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024 7 _a10.1355/9789812304650
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035 _a(DE-B1597)9789812304650
035 _a(DE-B1597)491869
035 _a(OCoLC)1041977170
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050 0 0 _aDS588.S68
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072 7 _aPOL012000
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084 _aonline - DeGruyter
100 1 _aAskew, Marc
_eautore
245 1 0 _aConspiracy, Politics, and a Disorderly Border :
_bThe Struggle to Comprehend Insurgency in Thailand's Deep South /
_cMarc Askew.
264 1 _aSingapore :
_bISEAS Publishing,
_c[2007]
264 4 _c©2007
300 _a1 online resource (112 p.)
336 _atext
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505 0 0 _tFrontmatter --
_tContents --
_tList of Acronyms --
_tExecutive Summary --
_tIntroduction --
_tEndnotes --
_tBibliography --
_tProject Information --
_tList of Reviewers 2006–07 --
_tPolicy Studies Previous Publications
506 0 _arestricted access
_uhttp://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
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520 _aThis study examines a number of themes underlying the struggle to identify the character and causes of the violence engulfing southern Thailand’s border provinces since 2004. It begins by outlining key representations of the southern problem in Thailand. Then, drawing on little-used Thai-language documentation, and on interviews and field study, this monograph focuses on three topics. First, it addresses the prominence of a number of conspiracy theories claiming that killings and bombings have been engineered, in whole or in part, by vested interest groups rather than by ideologically inspired separatists. Conspiratorial models are a dominant feature of explanations of conflict in Thailand. I argue that the circulation of conspiracy speculation brings into relief the tangible reality of the labyrinthine and disorderly borderland, which is a major problem requiring attention that was long deferred by former governments. Second, the monograph focuses on some problematic arguments claiming that Thaksin Shinawatra’s dissolution of the Southern Border Provinces Administrative Center in 2002 paved the way for the current insurgency, and holds that the SBPAC and previous governments failed in the previous decade to detect an emerging new network-based militancy. Third, it discusses the political uses of the southern crisis by the opposition Democrat Party, which was able to preserve its electoral base in the south by demonizing Thaksin as the key cause of the turbulence. The study argues that representations of the southern crisis have been inherently political, and that the major reality needing attention is the complexity and vulnerability of a disorderly, contested, and neglected borderland.
538 _aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
546 _aIn English.
588 0 _aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 01. Dez 2022)
650 0 _aGovernment, Resistance to
_zThailand, Southern.
650 0 _aGovernment, Resistance to--Thailand, Southern.
650 0 _aInsurgency
_zThailand, Southern.
650 0 _aInsurgency--Thailand, Southern.
650 7 _aPOLITICAL SCIENCE / Security (National & International).
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850 _aIT-RoAPU
856 4 0 _uhttps://doi.org/10.1355/9789812304650
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9789812304650
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