Good Coup Gone Bad: Thailand's Political Development since Thaksin's Downfall

✍ Scribed by Pavin Chachavalpongpun

• Publisher: ISEAS Publishing
• Year: 2014
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 320
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

What did the 2006 military coup show us? It demonstrated that the crux of the Thai crisis is far more serious and much wider in scope than had previously been thought. The monarchy is surely not a victim in the protracted conflict, but the root cause and continuing factor that has eroded Thai politics. The coup set in motion more prejudicial uses of the lèse-majesté law, and in the process, has led to more political prisoners. It has also shredded the military into several segments, turning generals into desperate royalists who continue to live off the monarchy in order to survive. Issues of violence in the Thai south and the Thai-Cambodian dispute became greatly intensified in the age of militarized politics. The coup also produced unique colour-coded politics and created crises of legitimacy. This book is a collection of essays that reflect developments in Thai politics in the post-coup period.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
List of tables & FIGURES
FOREWORD
Contributors
ABBREVIATIONS
Section I. The 2006 Military Coup: Impact on the Thai Political Landscape
1. “Good Coup” Gone Bad: Thailand’s Political Developments since Thaksin’s Downfall
2. Unfinished Business: The Contagion of Conflict over a Century of Thai Political Development
Section II. Defending the Old Political Consensus: The Military and the Monarchy
3. Broken Power: The Thai Military in the Aftermath of the 2006 Coup
4. The Monarchy and Anti-Monarchy: Two Elephants in the Room of Thai Politics and the State of Denial
5. Freedom and Silencing under the Neo-Absolutist Monarchy Regime in Thailand, 2006–2011
Section III. New Political Discourses and the Emergence of Yellows and Reds
6. “Vote No!”: The PAD’s Decline from Powerful Movement to Political Sect?
7. The Red Shirts: From Anti-Coup Protesters to Social Mass Movement
8. Is Peasant Politics in Thailand Civil?
Section IV. Crises of Legitimacy
9. Reaping the Whirlwind: Thailand’s Coup and the Southern Problem
10. From Marketplace Back to Battlefield: Thai-Cambodian Relations in the Age of a Militarized Politics
Index
Pictures