Bangkok, May 2010: Perspectives on a Divided Thailand

Contributors

CONTRIBUTORS Aekapol Chongvilaivan is Fellow in and Coordinator of the Regional Economic Studies Programme of the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies and editor, most recently, of Curbing the Global Economic Downturn: Southeast Asian Macroeconomic Policy (2010). Ammar Siamwalla is Distinguished Scholar at and former President of the Thailand Development Research Institute. He is the dean of Thai economists, and a scholar with longstanding interests in Thailand’s agricultural economy, rural sector, and political economy. Marc Askew is Associate Professor in the Regional Studies Program at Walailak University. He is, most recently, editor of Legitimacy Crisis in Thailand (2010) and author of a series of major articles on the conflict in Thailand’s far South. Chris Baker is an independent scholar. With Pasuk Phongpaichit, he has co-authored numerous volumes and articles treating Thai history, Thai politics, and the Thai economy. Most recently, the pair have translated The Tale of Khun Chang Khun Phaen (2010) into English. Chairat Charoensin-o-larn is Associate Professor of Political Science at Thammasat University. His research and publications concern such modern French critical theorists as Michel Foucault, Roland Barthes, Jacques Derrida, Gilles Deleuze, and Jacques Rancière and include a project on the aesthetics of contemporary Thai politics. x Contributors Michael Connors teaches politics in the School of Social Sciences, La Trobe University. He is author of Democracy and National Identity in Thailand (2003; revised edition, 2007) and of “Thailand’s Emergency State: Struggles and Transformations”, Southeast Asian Affairs 2011. He is at work on a manuscript entitled “Contemporary Thailand: Politics, Culture, Rights”. Shawn Crispin is Southeast Asia Editor of Asia Times Online and Senior Southeast Asia Representative of the Committee to Protect Journalists. He is a former Bangkok bureau chief for both the Far Eastern Economic Review and Wall Street Journal. Federico Ferrara is Assistant Professor in the Department of Asian and International Studies of the City University of Hong Kong. He is the author of Thailand Unhinged: The Death of Thai-Style Democracy (2011) and numerous articles on electoral and party systems. David Fullbrook is an independent researcher with interests in agribusiness , conflict, development, energy, the environment and food security. His expertise lies in China, Laos, the Mekong River, Thailand, and Southeast Asia in general. He has worked with intergovernmental organizations, bilateral development agencies, and corporations, and contributed frequently to newspapers and magazines in the United Kingdom and East Asia. Tyrell Haberkorn is Research Fellow in the Department of Political and Social Change of College of Asia and the Pacific of the Australian National University. She is the author of Revolution Interrupted: Farmers, Students, Law, and Violence in Northern Thailand (2011). Kevin Hewison is Director of the Carolina Asia Center, and Professor in the Department of Asian Studies of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He has published extensively for nearly three decades on globalization and social change in Southeast Asia, especially Thailand; democratization; and labour issues. Contributors xi Kasit Piromya was the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Kingdom of Thailand from 2008 to 2011. During thirty-seven years as a career diplomat, his posts included those of Thai ambassador to Russia, Indonesia, Germany, Japan, and the United States. Charles Keyes is Professor Emeritus of Anthropology and International Studies at the University of Washington. He has continuously conducted field-work in Thailand for five decades and published numerous books and articles on issues of religious, social, and economic change in Thailand. His monograph Isan: Regionalism in Northeastern Thailand (1967) ranks among the most influential works ever published on Thailand’s Northeast. It appeared in Thai translation in 2009. Duncan McCargo is Professor of Southeast Asian Politics at the University of Leeds and author of Tearing Apart the Land: Islam and Legitimacy in Southern Thailand (2008) and numerous other agenda-setting works on Thai politics. Michael J. Montesano is a Visiting Research Fellow at the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies and a historian. He is the book review editor for the blog New Mandala, and a regular columnist on Southeast Asian affairs for the Wall Street Journal Asia. Ann Marie Murphy is Associate Professor in the Whitehead School of Diplomacy and International Relations at Seton Hall University and Fellow of the National Asia Research Program. Her research, both academic and policy-oriented, concerns political development in Southeast Asia, American policy towards the region, and the international relations of Asia. She is co-editor of Legacy of Engagement in Southeast...