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| Organization |
| Executive Board Associate Professor Dr. Thitinan Pongsudhirak Associate Professor Chulanee Thianthai Associate Professor Dr. Keokam Kraisorapong Assistant Professor Dr. Naruemon Thabchumpon Assistant Professor Viengrat Nethipo Assistant Professor ... |
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| Interventions must have political goals |
| Military interventions all over the world are invariably easier to go into than to get out of. In many large-scale military operations, entry points quickly warp into elusive and murky exit plans as the fog of war sets in. Only with clear and realistic po... |
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| A Public Forum on Thailand’s outlook 2013: Politics, Economy, Borders and Beyond |
| A Public Forum on “Thailand’s outlook 2013: Politics, Economy, Borders and Beyond” , Wednesday, January 30th, 2013 at 8.30-11.30 a.m. at The Chumbhot-Pantip Conference Room, 4th Floor Prajadhipok-Rambhaibarni Building, Faculty of Political Science, ... |
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| Reforming Thailand’s Education System: Where To Start? |
| It has become a cliché to say that Thailand needs to fix its education system. All of Thailand’s myriad challenges from social polarization and income inequality to the lack of national economic competitiveness point to the country’s education woes. ... |
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| ASEAN ISIS |
| Background to ASEAN ISIS The ASEAN Institutes of Strategic and International Studies (ASEAN ISIS) is a loose association of institutes in the region that aim to strengthen regional cooperation through joint studies and seminars. It was established... |
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| Government meddling harms unity efforts |
| The tendency of governments to shoot themselves in the foot never ceases to amaze. In Thailand's latest high-profile case of official self-affliction, the government of Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra lost the plot when it tried to rope in key dom... |
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| Asean regionalism amid authoritarianism. |
| If three Asean members -- Indonesia, Myanmar and the Philippines -- have led the way in shedding their authoritarian past, three others -- Thailand, Cambodia and Malaysia --have gone the other way.... |
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| Street rallies yield to parliamentary process |
| It felt like deja vu for a while. As parliament reconvened, anti-government columns lined up, ready to rumble and depose the government of Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra, this time under a new rubric called the People's Democratic Force to Overth... |
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| Asean test ground for democracy, dictators. |
| Much is being discussed in Southeast Asia this month as Asean, the region's premier organisation, reaches its golden jubilee. One salient issue is the domestic politics and governance within individual Asean states and across them.... |
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| Bringing insurgency to an end will be a long, hard slog |
| The media hype in Bangkok surrounding Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra's recent meeting with Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak in Putrajaya sounded as if peace was at hand in Thailand's restive southernmost border provinces where a deadly M... |
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| Speaking peace to Asean |
| Never before in its 45 years of existence has the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) received so much public attention in Thailand.... |
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| Thaksin’s Thailand : Populism and Polarisation |
| This report was published by the Institute of Security and International Studies at Chulalongkorn University in co-operation with the National Thai Studies Centre of the Australian National University and brings together six papers on the former prime min... |
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| Thailand’s US pivot: hedging or hugging? |
| For the past three years, Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha has been obsessed with the country’s human trafficking record. He has single-handedly pushed for extensive reforms in all areas of this explosive issue.... |
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| Pitak Siam postmortem offers many lessons |
| That the anti-government Pitak Siam (Protecting Thailand) protest movement has subsided from a bang to a whimper in merely four weeks offers a host of reality checks and lessons for Thailand's political polarisation. At issue is whether the leading p... |
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| Democracy and Human Security in Southeast Asia |
| The chapters in this book were produced as papers for a conference to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Institute of Security and International Studies (ISIS)-Thailand, held in Bangkok on 27 - 28 October 2006. The theme of the conference, "Democracy a... |
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| Is the Thai-Chinese railway a raw deal? |
| Despite repeated assurances to the contrary from the government of Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha, the planned Thai-Chinese high-speed rail continues to attract scepticism. The government's explanation does not add up. Instead, it exposes the weakn... |
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| Thailand's superpower courtship |
| Whether it comes out of Bangkok or Washington, foreign policy ultimately derives from domestic politics. Long after United States President Barack Obama leaves Bangkok on this round of shuttle visits to three mainland Southeast Asian nations as part of hi... |
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| Migrant workers policy yet another flop |
| Assessed from just about any angle, it is difficult not to see Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha's recent policy announcements on migrant workers as a series of self-inflicted flops. While damage control is the government's immediate concern, Tha... |
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| The rise of CLMT and the need for more G-2 |
| By happenstance and design, Mr Obama will leave tense and probably inconclusive negotiations over America's "fiscal cliff" with congressional leaders in favour of a presidential shuttle between Thailand and Myanmar to culminate with the East Asia Sum... |
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| US poll has huge implications for Thailand |
| Whether it is out of love or hate, or mostly somewhere in between, the nations and peoples around the globe are tuning in to see who will occupy the White House come January. For Thailand, beyond the sheer excitement and media frenzy, the contest between ... |
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| Trump's pragmatic pivot back to Asia |
| It is ironic and counter-intuitive, but the administration of President Donald Trump is making more inroads for the United States into South-east Asia than the neighbourhood might have expected. His predecessor, Mr Barack Obama, invested enormous energy a... |
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| Cultivating the major powers |
| While its neighbours have had prickly relations in the recent or distant past with either China or Japan, Thailand is counted as a valued partner through the contemporary thick and thin by both Beijing and Tokyo while all the while remaining a formal ally... |
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| 'Zbig': Renowned geopolitical maestro |
| Last week's death of Zbigniew Brzezinski, the renowned thinker, writer and practitioner of geopolitics throughout the Cold War and onetime national security adviser to former US president Jimmy Carter in the late 1970s, has elicited generally positiv... |
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| New great game in mainland Southeast Asia |
| Ms Yingluck's first several months in office were largely written off as her government was consumed by the flood crisis. When Thailand's worst deluge in decades subsided by January, the Yingluck government began to implement its raft of campaig... |
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| Reality sets in three years after the coup |
| Three years after it seized power in Thailand's 13th successful coup in 85 years, the government of Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha appears embattled. Growing popular grievances have focused on Thailand's economic doldrums, persistent corruptio... |
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| What next after judicial deja vu? |
| The sense of deja vu that pervades Thailand's political landscape in the lead-up to the Constitution Court's decision Friday on whether the lower house has violated the charter by trying to amend it harbours short- and longer-term implications.... |
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| The submarine deal that won't go away |
| Despite widespread public opposition, the Thai navy inked a 13.5-billion-baht contract last week for the first of what will be three Chinese submarines in an 11-year deal worth 36 billion baht. Myriad criticisms have been expressed in as many media platfo... |
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| Key players holding Asean hostage! |
| After the Asean foreign minister failed to issue the joint communiqué last week, a frequently asked question has been: which countries are holding Asean hostage?... |
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| Trump promotes a 'pivot in Asia' |
| It was bound to happen. With one brief trans-Pacific phone call to Thai Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha, U.S. President Donald Trump replaced the playbook that has governed U.S.-Thai... |
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| U-TAPAO BROUHAHA : The politics of the Nasa controversy |
| Thai quipsters have put it aptly _ it is now easier for the United States' National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Nasa) to go to the Moon than to come to Thailand, now that the government of Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra has opted for pa... |
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| Dynamics of Reconciliation in Myanmar |
| Myanmar’s opposition leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, has made enough of a point without derailing her country’s spectacular political settlement by democratic means when she stood up to her opponents and later budged.... |
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| Thailand lacks understanding of CLMV |
| Thailand loves to discuss plans to help its neighbouring countries. “Prosper-Thy-Neighbour” has been the motto for decades for successive Thai governments. Since the end of the Vietnam war and the subsequent rapid economic development period of 1980s,... |
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| How much more can Thailand take? |
| As the process of picking up the pieces has begun after the worst of the flood has subsided, many questions and challenges have surged to the fore. Chief among them will be how the authorities intend to shore up the Thai economy in the aftermath of such d... |
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| Challenges, prospects of 2017 constitution |
| Nearly three years after its last military coup, there is good and bad news as Thailand gears up to leave behind the current period of military government, whose record has been mixed at best.... |
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| Why Thailand is not taken seriously on rights issues |
| Long before the concept of Responsibility to Protect (R2P) existed, which gave a new meaning to the duties and responsibilities of states and individuals to prevent inhuman acts of all kinds, Thailand has long shown goodwill and humanitarian gestures, wit... |
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| Thailand's empire-building tycoons |
| BANGKOK During Thailand's boom years, between 1986 and 1996, business owners didn't have to look far beyond their own national borders to guarantee healthy profits.... |
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| Thailand and Philippines: Twins separated at birth. |
| The best description of Thailand-Philippine friendship would be as twins separated at birth. Both countries are close allies of the US and each has their ups and downs. They fought side by side as members of the UN-led international forces in the Korean W... |
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| Dire airport, culture hub belie 'Thailand 4.0' |
| Thailand is prone to policy faddism. Several years ago, the AEC (Asean Economic Community) was all the rage until it officially came into being with a whimper at the end of 2015. Back then, hardly a day went by without some kind of a workshop or conferenc... |
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| Trump, Southeast Asia and Thailand |
| No newly inaugurated president of the United States in the contemporary era is more controversial nor as derided as Donald Trump. Already, there have been pre-inauguration insinuations and plots among his critics and detractors to see him eventually impea... |
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| A Sino-American showdown in Southeast Asia? |
| From his election campaign to the eve of his inauguration, U.S. President-elect Donald Trump's initial isolationist leanings have morphed into a knee-jerk foreign policy conducted under an "America First" geostrategic mantra.... |
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| A primer on Asean for Trump |
| Six things the new US president should know about this 50-year-old group The new United States President Donald Trump must be “fantastically” happy with a “wonderful” Asean because it is the only “great” regional organisation that has no milit... |
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| Forging a Thai-Myanmar partnership in Asean |
| At a briefing in Yangon last Monday, Myanmar’s de facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi expressed appreciation for Thailand’s efforts and understanding of the situation in Rakhine State. She also thanked her eastern neighbour for its ongoing assistance there.... |
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| Thailand's prospects for 2017 and beyond |
| Thailand's prospects for 201 and beyond Thailand and the world at large are concurrently going through a rut that comes with the transitional end of any long era. For the world, this period is known as the postwar liberal order that was constructed... |
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| Asean at 50: Thailand must do more |
| As one of the founding countries of Asean five decades ago, Thailand has a responsibility to ensure that the group is running well and moving towards full implementation of the Asean Community (AC), which is now entering its second year.... |
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| How a Trump presidency will affect Southeast Asia |
| The spectacular electoral upset that handed Donald Trump victory in the Nov. 8 U.S. presidential election will hasten the end of the 70-year-old postwar liberal order and shift relations between the U.S. and Southeast Asia onto a new footing that favors i... |
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| America's presidential poll and Thai-US ties |
| As the current presidential cycle in the United States closes with elections on Nov 8, there will be a global sigh of relief that it is finally over. The longest electoral contest in the world's ostensible bastion of democracy has become increasingly... |
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| King Bhumibol leaves behind a grateful nation |
| The passing of King Bhumibol Adulyadej brings to a close a defining chapter in Thailand. During his seven-decade rule, the monarch presided over Thailand's climb from a village backwater to a modern nation.... |
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| Why the Thai people cry for His Majesty |
| While the vast majority of Thais at home and abroad are in a mourning mood, yearning for a bygone past with an emerging angst for what is to come after King Bhumibol Adulyadej's spectacular seven-decade reign, this grief is not universally shared.... |
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| Thailand as we knew it is now at an end |
| When it comes to public readership, I was taught more than 30 years ago to write invariably in the third person. The time has come for change and exception because there is no better way for me to describe what has just happened in Thailand. What was once... |
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| After a decade of polarisation, a new balance in Thailand |
| The Aug 7 referendum in Thailand yielded a surprising result, with most voters backing a charter drafted by the military government. The result shows that voters want compromise and reconciliation for Thailand, with both monarchist and democratic elements... |
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| Thailand attacks: who are the likely perpetrators? |
| The coordinated bomb and arson attacks across Thailand’s southern provinces may signal a new phase of confrontation and brinkmanship, following the vote in favour of a military-backed constitution in a referendum on Sunday.... |
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| Manila adds new political dynamic to Asean |
| Should Asean issue a strong statement against China? Should Asean display solidarity against China? The bloc’s rhetoric on China has always been an enigma because it pertains to longstanding, unique Asean diplomatic approaches.... |
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| Thailand prepares for Trump as ties warm up |
| From zero to hero is the trajectory of Thailand’s future relations with the US. Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha is scheduled to visit Washington in mid-June in response to US President Donald Trump’s invitation. The trip will mark an important step t... |
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| Duterte’s wild ideas on expanding Asean |
| With the Philippines chairing the regional block, Asean has never had a dull moment. President Rodrigo Duterte has lived up to his country’s pronounced theme of “Partnering with the region, engaging the world”.... |
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| Myanmar’s peace process and international players |
| When the second session of the 21st Century Panglong Peace Conference was held last month, China emerged as the most important foreign player. Other countries long associated with the push for peace before the current process took shape have had to fine-t... |
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| Asean at 50: China-US rivalry now a key concern |
| Nobody could predict that as Asean moves past its 50-year mark, a new international environment would emerge that will require the regional group to do further soul-searching. New buzzwords about uncertainties and unpredictability — due to sudden reserv... |
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| Obama II: What it Means for Southeast Asia and Thailand |
| A Seminar on Obama II: What it Means for Southeast Asia and Thailand 8:30 a.m.-11:30 a.m. on Tuesday, 20 November 2012 in the Chumbhot-Pantip Conference Room, 4th Floor Prajadhipok-Rambhaibarni Building, Faculty of Political Science, Chulalongkorn Univers... |
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| Public Forum on Monday 5 August 2013 |
| “Elections, Democracy and Regional Community-Building: Implications from Malaysia and Cambodia in 2013”, Monday, 5 August 2013, 01.30 – 04.00 p.m. Saranites Conference Room, 2nd Floor, Main Auditorium Chulalongkorn University... |
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