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The main gist of Taylor’s analysis—at the time of publication back in 2002—was to provide an overview of the different political trajectories of Myanmar and Thailand, illustrating that the modern conditions of freedom and individual rights in the two countries are in sharp contrast while they shared the common political roots. Taylor’s conclusion favored Thailand against Myanmar. As he states, “If Locke and Mill prevail in Thailand, Hobbes won out in Burma” (Taylor 2002, p. 145). Needless to say, the political development of Thailand in the last two decades betrayed his positive observation.
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Chai-Anan’s widely cited study explains political events in Thailand in a sequential manner. The vicious circle starts with a military coup, revokes an existing constitution and promulgates a renewed one, undergoes an election, returns to parliamentary process, which eventually leads to a political crisis, and ends in another military coup.
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Tsukamoto, T. (2023). Coup-Prone Myanmar and Thailand: Democratic Subjects and Unbound Serialities. In: Sudo, S., Yamahata, C. (eds) ASEAN and Regional Actors in the Indo-Pacific. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-99-4020-2_11
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