ผศ.ดร.พงศ์พิสุทธิ์ บุษบารัตน์

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วุฒิการศึกษา

ปริญญาเอก

• Ph.D. in Political Science & International Relations (Australian National University)

ปริญญาโท

• M.Phil. in Development Studies (University of Cambridge)
• M.A. in International Affairs (Columbia University)

ปริญญาตรี

• ร.บ. ความสัมพันธ์ระหว่างประเทศ เกียรตินิยมอันดับหนึ่ง (จุฬาลงกรณ์มหาวิทยาลัย) [BA in Political Science (International Relations) with First Class Honours, Chulalongkorn University]

ความเชี่ยวชาญทางวิชาการ

• The role of great powers in the Asia Pacific/Indo-Pacific region (บทบาทมหาอำนาจในเอเซียแปซิฟิก/อินโด-แปซิฟิก
• Thailand’s foreign relations (ความสัมพันธ์ระหว่างประเทศของไทย)
• International relations in Southeast Asia especially mainland Southeast Asia (ความสัมพันธ์ระหว่างประเทศในเอเซียตะวันออกเฉียงใต้ โดยเฉพาะส่วนของภาคพื้นทวีป)
• Social Constructivism in IR and foreign policy (กรอบการวิเคราะห์เชิงสรรสร้างนิยมในความสัมพันธ์ระหว่างประเทศและนโยบายต่างประเทศ)

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Current Research Projects:

• The Anatomy of Choice: Southeast Asia between the Superpowers led by Yuen Foong Khong (NUS) and Joseph Liow (NTU).
• US-China Rivalry: Domestic Determinants in Foreign Policy in Southeast Asia, led by China-Hao Huang, Selina Ho, and Trisha Craig (Yale-NUS College).
• Comparative studies of Thailand’s self-identification with China and the US and its impacts on Thailand’s strategic direction towards the two powers, manuscript project (การสร้างอัตลักษณ์ของไทยกับจีน และ อัตลักษณ์ของไทยกับสหรัฐฯ ที่มีอิทธิพลต่อทิศทางยุทธศาสตร์และนโยบายต่างประเทศไทยต่อสองมหาอำนาจโดยเปรียบเทียบ
• China’s leadership consolidation in mainland Southeast Asia through Lancang-Mekong Cooperation (การขยายบทบาทนำของจีนในภาคพื้นเอเซียอาคเนย์ ผ่านกรอบความร่วมมือแม่โขง-ล้านช้าง)

Journal Articles:

• ‘“Bamboo Stuck in the Chinese Wind”: The Continuing Significance of the China Factor in Thailand’s Foreign Policy Orientation’, Contemporary Southeast Asia, Vol.46, No.1, 2024: 125-146.
• ‘China and Mekong Regionalism: A Reappraisal of the Formation of Lancang-Mekong Cooperation’, Asian Politics & Policy, Vol.13, No.1, 2021: 193-211.
• ‘Engagement and Strategic Competition in Mainland Southeast Asia’, Journal of Greater Mekong Studies, Vol.2, No.1, 2020: 35-42. 
• ‘Thai-US relations in the post-Cold War era: Untying the special relations’, Asian Security, Vol.13, No.3, 2017: 256-274.
• ‘Bamboo Swirling in the wind: Thailand’s policy imbalance between the United States and China’, Contemporary Southeast Asia, Vol.38, No.2., 2016: 233-257.
• ‘Re-examining self-reliance: collective and individual self-making in rural Thailand since the 1980s’, South East Asian Research, Vol.23, No.3, 2015: 335-356.
• ‘A review of Thailand’s foreign policy in mainland Southeast Asia: exploring an ideational approach’, European Journal of East Asian Studies, Vol.11, No.1, 2012: 127-154.

Book Chapters:

• ‘Thailand’s Perspective of the United States and China: A SWOT Analysis’ in Southeast Asian Perspectives of the United States and China : A SWOT Analysis, edited by Lee Jaehyon, Seoul, ASAN Institute for Policy Studies, 2023, pp. 94-112.
•  ‘Thai foreign policy in the regional power competition: flexibility or no strategy?’ in The Sage Handbook in Asian Foreign Policy, edited by Takashi Inoguchi, London: Sage Publication, 2020, pp.687-708.
• ‘Thailand’s foreign policy and its Neighbours’  in Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Thailand, edited by Pavin Chachavalpongpun, et al. Abingdon; New York: Routledge, 2020, pp.431-446.
• ‘Thailand in 2017: Stability without certainties’ in Southeast Asian Affairs 2018, edited by Daljit Singh and Malcolm Cook, Singapore: ISEAS Publishing, 2018, pp.343-362.
• ‘Thailand’s foreign policy: a harmonious diplomacy in the age of China’s rise’ in Harmonious Diplomacy Towards the United States and China. Seoul: Korea Institute for National Unification (KINU), 2015, pp.67-94.
• ‘Thailand’s foreign policy: the struggle for regional leadership in Southeast Asia’ in Benny TC Guan (ed.), Globalization, Development and Security in Asia, Volume 1: Foreign Policy and Security in an Asian Century: Threats, Strategies and Policy Choices, Singapore: World Scientific, 2014, pp.133153.
• ‘Thaksin Shinawatra’ in Leo Suryadinata (ed.), Southeast Asian Personalities of Chinese Descent: a Bibliographical Dictionary, Singapore: Chinese Heritage Centre, Nanyang Technological University, 2012.
• ‘Economic outlook: Thailand’, in Regional Outlook: Southeast Asia 2012-2013, Institute of Southeast Asian Studies Singapore, 2012, pp.185-191.

 Non-Peer Reviewed Articles, Reviews, and Commentaries:

• ‘Opportunities amidst the US-China power competition: A renewed engagement of regional stakeholders in mainland Southeast Asia’, CSCAP Regional Security Outlook, Canberra: Council for Security Cooperation in the Asia Pacific, 2019: 41-44.
•  ‘Thailand’s perspective on the new development of the Mekong sub-regional cooperation’, Outcome Report: The Future Prospects of the Mekong River, Phnom Penh: Cambodian Institute for Cooperation and Peace.
• Book Review, Thailand: Shifting Ground between the US and a Rising China by Benjamin Zawacki, Contemporary Southeast Asia, Vol.40, No.1, 2018: 166-169.
• ‘Grabbing the Forgotten: China’s Leadership Consolidation in Mainland Southeast Asia through the Mekong-Lancang Cooperation’, ISEAS Perspective, Vol.2018, No.7, 6 February 2018.
• ‘Shopping diplomacy: The Thai Prime Minister’s visit to the United States and its implications for Thai-US relations’, ISEAS Perspective, Vol.2017, No.78, 20 October 2017.
• ‘China’s “Shame Offensive”: The Omission of Thailand’s Prime Minister from the Belt and Road Initiative Summit 2017’, ISEAS Perspective, Vol.2017, No.54, 19 July 2017.
• ‘Is Bangkok trying to bend away from Beijing?’, East Asia Forum, 4 August 2017.
• ‘Why a strong Asean is essential for the region’, The Straits Times, 3 August 2017.
• ‘Thailand, long used to China’s carrots, now gets the stick’, TODAY, 3 August 2017.
• ‘Despite Progress, Challenges Remain for Thailand-China High Speed Rail Project’, ISEAS Commentaries, 17 July 2017.
• ‘Why was Thailand’s Prime Minister Absent in the Belt and Road Initiative Summit?’, ISEAS Commentaries, 9 June 2017.
• ‘Family making in Sino-Thai Relations’, Kyoto Review of Southeast Asia, No.18, January 2016.
• ‘India, Thailand Taking Steps to Expand Ties’, World Politics Review, 12 August 2015.
• ‘Thailand crisis: Three scenarios’, The Interpreter, 21 April 2014.
• ‘Is Thailand’s politics splitting the nation?’, The Interpreter, 18 March 2014.
• ‘Thailand Under Yingluck: Part II’ (foreign policy), World Politics Review, 1 March 2013.
• ‘Thailand Under Yingluck: Part I’ (domestic policy), World Politics Review, 28 February 2013.
• ‘Challenges in Thailand’s foreign policy’, Insight Asia Pacific, Issue 3, 2011, pp.24-25.
• ‘Time’s Arrow and the Burden of the Past: A Primer on the Thai Un-state’, edited by Craig J Reynolds, Sensate Journal: A Journal for Experiments in Critical Media Practice, 2012.
• ‘The world view of Yingluck Shinawatra’, Jakarta Globe, 11 July 2011.
• ‘Thai foreign policy under the new government’, East Asia Forum, 7 July 2011.
• ‘Thai-Cambodian conflict: an obstacle to the ASEAN Community 2015?’, East Asia Forum, 20 May 2011.
• ‘Linga bell, linga bell, jingle all the way’, New Mandala, 13 September 2010.
• ‘Thailand, international human rights and ISOC’, New Mandala, 27 January 2009.

Website

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