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  title info:
    non sort: A
    title: genealogy of bamboo diplomacy
    sub title: the politics of Thai deÌ?tente with Russia and China
  name:
    name part: CÌŒhittiphat PhuÌ„nkham
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: at
    date issued: 2022
    copyright date: 2022
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: ix, 325 pages ; 24 cm.
  abstract: 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 politics of Thai deÌ?tente with Russia and China in the long 1970s (1968-80). By 1968, Thailand was encountering discursive anxiety amid the prospect of American retrenchment from the Indo-Pacific region. As such, Thailand developed a new discourse of deÌ?tente to make sense of the rapidly changing world politics and replace the hegemonic discourse of anticommunism. By doing so, it created a political struggle between the old and new discourses. Jittipat Poonkham also argues that bamboo diplomacy, previously seen as a classic and continual 'tradition' of Thai-style diplomacy, had its origins in Thai deÌ?tente and has become the metanarrative of Thai diplomacy since then. Based on a genealogical approach and multi-archival research, this book examines three key episodes of Thai deÌ?tente, Thanat Khoman (1968-71), M.R. Kukrit Pramoj (1975-76) and General Kriangsak Chomanan (1977-80). This transformation was represented in numerous diplomatic/discursive practices, such as ping-pong diplomacy, petro-diplomacy, trade and cultural diplomacy and normal visits.
  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 deÌ?tente (1969-1971) -- Interregnum - 1971 : a coup against diplomacy? -- A diplomatic transformation : Chatichai, Kukrit and the second deÌ?tente (1975-1976) -- Equidistance : Kriangsak and the third deÌ?tente (1977-1980) -- Conclusion : the end of 'bamboo' diplomacy? Back to the future.
  note: by Jittipat Poonkham.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 307-325).
  subject:
    geographic code: a-th---
    geographic code: a-cc---
    geographic code: e-ur---
  subject:
    geographic: Thailand
    topic: Foreign relations
    temporal: 1945-1988
  subject:
    geographic: Thailand
    topic: Foreign relations
    geographic: China
  subject:
    geographic: China
    topic: Foreign relations
    geographic: Thailand
  subject:
    geographic: Thailand
    topic: Foreign relations
    geographic: Russia
  subject:
    geographic: Russia
    topic: Foreign relations
    geographic: Thailand
  subject:
    geographic: China
    topic: Foreign relations
    temporal: 1949-1976
  subject:
    geographic: Soviet Union
    topic: Foreign relations
    temporal: 1953-1975
  subject:
    topic: Detente
  subject:
    topic: Cold War
    topic: Influence
  subject:
    topic: Diplomacy
    topic: History
    temporal: 20th century
  classification: DS575.5.T5 C45 2022
  classification: 327.593051
  identifier: 9781760464981
  identifier: 1760464988
  identifier: 9781760464998
  identifier: 1760464996
  record info:
    record content source: YDX
    record creation date: 220122
    record change date: 20220902193415.4
    record identifier: in00004582940