Friends and colleagues in Cambodia are invited to attend a public lecture from CACS professor Paul Chambers on “Thailand’s Political Development and its Implications in Southeast Asia” at the Cambodian Institute for Cooperation and Peace in Phnom Penh, Friday, 8 September 2017.
APISA 11 20-21 October 2017 is taking place at Naresuan University in Phitsanulok, Thailand, 370 km north of Bangkok. Connectivity is quite good and there are multiple options to connect from Bangkok to Phitsanulok: air, train, and bus. Plenty of accommodation options are also available for APISA 11 attendees at a variety of prices. Please check our transportation…
Early bird registration for APISA 11 (at a reduced rate) has been extended to 15 September. For those of you who haven’t yet, please register here to take advantage of the extension, and watch here to follow all of the important dates leading up the APISA 11 congress!
CACS’s research team of Paul Chambers and Napisa Waitoolkiat have come together to edit this volume of seven studies of ‘khaki capital’—military domination of budgets, economy, and political power—throughout Southeast Asia: in Thailand, Myanmar, Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, the Philippines and Indonesia. Each chapter analyses the evolution of khaki capital in the case country; the role…
For graduate students and/or faculty seeking to attend APISA 11 at Naresuan University in Phitsanulok, Thailand on October 20-21, 2017, some limited funding opportunities are available. If you are interested, please email us as soon as possible to cacs@nu.ac.th. Funding priority will be given to participants from ASEAN and South Asian countries, although some others may…
This panel explores regional interdependencies of democratization in Asia in the cases of Indonesia, South Korea, Pakistan, the Philippines and Thailand. By examining features of the state, economy and society in each country, the panel will track each nation’s political evolution until today. Each case represents a different level of democracy (or lack thereof). Democratization—in terms…
Modern Geography is strongly involved in planning the surface of our planet, developing countries, communities and societies similar to the forming and protecting of natural and cultural habitats. This panel tries to carve out different ways including some examples of how important regional planning is for moving our societies forward. The panel includes four presentations.…
