Reinventing Thailand: Thaksin and His Foreign Policy election Each chapter opens with a

Each chapter opens with a general background summary that places events in the greater Asian/Southeast Asian context

Asks how we should grasp a situation where the political practices commonly associated with democracy

Claudio Sopranzetti is currently completing his PhD at the Department of Anthropology at Harvard University

and between peoples and communities

and gay rights

Reinventing Thailand: Thaksin and His Foreign Policy election Each chapter opens with aAbout the Author Pavin Chachavalpongpun, a former Thai diplomat, is currently a Fellow in the Regional Strategic and Political Studies Programme (RSPS) and Lead Researcher for Political and Strategic Affairs at the ASEAN Studies Centre, Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, Singapore. Pavin received his PhD from the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London in 2002. He is the author of A Plastic Nation: The Curse of Thainess in Thai