Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Thailand

Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of contributors -- List of figures -- List of maps -- List of tables -- Part I The history -- 1 Introduction: a timeless Thailand -- 2 Thailand in the longue durée -- 3 Thai historiography -- 4 Economic development of post-war Thailand -- Part II The political and economic landscape -- 5 The two faces of democracy -- 6 The logic of Thailand's royalist coups d'état -- 7 The development of the hybrid regime: the military and authoritarian persistence in Thai politics -- 8 Securing an alternative army: the evolution of the Royal Thai Police -- 9 The monarchy and succession -- 10 Lèse-majesté within Thailand's regime of intimidation -- 11 From the Yellow Shirts to the whistle rebels: comparative analysis of the People's Alliance for Democracy (PAD) and the People's Democratic Reform Committee (PDRC) -- 12 Mass politics and the Red Shirts -- 13 Judiciary and judicialisation in Thailand -- 14 Local government and intergovernmental relations in Thailand -- 15 Thai state formation and the political economy of the middle-income trap -- 16 Thailand's corporate sector and international trade -- 17 Industrialisation, technological upgrading, and innovation -- 18 Transport and the Thai state -- Part III The social development -- 19 Thai identity and nationalism -- 20 Money and politics in Buddhist Sangha in modern Thailand -- 21 Buddhism and power -- 22 Secularisation, secularism, and the Thai state -- 23 The southern conflict -- 24 Class, race, and uneven development in Thailand -- 25 The politics, economics and cultural borrowing of Thai higher education reforms -- 26 The state of human rights in the aftermath of the 2014 military coup d'état -- 27 Sex and gender diversity -- 28 The social media -- 29 NGOs and civil society in Thailand.