The Resilience of Monarchised Military in Thailand

Journal of Contemporary Asia

Volumn 46, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 425-444

  Chambers, Paul ^a   Waitoolkiat, Napisa ^b  

^a CHIANG MAI UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

^b NARESUAN UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

Author keywords

Military; monarchy; Prayuth Chan ocha; Prem Tinsulanonda; royalists; Thailand

Indexed keywords

EID: 84974603579     PISSN: 00472336     EISSN: 17527554     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00472336.2016.1161060     Document Type: Article

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