Prime Minister Prayut Chan-ocha walks into a meeting with Marine Corps Gen. Joe Dunford. Photo by Navy Petty Officer 1st Class Dominique A. Pineiro via flickr.com, CC BY 2.0
This time round, Thailand’s elections, slated for February 2019, look like they will actually materialize. But can they rescue its troubled democracy? More than four years after the May 2014 coup, the Thai junta has set a new date for elections: February 2019. Although the military government has frequently postponed elections in the past, it […]
Officers and generals have always been influential and powerful actors, who meddle with politics. Today not so much by coups and direct rule, but by pulling the strings in the background. A new dataset reveals these substantial but indirect political roles of the military. No political leader, democratic or autocratic, can survive in office without […]
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