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Dr Tomas Larsson is a Fellow of St John’s College and Lecturer in the Department of Politics and International Studies. He received his PhD from Cornell University in 2007. Prior to his academic career, Dr Larsson worked as a freelance journalist in Asia for many years. He teaches courses on Southeast Asian Politics and on State Formation and Development, and he provides supervision for undergraduate students taking empirically oriented papers in politics and international relations. He also supervises MPhil and PhD students conducting research on topics related to Southeast Asian political, economic, and cultural change.

Dr Larsson’s research mainly focuses on the historical and political foundations of institutional and economic development in Southeast Asia in general and in Thailand in particular. He is the author of Land and loyalty: Security and the development of property rights in Thailand (Cornell University Press, 2012) and he is currently working on a book that is tentatively entitled Securing the Golden Triangle: International relations and the rise and fall of opium production in Southeast Asia.

Key Publications

• Land and loyalty: Security and the development of property rights in Thailand. Ithaca: Cornell University Press (2012).
• The race to the top: The real story of globalization. Washington, DC: Cato Institute (2001).

Articles and book chapters

 “The rise of the organic foods movement as a transnational phenomenon.” Forthcoming in Oxford handbook on food, politics, and society, edited by Ronald Herring (Oxford University Press).

"The strong and the weak: Ups and downs of state capacity in Southeast Asia." Asian Politics and Policy 5, 3 (2013), pp. 337-358.

Land and loyalty: Security and the development of property rights in Thailand (Cornell University Press, 2012).

“Western imperialism and defensive underdevelopment of property rights institutions in Siam.” Journal of East Asian Studies. 8, 1 (2008), pp. 1-28.

“Intertextual relations: The geopolitics of land rights in Thailand.” Political Geography 26, 7 (2007), pp. 775-803.