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Dr Kaewkamol Pitakdumrongkit

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Deputy Head of Centre for Multilateralism Studies; Deputy Coordinator of International Political Economy Programme
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BA (California State University, Long Beach); MA; PhD (University of California)
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ASEAN’s Perspective on Economic Recovery
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Dr Kaewkamol Pitakdumrongkit

Assistant Professor
Deputy Head of Centre for Multilateralism Studies; Deputy Coordinator of International Political Economy Programme
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BA (California State University, Long Beach); MA; PhD (University of California)
: [email protected]
: +65 6790 5983
: CMS

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Biography

Dr. Kaewkamol “Karen” Pitakdumrongkit is Deputy Head and Assistant Professor at the Centre for Multilateralism Studies, S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS) of Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. She completed her MA and PhD in Political Science at the University of California, Santa Barbara, U.S.A. Her research interests include international economic negotiation, Southeast Asian and East Asian economic governance (focusing on trade, money and finance), regional-global economic governance dynamics, the ASEAN Economic Community, and cooperation between ASEAN and dialogue partners (ASEAN-Plus frameworks). She has published in various outlets such as The Singapore Economic Review, The International Relations of the Asia-Pacific, The Pacific Review, Australian Outlook, The Diplomat, Eurasia Review and East Asia Forum. Her media interviews include Bangkok Post, Bloomberg, Business Times, Channel News Asia, CNBC Asia-Pacific, New Straits Times, The Strait Times, South China Morning Post, and Xinhua. Besides publications and media engagement, Dr. Karen organized several capacity-building programmes such as the Annual RSIS-World Trade Organization (WTO) Parliamentarian Workshops in Singapore, and In-Country Workshops on Technical Trade Issues which are tailored to the specific needs of the trade officials in Asian countries. She was also part of the team involved in composing the elements of the ASEAN Economic Community Blueprint 2025. In addition, Dr. Karen teaches courses on International Economics for International Political Economy, and the Political Economy of Southeast Asia at the RSIS MSc International Political Economy programme, and occasionally provides briefings to international diplomats and military students at Singapore’s Goh Keng Swee Command and Staff College.

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Areas of Expertise

  • International Negotiations
  • International Economic Governance (e.g. WTO, IMF, AIIB, CPTPP, RCEP)
  • Regional-Global Economic Governance Dynamics
  • Free and Open Indo-Pacific
  • Economic Development
  • ASEAN+3 Financial Cooperation
  • ASEAN Economic Community and ASEAN’s External Economic Relations
  • Mekong subregion

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Professional Activities

Referee for the following journals:  Global Studies Quarterly, Journal of Southeast Asian Economies, Journal of Asian and African Studies, International Journal of East Asian Studies, International Relations of Asia-Pacific, International Theory, Pacific Affairs, Pacific Review, and Singapore Economic Review.

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RSIS Publications

    Working Papers

    • WP280 | Assessing the Progress of AEC Projects: A New Approach

      05 September, 2014

    Policy Reports

    • Co-chairing the ASEAN Defence Ministers’ Meeting-Plus: The Case of the ASEAN Center of Military Medicine (ACMM)

      09 March, 2020

    • “A Competitive Development Bazaar?”: ASEAN Dialogue Partners’ Policies and Their Implications for the Mekong Subregion

      14 March, 2019

    • Addressing Digital Protectionism in ASEAN: Towards Better Regional Governance in the Digital Age

      21 March, 2018

    • Participatory Policymaking: The Crafting of Thailand’s Medical Hub Policy

      24 March, 2017

    • Managing ASEAN's External Relations via the Country Coordinator: Lessons Learned from Thailand

      22 February, 2016

    • Governance of East Asian Regional Economic Architectures

      01 November, 2013

    Commentaries

    • WTO in Limbo: Urgent Need for New Director-General

      26 November, 2020

    • Global Health Security: COVID-19 and Its Impacts - Financing Thai SMEs in the Pandemic Era

      21 October, 2020

    • Global Health Security: COVID-19 and Its Impacts - Managing Economic Fallout: ASEAN+3’s Incomplete Effort

      06 August, 2020

    • Global Health Security: COVID-19 and Its Impacts - Regional Finance Cooperation: Can It Weather the Storm?

      26 May, 2020

    • Global Health Security - COVID-19’s Economic Fallout: The Logic of Pump Priming

      03 March, 2020

    • The Post-Brexit World: Closer UK-ASEAN Economic Ties?

      11 November, 2019

    • RCEP: The Deal That Cannot Fail

      07 November, 2019

    • 34th ASEAN Summit and Thailand: Headway or Uncertainty?

      02 July, 2019

    • RSIS-WTO Parliamentarian Workshop - Trade and Sustainable Development: Achieving the UN’s 2030 Agenda

      10 June, 2019

    • Economic Headwinds in 2019: Navigating Priorities for ASEAN

      07 January, 2019

    • RCEP: Another Missed Deadline

      14 November, 2018

    • Sustainable Development: Can ASEAN Lead the Process?

      15 October, 2018

    • CO18132 | Indo-Pacific: US Role in Infrastructure

      06 August, 2018

    • CO18097 | Inching For A Trade War: Worst is Yet to Come

      14 June, 2018

    • CO18066 | East Asian Financial Safety Net: The Problem of Leadership

      09 April, 2018

    • CO18030 | China’s Maritime Silk Road: Challenging Test for ASEAN

      23 February, 2018

    • CO17211 | Trump in Southeast Asia: Opportunity to Bolster US-ASEAN Economic Ties?

      08 November, 2017

    • CO16283 | Thailand’s Rice Conundrum: Time for Economic Restructuring

      17 November, 2016

    • CO16278 | The Rise of Trump and Its Global Implications - Trump’s Victory: Future of International Monetary and Financial System

      10 November, 2016

    • CO16160 | Brexit and Its Aftermath - The Post-Brexit World: How Should East Asian Finance Cope?

      28 June, 2016

    • CO16079 | After AIIB, What’s Next?

      08 April, 2016

    • CO15213 | TPP: A win for ASEAN, A loss for WTO?

      12 October, 2015

    • CO15181 | Thailand’s Troubled Economy: New Cabinet, New Hope?

      25 August, 2015

    • CO15058 | ASEAN Economic Community: Slow Progress on Labour Issues

      18 March, 2015

    • CO14196 | Governing ASEAN e-Commerce: Getting Cloudier

      08 October, 2014

    • CO14093 | ASEAN SMEs: Same-Day Delivery Services for More Growth?

      19 May, 2014

    • CO13190 | Beijing’s ASEAN Embrace: Making Hay While the Sun Shines

      09 October, 2013

    • CO13086 | "Going Niche" for ASEAN Economic Community

      06 May, 2013

    • CO13078 | ASEAN Unity: From Word to Deed

      26 April, 2013

    • CO13076 | The Myanmar Government and Ethnic Minorities: An Unhappy Marriage

      25 April, 2013

    Commemorative / Event Reports

    • Conference Report on "Governance of East Asian Regional Economic Architectures"

      10 September, 2013

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External Publications

Authored Books

  • The Impact of the Trump Administration’s Indo-Pacific Strategy on Regional Economic Governance. Honolulu: East-West Center, 2019
  • Negotiating Financial Agreement in East Asia: Surviving the Turbulence. : Routledge, 2015

Journal Articles

  • “What Causes Changes in International Governance Details?: An Economic Security Perspective” in Review of International Political Economy, 2020
  • “Neo-Liberalism, the Rise of the Unelected and Policymaking in Thailand: The Case of the Medical Tourism Industry” (with Guanie Lim) in Journal of Contemporary Asia, 2020
  • “Governing Medical Tourism: The Roles of Singaporean Government” in Thailand and the World Economy, 38, 1, 2020, 29-53
  • “Economics and Trade Impact of the Silk Road Economic Belt Initiative” in Panorama, Trade and Economic Connectivity in the Age of Economic Uncertainty, No. 1, 2019, pp. 47-58
  • “The U.S. Indo-Pacific Strategy and Its Implications for U.S.-ASEAN Economic Governance Architecture” in Joint U.S.-Korea Academic Studies, Vol. 30, 2019, pp. 258-275
  • “Co-chairing Asia-Pacific Defence Diplomacy: The Case ASEAN Defence Ministers’ Meeting Plus” (with Nantasit Klaisringoen) in Australian Journal of International Affairs, Vol. 73, No. 1, 2019. pp. 64-81
  • Kaewkamol Karen Pitakdumrongkit (2017). "Building Exchange-Rate Governance Within the ASEAN+3 Process." Global Asia, Vol. 12, No. 4, Winter 2017, pp. 98-102.
  • Pitakdumrongkit (2017). “Beyond the Secretariat: Addressing Governance Issues in ASEAN Economic Community” (2017), The Singapore Economic Review, 62(3): 741–759
  • “Shaping the Future of East Asian Economic Architectures: Views of ASEAN” in Joint U.S.-Korea Academic Studies,, 27, 2016, 245-264
  • Pitakdumrongkit, Kaewkamol. “Coordinating the South China Sea Issue: Thailand’s Roles in the Code of Conduct Development”. International Relations of the Asia Pacific (2015). doi:10.1093/irap/lcv006
  • Pitakdumrongkit, Kaewkamol. “Co-Chairing International Negotiations: The Case of the Chiang Mai Initiative Multilateralization.” The Pacific Review 28 No 4 (2015): 577-605. doi: 10.1080/09512748.2015.1012540

Chapters in Edited Books

  • “The Politics of East Asian Financial Agreement: The Case of the CMIM” in Tomoo Kikuchi and Masaya Sakuragawa (Eds.), Financial Cooperation in East Asia. Singapore: S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, 2019, pp. 65-71

Working Papers

  • Kaewkamol Pitakdumrongkit. “Coordinating ASEAN’s External Relations: Evidence from Thailand.' Paper presented at the 12th International Conference on Thai Studies, University of Sydney, Australia, April 21-22, 2014.

Op-Eds

  • “ASEAN’s Perspective on Economic Recovery”, Brookings Institution Southeast Asia Insights, 17 December 2020
  • “COVID-19 and ASEAN Cooperation: The State of Play and Ways Forward”, AsiaGlobal Online, 7 October 2020
  • ““ASEAN’s RCEP and sustainability challenges and achievements.” ”, East Asia Forum, 24 January 2020
  • “Can Seoul’s Efforts Flow More Investments from Han to Mekong River?” (with Shawn Ho), The Straits Times, 29 November 2019
  • “Navigating Economic Integration amidst US-China Strategic Competition and Rising Uncertainties”, Australian Outlook, 1 October 2019
  • “Washington’s Fragile Economic Plans for the Indo-Pacific”, East Asia Forum, 3 July 2019
  • “Managing volatility with a smile: how tumultuous Thailand puts a stable face on ASEAN”, Australian Strategic Policy Institute, 7 May 2019
  • “Can ASEAN Play a Greater Role in the Mekong Subregion?” (with Shawn Ho), The Diplomat, 30 January 2019
  • “Pence in Southeast Asia: Ways forward for U.S.-ASEAN cooperation on infrastructure development”, Brookings, 27 November 2018
  • “Thailand’s 2019 election: what’s in it for regional economic integration?”, Asia Dialogue, 12 November 2018
  • Pitakdumrongkit, K. (2018). “Thailand’s Political Dynamics and the Consequences for Regional Economic Integration.” Asia-Pacific Bulletin, No. 430, East-West Center, 11 July 2018.
  • No knight in shining armour for CMIM- East Asia Forum
  • “The 32nd ASEAN Summit’s Economic Priorities And Implications For US-ASEAN Economic Relations – Asia Pacific Bulletin: East-West Center”, Asia Pacific Bulletin, 2 May 2018
  • Kaewkamol Pitakdumrongkit. "ASEAN at 50: Making Headway in the Economic Community." IAPS Dialogue, University of Nottingham, September 27, 2017.
  • Pitakdumrongkit, K. (2017) Enriching the ASEAN Economic Community. Australian Outlook
  • Kaewkamol Pitakdumrongkit. “ASEAN SMEs: Same-Day Delivery Services for More Growth?.” Eurasia Review, May 20, 2014.
  • Kaewkamol Pitakdumrongkit and Benjamin Ho. “Beijing’s ASEAN Embrace: Making Hay While the Sun Shines.” Eurasia Review, October 10, 2013.
  • Kaewkamol Pitakdumrongkit. "The Myanmar Government and Ethnic Minorities: An Unhappy Marriage." The Jakarta Post on May 5, 2013.
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Teaching Modules

  • IP6001 Economics for International Political Economy
  • IP6026 Introduction to the Political Economy of Southeast Asia

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