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Advancing Global IR from a Thai Perspective: Opportunities for Pre-theorization and Conceptualization

Abstract:Based on survey data and reflexive stocktaking, this article examines the status of IR in three areas, namely teaching, research and theory application, with the purpose of understanding the opportunities and challenges with respect to advancing the debates on Global IR from the perspective of Thai academe. While the current state of the discipline reveals many challenges, this article argues that the prospects for progressing the debates on Global IR are contingent on how Thai academics seek opportunities for theory building through inductive reasoning and critically questioning the relevance of mainstream IR theories to local contexts outside the West. Equally important is how Thai IR scholars realize the potential for policy-oriented research to lead to pre-theorization. However, whatever is inferred from these local experiences must offer useful implications beyond national and regional boundaries.