by Pavin Chachavalpongpun, the Strait Times, 1 February 2012 A dangerous standoff is building up in Thailand between royalists and those urging reform of the tough lèse-majesté law. ANOTHER round of Thailand’s political conflict has recently begun. This time, however, it is not between the yellow and red shirts but a group of hyper-royalists and...
by Pavin Chachavalpongpun, The Irrawaddy, dated 30 January 2012 Book Review of The Ideal Man: The Tragedy of Jim Thompson and the American Way of War, by Joshua Kurlantzick (Hardcover edition John Wiley, November 2011) “Jim Thompson’s combination of mystery, power, idealism, glamor, and, eventually, failure, transfixed one generation after the next and led to...
“Read ISEAS Senior Fellow Ian Storey’s ‘China’s Bilateral and Multilateral Diplomacy in the South China Sea’ in Cooperation from Strength:The United States, China and the South China Sea published by the Center for a New American Security, Washington D.C. on 10 January 2012″ Click Here to Read in Detail.
Read Fellow ISEAS Pavin Chachavalpongpun’s latest article in Asian Survey, “The Necessity of Enemies in Thailand’s troubled Politics” (Vol 51, No 6, Nov-Dec 2011): Click Here for more details.
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