"Thitinan Pongsudhirak" is a Thailand/Thai political science/political scientist, speaker and Associate Professor at Faculty of Political Science, Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok, where he is the Director of the Institute of Security and International

Studies (ISIS), Faculty of Political Science. He completed his PhD from the London School of Economics. He completed an M.A. from the School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) of the Johns Hopkins University and B.A. from the University of California, Santa Barbara.

He was formerly Deputy Dean for International Affairs at the Faculty of Political Science of Chulalongkorn University. As a consultant for Airports of Thailand (AOT), he assisted the AOT management on its road show prior to Initial Public Offering/listing on the Stock Exchange of Thailand. From 1998 to 2005, he has also worked for Economist Intelligence Unit. He was a Visiting Fellow at Stanford_Humanities_Center/ Stanford Humanity Center, Stanford University in 2010.

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The protest has put serious pressure on the government. But it has not reached the point where the government will collapse.

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The very people who the PAD is trying to attract are the prospective victims of the disruptive downtown demonstrations.

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We are in for a long haul.

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Everyone wants to come to the June diamond jubilee celebration with grace and dignity. We don't want to have protests in the streets.

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It takes a lot to go out and vote for no one.

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The concept of legitimacy in Thailand is not just about elections. It has a moral and ethical component to it.

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He is defying his opponents by saying 'while you guys are singing and dancing, I have a business to run'.

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After five years, we still don't have a policy platform from the party. I haven't heard what they are going to do with Thailand.

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In a time of intractable crisis like this, we have the king to look to, but ideally we should try to solve our problems ourselves to mature as a democracy.

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