Thai military power a culture of strategic accommodation
Thailand remains important by virtue of its location at the centre of the Asia-Pacific region, an area playing a vital role in world affairs. And yet, although Thailand has a comparatively large population and has powerful military forces performing significant roles in state and society, the countr...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Copenhagen K, Denmark
NIAS Press
2018
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| Series: | Monograph series
no. 142 |
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| Summary: | Thailand remains important by virtue of its location at the centre of the Asia-Pacific region, an area playing a vital role in world affairs. And yet, although Thailand has a comparatively large population and has powerful military forces performing significant roles in state and society, the country itself is seen as having little military power; it is a minor player. Why is this?0Using strategic culture as an analytical framework, this book produces a portrait of the Thai state as an accommodative actor. During the period of Western imperial dominance in Asia, Thailand `bent in the wind' to preserve its independence by a limited trading of territory and sovereignty. This accommodative policy continues to the present day in different forms. A key feature is that military organisational culture reinforces a state ideology of royalist nationalism that in turn reinforces the national strategic culture |
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| Physical Description: | ix, 293 pages 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| ISBN: | 9788776942397 (hbk) 9788776942403 (pbk) |