Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Thailand

Pavin Chachavalpongpun is Professor at the Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Kyoto University, Japan. He is the chief editor of the online journal Kyoto Review of Southeast Asia in which all articles are translated from English into Japanese, Thai, Bahasa Indonesia, Filipino, Vietnamese, Burmese and Khmer.

• Part I: The History1. Introduction: A timeless Thailand2. Thailand in the longue durée3. Thai historiography4. Economic development in post-war ThailandPart II: The Political and Economic Landscape5. Thailand’s two-faced democracy: from 1932 to the present6. Thailand’s royalist coups d’état: past and future7. The military and authoritarian persistence in Thai politics: The development of the hybrid regime8. Rethinking Thailand’s urban-rural divide9. Thailand’s authoritarianism in comparative perspective: sophisticated or retrograde?10. Conflict and contestation on the Royal Thai Army: An alternative army11. Thailand’s 21st century monarchy12. Lèse-majesté within Thailand’s failing regime of intimidation13. Conservative activism in contemporary Thai politics: From yellow shirts to the whistle rebels14. Thailand’s red shirt movement: Born out of conflict and branded with contestation15. Thailand’s judiciary: from judicialisation to politicisation?16. Local government and intergovernmental relations in contemporary Thailand: between central control and local aspirations17. Thai state formation and the political economy of the middle-income trap18. Thailand and International trade: A growth engine losing steam?19. Industrialisation, technological upgrading, and innovation in Thailand20. Transport and the Thai statePart III: The Social Development21. Thai identity and nationalism22. Buddhism, power, and resistance in Thailand23. Sangha, state, and secularism in Thailand: mind the age gap?24. Buddhism, monarchy, and Thai-style democracy25. Violence, Identity, and Peace Efforts in Southern Thailand: The southern conflict 26. Education in contemporary Thailand27. Enduring constraints and struggles for democracy and human rights in Thailand since the 2014 military coup d’état28. Thai queer and trans cultures, communities, and politics: Gender and sexual diversity 29. Thailand and Social Media: A consolidated online society30. The cycles of protest and the rise and decline of Thailand’s youth movement: a preliminary analysis31. Thailand’s environmental politics32. COVID-19 and the impact of ThailandPart IV: The International Relations 33. Thailand’s foreign policy34. Thailand’s international quests for status symbols: Arms, aid, arena35. Thailand and the great powers36. Thailand’s foreign policy towards neighbouring countries and ASEAN37. Transnational repression in contemporary Thailand: building capacity to suppress dissent beyond borders