Bangkok May 2010 perspectives on a divided Thailand
After a two-month standoff between Red Shirt protestors and the government of Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva, violence and arson scarred central Bangkok in mid-may 2010. This shocking turn of events underlined how poorly understood the deep divisions in the society and politics of Thailand remaine...
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Singapore
Institute of Southeast Asian Studies
2012.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: seeking perspective on a slow-burn civil war / Michael J. Montesano
- The culture of the army, Matichon Weekly, 28 May 2010 / Nidhi Eoseewong
- Thoughts on Thailand's turmoil, 11 June 2010 / James Stent
- Truth and justice when fear and repression remain : an open letter to Dr Kanit Na Nakorn, 16 July 2010 / Tyrell Haberkorn
- The impact of the Red Shirt rallies on the Thai economy / Aekapol Chongvilaivan
- The socio-economic bases of the Red/Yellow divide : a statistical analysis / Ammar Siamwalla and Somchai Jitsuchon
- The ineffable rightness of conspiracy : Thailand's Democrat-ministered state and the negation of Red Shirt politics / Marc Askew
- A new politics of desire and disintegration in Thailand / Chairat Charoensin-o-larn
- Notes towards an understanding of Thai liberalism / Michael Connors
- Thailand's classless conflict / Shawn W. Crispin
- The grand bargain : making "reconciliation" mean something / Federico Ferrara
- Changing Thailand, an awakening of popular political consciousness for rights? / David Fullbrook
- Class, inequality, and politics / Kevin Hewison
- Thailand's rocky path towards a full-fledged democracy / Kasit Piromya
- The color of politics : Thailand's deep crisis of authority / Charles Keyes
- Two cheers for rally politics / Duncan McCargo
- Thai foreign policy in crisis : from partner to problem / Ann Marie Murphy
- Thailand in trouble : revolt of the downtrodden or conflict among elites? / Pasuk Phongpaichit and Chris Baker
- From red to Red : an auto-ethnography of economic and political transitions in a northeastern Thai village / Pattana Kitiarsa
- The rich, the powerful and the banana man : the United States' position in the Thai crisis / Pavin Chachavalpongpun
- The social bases of autocratic rule in Thailand / Craig J. Reynolds
- The strategy of the United Front for Democracy against dictatorship on "double standards" : a grand gesture to history, justice, and accountability / David Streckfuss
- No way forward but back? Re-emergent Thai falangism, democracy, and the new "Red Shirt" social movement / Jim Taylor
- Flying blind / Danny Unger
- The political economy of Thailand's middle-income peasants / Andrew Walker
- Royal succession and the evolution of Thai democracy / Andrew Walker.