Norms and military interventions, guest post by Jacob I. Ricks

On 10 February 2015, Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha, with his usual candor, told reporters that “Thailand is different from other countries. If something cannot be solved [by the government], the military will solve it.”[1] This statement embodies a number of assumptions, but perhaps most importan...

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spelling sg-smu-ink.soss_research-36572018-01-11T07:09:34Z Norms and military interventions, guest post by Jacob I. Ricks RICKS, Jacob On 10 February 2015, Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha, with his usual candor, told reporters that “Thailand is different from other countries. If something cannot be solved [by the government], the military will solve it.”[1] This statement embodies a number of assumptions, but perhaps most important for Thailand today is the idea that military intervention is a perfectly legitimate method of overcoming political challenges. 2015-02-01T08:00:00Z text application/pdf https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/2400 https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/soss_research/article/3657/viewcontent/Norms_and_Military_Interventions__guest_post_by_Jacob_I.pdf http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ Research Collection School of Social Sciences eng Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University Asian Studies Military and Veterans Studies
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Norms and military interventions, guest post by Jacob I. Ricks
description On 10 February 2015, Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha, with his usual candor, told reporters that “Thailand is different from other countries. If something cannot be solved [by the government], the military will solve it.”[1] This statement embodies a number of assumptions, but perhaps most important for Thailand today is the idea that military intervention is a perfectly legitimate method of overcoming political challenges.
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