2023) by Sinae Hyun, argues that local political elites in Thailand skillfully used the Cold War to achieve their own political needs, and explores the role of Thailand’s Border Patrol Police, a unit which was instrumental in nation-building in the rural regions of the country and notorious for its involvement in the massacre of leftist students at Thammasat University in 1976.
Sinae Hyun is a research professor at the Institute for East Asian Studies, Sogang University.
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