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Duncan McCargo is an eclectic, internationalist political scientist, and literature buff: his day job is teaching Southeast Asian politics at NTU in Singapore.
Why was the late Ajarn Chaiwat Satha-Anand so passionate about bringing peace to Thailand’s deep south? How did he try to speak nonviolence to Thai po…
In this inaugural episode of Talking Thai Politics, Pannika Wanich of the Progressive Movement talks about generational contestation in Thailand, as w…
What does nation-branding mean to you? For many listeners, the term probably conjures up ideas of catchy slogans and international tourism or trade pr…
Where were the Brontë sisters actually born? If this was a quiz question, most people would give the wrong answer. Even standard books on the Brontë f…
What explains the varying treatment of ethnic minorities in Southeast Asia? Why have some states in the region been far more successful than others in…
Why have issues of human rights become so contentious in Indonesia, 25 years after the much-heralded post-Suharto democratic transition? What kind of …
Why is Malaysia in need of electoral reform? How can we explain recent changes including the anti-party hopping law and the successful UNDI18 campaign…
Did the bloody 1 February 2021 military coup in Myanmar produce an unexpected ‘solidarity dividend’ by unifying opponents of the new regime from a ran…
What went wrong with Burma’s democratic experiment? How are we to understand the country’s turbulent politics in the wake of the 2021 coup? In this c…
Why has Thailand had 20 constitutions since 1932? What accounts for the remarkable veneration Thais often feel towards these short-lived documents? Ho…
How is China trying to influence media across Asia and indeed globally? Why has this ambitious project achieved rather mixed results so far? And how s…
How far did post-UNTAC Cambodia exemplified an expanded Habermasian public sphere? What happened when a range of aid agencies, private donors, activis…
What are the problems with Samuel Huntington’s views about civil-military relations? Why do military coups persist in countries such as Pakistan, and …
Why does Japanese immigration policy have such a bad name? What are the historical origins of tight immigration policies? Where have these policies le…
How can we get our articles in Asian studies published? What criteria should we use in selecting what journals to target? On what basis do journal edi…
What is the relationship between the military and the monarchy in Thailand? How has that relationship changed since King Vajiralongkorn (Rama X) assum…
Why should we view the anti-China protests that began in Hong Kong in 2019 through a comparative lens? How do earlier episodes in Hong Kong’s history …
Why is the Thai military so deeply embedded in socio-economic development projects, longer after the end of the Cold War? How come serving generals co…
Does the rise of China mean that studying Japan is inexorably declining? Many students become interested in Japan because of popular culture, such man…
Timor-Leste is choosing a president. What is the significance of the 2022 presidential elections in Timor-Leste? Has Asia’s youngest and newest countr…
In conversation with Duncan McCargo about her new book Chasing Freedom: The Philippines Long Journey to Democratic Ambivalence (Sussex Academic Press,…
Why has Myanmar experienced so many massive street protests recent years? How can we go about studying these sorts of mass demonstrations? What kinds …
Why did leading historians in both Indonesia and the Philippines become involved in projects to write national histories during the 1970s? How far wer…
When did the Cold War in East Asia really begin? According to ADI-NIAS researcher Kuan-Jen Chen, the answer is 1945 – if we view the Cold War through…