Review of the monograph: Pavin Chachavalpongpun (2010), Reinventing Thailand: Thaksin and His Foreign Policy, Silkworm Books, Singapore: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies. ISBN: 978-616-215-000-5, 354 pages

Thai foreign policy in the 1990s has been said to be contingent on the government in power, which changes between (or within) these groups and vacillates between pro-democratic reformists/principle-pursuers and the conservatives/profit-seekers. In these studies, Thailand’s Indochinese...