEAS), March 2005. “Thailand’s Foreign Policy Under the Thaksin Government”, EurAsia Bulletin, Brussels: European Institute of Asian Studies, December 2004. “The Rise of Bilateral Free Trade Areas in Asia” in Hank Lim and Chungly Lee (eds), The North-South Divide: An Appraisal of Asian Regionalism, Singapore: Marshall Cavendish Publishers, 2004. “Globalisation and Its Thai Critics” in Yoichiro Sato (ed.) Growth and Governance in Asia, Honolulu: Asia Pacific Centre for Security Studies, 2004. “Thailand: Democratic Authoritarianism”, Southeast Asian Affairs 2003, Singapore: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, 2003. “Small Arms Trafficking in Southeast Asia: A Perspective from Thailand” in Philips J. Vermonte (ed.), Small Is (Not) Beautiful: The Problem of Small Arms in Southeast Asia, Jakarta: Centre for Strategic and International Studies, 2004. “Autonomy, Institutions, and the Baht Crisis”, in Dieter Mahneke, Kullada Kesboonchoo-Mead, Prathoomporn Vajrasthira, and Rudolf Hrbek (eds), ASEAN and the EU in the International Environment, Asia-Europe Studies Series Volume 4. Baden-Baden, Germany: Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft, 1999. “Thailand’s media: Whose watchdog?” in Kevin Hewison (ed.), Political Change in Thailand. London: Routledge, 1997. “ASEAN Security Imperatives: Lessons From European Security Cooperation”, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok: Journal of European Studies, Vol. 3, 1995. “The Central Plains”, a chapter in Water Conflicts, Bangkok: Thailand Development Research Institute (TDRI), 1995. “Thailand’'s Foreign Economic Policies in An Uncertain Era: Arranging Priorities for the 21st Century” (in Thai), a chapter in Abhinya Rattanamongkolmas and Thitinan Pongsudhirak (eds), Great Issues in Thailand’s Public and Foreign Policies in the Next Decade (in Thai), 1994. SELECTED OP-EDS: The Bangkok Post, “The politics of Thaksin’s homecoming”, 29 February 2008 The Bangkok Post, “Resurgent populism under ‘B Team’”, 8 February 2008 The Bangkok Post, “Samak's prospects and longevity”, 1 February 2008 The Bangkok Post, “A grand tug-of-war still prevails”, 22 January 2008 The Bangkok Post, “When Hong Kong comes to Bangkok”, 11 January 2008 The Asian Wall Street Journal, “Let the Party Begin”, 28 December 2007 The Bangkok Post, “PPP-led govt not a foregone conclusion”, 25 December 2007 The Bangkok Post, “Populism triumphs in an emerging new Thailand”, 20 December 2007 OpinionAsia.org, “Thai Rak Thai’s Reincarnations To Win the Election”, 18 December 2007 The Asian Wall Street Journal, “The Resurrection of Thai Rak Thai”, 12 December 2007 The Bangkok Post, “The post-election numbers game”, 3 December 2007 The Bangkok Post, “Asean’s bang ends in a whimper”, 28 November 2007 The Bangkok Post, “Coalition govt a foregone conclusion?”, 13 November 2007 OpinionAsia.org, “Thailand’s Biggest Question Mark: King Bhumibol’s Health”, 11 November 2007 The Bangkok Post, “Leadership shapes electoral landscape”, 24 October 2007 The Bangkok Post, “The junta plays a new ball game”, 10 October 2007 The Bangkok Post, “ASEAN’s failure and Thailand’s shame”, 28 September 2007 The Bangkok Post, “The Politics of Gen Sonthi’s civilian role”, 27 September 2007 The Bangkok Post, “Little good about ‘good’ coup”, 19 September 2007 South China Morning Post, “Climbing on the ruins of Thai democracy”, 6 September 2007 The Asian Wall Street Journal, “A Poor Poll”, 21 August 2007 OpinionAsia.org, “Thailand’s Power Holders Put Thaksin Away”, 20 June 2007 OpinionAsia.org, “Anti-Thaksin Draft Charter is a Dead End”, 30 April 2007 OpinionAsia.org, “Thai junta in search of Exit Strategy”, 29 March 2007 The Asian Wall Street Journal, “Thailand’s Constitutional Crisis”, 24 May 2007 The Bangkok Post, “Designed to prevent monopoly”, 20 April 2007 The Asian Wall Street Journal, “A Coup Disgraced”, 12 April 2007 The Bangkok Post, “A long road to general election day”, 10 April 2007 The Bangkok Post, “Government's baht policy in disarray”, 28 March 2007 The Bangkok Post, “CNS in search of an exit strategy”, 23 March 2007 The Bangkok Post, “Reshuffle unlikely to be PM's last”, 14 March 2007 The Bangkok Post, “Crisis of leadership hits Surayud govt”, 2 March 2007 The Irrawaddy, “Thailand’s Titanic Struggle”, February 2007 OpinionAsia.org, “Thaksin is down but still not out”, 16 February 2007 The Bangkok Post, “The Surayud govt's moral setback”, 20 February 2007 The Bangkok Post, “Bangkok's two-airport imperative”, 14 February 2007 The Bangkok Post, “CNS, govt face high stakes at Suvarnabhumi”, 12 February 2007 The Bangkok Post, “Enough is definitely not enough”, 26 January 2007 OpinionAsia, “The End of Thailand (as we know it), 20 January 2007 The Bangkok Post, “Singapore's insensitive miscalculation”, 18 January 2007 The Bangkok Post, “Legal clarity becomes policy confusion”, 13 January 2007 Asia Times Online, “Thailand’s Year of Living Dangerously”, 5 January 2007 The Bangkok Post, “Objective clear, identity murky”, 4 January 2007 The Bangkok Post, “Surayud govt's technocratic debacle”, 27 December 2006 The Bangkok Post, “Alarming constitutional preferences”, 22 December 2006 The Bangkok Post, “Alarming rifts in anti-Thaksin coalition”, 15 December 2006 Asia Times Online, “Singapore's troubled Shin Corp deal”, 13 December 2006 The Bangkok Post, “Something is odd about the coup”, 24 November 2006 The Bangkok Post, “Doing a Thaksin deepens Singapore's culpability”, 13 November 2006 The Bangkok Post, “Military losing post-coup momentum”, 2 November 2006 The Bangkok Post, “No honeymoon for the general”, 3 October 2006 The Bangkok Post, “Uphill struggle ahead for coup council”, 26 September 2006 The Bangkok Post, “Stepping in to heal the breach”, 22 September 2006 The Bangkok Post, “Political implications of election delay”, 20 September 2006 The Bangkok Post, “The politics of Suvarnabhumi Airport”, 13 September 2006 The Bangkok Post, “C-in-C's olive branch anathema to CEO”, 6 September 2006 The Irrawaddy, “Thailand at the Crossroads”, September 2006 The Bangkok Post, “Behind Thaksin's self-victimisation”, 29 August 2006 The Bangkok Post, “The Democrat party’s moment of truth”, 16 August 2006 The Bangkok Post, “Brinkmanship at nation’s expense”, 7 August 2006 The Bangkok Post, “Small step in the right direction”, 31 July 2006 The Bangkok Post, “Decree does not legitimise Thaksin”, 24 July 2006 The Bangkok Post, “Thaksin goes on the offensive” 12 July 2006 The Bangkok Post, “Coupling may exonerate TRT”, 29 June 2006 The Bangkok Post, “End of beginning in Thailand’s crisis”, 19 May 2006 The Bangkok Post, “A murky way out of the political crisis”, 5 May 2006 The Bangkok Post, “Post-Thaksin economic policy challenges”, 14 April 2006 The Bangkok Post, “The political standoff is not over”, 7 April 2006 The Bangkok Post, “PAD needs to regroup and rethink”, 29 March 2006 The Bangkok Post, “Thaksin’s endgame is now in sight”, 17 March 2006 International Herald Tribune, “Thailand: Thaksin’s challengers have responsibility, too”, 14 March 2006 The Bangkok Post, “Boycott: the easy, but wrong, way out”, 28 February 2006 The Bangkok Post, “PM must dissolve House now, or resign in disgrace later”, 24 February 2006 The Bangkok Post, “House dissolution is best way out”, 10 February 2006 The Bangkok Post, “Is Temasek complicit in scandal?”, 6 February 2006 The Bangkok Post, “Perception, not the substance, is vital”, 3 February 2006 The Bangkok Post, “Thaksin’s political insurance policy”, 26 January 2006 The Bangkok Post, “Thaksin’s political survival at stake”, 13 January 2006 The Bangkok Post, “Sondhi should go back to his office”, 9 December 2005 The Asian Wall Street Journal, “Thai Democracy on the March”, 2-4 December 2005. The Bangkok Post, “Egat could be Thaksin’s undoing”, 28 November 2005 The Bangkok Post, “The de-mystification of PM Thaksin”, 20 September 2005 The Bangkok Post, “Latent effects from Thailand’s brush with the great war”, 16 August 2005 The Bangkok Post, “Thailand’s wartime balancing act”, 15 August 2005 The Irrawaddy, “A Win-Win-Win Proposition for Thaksin”, August 2005 The Bangkok Post, “What next after the emergency decree?”, 22 July 2005 The Bangkok Post, “The hawks now in complete charge”, 19 July 2005 The Bangkok Post, “’Thaksinomics’ ignores the reality”, 15 July 2005 The Bangkok Post, “The ‘little empires’ are striking back”, 28 June 2005 The Bangkok Post, “Seeing through obfuscation”, 24 May 2005 The Bangkok Post, “Bloody events have mixed legacy”, 20 May 2005 The Straits Times, “Stay the course on southern troubles”, 9 April 2005. The Straits Times, “Thaksin’s second chance in Thailand”, 26 March 2005. The Asian Wall Street Journal, “Facing Up to Thailand’s Separatism”, 11 November 2004 The Asian Wall Street Journal, “Thaksin Flirts With Liverpool”, 26 May 2004 The Bangkok Post, “Thaksin casts a wide spell”, 19 January 2004. Far Eastern Economic Review, “Behind Thaksin’s War on Terror”, 25 September 2003. International Herald Tribune, “No dissent in Bangkok?”, 5 March 2002. International Herald Tribune, “But the Prime-Minister-to-Be Could Be Ruled Out”, 10 January 2001. International Herald Tribune, “Thailand’s Incompetent Government Cries Out for Reform,” 12 August 1997. International Herald Tribune, “One Year After the Thai Crisis: Some Winners and Losers”, 2 July 1998. Far Eastern Economic Review, "Avoid the 18th coup," (5th column), 4 April 1991. *** Additional op-eds written for The Nation and Bangkok Post available on request. OTHER MEDIA: TELEVISION: Commented on Thai politics and macro-economy for CNN, CNBC, BBC World, Bloomberg TV, NHK, Australian Broadcasting Corporation, Channel News Asia, Reuters TV, AFPTV, APTV, PBS, Al Jazeera, BBC2 Newsnight Program, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, Star TV News, The MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour (May 1992), and local Thai TV stations 5, 9, 11, UBC8, and iTV. PRINT AND RADIO: Quoted in The Economist, The Financial Times, The New York Times, Time, Newsweek, Bloomberg News, International Herald Tribune, The Washington Post, The Guardian, The Times of London, Le Figaro, Le Match, Der Spiegel, Straits Times, Today, New Straits Times, Sydney Morning Herald, The Star, USA Today, Boston Globe, Asahi Shimbun, Mainichi Shimbun, Kyodo News, Nikkei, Far Eastern Economic Review, Asian Business, Reuters, AP, AFP, Bloomberg, National Public Radio, Voice of America, Radio Singapore, Radio Australia, Radio Scotland, BBC World Service East Asia Today, and BBC NewsHour, among other broadcast outlets OTHER BACKGROUND DETAILS: Languages: Thai (native); Thai and English (bilingual); French (functional) Hobbies: Competition-level tennis Marital Status: Married to Dr Pavida Pananond; with one daughter |