ABSTRACT
Since foreign policy analysis (FPA) in Thailand simultaneously emerged and evolved around the inception of International Relations (IR) as an academic discipline in the 1950s, FPA has been regarded as an academic sub-field of IR. Over the past decades, the field has been influenced by an American-dominant premise of FPA. However, US influence only goes as far as applying US-derived theories. In fact, Thai scholars are more inclined to conduct qualitative-based research as opposed to hypothesis testing or other methods of positivist traditions, which is more synonymous with US training. Furthermore, rather than attempting to formulate universalistic disciplinary knowledge, it can be argued that the nature of FPA in Thailand has been developed in a form of area-specific knowledge with a strong element of historical and descriptive analysis.
