The US-Thai Alliance and Asian International Relations. History, Memory and Current Developments

Cover
Half Title
Series Information
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
About the authors
Acknowledgements
1 Introduction: History, Memory and the Us-Thai Alliance
	An Approach Based On Memory
	The Puzzle
	Memory and the Theory of Alliances
	History, Identity and Memory
	The Methodology of this Book
	What this Book Is and Is Not
	Conclusion
	Notes
2 Thailand and the Great Powers
	The Idea and Experience of Great Powers
	French Wolf and Siamese Lamb
	Perfidious Albion and Mueang Phudi: Britain in Thai Memory
	Memory of Europe: the Triumphant 1897 Tour
	Russia: Sentimental Friends
	India: a Very Distant Source of Culture
	Japan: a Manicured Site of Happy Amnesia
	Conclusion
	Notes
3 Historical Memory and the us-Thai Alliance
	The Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries: Memory of Gratitude
	The Cold War: Memories of Interference and Difficult Social and Political Legacies
		Aid and Entanglement
		The Parting of Ways Amidst Social Revolution: the Us Exit and the Geopolitical Turn
	Post–Cold War: Memory of Drift and Disregard
	Conclusion
	Notes
4 Rediscovering China
	A Statistical Pointer to a Rich Perception
	China As Homeland: Ethnicity and the Remembrance and Suppression of Heritage and Identity
	China As Protector
	The Brief Period of China As An Adversary
	Memory of China As a Proximate Giant
	Concerns in the Current Era
	Conclusion
	Notes
5 Thailand at the Centre I: Pan-Asianism and Asean
	Early Pan-Asianism
	Thailand and the Memory of Suvarnabhumi
	ASEAN As a Site of Memory
	Conclusion
	Notes
6 Thailand at the Centre II: Neighbours
	“Us and Them”: the Other in Thai Nationalist Memory
	Thai Memory and Laos
	Thai Memory and Burma Myanmar
	Thai Memory and Cambodia
	Thai Memory and Vietnam
	Conclusion
	Notes
Conclusion: An Alliance in Trouble
	Memory and Alliances: Theoretical Findings
	Identity and Memory in Us-China Competition for Influence
	Implications for Other Southeast Asian States
	Conclusion
	Notes
Bibliography
	Archival Sources
		British Library
		Foreign Records of the United States
		National Archives and Records Administration (united States)
		Singapore National Archives
		Thailand National Archives
		United Kingdom National Archives
	Books, Journal Articles, and Reports
Glossary
Annexure: Selected Survey Results
Index