Termsak Chalermpalanupap

Research Interest
Politics in Thailand; Thai political parties; social and economic issues in Thailand; and Thailand's role in ASEAN

Researcher’s Profile

Dr Termsak is from Bangkok. He is a visiting senior fellow and acting-Coordinator of Thailand Studies Programme at ISEAS – Yusof Ishak Institute. Previously he was a researcher on ASEAN political and security cooperation at ISEAS’s ASEAN Studies Centre. Prior to joining the Institute in July 2012, Dr Termsak had served at the ASEAN Secretariat for nearly 20 years. His last post before retirement in July 2012 was Director of APSC Department’s Division of Political and Security Cooperation. Prior to joining the ASEAN Secretariat in early 1993, Dr Termsak had worked at The Nation, an English-language daily in Bangkok.

 

Current Research

• Politics in Thailand; role of opposition parties, particularly Move Forward Party, in Thai politics
• The upcoming drafting of a new constitution
• Changing demography and its implications in Thailand
• Thailand’s infrastructural development, especially in the southern economic corridor.

 

Selected Publications

• ISEAS Perspective No. 1/2023 “Dangerous Unintended Consequences Loom in Wake of Thailand’s Hasty Legalisation of Marijuana”
• ISEAS Perspective No. 24/2023 “What’s Interesting about the Thai General Election is not Who Wins but What Comes After”
• ISEAS Perspective No. 43/2023 “Move Forward Party Has Won the Election, but May Lose the Premiership Race”