“Back from the Future” Coalition Set to Govern Thailand
Shorter version of this article is published as an op-ed at Bangkok Post here. By Kheetanat Synth...
Read MorePosted by Anisa | Sep 1, 2023 | Mekong Region, Opinion/Analysis, Power and Democracy, Thailand
Shorter version of this article is published as an op-ed at Bangkok Post here. By Kheetanat Synth...
Read MorePosted by Anisa | Jul 10, 2023 | Mekong Region, Opinion/Analysis, Power and Democracy, Thailand
By Kheetanat Synth Wannaboworn and Walden Bello* The next few days leading up to July 13 will...
Read MorePosted by Walden Bello | Jun 7, 2020 | Asia/World, COVID-19 Updates, Mekong Region
By Walden Bello, Doi Ra Lahkyen, Jenny Franco, Pietje Vervest and Tom Kramer* The Covid-19...
Read MorePosted by admin | May 26, 2014 | Asia/World, Mekong Region, Statement, Thailand
After declaring martial law on Tuesday, May 20, the Thai military announced a full-fledged coup...
Read MorePosted by admin | Jan 22, 2014 | Mekong Region, Power and Democracy, Thailand
There are occasional references to the Edsa Uprising, with one speaker saying, “The Filipinos did...
Read MorePosted by admin | Aug 31, 2013 | Laos, Mekong Region, Power and Democracy
By Walden Bello*Intervention at a press conference marking the International Day of the...
Read MorePosted by admin | Aug 7, 2011 | Deglobalisation, Mekong Region
By Walden BelloWhen I first went to Vietnam in 1992, the population of that country was 68.4...
Read MorePosted by admin | Jul 10, 2009 | Deglobalisation, Mekong Region, Philippines, Trade and Investment
by Walden Bello* The stylized view of Robert McNamara, who passed away a few days ago, is that after serving as the chief engineer of the disastrous US war in Vietnam, he went on, in 1968, to serve as president of the World...
Read MorePosted by admin | Sep 29, 2006 | Mekong Region, Power and Democracy, Thailand
The military coup in Thailand a week ago marked the second high profile collapse of a democracy in...
Read MorePosted by admin | Aug 12, 1998 | Mekong Region, Thailand
by Walden Bello, in th Nation Newspaper, 11 August, 1998, Bangkok, Thailand Thailand took pains to dispute any comparison to Mexico in the months preceding its economic meltdown. Now the Philippines insists that its economic...
Read MorePosted by admin | Sep 24, 1997 | India, Laos, Mekong Region, Philippines, Thailand, Trade and Investment
by Walden Bello* (This paper was originally prepared for the Hivos Partner Consulation, Trivandrum, Kerala, India, September 1-3, 1997.) Overviews are always broad-strokes affairs that inevitably miss many key dimensions,...
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