ROUTLEDGE HANDBOOK OF CONTEMPORARY THAILAND

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Part I The history
	1 Introduction: a timeless Thailand
	2 Thailand in the longue durée
	3 Thai historiography
	4 Economic development of post-war Thailand
Part II The political and economic landscape
	5 The two faces of democracy
	6 The logic of Thailand’s royalist coups d’état
	7 The development of the hybrid regime: the military and authoritarian persistence in Thai politics
	8 Securing an alternative army: the evolution of the Royal Thai Police
	9 The monarchy and succession
	10 Lèse-majesté within Thailand’s regime of intimidation
	11 From the Yellow Shirts to the whistle rebels: comparative analysis of the People’s Alliance for Democracy (PAD) and the People’s Democratic Reform Committee (PDRC)
	12 Mass politics and the Red Shirts
	13 Judiciary and judicialisation in Thailand
	14 Local government and intergovernmental relations in Thailand
	15 Thai state formation and the political economy of the middle-income trap
	16 Thailand’s corporate sector and international trade
	17 Industrialisation, technological upgrading, and innovation
	18 Transport and the Thai state
Part III The social development
	19 Thai identity and nationalism
	20 Money and politics in Buddhist Sangha in modern Thailand
	21 Buddhism and power
	22 Secularisation, secularism, and the Thai state
	23 The southern conflict
	24 Class, race, and uneven development in Thailand
	25 The politics, economics and cultural borrowing of Thai higher education reforms
	26 The state of human rights in the aftermath of the 2014 military coup d’état
	27 Sex and gender diversity
	28 The social media
	29 NGOs and civil society in Thailand
	30 Environmental politics in Thailand: pasts, presents, and futures
Part IV The international relations
	31 Thailand’s foreign policy
	32 Beyond bamboo diplomacy: the factor of status anxiety and Thai foreign policy behaviours
	33 Thailand and the Great Powers
	34 Thailand’s foreign policy towards neighbouring countries and ASEAN
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