The lines of democratic division are less clear now and Thailand’s grinding political conflict is best understood as a power struggle between competing elite camps with divergent visions for the country’s post-Bhumibol future.

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Apart from the number of pages available, there is another important factor determining the length of an index: just what is to be indexed. This is not an issue considered in advance by most authors, I suspect, but your choices here will add to readers’ perceptions about the index and your book. Does it look as [...]

Subaltern is a relatively recent conception involving people outside social, geographical and political hegemonic power structures. The concept was, when it was used in the 1970´s, first refering to colonized people of South Asia, as a way trying to view colonization from a new perspective, from below, unlike the traditional way of refering from above.

Please see the new working paper on "Ambivlalent about rights" regarding Thailand at the Southeast Asian Research Centre's working paper series http://www6.cityu.edu.hk/searc/doc.aspxThe paper explores the conditions that give rise to human rights abuses in Thailand.