Thanyathip SRIPANA

Institution: Institute of Asian Studies

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Brief Self Introduction:
    Thanyathip Sripana is a political scientist and a senior researcher at the Institute of Asian Studies, Chulalongkorn University. She is also lecturer in various institutions in Thailand, and occasionally gives lecture in Vietnam and Malaysia. Receiving a scholarship from the French government, she earned her doctorate degree from Faculte de Droit et de Science Politique (Faculty of Law and Political Science), Universite d’Aix-Marseille III, France.
    Vietnamese Studies has taken up much of her time since 1988, with her experience doing research in France, Canada, Japan, and countries in the Mekong Sub-region: Laos and Cambodia. She has especially conducting in-depth research in Vietnam.
    Her academic field and interest is on Vietnamese Studies and Mekong Studies. They include Vietnamese politics, economics and culture; the Thai-Vietnamese relationship; Vietnamese foreign policy; Vietnamese migration to Thailand; Ho Chi Minh’s presence in Thailand; Vietnamese labour migration; Human security in the Greater Mekong Sub-region (GMS); Human trafficking and Animal trafficking along the routes in the Greater Mekong Sub-region; Trade and tourism in the Greater Mekong Sub-region; Connectivity in the Greater Mekong Sub-region.
    Actually she is Visiting Research Fellow, Center for Southeast Asian Studies (CSEAS), Kyoto University, from March 1 to August 31, 2011. She is conducting a research and writing a book on “Ho Chi Minh in Thailand: The Struggle for Vietnamese Independence”.
    The issue on the Thai workers in Japan is another issue attracting her interests since she recently has had contact and opportunities to interview some Thais working in Japan, as well as the returnees from Japan in Chiang rai and Phayao, Thailand.

Main Publications (in Thai):
1. The Viet Kieu in Thailand in Thai-Vietnamese Relationship (received an award of “The Best Research of the Year 2005” from Chulalongkorn University)

2. Vietnam’s Foreign Policy since 1986: A Case of Vietnam’s Policy towards Thailand

3. The Route No.9 and Thai (Non-Traditional) Security

4. Vietnam in Various Aspects

5. When Vietnam Reforms

6. “Vietnam”, in Yearly Asian Review (since 1995 until now), Institute of Asian Studies, Chulalongkorn University

Research Activities:
1. The Situation of the Vietnamese Labour in Malaysia (API Fellowships Program 2009-2010)

2. The Viet Kieu in Thailand in Thai-Vietnamese Relationship (Supported by Rockefeller Foundation, 2001-2004)(received an award of “The Best Research of the Year 2005” from Chulalongkorn University)

3. New Thinking of  Vietnamese Foreign Policy (Asian Scholarship Foundation  1999-2000)

4. Vietnamese Foreign Policy toward Thailand (2006)

5. Thai-Vietnamese Relationship after Vietnamese Economic Reform

6. The Study on the Route No. 8 in the Greater Mekong Sub-region (2009)

7. The Route No.9 in the Greater Mekong Sub-region and Thai Security (2008)

8. Forging Thailand-Vietnam Cooperation in Developing Tourism on Route No. 9 and its Adjacent Areas (2007)

9. Tourism in the South of Vietnam through Southern Economic Corridor; (2006-2007)

10. Investment of Japan and the Newly-Industrialized Countries in Vietnam (1998)

11. The Potential of Thai Investment in Vietnam (1996)

12. The Thailand-Vietnam Trade (1994)

Research Committee Member: 
 •The Committee of Mekong Studies Center, Institute of Asian Studies, Chulalongkorn University, Thailand
 
 •The Committee of the Indochinese Center, Burapa University, Thailand

 •The Committee of Academic Development, Institute of East Asian Studies, Thammasat University, Thailand

 •The Committee of the CLMV Center, Institute of East Asian Studies, Thammasat University, Thailand

 •The Editorial Committee of E-Journal, School of History, Politics and Strategy, Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, University Kebangsaan Malaysia, Malaysia

In the past:
 •Adviser on international affairs to the Governor of  Mukdahan Province, Thailand

 •Head of  Indochinese Center, Institute of East Asian Studies, Thammasat University, Thailand

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