Pavin Chachavalpongpun
Pavin Chachavalpongpun is an associate professor at Kyoto University’s Center for Southeast Asian Studies. Receiving his PhD from SOAS, University of London, Pavin is the author of “A Plastic Nation: The Curse of Thainess in Thai-Burmese Relations” and “Reinventing Thailand: Thaksin and His Foreign Policy.” Pavin is also the editor of the online journal “Kyoto Review of Southeast Asia” in which all articles are translated from English into Japanese, Thai, Bahasa Indonesia, Filipino, and Vietnamese.