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The Iron Silk Road and the Iron Fist: Making Sense of the Military Coup D'État in Thailand

In May of 2014, the military of Thailand staged a coup and overthrew the democratically elected government of Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra. The political divisions in Thailand, which culminated in the coup, as well as the course of events leading to the coup, are difficult to explain via Thai domestic policy and the power relations between Thailand’s military, corporate, and civil entities. The divisions can be more clearly revealed when interpreted in the context of the large-scale Chinese project "One Belt, One Road". This ambitious infrastructure project represents an important step in the rise of China to the position of the world’s biggest economic power and - drawing on world-systems theory - to the center of a new long accumulation cycle of the global economy. Against this backdrop, it will be argued that developments in Thailand can be interpreted historically as an example of the upheavals in the periphery of China, the new center. The establishment of an autocratic system is, however, not directly attributable to the influence of China, but results from the interplay of internal factors in Thailand.

ISSN
1999-253X
Umfang
Seite(n): 35-52
Sprache
Englisch
Anmerkungen
Status: Veröffentlichungsversion; begutachtet (peer reviewed)

Erschienen in
ASEAS - Austrian Journal of South-East Asian Studies, 11(1)

Thema
Politikwissenschaft
Wirtschaft
politische Willensbildung, politische Soziologie, politische Kultur
Volkswirtschaftstheorie
Militär
Staatsstreich
Thailand
Südostasien
Weltwirtschaft
China
politische Macht
Infrastruktur

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Schaffar, Wolfram
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wo)
Österreich
(wann)
2018

DOI
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  • Schaffar, Wolfram

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  • 2018

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