Duncan McCargo
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Duncan McCargo is a professor of Southeast Asian politics at the University of Leeds specializing in Thailand and Asia-related topics. He holds three degrees from the University of London: a First in English (Royal Holloway 1986); then an MA in Area Studies (Southeast Asia) (1990), and a PhD in Politics (1993) (the later two from the School of Oriental and African Studies). He has also taught at Queen's University Belfast, and at Kobe Gakuin University, Japan.
McCargo's PhD thesis, "The political leadership of Major-General Chamlong Srimuang" was published in a revised form as Chamlong Srimuang and the new Thai politics in 1997.[1]
McCargo has published several other books, including: Politics and the Press in Thailand: Media Machinations (Routledge 2000, Garuda 2002), Reforming Thai Politics (edited, NIAS 2002), Media and Politics in Pacific Asia(Routledge 2003), Rethinking Vietnam (edited, Routledge 2004), The Thaksinization of Thailand (with Ukrist Pathmanand, NIAS 2005) and Rethinking Thailand's Southern Violence (edited, NUS Press, 2007). His most well-known book is probably the popular student text Contemporary Japan (Palgrave 2000, second edition 2004).
McCargo's writings regarding the "network monarchy", a term describing King Bhumibol Adulyadej and his proxies, particularly former Prime Minister Prem Tinsulanond, were especially influential among Thai academics.[2]
[edit] References
- ^ Profile from Thai Politics @ Leeds
- ^ Duncan mcCargo, Pacific Review, "Network monarchy and legitimacy crises in Thailand", Volume 18, Number 4, December 2005
