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Books
Connors, M. (in progress) Contemporary Thailand: Politics, Culture, Rights, contracted to Zed, London.

Connors, M. (2007: revised edition: new chapter and postscript) Democracy and National Identity in Thailand, Copenhagen Nordic Institute of Asian Studies), London. See reviews: http://www.niaspress.dk/asian_studies_bookshop/reviews.asp?isbn=8776940020

Connors, M. (co-authored with R. Davison and J. Dosch (2004) The New Global Politics of Asia Pacific, Routledge, London.

Connors, M. (2003) Democracy and National Identity in Thailand, Routledge, London and New York.

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Guest Editorship of Journal
Connors, M. and K. Hewison, 'Thailand: the good coup', Journal of Contemporary Asia, 38, 1.

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Connors, M. (forthcoming) 'Liberalism, authoritarianism and the politics of decisionism in Thailand', Pacific Review.

Connors, M. (2008) 'Thailand: four elections and a coup', Australian Journal of International Affairs, 62, 4, pp.472-490.

Connors, M. (2008) 'Article of Faith: the Failure of Royal Liberalism in Thailand', Journal of Contemporary Asia, 38, 1, pp.143-165.

Connors, M. and Hewison, K. (2008) 'Thailand: the good coup', Journal of Contemporary Asia, 38, 1, pp.1-10.

Connors, M. (2006) 'War on Error and the Southern Fire: How Terrorism Experts Get it Wrong', Critical Asian Studies, 38, 151-175.

Connors, M. (2005) 'Ministering Culture', Critical Asian Studies, 37, 4, pp.523-551.

Connors, M. (2005) 'Thailand: The Facts and F(r)ictions of Ruling', Southeast Asian Affairs, pp.365-284.

Connors, M. (2003) 'Goodbye to the security state: Ideological Change in Thailand', Journal of Contemporary Asia, 33, 4, pp.431-448.

Connors, M. (1999) 'Political Reform and the State in Thailand', Journal of Contemporary Asia, Vol.29, No.2, pp.202-226.

Connors, M. (1997) 'Prefacing Research on the Global', Melbourne Journal of Politics, Vol.24, pp.44-48.

Connors, M. (1996) 'The Eclipse of Consociationalism in South Africa's Democratic Transition', Democratization, Vol.3, No.4, London, pp.420-435.

Connors, M. (1996) 'No Getting Past the Post: International Relations and Heterotopia', Melbourne Journal of Politics, Vol.23, pp.44-71.

Connors, M. (1995) 'Missing Gender and the Fetishism of Sex: Responses to the Sexuality Debates', Thamyris - An International Feminist Journal of Inquiry, Vol.2, No.2, Autumn, Amsterdam, pp.207-230.

Connors, M. (1995) 'Persisting on the Alley of Death’, Reconstruction No.3, Summer, pp.4-11.

Connors, M. (1995) 'Globalisation, social democracy and the exhaustion of the sects', Reconstruction No.4, Autumn, pp.50-53.

Connors, M. (1995) 'The Life and Death of Women Workers in Thailand', Reconstruction No.4, Autumn, pp.15-18.

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Book Chapters
Connors, M. (forthcoming, 2008) 'Another Country: reflections on the politics of culture in the South of Thailand', in John Funston (ed.) Thailand's Continuing Crises: The Coup and Violence in the South, Singapore, ISEAS.

Connors, M. (2008) 'Democracy From Below', in Gloria Davies, J.V. D'Cruz and Nathan Hollier (eds) Profiles in Courage: Political actors and ideas in contemporary Asia, Australian Scholarly Publishing, North Melbourne, pp.210-222.

Connors, M. (2008) 'Social liberalism from below: Nidhi Eoseewong', in Vin D’Cruz (ed.) Political Actors and Ideas in Contemporary Asia, Australian Scholarly Press.

Connors, M. (2007) 'The War on Error and the Southern Fire: How Terrorism Experts Get it Wrong', in Duncan McCargo (ed.) Rethinking Thailand’s Southern Violence, Singapore, Singapore University Press (reprint of journal article from 2006).

Connors, M. (2006) 'Acting Up: the politics of direct action', in Graham Willett (ed.) Thinking Down Under: Australian Politics, Society and Culture in Transition, Wissenschaftlicher Verlag (Scientific Publishing House), Trier.

Connors, M. (2006) 'Thailand and the United States: beyond hegemony?', in Mark Beeson (ed.) Bush and Asia: The US's Evolving Relationships with East Asia, London: Routledge, pp.128-144.

Connors, M. (2006) 'Thaksin’s Thailand - to have and to hold', in Cavan Hogue (ed.) Thailand's Economic Recovery. Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, Singapore and the National Thai Studies Centre, ANU, Canberra, pp.26-45.

Connors, M. (2006) 'Democracy and the Mainstreaming of Localism in Thailand', in Joakim Öjendal and Francis Loh (eds) Southeast Asian Responses to Globalization: Restructuring Governance and Deepening Democracy, NIAS Press, pp.259-286.

Connors, M. (2004) 'Japan in the Asia Pacific', in M. Connors, J. Dosch and Remy Davison, The New Global Politics of Asia Pacific, Routledge, London, pp.35-50.

Connors, M. (2004) 'Australia in the Asia Pacific', in M. Connors, J. Dosch and Remy Davison, The New Global Politics of Asia Pacific, Routledge, London, pp.88-103.

Connors, M. (2004) 'The Asian Economic Miracle and its unmaking', in M. Connors, J. Dosch and Remy Davison, The New Global Politics of Asia Pacific, Routledge, London, pp.162-179.

Connors, M. (2004) 'Culture and Politics in the Asia-Pacific: Asian Values and Human Rights', in M. Connors, J. Dosch and Remy Davison, The New Global Politics of Asia Pacific, Routledge, London, pp.199-214.

Connors, M. (2003) ‘The reforming state: development culture and democracy in Thailand’, in Ji Ungphakorn (ed.) Radicalising Thailand, Institute of Asian Studies, Chulalongkorn University, pp.319-343.

Connors, M. (2002) 'Framing the People’s Constitution', in Duncan McCargo (ed.) Political Reform in Thailand, Institute Southeast Asian Studies, National University of Singapore, Singapore EAS, pp.37-56.

Connors, M. (2001) 'Thailand', in Patrick Heenan and Monique Lamontagne (eds) The Southeast Asia Handbook, Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, London and Chicago, pp.41-55.

Connors (2000) 'When the Dogs Howl: Democratization in Thailand', in P. Darby (ed.) At the Edge of International Relations: Postcolonialism, Gender and Dependency, Cintinuum, London and New York (orig, 1997), pp.125-147.

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Seminars, Conferences, Addresses
(2008) ‘State ambivalence, decisionism and competing regime framers', invited paper presented to workshop on Workshop on 'Contemporary Authoritarianism in Southeast Asia: Structures, Institutions, and Agency', City University, Hong Kong, May 9 -10, 2008.

(2008) 'Is Standing Before a Picture of the Thai King in line with the Islamic Faith?', invited paper presentation to Centre of Southeast Asian Studies Seminar Series, Monash University, May.

(2007) 'Cultural Surveillance and the Market Economy - moral politics and the state in Thailand', paper presented at International Convention of Asia Scholars, 5, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, August 2-5.

(2006) 'The Ministry of Culture in the South: paradoxes of cultural pluralism', invited presentation to National Thai Studies Update, September 29, Australian National University.

(2006) 'Reading Rohan: the politics of intelligence and terrorism', invited address to British Academy funded seminar on The Social Impact of the War on Terror, July 13.

(2006) 'Give Democracy a Break: Thailand’s Political Crisis', invited address to the Australian Institute of International Affairs, Melbourne. May 10.

(2004) 'Thailand under US hegemony? Power, Regionalism and the Peripheral Politics of Place', paper presented to symposium on ‘Bush and Asia: America’s Evolving Relations in East Asia’, held at the University of Queensland, Friday, November 26.

(2004) 'Ministering Culture: the renewal of Thainess and the politics of hegemony', paper presented at Revisiting Globalization and Communication in the 2000s, Faculty of Communication Arts, Chulalongkorn University Bangkok, Thailand, August 5-6.

(2004) 'Thaksin – to have and to hold: Thai Politics in 2003-2004', Thai Update Conference 2004, organized by the National Thai Studies Centre in Association with Macquarie University, Department of Foreign Affairs, Macquarie University, April 20-21.

(2003) 'Civil Society and Global State Building', ASEASUK annual conference, 19-20th October, University of Leeds.

(2002) 'The forces of the land movement: the politics of civic engagement and reformed nationalism', paper presented at the 8th International Conference on Thai Studies, Nakhon Phanom, Thailand, 9-12 January.

(2001) 'Ideological Aspects of Democratisation: Mainstreaming Localism', paper presented to the Third Euro-Seas Conference, School of Oriental and African Studies, 5th-8th September.

(2001) 'Towards an Accountable Democracy Project', address to Local Governance and Accountability Workshop, Bele Pakuan Hotel, Bandung, 31 March, 2001, sponsored by UNPAR University and the British Council.

(2001) 'Political Discourse and Democratization: Ideology and Power in Civics Education', paper presented to Institute of Civil Society Studies, UNPAR University, Bandung, 7th April.

(2001) 'Globalising Democracy: What kind and Why now?', talk presented to the Support Democracy in Indonesia Project, Bandung, 26th March, 2001.

(2001) 'Making Democracy Work? The Politics of Democracy Promotion in Southeast Asia', Southeast Asia Seminar Series, City University, Hong Kong, 24th May.

(1995) 'Disordering Democracy', paper presented to The Australasian Political Studies Association 1995 Annual Conference, University of Melbourne, 27-29 September 1995.

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Work Online
Connors, M. (2006) Grey Jihad in the South of Thailand

Connors, M. (2005) Thai and US Relations: Beyond Hegemony

Connors, M. (2003) 'The Reforming State: Security, Development and Culture in Democratic Times', Working Paper Number 42, Southeast Asian Research Centre, City University, Hong Kong, September.
http://www.cityu.edu.hk/searc/WP42_03_Connors.pdf

Connors, M. (2001) 'Ideological Aspects of Democratization: the Mainstreaming of Localism', Working Paper Number 12, Southeast Asian Research Centre, City University, Hong Kong, October. http://www.cityu.edu.hk/searc/WP12_01_Connors.pdf

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Book Reviews
Kevin Hewison and Garry Rodan (2007) 'Neoliberalism and Conflict in Asia after 9/11', Journal of Contemporary Asia, 37, 4.

Riaz Hassan (2006) 'Local and Global: Social Transformation in Southeast Asia, Essays in Honour of Professor Syed Hussein Alatas', Journal of Contemporary Asia, 36, 4.

Richard Boyd and Tak-Wing Ngo (2006) 'Asian States: Beyond the Developmental Perspective', Journal of Contemporary Asia, 36, 1.

James Ockey (2006) 'Making democracy: Leadership, class, gender, and political participation in Thailand', Journal of Southeast Asian Studies, 37, 1.

Craig Reynolds (ed.) (2004) 'National Identity and its Defenders', Journal of Contemporary Asia, 34, 2.

B.C. Smith (2004) 'Understanding Third World Politics', Journal of Contemporary Asia, 34, 2.

Jonathan Rigg (2004) 'Southeast Asia: The Human Landscape of Modernization and Development', 2nd ed. Australian Journal of Political Science, 39, 1.

Shinichi Shigetomi (2004) 'The State and NGOs: Perspectives in Asia', Australian Journal of Political Science, 39, 1.

Daniel Arghiros (2002) 'Democracy, Development and Decentralization in Provincial Thailand', Democratization 9, 2.

Pridi Banomyong (2002) 'Pridi by Pridi: Selected Writings on Life, Politics, and Economy', KPI Yearbook, (KPI/Asia Foundation).

Ruth McVey (ed.) (2002) 'Money and Power in Provincial Thailand', Democratization 9, 2.

Kjeld Erik Brodsgaard and Susan Young (eds) (2002) 'State Capacity in East Asia: Japan, Taiwan, China, Vietnam', Japan Forum 14, 1.

William Callahan (2002) 'Pollwatching, Elections and Civil Society in Southeast Asia', Democratization 9, 4.

Danny Unger (2001) 'Building Social Capital in Thailand', Asian Studies Review.

Review Article on Hung-Mao Tien and Tun-jen Cheng (eds) (2001) 'The Security Environment in the Asia Pacific', and Wattanabe Koji (ed.) 'Engaging Russia in Asia Pacific', Europe-Asia Studies53.2.

Mushtaq H. Khan and Jomo K.S. Rents (eds) (2001) 'Rent-Seeking and Economic Development,Theory and Evidence in Asia', The Journal of Commonwealth and Comparative Politics, 39, 2, July.

Callahan, W. (1999) 'Imagining Democracy: Reading the Events of May in Thailand', Australian Journal of Political Science 34, 1.

Thirayut Bunmee (1999) 'Thammarat' (Good Governance), Journal of Contemporary Asia 29, 4.

S. Shigetomi (1999) 'Cooperation and Community in Rural Thailand', Journal of Contemporary Asia 29, 4.

Ji Giles Ungpakorn (1999) 'The Thai Working Class in an Era of Economic Crisis', Journal of Contemporary Asia 29, 4.

Yuttani Worunpitita and Suphita Raengjit (eds) (1999) 'Samneuk Phonlamuang' (Civic Consciousness), Journal of Contemporary Asia, 29, 4.

Hewison, K. (1998) 'Political Change in Thailand; Democracy and Participation', Australian Journal of Political Science, November 33, 4 November.

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