Mark RÂ Thompson
Associate Professor
Southeast Asian Studies
City University of Hong Kong
Hong Kong
Biography
Mark R Thompson taught in the United Kingdom (Glasgow), Germany (Muenster, Dresden, Passau and Erlangen-Nuremberg), and Japan (Keio University) before coming to CityU where he is also director of the Southeast Asia Research Centre (SEARC). He was president of the Asian Political and International Studies Association, APISA, in 2013-14. In 2007-08 he was Lee Kong Chian Distinguished Fellow for Southeast Asian Studies at Stanford University and the National University of Singapore. He completed a German Research Council funded project on dynastic female leaders in Asia, is finishing a Hong Kong government GRF research project (together with William Case) about the problems of electoral democracies in Southeast Asia, and has recently received a Hong Kong government GRF to study the rise of illiberal rule in the Philippines (together with Julio C. Teehankee). Together with Stephan Ortmann, he is also completing a CityU- funded project about China's interest in the “Singapore Model."
Research Interest
Political economy of East Asia
Publications
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With Julio Teehankee, “The Vote in the Philippines: Electing a Strongman,†Journal of Democracy, 27:4 (October 2016), pp. 124-134.
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"Introduction. The Early Duterte Presidency in the Philippines," pp. 3-14 and "Bloodied Democracy: Duterte and the Death of Liberal Reformism in the Philippines," pp. 39-68 both in the Journal of Current Southeast Asian Affairs, 35 , no. 3 (2016).
