Editor's Note

Abstract

The JCSH continues to focus on publishing research works on various contemporary issues in social sciences and humanities. In this issue, we are delighted to present eight (8) research articles from various academic disciplines. In addition, these articles are related to several Asian countries. 

In the first article, Chatchanok Thaohirun and Nutthathirataa Withitwinyuchon studied the causal relationship between foreign policy and geopolitics, using a case study of Thailand during the Third Indochina War. The authors affirmed that there was a connection between foreign policy and geopolitics. Based on sea-power, land-power concepts and Rimland theory, the authors concluded that Thailand was neither a land power nor a sea power. In addition, the authors proposed the idea of a hybrid geopolitical power to explain Thai foreign policy.  

In the second article, Phirapat Mangkhalasiri and Krisanaphong Poothakool examined the current state of data science in Thai policing by comparing it with examples in the United States, United Kingdom, Singapore, South Korea, and Japan. The authors identified both opportunities and challenges that influenced how data science could be used within Thai policing. In addition, the authors proposed a set of policy recommendations for the Thai government.