Ambassador Pou Sothirak is the Distinguished Senior Advisor to the Cambodian Center for Regional Studies (CCRS). He was a Visiting Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies (ISEAS) in Singapore from January 2009 to December 2012. He has had a long public service career with Cambodia, including as Ambassador to Japan and Minister of Industry Mines and Energy (1993 to 1998).
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Articles by Pou Sothirak (2)
Light Footprint, Strong Signal: Rethinking US-Cambodian Cooperation
Pou Sothirak|A. Peyson Hunt
There is a window of opportunity for Cambodia to re-engage with the US. Bilateral military exercises constitute a good option.
The Elusive Code: Why ASEAN Needs a New Playbook for the South China Sea
Joanne Lin|Pou Sothirak
The Code of Conduct (COC) negotiations between ASEAN and China have reached an impasse, hindered by legal ambiguities, strategic divergences, and ASEAN’s internal divisions. ASEAN must move away from a binary approach that equates success with legal binds, and instead explore more pragmatic alternatives.