Research review: searching for a new framework for Thailand's foreign policy in the post-cold war era

Aoki-Okabe Maki

No 405, IDE Discussion Papers from Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade Organization(JETRO)

Abstract: Thai foreign policy in the 1990s has been said to be contingent on the government in power, which changes between (or within) these groups and vacillates between pro-democratic reformists/principle-pursuers and the conservatives/profit-seekers. In these studies, Thailand’s Indochinese policy has often been referred to as a typical consequence of politics between the pragmatists and the reformists. However, whether or not domestic oppositional politics is the key determinant of foreign policy in the post-Cold War era still requires further examination, precisely because the model is now facing serious challenges between theory and reality. In this paper, I review the existing arguments concerning Thailand’s foreign policy in the post-Cold War Era and point out their limitations and questions for future study.

Keywords: Thailand; Foreign policy; Democratization; Globalization (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: H1 N45 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013-03-01
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