Royal Holloway (BA) SOAS, University of London (MA, PhD)
Institutions
Queen's University Belfast University of Leeds National University of Singapore Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton Columbia University University of Copenhagen
Main interests
Nature of power, Comparative politics of Southeast Asia, Politics of Thailand
Duncan McCargo is professor of global affairs at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore, where is also a professor of English (by courtesy). McCargo retains an affiliation with the School of Politics and International Studies at the University of Leeds, where he taught for many years. Prior to joining NTU he served for four years as director of the Nordic Institute of Asian Studies at the University of Copenhagen. Between 2015 and 2019 McCargo held a shared professorial appointment at Columbia University, where he remains a visiting scholar at the Weatherhead East Asian Institute.
He attended Sandbach School and later gained three degrees from the University of London: a First in English (Royal Holloway 1986); then an MA in Area Studies (Southeast Asia) (1990) and a PhD in Politics (1993) from SOAS. He was an undergraduate exchange student at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. McCargo has also taught at Queen's University, Belfast, and at Kobe Gakuin University, Japan. In 2006–2007, he was a visiting senior research fellow at the Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore. During the 2015–16 academic year, he was a Visitor at the School of Social Science, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton.
McCargo is best known for his writing on contemporary Thailand and Asia-related topics. His work deals mainly with the nature of power: how entrenched elites seek to retain it, and how challengers seek to undermine their legitimacy.
DuncanMcCargo is professor of global affairs at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore, where is also a professor of English (by courtesy). McCargo...
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Chavalit, now 86, marries for 4th time". Bangkok Post. 10 July 2018. DuncanMcCargo, Ukrist Pathmanand (2004). The Thaksinization Of Thailand. Nordic Institute...
DuncanMcCargo (2008). Tearing Apart the Land: Islam and Legitimacy in Southern Thailand. Cornell University Press. ISBN 978-0-8014-7499-6. Duncan McCargo...
in the constitution. Several academics outside Thailand, including DuncanMcCargo and Federico Ferrara, noted the active but indirect political involvement...
Archived from the original on 8 November 2017. Retrieved 13 June 2017. Duncan. McCargo, Media and Politics in Pacific Asia, p. 146 "As father fades, his children...
election was considered one of the highest to date. William A. Callahan; DuncanMcCargo (1996). "Vote-Buying in Thailand's Northeast: The July 1995 General...
tradition by Robert E. Cole Contemporary Japan by DuncanMcCargo Asia-Pacific In The New World Order - Anthony G. McGrew, Chris Brook. Retrieved 2013-01-06. Japanese...
authority under King Bhumibol." In a review in the New Left Review, DuncanMcCargo, a lecturer from the University of Leeds who wrote several articles...
customary royal rulings. Some academics outside Thailand, including DuncanMcCargo and Federico Ferrara, noted extraconstitutional role of the monarch...
Conceptual Framework of Thai Political Reform", 1995, Thai Research Fund DuncanMcCargo, "A Hollow Crown", New Left Review 43 (January–February 2007) Borwornsak...
may take on liberal features. The term network monarchy was coined by DuncanMcCargo in the 2006 journal article "Network monarchy and legitimacy crises...
Archived (PDF) from the original on 27 August 2015. Retrieved 15 May 2015. DuncanMcCargo, Contemporary Japan, pp. 152–155 (Google link Archived 2016-01-29 at...
of Thai Rak Thai" (PDF). Journal of East Asian Studies (6): 381–407. DuncanMcCargo; Ukrist Pathamanand (2005). The Thaksinization of Thailand. Copenhagen:...
See DuncanMcCargo "From Leeds to Jutland, About Leeds Blog, 28 July 2020". aboutleeds.blog. 28 July 2020. Retrieved 29 November 2020. DuncanMcCargo (ed...
Philip King; Dennis Walker; Kobkua Suwannathat-Pian; Iik A. Mansurnoor; DuncanMcCargo (1 January 2013). Ghosts of the Past in Southern Thailand: Essays on...
minorities have a turn". The Straits Times. Retrieved 27 October 2020. DuncanMcCargo, Ukrist Pathmanand (2004). The Thaksinization Of Thailand. Nordic Institute...
religious pluralism that has managed to survive. Political scientist DuncanMcCargo and other western scholars have posed the question of why conservative...
2019. "Former PM Banharn dies at 83". Bangkok Post. 23 April 2016. DuncanMcCargo, Ukrist Pathmanand (2004). The Thaksinization Of Thailand. Nordic Institute...
made up of establishment figures. According to political scientist DuncanMcCargo, "most appointed senators are broadly in the pro-Democrat camp" which...
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Stories of Courage and Cowardice is a dramatic production co-written by DuncanMcCargo and Stephanie Winters, based on original testimonies of survivors, along...
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