TY  - BOOK
AU  - Pawakapan,Puangthong R.
AU  - Pawakapan,Puangthong R.
TI  - The Central Role of Thailand's Internal Security Operations Command in the Post-Counter-insurgency Period
SN  - 9789814786812
U1  - 355.0330593 23
PY  - 2017///]
CY  - Singapore : 
PB  - ISEAS Publishing, 
KW  - Administrative agencies-Thailand
KW  - Internal security-Thailand
KW  - National security-Thailand
KW  - Security
KW  - Thailand-Military policy
KW  - Thailand-Politics and government
KW  - POLITICAL SCIENCE / Security (National & International)
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - Frontmatter --; FOREWORD --; The Central Role of Thailand's Internal Security Operations Command in the Post-Counterinsurgency Period --; 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; restricted access; Issued also in print
N2  - 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
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1355/9789814786829
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9789814786829
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