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A genealogy of bamboo diplomacy : the politics of Thai deÌ?tente 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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Čhittiphat Phūnkham (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Acton, ACT, Australia : Australian National University Press, [2022].
Subjects:
Thailand > Foreign relations > 1945-1988.
Thailand > Foreign relations > China.
China > Foreign relations > Thailand.
Thailand > Foreign relations > Russia.
Russia > Foreign relations > Thailand.
China > Foreign relations > 1949-1976.
Soviet Union > Foreign relations > 1953-1975.
Detente.
Cold War > Influence.
Diplomacy > History > 20th century.
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.