International Relations as a Discipline in Thailand
There has long been considerable debate about the nature of non-Western IR theory. Most attempts to understand such a phenomenon begin by taking a top-down approach on a country by country basis. Instead, this book takes a bottom-up approach, involving specialists from a range of Thai universities, revealing the contours of the Thai IR community. It examines the state of various sub-fields under the IR rubric in Thailand such as foreign policy analysis, security studies, international political economy and area studies, and how Thai thinkers in these fields have contributed to IR as a discipline and IR theory development in Thailand. In doing so, it identifies factors unique to Thai academia which have hindered the development of an indigenous-sourced theory as well as exploring the similarities shared with other non-Western contexts that have posed an obstacle to the creation of a more general non-Western IR theory.
Providing both an in-depth insight into the specific phenomena of Thai IR theory, and a broader perspective on the challenges of formulating non-Western IR theory, this book aims to push the debate on non-Western IR theory forward. It will be of particular interest to readers looking for a better understanding of IR theory in Thailand, but also for those more generally looking to formulate and characterise non-Western approaches to the discipline.
Chanintira na Thalang is Associate Professor at the Faculty of Political Science at Thammasat University, Bangkok, Thailand.
Soravis Jayanama is Associate Professor at the Faculty of Political Science at Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand.
Jittipat Poonkham is Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Political Science at Thammasat University, Bangkok, Thailand.
IR Theory and Practice in Asia
This series will publish philosophical, theoretical, methodological and empirical work by prominent scholars, as well as that of emerging scholars, concerned with IR theory and practice in the context of Asia. It will engage with a wide range of issues and questions ranging from meta-theoretical underpinnings of existing Western-oriented IR theories to ways of theorising Asian histories and cultures.
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International Relations as a Discipline in Thailand
Theory and Sub-fields
Edited by Chanintira na Thalang, Soravis Jayanama and Jittipat Poonkham
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International Relations as a Discipline in Thailand
Theory and Sub-fields
Edited by Chanintira na Thalang, Soravis Jayanama and Jittipat Poonkham
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Names: Chaninthira Na Thalang, editor. | Sorawit Chaiyanam, editor. | Chittiphat Phunkham, editor.
Title: International relations as a discipline in Thailand : theory and subfields / edited by Chanintira na Thalang, Soravis Jayanama and Jittipat Poonkham.
Description: New York : Routledge, 2019. | Series: IR theory and practice in Asia | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2018018221| ISBN 9780815396819 (hardback) | ISBN 9781351180887 (e-book)
Subjects: LCSH: International relations Study and teaching (Higher) Thailand.
Classification: LCC JZ1238.T5 I67 2019 | DDC 327.071/1593 -dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2018018221
ISBN: 978-0-8153-9681-9 (hbk)
ISBN: 978-1-351-18088-7 (ebk)
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Contents
AMITAV ACHARYA
CHANINTIRA NA THALANG, SORAVIS JAYANAMA AND JITTIPAT POONKHAM
JITTIPAT POONKHAM
SORAVIS JAYANAMA
CHYATAT SUPACHALASAI
M.L. PINITBHAND PARIBATRA
PONGKWAN SAWASDIPAKDI
KASIRA CHEEPPENSOOK
JANJIRA SOMBATPOONSIRI
CHANINTIRA NA THALANG
PINN SIRAPRAPASIRI
NATTHANAN KUNNAMAS
CHANINTIRA NA THALANG
KULLADA KESBOONCHOO MEAD AND JITTIPAT POONKHAM
Contributors
Chanintira na Thalang is Associate Professor of International Relations at Thammasat University. Her current research interests include ASEAN; ethnic conflicts and ethno-nationalism with a special focus on Indonesia, Thailand and the Philippines. She is the author of a number of books written in Thai. Her work has also been published in English in a variety of academic journals such as Nations and Nationalism, Asian Survey, Electoral Studies, the Journal of Current Southeast Asia and the Australian Journal of International Affairs and a number of edited volumes including Institutionalizing East Asia: Mapping and Reconfiguring Regional Cooperation published with Routledge in 2016.
Chyatat Supachalasai is a lecturer of political thought and international politics at the School of Law and Politics, Suan Dusit University in Bangkok. He seeks to understand issues in world politics based on the frameworks of political theory, Lacanian psychoanalysis, poststructuralism, postcolonial theory, decolonial philosophy, and trauma theory.
Janjira Sombatpoonsiri is Assistant Professor of International Relations at Thammasat University. Her first book in English, Humor and Nonviolent Struggle in Serbia (New York: Syracuse University Press, 2015), looks at the use of humour as a nonviolent vehicle of democratic change particularly in Serbias 1990s. Her latest publications include The 2014 Military Coup in Thailand: Political Implications for Conflict and Resolution, Journal of Asian Peacebuilding vol. 5 no. 1 (2017): 13154; Securitisation of Civil Resistance: The Thai Junta and Beyond, Journal of Resistance Studies
