Thailand

Resurgence of the coup d’état

October 13, 2011

Joshua Kurlantzick, a Fellow for South-East Asia at the Council on Foreign Relations, has an piece in The National on the rise of the coup d’état: Across the developing world, from Thailand to Pakistan, militaries have become more politically powerful in recent years. Indeed, in many Middle Eastern nations, armies will be determining the future [...]

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Five Political Corpses in 2011

December 20, 2010

Moisés Naím (Senior Associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace) examines the similar succession processes of five countries that includes Cuba in El País via The National Interest: Another common denominator in these five countries is the fundamental role that the armed forces play in the succession process. All of these governments depend on [...]

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Military Rule 2.0

July 12, 2010

A Council on Foreign Relations fellow and researcher on the increasing power of the military in developing nations in today’s Boston Globe: Call it military rule 2.0. And as a result, in many developing countries the military is more powerful than it has been in years. Thailand, where the military once seemed to have retreated [...]

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