Great overview of the current drama in #Thailand and what to make of the newly elected PM. Ken Mathis Lohatepanont is consistently one of the best chroniclers of the ins and outs of Thai politics

In many ways, the international norm of democratic process is very much intact. It's how regimes approach the playing field that has shifted. If you're going to be at APSA next week, come check out our paper about this!

UPDATE: Appeals court granted Lookkate bail while the appeal proceeds; she continues to be an MP. But the case and conviction still represent a dark mark for Thai politics x.com/rangsimanrome/… #ลูกเกด #ชลธิชาแจ้งเร็ว #พรรคประชาชน #ม112

#BREAKING: Thailand’s Supreme Court sentences ex-PM Thaksin Shinawatra to 1 year jail, as his previous 6 months hospital detention was served not according to procedure.

One of the greatest safeguards for American democracy is the decentralized nature of its election infrastructure, in the hands of states/localities. The Trump administration is trying to whittle that away. Alarming new report with some of the details: nytimes.com/2025/09/09/us/…

America still has a “values-based” foreign policy example #3453

Really excited to join Stanford CDDRL this year as a postdoc! Will get to continue my work on opposition politics, authoritarianism, & the intl dimensions of political change, and engage with a community of scholars thinking about similar questions/challenges at a critical time

"...particularly for an administration that has eschewed large foreign interventions" I really wish reporters would stop credulously repeating this claim - it doesn't hold up when you actually look at this admin's foreign policy politico.com/news/2025/09/2…

US intervening directly in a foreign country's politics in a way that conflicts with Trump's supposed "transactionalism." We continue to have a "values-based" foreign policy, just with different values theguardian.com/us-news/2025/o…