Thailand Update 2018: Towards Thailand 4.0?

9:00-9:15 a.m. – Registration

9:15-9:30 a.m. – Opening Remarks

9:30-10:45 a.m. – Panel I: Foreign Policy

• Thailand’s Foreign Relations with ASEAN, China, and the US, Apichai Shipper, Foreign Service Institute
• Thailand 4.0: The Junta’s Post-Coup Nation Branding Project, Petra Desatova, School of Politics and International Studies, University of Leeds

10:45-11:00 a.m. Coffee Break

11:00 a.m.-12:15 p.m. Panel II: Electoral Politics

• Thailand’s Roadmap to Democracy: Political Crisis and Political Transition, Pitch Pongsawat, Chulalongkorn University
• Looking forward to Elections: Party Prospects and Potential Pitfalls, Allen Hicken, University of Michigan

12:15-1:15 p.m. Lunch

1:15-2:30 p.m. Panel III: Economy and Public Policy

• Thailand 4.0: Is The Thai Government Solving Old Problems in A New Way?, Arwiphawee Srithongrung, Associate Professor of Public Administration, Wichita State University
• Various Understandings of ‘Thailand 4.0’: Unrevealed Conflicts, Naphon Phumma, Faculty of Economics, Thammasat University

2:30-2:45 p.m. Coffee Break

2.45-4:00 p.m. Panel IV: Policy Contexts

• Charting the Cartography of the NCPO’s Media and Technology Policy on its Path to Thailand 4.0, Penchan Phoborisut, California State University-Fullerton
• Not a Deep State: Justice and Politics in Late-Reign Thailand,Duncan McCargo, Columbia University

4:00 p.m. – Program Concludes

Event Details

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