Analyses of Thai politics from the last fifteen years have concentrated on democratisation and widening political space. The reversal of this trend since the election of the Thai Rak Thai government of Thaksin Shinawatra in February 2001 has been dramatic. The media have been suppressed and manipulated. Several reports, local and international, have criticized the...

America's remarkable military, economic and political power provided it with the opportunity to profoundly influence the development of the international system, but the precise way this has happened has owed a great deal to the efforts and ideas of a surprisingly small coterie of intellectuals, the inauguration of a political regime in Washington that was...

Examining the separatist dispute between Aceh and Indonesia, David Brown argues that the 'instrumentalist' explanation for separatist nationalism, as a rational response to relative deprivation and exploitation, fails to explain the intransigent element in demands for independence. Brown argues that such absolutism can be explained in terms of the ideologising impact of social disruption, and...