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Author Phu?angtho??ng Phawakkhaphan, author

Title The central role of Thailand's internal security operations command in the post-counter-insurgency period / Puangthong R. Pawakapan
Published Singapore : ISEAS?Yusof Ishak Institute, 2017

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Description 1 online resource (34 pages)
Series Trends in Southeast Asia ; 2017 no. 17
Trends in Southeast Asia ; 2017 no. 17.
Contents Frontmatter -- FOREWORD -- The Central Role of Thailand's Internal Security Operations Command in the Post-Counterinsurgency Period / Pawakapan, Puangthong R. -- INTRODUCTION -- WHY ISOC? -- POLITICAL OFFENSIVE -- LEGAL LEGITIMACY DURING THE COUNTER-INSURGENCY PERIOD -- EXPANSION IN THE SEMI-DEMOCRATIC PERIOD -- ISOC IN ANTI-ELECTORAL POLITICS -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES
Summary The Thai military's Internal Security Operations Command (ISOC) was in charge of a wide range of civil affairs projects during the country's struggle with the communist insurgency between the mid-1960s and the mid-1980s. These projects? including rural development programmes, mass organizations and mobilization campaigns, and psychological operations? provided justification for the military to routinely penetrate the socio-political sphere. Since the Cold War drew to a close, little attention has been paid to ISOC's role and power within the state apparatus. Since the coups of September 2006 and May 2014 that toppled the elected governments, ISOC has been dangerously empowered and increasingly employed by the military regimes to dictate the country's political direction. The power of the Thai military is exerted not only through its use of force but also by means of its socio-political arms. ISOC represents a potent tool with which conservative elites can undermine and control electoral democracy and through which the military can maintain its power
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Subject Internal security -- Thailand
National security -- Thailand
Administrative agencies -- Thailand
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Security (National & International)
Administrative agencies
Internal security
Military policy
National security
Politics and government
SUBJECT Thailand -- Military policy
Thailand -- Politics and government -- 21st century
Subject Thailand
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9789814786829
9814786829
9814786810
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