TY  - BOOK
AU  - MCCARGO Duncan
TI  - Mapping national anxieties : : Thailand's southern conflict
PY  - 2009///
KW  - THAILAND
KW  -  POLITICS
KW  - THAILAND SOUTHERN CONFLICT
KW  - POLITICAL SOLUTION
KW  - CONFLICT
KW  - INSURGENCY
N2  - The article argues that the current insurgency marks a watershed moment : the time to act is now.  Others argue that the militant movement is extremely decentralised based on a cell-like, village level structure and lacks an explicit central command and control.  The southern insurgency is at core a challenge to the legitimacy of the Thai state and a pre-emptive strike that could culminate in a radical reorganisation power.  Thailand's southern violence is the microcosm of a potentially wide ranging civil conflict in the country
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