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Thitinan Pongsudhirak
Thitinan Pongsudhirak is Professor and Director of the Institute of Security and International Studies, Faculty of Political Science, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok.
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Thailand’s Endless Endgame
Thitinan Pongsudhirak Series: The Asian Century 2009-11-02The hospitalization of King Bhumibol Adulyadej has brought Thailand’s most daunting question to the fore. The country’s wrenching political struggle over the past several years has, at bottom, concerned what will happen after the ailing 81-year-old king’s reign, now at 63 years, comes to an end. ... read Comments: 0 Recommended: 0 Read: 4771
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The Crisis of Thai Democracy
Thitinan Pongsudhirak Series: The Asian Century 2006-03-14One year after he was re-elected in a landslide, Thailand’s Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra has been forced to dissolve the National Assembly and call a snap election. Although his Thai Rak Thai (TRT) party commands a 75% majority in the assembly, Thaksin is embattled. He remains immensely popular with rural voters and the urban poor, who comprise more than 60% of Thailand’s electorate, but he has been battling a fervent Bangkok-based insurrection against his rule by the intelligentsia and middle classes.... read Comments: 0 Recommended: 0 Read: 14609
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Asia’s Age of Thaksin?
Thitinan Pongsudhirak Series: The Asian Century 2005-04-11The retirements from frontline politics of Singapore’s Lee Kuan Yew and Malaysia’s Mahathir Mohamed have deprived Southeast Asia of its senior leaders. Can Thailand’s Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra fill the regional leadership vacuum?... read Comments: 0 Recommended: 0 Read: 13740
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