Tyrell Haberkorn talks about how Thailand’s 20th constitution may fail to protect citizens from the rulers’ excesses and at worst may facilitate the dispossession of their rights.
William T. Tow, ‘President Trump and the Implications for the Australia-US Alliance and Australia’s Role in Southeast Asia’, Contemporary Southeast Asia, 39(1) 2017: 50-57.
There has been a fundamental tension in the electoralist polities of Southeast Asia (Indonesia, the Philippines, and, until 2014, Thailand) between the interests of key elites and their middle class ‘base’ and the dictates of liberal (human rights) democracy (allowing populist politicians to exercise power if elected). Paradoxically, electoral democracy in the region was initially an elite project (backed by key ‘strategic groups’ - business, civil societal, and communalist).
Lorraine Elliott and Mely Caballero-Anthony, eds, Human Security and Climate Change in Southeast Asia: Managing Risk and Resilience, Abingdon: Routledge, 2013.
Published in Lorraine Elliott and Mely Caballero-Anthony (eds), Human Security and Climate Change in Southeast Asia: Managing Risk and Resilience, Abingdon: Routledge, 2013, pp. 1-17.
