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Thailand: The Politics of Despotic Paternalism, Revised Edition

Thak CHALOEMTIARANA

SOSEA-42, 2007 9780877277422 paperback $23.95, 9780877277729 hardcover $46.95

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In 1958, Marshal Sarit Thanarat became prime minister of Thailand following a bloodless coup. This book offers a comprehensive study of Sarit's paternalistic, militaristic regime, which laid the foundations for Thailand's support of the US military campaign in Southeast Asia. The analysis documents the ways in which Sarit shaped modern Thai politics, in part by rationalizing a symbiotic relationship between his own office and the Thai monarchy.

This book was awarded the first Ohira Prize (Japan) in 1985 and translated into Japanese by Professor Tamada of Kyoto University in 1989.

Thak Chaloemtiarana is professor of Southeast Asian and Thai Studies and director of Cornell University's Southeast Asia Studies Program. His research interests include authoritarianism and democratization in post-1932 Thai politics; and the role of turn-of-the-20th-century Thai novels in the construction of identity strategies to deal with colonialism and modernity, and of gender ideal types.

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