... Haberkorn Thailand coup martial law human rights civil liberties repression General Prayuth Chanocha National Council Peace Order Thaksin Shinawatra PERSPECTIVE Under cover of ambiguous pledges of reform, General Prayuth Chan-ocha and his junta, the National Council for Peace and Order...

... 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. Thailand Catharin Dalpino red shirts Thaksin Shinawatra yellow shirts Ratchaprasong United...

...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...