CPG Online Magazine 06/2018
Announcements
Upcoming National Holidays
5 December 2018: H.M. King Bhumibol’s Birthday
10 December 2018: Constitution Day
Articles & Interviews
CPG Director Henning Glaser Discusses Taiwan’s Security Amid Middle East Crisis and U.S.–China Strategic Competition
Where are cross-Strait relations heading, and what role will the U.S. play? These questions are usually answered by looking only at the relationships between Washington, Beijing and Taipei. But that is not enough. On October 15, our Director Henning Glaser spoke at...
CPG Meets Indonesian Researchers to Discuss Mangrove Conservation and Governance
On 15 October 2026, CPG Senior Program Officer Dr. Duc Quang Ly met with an Indonesian research delegation led by Umaira Hayuning Anggayasti, Lecturer at the Faculty of Law, Universitas Diponegoro. The delegation was in Bangkok this week as part of a research...
CPG briefs KfW and DEG leadership on Russia’s war against Ukraine and Middle East conflicts
On the sidelines of the ongoing 2026 Annual Meetings of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank Group in Bangkok, CPG Director Henning Glaser delivered a high-level geopolitical briefing to senior representatives of KfW Group, Germany’s national promotional...
CPG Director Henning Glaser Addresses Challenges of AI for Constitutional Democracy at ICDNR 2026
How can constitutional democracies safeguard their fundamental values in an era of rapidly advancing artificial intelligence and disruptive technologies? This pressing question was at the heart of CPG Director Henning Glaser’s contribution to the 6th International...
CPG Director joins EU lunch discussion on geopolitics & geoeconomics
On Monday, September 28, CPG Director Henning Glaser had the pleasure of joining a small lunch discussion hosted by H.E. Luisa Ragher, Ambassador of the European Union to Thailand, on the occasion of a visit to Bangkok by Dominic Porter, Deputy Managing Director for...
Courtesy Call by Pakistan’s New Defence Attaché
CPG Director Henning Glaser welcomed Colonel Jawad Afzal Chaudhary, the new Defence Attaché of the Embassy of Pakistan in Bangkok, to the CPG offices for a courtesy call on September 29. The meeting provided an opportunity to get to know each other following Colonel...
CPG Director Henning Glaser at the 6th CDIR East Asia Conference in Beijing
CPG Director Henning Glaser participated in the 6th Conference of German-Speaking Lawyers in East Asia, held from 17–20 September 2026 at the China University of Political Science and Law (CUPL) in Beijing. It was the sixth edition of the conference organized within...
CPG Director Henning Glaser meets German Ambassador-Designate Michael Reiffenstuel
Earlier today, CPG Director Henning Glaser met with German Ambassador-Designate H.E. Michael Reiffenstuel at the German Embassy in Bangkok. The meeting offered a very good opportunity to get to know each other personally and to engage in a substantive exchange on...
CPG participates in inaugural EABC Sustainable Business Working Group meeting
CPG was very pleased to be represented by its Program Manager, Lucas Meier, at today’s inaugural meeting of the newly established Sustainable Business Working Group of the EABC -The European Chamber of Commerce Thailand (EABC), with which CPG cooperates under an...
Closed-Door Philippine–Thai Roundtable on the South China Sea
CPG had the pleasure this morning of hosting a closed-door roundtable at the Faculty of Law, Thammasat University, on “The South China Sea at a Crossroads: Philippine and Thai Perspectives on International Law, Regional Security and Strategic Competition.” The...
Scholarship Opportunities
The DAAD Development-Related Postgraduate Courses offers foreign graduates from development and newly industrialized countries from all disciplines and with at least two years’ professional experience the chance to take a postgraduate or Master’s degree at a state or state-recognized German university, and in exceptional cases to take a doctoral degree, and to obtain a university qualification (Master’s/PhD) in Germany. For further details go to https://www.daad.or.th/en/scholarship-database/. Deadline depends on the chosen study programme.
An overview of all DAAD scholarships with relevance for researchers and students from Thailand can be found here: https://www.daad.or.th/en/find-funding/
The Friedrich Ebert Foundation Scholarship is aimed at supporting students from Africa, Asia, Latin America or Eastern Europe that intend to study in Germany in any subject area. The students must demonstrate excellent school or academic merit and must be committed to the values of social democracy. More information can be found at https://www.fes.de/studienfoerderung/other-languages/. Deadline depends on the type of application.
The Horowitz Foundation for Social Sciences offers grants to emerging scholars pursuing research projects that address contemporary issues in the social sciences. For more information visit https://www.horowitz-foundation.org/grant-info. Deadline is on December 1, 2018
The Singapore Management University offers Overseas Postgraduate Scholarships which provide financial support to recipients to pursue an overseas research programme. The scholarship includes academic guidance and mentorship. For more details go to https://www.smu.edu.sg/moe-start/overseas-pg-scholarship. Deadlines vary.
The “ETH Zurich Postdoctoral Fellowship Program” supports incoming fellowships for postdoctoral researchers at the ETH Zurich. The program is intended to foster high-potential, young researchers who have already demonstrated excellence in terms of internationally competitive achievements in the early stages of their professional careers. Applications have to be made jointly by the candidate and their host who must be an ETH Zurich Professor and who will act as a mentor of the fellow. For more information visit https://www.ethz.ch/en/research/research-promotion/eth-internal-programmes/eth-fellowships.html Deadline is on 1 March 2019.
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CPG Events September-October 2018
Workshop: “Investigation and Criminal Prosecution of Child Abuse”
CPG Annual Conference 2018: “Making Compliance Work: Challenges and Innovations”
Law Studies in Germany: Experiences, Possibilities and Prospects