Thaksin: The Business Of Politics In Thailand - Softcover

Phongpaichit, Pasuk; Baker, Chris

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9789749575550: Thaksin: The Business Of Politics In Thailand

Softcover

ISBN 10: 9749575555 ISBN 13: 9789749575550

Publisher: Silkworm Books, 2005

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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 ofThaksin's downfall.

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About the Author:

Pasuk Phongpaichit is a professor of economics at Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok. Chris Baker is an independent writer. Together they have also written Thailand: Economy and Politics, Thailand’s Boom and Bust, and Thailand's Crisis.

Review:

For anyone interested in Thailand, this book deftly unravels the Thaksin government's slick packaging and reveals what lies inside. -- Financial Times

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