Arjun Subrahmanyan is Senior Lecturer in Southeast Asian History and Academic Chair of History at Murdoch University in Perth, Western Australia. Among his published works are Amnesia: A History of Democratic Idealism in Modern Thailand (State University of New York Press, 2021) and The U.S. and the War in the Pacific, 1941-1945 (Routledge Press, 2022, co-written with Sandra Wilson, Michael Sturma, Dean Aszkielowicz and J. Charles Schencking).