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Thaksin by Pasuk Phongpaichit

Zusammenfassung

In the early 1990s, Thaksin Shinawatra came from nowhere to become a multi-billionaire in just four years. In 2001, he was elected prime minister on a single-minded promise to accelerate Thailand to first-world status. This title traces the rise and fall from power of Thailand's former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra.

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Thaksin by Pasuk Phongpaichit

In the early 1990s, Thaksin Shinawatra came from nowhere to become a multi-billionaire in just four years. In 2001, he was elected prime minister on a single-minded promise to accelerate Thailand to first-world status through unrestrained capitalist growth. In 2009, over video link from exile in Dubai, he urged thousands of red-shirted supporters to revolution, provoking days of street fighting and the biggest-ever domestic operation by the Thai army. Thaksin's tenure gave new meaning to the role of prime minister and transformed Thai politics. It is an extraordinary story involving four landslide elections, a military coup, a demonstration lasting half a year, the popular mobilization of people in color-coded street armies, the occupation of Bangkok's international airport, assassination plots, and the flight of Asian leaders from a regional meeting by helicopter. The first edition of this book was published in 2004, and the original chapters remain unchanged. In the expanded second edition, four new chapters and a conclusion trace in detail the protracted story of Thaksin's downfall.
"The best account available in English of the Thaksin regime"--Kasian Tejapira, New Left Review "A wonderful book--read it and gain insights that are simply not available anywhere else"--Kevin Hewison, Bangkok Post

Pasuk Phongpaichit is professor of economics at Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok. Chris Baker is an independent writer.

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ISBN 13 9789749511794
ISBN 10 9749511794
Titel Thaksin
Autor Pasuk Phongpaichit
Serie Thaksin
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Bindungsart Paperback
Verlag Silkworm Books / Trasvin Publications LP
Erscheinungsjahr 2009-11-20
Seitenanzahl 424
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