Dr.Jittipat Poonkham (PhD Aberystwyth University; MPhil Oxford University) is an Associate Professor of International Relations, Associate Dean for International Affairs and Director of International Studies Program in the Faculty of Political Science, Thammasat University, Thailand. He is the author of A Genealogy of Bamboo Diplomacy: The Politics of Thai Détente with Russia and China (Australian National University Press, 2022) and co-editor of International Relations as a Discipline in Thailand: Theory and Sub-fields (Routledge, 2019). His research interests include international relations theories, great power politics and security in the Indo-Pacific, and international relations of Russia and Eurasia.