...Benjamin Pauker Copyright © 2006 World Policy Institute 2006 REPORTAGE Benjamin Pauker is associate editor of World Policy Journal. Thailand: A Fire This Time Benjamin Pauker For nearly two centuries, Thailand has been dits,” for the majority of the attacks...

...Joshua Kurlantzick Copyright © 2000 World Policy Institute 2000 Joshua K u rla n tzk k is Bangkok correspondent fo r Agence France-Presse. The Big Mango Bounces Back Economic Recovery in Thailand and Southeast Asia Josh ua Kurlantzick On an average...

...Abby Seiff An insurgency has consumed much of southern Thailand. Since 2004, almost 7,000 have been killed and more than 12,000 wounded as Malay Muslims push for greater autonomy. Journalist Abby Seiff describes the Thai government's brutal security tactics and investigates what's sustaining...

... Thaksin Shinawatra, the former prime minister of Thailand, is one of the world’s most polarizing figures, whose words still reverberate across Southeast Asia. His tenure at the helm of the Thai government in the early 2000s marked a growing rift between Thailand’s urban middle class and the rural...

... to the Egyptian national identity, food culture, and daily life. thailand today is one of the largest food processing countries in the world, as well as the world’s largest exporter of rice. At the same time the Pita Riots began to gain momentum, similar concerns over national staple foods were...

... and abuse, much of consumers in Thailand, where more than 2 it concentrated in Yunnan and several large million people are addicted to methamphet­ coastal cities. Though China’s current drug amines— small, pill-shaped tablets that can habit does not yet compare to the country’s be eaten...

... to democracy? In the aftermath of the parliamentary elections that allowed Yingluck to form a majority coalition government, there was some question whether the nation’s election commission would certify her overwhelming victory. Yet Thailand is one of the few putative real democracies in Southeast Asia...

... has ever succeeded without the blessings of His Majesty the King. As it happens, I knew this king—not well, and not for many decades—but when I traveled with him to Sakon Nakhon in far northeastern Thailand back in 1976 when he was 49 years old and at peak of his health and power, the people...

... in Thailand, Malaysia, and Indonesia. Malaysia and the Myth of Self-Regulating Markets John A. M iller Malaysian Eclipse: Economic Crisis and Recovery Jomo K. S., ed. London and New York: Zed Books, 2001. It seems altogether fitting...

..., who gained their experience abroad working on boats as fishermen in Thailand, Indonesia, or sometimes South Africa. Most Cambodian former migrant workers are sick when they return to their home country, says Moeun. Women are often afflicted with some form of mental illness, like trauma or depression...

... Anarchy" (XVIL2) Talbott, Strobe; “The Crisis in Africa: Local War and Regional Peace” (XVII:2) Kurlantzick, Joshua; “The Big Mango Bounces Back: Economic Recovery in Tamamoto, Masaru; "Japan and Its Discontents: A Letter from Yokohama” Thailand...

....; “The Follies of Democratic Imperialism” Pauker, Benjamin; “Thailand: A Fire This Time” (XXII: 4) (XXII: 1) Schlesinger Jr., Arthur; “The American Empire? Not So Fast” (XXII: 1) Entwistle, L. Brooks; “Capital Comes Calling on India” (XXII: 2) Scobell, Andrew, and Sumit Ganguly...

... verely affected countries. that followed. These were invariably de­ Debt did play a role, although this time scribed as bailouts of Indonesia or Thailand the borrowers were principally private-sector or South Korea, and, given the media cover­ corporations...

... minimal sales. But there has also (sadly) been an increase in the use of chemical pesticides and fertilizers, mainly imported from China. In Laos, we still have a long way to go until our food is truly secure. We need to reduce the amount of imported consumables brought in from Thailand, and build...

... beginning to learn legislative democracy, which should be natural to the human spirit, but all too often is not. Democracy-at-gunpoint continues to be the rule in a disturbing number of otherwise, at least nominally, democratic nations. Thailand, for instance, is a constitutional monarchy...

... ours. As opposed to the equi­ all outstanding loans in Indonesia are in ty culture of the United States, East Asians default; in the Philippines the proportion is raise capital through what we call relation­ a quarter and in Thailand, a fifth. In total, ship banking— alliance...

...Instead of my initial commission, which was to photograph her honeymoon in Thailand, I shot Aljohara celebrating the cancellation of her wedding in Brazil with her parents and siblings. “I had the perfect man, set the date, booked the ballroom, and bought the dress. Happy we canceled the wedding...

.... Women not only vote, they now govern worldwide—in Germany, Denmark, Norway, Slovenia, Lithuania, Brazil, Argentina, Chile, Costa Rica, Bangladesh, Thailand, South Korea, Liberia, Malawi, Jamaica, and Trinidad and Tobago. Iceland elected a lesbian prime minister in 2009, and Ontario a lesbian premier...

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