Thailand prone to coups?

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Thailand prone to coups?

Post by bumper » May 15, 2013, 11:49 am

Posted 2013-05-09 09:24:23

High risk of more coups in Thailand, study says
Being a avid follower of the Thai economy, this has to be the greatest risk. Only one P.M thus far has finished a complete term. That being said he didn't finish the second one. Any thoughts of probability?

BANGKOK: -- Thailand, which has experienced 18 successful coups since 1932, remains "high-risk" to more, the co-author of a new book on democratization in Asia said Thursday.

"The more coups in the past, the more likely coups will take place in the future, so Thailand is a high-risk, coup-prone country," said Aurel Croissant, a co-author of the recently published Democratization and Civilian Control in Asia.

The book ranked Thailand fifth worldwide in terms of the number of coups staged between 1946 and 2010. Ecuador came first, followed by Bolivia and Syria.

Speaking in Bangkok, Croissant said the three factors that made Thailand vulnerable to more coups included the lack of a strong civil society, legitimacy questions about the existing government and "a lot of coups in the past."

The seven countries researched for the book were Bangladesh,I ndonesia, Pakistan, Philippians, South Korea, Taiwan and Thailand.



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Thailand prone to coups?

Post by rreddin » May 15, 2013, 3:22 pm

bumper wrote:Posted 2013-05-09 09:24:23

High risk of more coups in Thailand, study says
Being a avid follower of the Thai economy, this has to be the greatest risk. Only one P.M thus far has finished a complete term. That being said he didn't finish the second one. Any thoughts of probability?

BANGKOK: -- Thailand, which has experienced 18 successful coups since 1932, remains "high-risk" to more, the co-author of a new book on democratization in Asia said Thursday.

"The more coups in the past, the more likely coups will take place in the future, so Thailand is a high-risk, coup-prone country," said Aurel Croissant, a co-author of the recently published Democratization and Civilian Control in Asia.

The book ranked Thailand fifth worldwide in terms of the number of coups staged between 1946 and 2010. Ecuador came first, followed by Bolivia and Syria.

Speaking in Bangkok, Croissant said the three factors that made Thailand vulnerable to more coups included the lack of a strong civil society, legitimacy questions about the existing government and "a lot of coups in the past."

The seven countries researched for the book were Bangladesh,I ndonesia, Pakistan, Philippians, South Korea, Taiwan and Thailand.
A strong contender will be the event we cannot talk about, particularly if the elected government at that time is out of favour with the military.

From comments I have seen in the "Western" financial press over the last few years, some investors expect the Thai economy to be in turmoil at that time.

National unity, economy in turmoil - those sound like familiar excuses for staging a coup d'etat, but not every putsch in Thailand has been successful.

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Thailand prone to coups?

Post by Laan Yaa Mo » May 15, 2013, 7:23 pm

At this point in time in the history of Thailand, the subject of the thread should be a statement, not a question.
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Thailand prone to coups?

Post by bumper » May 16, 2013, 10:18 am

I was trying to be respectful to the subject. Statement is more accurate.

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