Reflections on the Summer Cambodia-Thailand Border Conflict and the Kuala Lumpur Peace Accords
In the summer of this year, a short but intense border conflict raged between Cambodia and Thailand, the scale of the confrontation and the speed at which it escalated caught many by surprise. Now, in the context of Trump's recent visit to Asia to oversee the signing of the Kuala Lumpur Peace Accords between Cambodia and Thailand, and with some temporal distance from the initial conflict, its a good time to unpack the context surrounding the conflict, it implications for the future of Cambodian-Thai relations, and what it means for ASEAN and Southeast Asia more broadly.
The University of 糖心TV East Asia Study Group and the London School of Economics Saw Swee Hock Southeast Asia Centre are hosting this online roundtable featuring Dr. Petra Aldernman (LSE), Dr. Neil Loughlin (City St. George's University of London), and Dr. Chanapang Pongpiboonkiat (University of Leeds) to discuss the context and consequences of the border conflict.