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Organization |
Executive Board Assistant Professor Dr. Pongphisoot Busbarat (Director) Associate Professor Dr. Chulanee Thianthai Associate Professor Dr. Keokam Kraisorapong Associate Professor Viengrat Nethipo Associate Professor Dr. Jakkrit Sangkhamanee As... |
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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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After Yingluck: What’s Next for Thai Politics? |
Former Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra's absence at her court verdict on 25th August 2017 has become a turning point in Thai politics. Questions abound as to what will now happen to Yingluck and her Pheu Thai party, which is also seen as answerabl... |
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(May 12, 2023) Potential tricks and results in Thai poll |
The fundamental risk in Thailand's election this Sunday is that ruling incumbents, spearheaded by coup-maker-cum-prime minister Prayut Chan-o-cha and underpinned by the powers-that-be, are headed for a big loss. Yet they are unlikely to go away witho... |
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(May 9, 2023) Can Jakarta push peace in Myanmar? |
By this weekend, the world will find out whether the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) -- under Indonesian chairmanship -- will be able to overcome challenges in Myanmar's peace process and bridge the divisions among various stakeholders... |
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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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A Shared Future: The EU’s Vision for the Indo-Pacific |
The EU’s Strategy for Cooperation in the Indo-Pacific, launched in April 2021, aims to strengthen the EU’s engagement with countries in the region through a comprehensive approach that encompasses various areas such as trade, investment, connectivity,... |
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(May 5, 2023) No exit from our democratic future |
As Thailand's much-anticipated poll on May 14 heads into its homestretch, several clear trends and patterns are emerging to suggest that democratisation is making an inexorable comeback in this country, with positive implications for Southeast Asia a... |
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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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(April 25, 2023) Vietnam's 'bamboo' foreign policy clout |
Vietnam is the only Southeast Asian country at this critical moment to be facing a major challenge as it attempts to juggle the three great powers -- China, Russia, and the US -- simultaneously. It is as if Hanoi is keeping a dagger, a bomb, and a gun in ... |
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(April 28, 2023) Done and emerging battles in Thai poll |
Thailand's poll-leading Pheu Thai Party (PTP) is fighting a war it has already won. Consequently, its pledged freebie of 10,000 baht in a digital wallet for Thai people is superfluous and unnecessary. As the populism war has run its course, a new bat... |
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(May 11, 2022) US must assist with climate finance |
As US President Joe Biden is due to meet with leaders from Southeast Asian countries this week at the US-Asean Summit in Washington from May 12-13, one issue on which Washington bears an enormous responsibility -- and from which Asean countries suffer eno... |
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(June 22, 2022) Hey soldier, mind your missus |
"If a soldier is going to defect, the first thing he does is consult his wife," says Su Thit, a young and determined-looking Burmese woman. "If she agrees, then it will happen." She should know, having urged her husband, an army captain, to leave his unit... |
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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A Public Forum - Thailand's ASEAN Chair: Challenges Ahead |
As is widely known, Thailand is ASEAN’s rotational chair for 2019. Thailand’s foreign policy team has geared up for this task for many months and is poised to carry out its duties in view of ASEAN’s myriad challenges from the “Free and Open Indo-P... |
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Surin Pitsuwan and ASEAN: A Tribute |
As you know, Dr Surin was a Thai Foreign Minister and statesman and later an ASEAN Secretary-General who put Southeast Asia’s regional organisation on the maps and in the minds of many in capitals around the world. Apart from being ASEAN’s tireless an... |
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