Date and Time
April 1, 2010
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM

Availability
Open to Stanford faculty, students, staff, and visiting scholars

Speaker
Thitinan Pongsudhirak - Visiting Scholar at CDDRL / Humanities Center

Dr. Thitinan Pongsudhirak is Director of the Institute of Security and International Studies (ISIS) and Associate Professor of International Political Economy at the Faculty of Political Science, Chulalongkorn University. He has authored a host of articles, books and book chapters on Thailand's politics, political economy, foreign policy, and media as well as ASEAN and East Asian security and economic cooperation. He is frequently quoted and his op-eds have regularly appeared in international and local media, including a column in The Bangkok Post. Dr Thitinan has worked for The Nation newspaper, The BBC World Service, The Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU), and Independent Economic Analysis (IDEA) as well as consulting projects related to Thailand's macro-economy and politics. He received his BA from the University of California, MA from the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, and PhD from the London School of Economics where his work on the political economy of the Thai economic crisis in 1997 was awarded the United Kingdom's Best Dissertation Prize, currently the only Asian recipient of this award.

His publications include: "Between Continuity and Change: Thailand's Topsy-Turvy Foreign Policy Directions" in Global Asia, October-December 2009; "The Search for A New Consensus" in Journal of International Security Affairs, Fall 2009; "The Tragedy of the 1997 Constitution" in John Funston (ed.), Thailand's Continuing Crises: The Coup and Violence in the South, Singapore: ISEAS, 2009; "After the Red Uprising," Far East Economic Review, May 2009; "Why Thais Are Angry," The New York Times, 18 April 2009; "Thailand Since the Coup,"  Journal of Democracy, October-December 2008; "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; "The Malay-Muslim Insurgency in Southern Thailand" in Andrew T.H. Tan (ed.), Handbook on Terrorism and Insurgency in Southeast Asia, Singapore: Edward Elgar, 2007; and "Thaksin's Political Zenith and Nadir" in Southeast Asian Affairs 2006, Singapore: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, 2006. Dr Thitinan has been selected as Stanford University International Scholar for spring 2010. He was Salzburg Global Seminar Faculty Member in June 2009, Japan Foundation's Cultural Leader in 2008, and Visiting Research Fellow at ISEAS in Singapore in 2005, having lectured at many local and overseas universities.