Thailand and the United States: Development, Security, and Foreign Aid

✍ Scribed by Robert J. Muscat

Publisher: Columbia University Press
Year: 2019
Tongue: English
Leaves: 388
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

Describes the role of the United States Foreign Aid Program in the development of Thailand from 1950-1984. Explores nation building, counterinsurgency, poverty and transition.

✦ Table of Contents

CONTENTS
Preface
Abbreviations
Thai Terms
Chronology of U.S.-Thai Relations
Map
1. Background
2. Thai-American Relations: Security and Development
3. Training
4. Nation-Building, 1950-1959
5. Counterinsurgency and Development, 1960—1974
6. Focus on Poverty, 1975-1984
7. Thailand in Transition: New Roles for Foreign Assistance
8. The Aid Experience in Perspective
Annex
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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