... of health outcomes can be enormous. religion mindfulness Buddhism sati meditation Theravāda Southeast Asia Thailand Myanmar Sri Lanka In a psychiatric hospital in Thailand, a staff member was running a mental health program on mindfulness. While speaking with her about it, I noticed...

...Tyrell Haberkorn A decade on from the country’s last coup, aggressive use of a law shielding the monarchy from criticism has blocked a real return to democracy. © 2024 by The Regents of the University of California 2024 Thailand monarchy lèse-majesté democracy protests rule of law...

...Paul Chambers Military-run business activities can turn into an unrestrained form of parasitic capitalism, preying on national economies. The militaries of Thailand and Myanmar have evolved as predatory “khaki capitalist” institutions. Thailand’s military, deriving its legitimacy as guardian...

... Sopranzetti Thailand Bangkok food military junta General Prayuth Chan-ocha King Maha Vajiralongkorn Prime Minister Yinluck Shinawatra authoritarianism everyday life 230 The regime s aim is to impose an authoritarian form of order on the country s makeshift and improvisatory everyday life...

...Tyrell Haberkorn Since the May 2014 coup, the junta has leaned on the law to impose the worst repression in Thailand since the 1970s. Opposition activists are fighting back in the courts. © 2015 Current History. All rights reserved. 2015 The Regents of the University of California Tyrell...

... Catharin Dalpino Southeast Asia Myanmar Philippines Thailand authoritarianism democratization performance legitimacy Aung San Suu Kyi Thaksin Shinawatra 235 As Southeast Asian democracies mature, the pressure of performance legitimacy is gradually moving politics from personalities...

...Catharin Dalpino Thailand runs the risk that future protest, a right and a mainstay of liberal democracy, will escalate quickly into violence and eventually be constricted as a matter of course. © 2010 by the Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. Please direct all requests...

... of California ASEAN Cambodia Thailand China Indonesia Philippines Malaysia United States Jemaah Islamiyah MILF 177 Southeast Asia s Marred Miracle CARLYLE A. THAYER Although midterm economic prospects for Southeast Asia appear reasonably good, the region s political and security dynamics pose...

...Joshua Kurlantzick The optimism surrounding the possibility of a democratic thaw in 2002 “was a mirage, a blip distracting attention from a more depressing long-term trend. … Burma's Asian neighbors, including democracies India and Thailand, increasingly are giving the junta free rein to dominate...

...Joshua Kurlantzick Ultimately, if reformist elements … do not restrain [Prime Minister Thaksin], Thailand could develop into a larger version of Singapore: a state with a veneer of democratic politics covering a one-party system. © 2003 Current History. All rights reserved. 2003 The Regents...

.... 2003 The Regents of the University of California East Asia economy financial crisis Thailand South Korea Indonesia Vietnam Japan Taiwan China 180 Five years after the end of the Asian financialcrisis, it is politics rather than economics thatcasts the darker cloud over East Asia...

... Indonesia Malaysia Philippines September Singapore Southeast Asia terrorism Thailand United States American officials have turned their attention toward Southeast Asian policy- making something largely ignored since the end of the Vietnam War and have declared Southeast Asia the second front...

... in response to the crisis has not. © 2002 Current History. All rights reserved. 2002 The Regents of the University of California depreciation East Asia financial crisis IMF Malaysia Philippines Singapore slowdown South Korea Thailand In the aftermath of East Asia s spectacular eco-nomic...