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Remembering A Thai Coup: 23 February 1991
Affable and gregarious Thai premier Chatichai Choonavan was ousted from power after boarding an Air Force plane that was supposed to take him to Chiang Mai for an audience with the King. The flight never got airborne. With the benefit of hindsight, the 23 February 1991 coup that removed Chatichai...
Lessons of the 23 February 1991 Coup new
Affable and gregarious Thai premier Chatichai Choonavan was ousted from power after boarding an Air Force plane that was supposed to take him to Chiang Mai for an audience with the King. The flight never got airborne. With the benefit of hindsight, the 23 February 1991 coup that removed Chatichai...
Looking for Laksi
Things began to go missing in Bangkok at the start of the Tenth Reign. It started small, with a brass plaque bearing the text “Here on 24 June 1932 at dawn, the People’s Party proclaimed a constitution for the country’s advancement.” This plaque vanished from the Royal Plaza in April...
Lessons of the 23 February 1991 Coup
Affable and gregarious Thai premier Chatichai Choonavan was ousted from power after boarding an Air Force plane that was supposed to take him to Chiang Mai for an audience with the King. The flight never got airborne. With the benefit of hindsight, the 23 February 1991 coup that removed Chatichai...
Peace and Order? Peace Messaging in Thai Elections
Duncan McCargo, Saowanee Alexander and Petra Alderman Thailand’s 2019 election was overseen by a military junta known as the National Council for Peace and Order. For the first time in decades, nobody was killed in election-related violence. Sadly, this was not really a triumph of peace messaging. In countries where...
Fighting for Virtue
My latest book Fighting for Virtue: Justice and Politics in Thailand (Cornell 2019) has been out for a few months now, but for a time the Covid-19 pandemic made it rather difficult to obtain copies. Finally, however, the book is becoming easier to track down. Writing up the manuscript...