“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...
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Thailand on the Brink of Change
By Kheetanat Synth Wannaboworn and Walden Bello* The next few days leading up to July 13 will...
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อ่านพิเก็ตตี 1: สรุปความอย่างย่อ และครอบคลุมของ ทุนและอุดมการณ์
วอลเดน เบลโล เขียน ชนิดา แบมฟอร์ด แปล ในสรุปความนี้ วอลเดน...
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How Thailand Contained Covid-19: Why a Public Health System with Popular Support Matters
By Walden Bello* It was not authoritarian decrees from above but a strategy of persuasion built on...
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Undermining Democracy: The 2019 Elections in Thailand, the Philippines, and India
In the first half of 2019, a great deal of global attention focused on national elections in three...
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Class War: Thailand’s Military Coup
After declaring martial law on Tuesday, May 20, the Thai military announced a full-fledged coup...
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Thailand’s EDSA 2: From Civil Conflict to Uncivil War?
There are occasional references to the Edsa Uprising, with one speaker saying, “The Filipinos did...
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A siamese tragedy : the collapse of democracy in Thailand
The military coup in Thailand a week ago marked the second high profile collapse of a democracy in...
Read MoreThailand and the IMF: Has the Balance of Power Shifted?
by Walden Bello* In the middle of August, the Thai government announced a number of initiatives that many observers have interpreted as a marked departure from the International Monetary Fund’s (IMF) usual prescriptions to...
Read MoreThailand’s Siamese twin
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 MoreOverview of Current Economic, Strategic and Political Developments in Southeast and South Asia
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,...
Read MoreEnter the Dragon: Thailand Braces for IMF Suzerainty
by Walden Bello* Even experienced observers were surprised by the Big Bang that marked the restructuring of Thailand’s economy under the supervision of the International Monetary Fund (IMF). In return for an IMF bail-out,...
Read MoreEasy Money on Silom Street: Or How Bangkok’s Financial Yuppies (with Some Help from Their Foreign Buddies) Brought Down the Economy
by Walden Bello* The Thai government’s closing of 42 finance companies, in addition to the 16 it shut down in June, to convince the International Monetary Fund that it is finally serious about coming to grips with the...
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