ASEAN as an Actor in International Fora

Paruedee Nguitragool is a lecturer at the School of International Affairs, Faculty of Political Science and Public Administration, Chiang Mai University (CMU), Thailand. Before joining CMU, she was a Research Associate at the Department of Political Science, University of Freiburg, Germany, and a guest researcher at many institutions in Southeast Asia, including Institute of Southeast Asian Studies (ISEAS) in Singapore, Centre for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) and University of Indonesia (UI) in Jakarta, Indonesia. Her main research interests include the images of the West in Indonesia, and environmental politics and international relations in Southeast Asia. Jurgen Ruland is Professor of Political Science in the Department of Political Science at the University of Freiburg, Germany. He is also the Chairman of the university's Southeast Asia Program and Chairman of the Academic Advisory Board of the GIGA German Institute for Global and Area Studies, Hamburg (2006-14). Professor Rueland has published extensively on Southeast Asia and in 2007, Pacific Affairs awarded him and Christl Kessler the William L. Holland Prize for the best article in 2006. He was the Stanford University/National University of Singapore Distinguished Fellow for Contemporary Southeast Asia 2010 and fellow at the Freiburg Institute of Advanced Studies (FRIAS History) 2010/2011 and 2014/2015.