A genealogy of bamboo diplomacy the politics of Thai détente with Russia and China
In 1975, M.R. Kurkrit Pramoj met Mao Zedong, marking the eventual establishment of diplomatic relations and a discursive rupture with the previous narrative of Communist powers as an existential threat. This book critically interrogates the birth of bamboo (bending with the wind) diplomacy and the p...
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Canberra, ACT, Australia
Australian National University Press
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Cold War Discursive Hegemony: Anticommunism, Americanism and Antagonism
- Bending Before the Wind: The Emergence of 'Flexible Diplomacy' (1968-1969)
- Flexible Diplomacy: Thanat and the First Dâetente (1969-1971)
- Interregnum
- 1971: A Coup against Diplomacy?
- A Diplomatic Transformation: Chatichai, Kukrit and the Second Dâetente (1975-1976)
- Equidistance: Kriangsak and the Third Dâetente (1977-1980)
- Conclusion: The End of 'Bamboo'
- Diplomacy? Back to the Future
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 307-325)