Thailand in knots
Thailand in knots
- 2008
The article examines the country's fragile consensus and asks how much longer it can last. The transition from one prime minister has not been smooth. It has seen the shadowy involvement of the army and the king. Thailand has been gradually emerging from a political culture that saw bureaucrats,military figures and politicians struggle for power in relative isolation from the great mass of people.
THAILAND -- POLITICS
MILITARY
POWER
The article examines the country's fragile consensus and asks how much longer it can last. The transition from one prime minister has not been smooth. It has seen the shadowy involvement of the army and the king. Thailand has been gradually emerging from a political culture that saw bureaucrats,military figures and politicians struggle for power in relative isolation from the great mass of people.
THAILAND -- POLITICS
MILITARY
POWER