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Thailand in the Cold War

Thailand in the Cold War

Phillips, Matthew

Paperback

Series: Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia

General Racism & Ethnic StudiesInternational RelationsSoutheast Asian History

ISBN10: 1138476099
ISBN13: 9781138476097
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Jan 12 2018
Pages: 236
Weight: 0.74
Height: 0.50 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

Thailand's position during the Cold War was ambiguous: the country's political leadership was very keen to maintain the country's independence on the world stage, yet at the same time was anxious to establish the country's credentials as staunchly anti-communist. However, as this book argues, Thailand, though never formally a client state of the United States, was very closely embedded in the Western camp through the commitment of Thailand's cosmopolitan urban communities to developing a modern, consumerist lifestyle. Considering popular culture, including film, literature, fashion, tourism and attitudes towards Buddhism, the book shows how an ideology of consumerism and integration into a free world culture centred in the United States gradually took hold and became firmly established, and how this popular culture and ideology was fundamental in determining Thailand's international political alignment.

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