Leading Scholar Urges Thailand to Support Karen, Karenni Autonomy in Myanmar

Thailand’s view of Myanmar as a single, unified state no longer reflects the federalized political landscape emerging over the border, according to a top Thai scholar.

Dr. Fuadi Pitsuwan, a lecturer in International Relations at Thammasat University’s Faculty of Political Science, added that Thai policy makers tend to see Myanmar – and especially the border – through a security lens.

This ignores political and economic changes that are reshaping the country, including its frontier with Thailand, the Oxford-educated academic said.