Thailand : : The Politics of Despotic Paternalism / / Thak Chaloemtiarana.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Backlist 2000-2013
• VerfasserIn: Chaloemtiarana, Thak,
• Place / Publishing House: Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2018]; ©2007
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (284 p.) :; 46 photographs, 17 tables, 1 map, 1 diagram
• Other title: Frontmatter --; TABLE OF CONTENTS --; FOREWORD TO SECOND PRINTING --; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS --; INTRODUCTION --; CHAPTER ONE. THE RETURN OF THE MILITARY TO LEADERSHIP AFTER WORLD WAR II --; CHAPTER TWO. THE TRIUMVIRATE (1948-1957) --; CHAPTER THREE. THE SEARCH FOR POLITICAL LEGITIMACY --; CHAPTER FOUR. IMPLEMENTATION OF THE SARIT SYSTEM: PERSONAL LEADERSHIP --; CHAPTER FIVE. IMPLEMENTATION OF THE SARIT SYSTEM: MODERNIZATION AND THE IMPINGEMENT OF INTERNATIONAL POLITICAL FORCES --; CHAPTER SIX. THE ROLES OF THE BUREAUCRACY AND MONARCHY IN THE SARIT SYSTEM --; CONCLUSION --; APPENDIX I --; POSTSCRIPT. RE-EXAMINING THE DOMINANT NATIONAL NARRATIVE AND AN INTERPRETATION OF THE SARIT MONUMENT IN KHONKAEN --; INDEX
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781501721106; 9783110536157
• DOI: 10.7591/9781501721106
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Thak Chaloemtiarana.

In 1958, Marshal Sarit Thanarat became prime minister of Thailand following a bloodless coup. This book offers a comprehensive study of Sarit's paternalistic, militaristic regime, which laid the foundations for Thailand's support of the US military campaign in Southeast Asia. The analysis documents the ways in which Sarit shaped modern Thai politics, in part by rationalizing a symbiotic relationship between his own office and the Thai monarchy.