A Genealogy of Bamboo Diplomacy: The Politics of Thai Détente with Russia and China

by Jittipat Poonkham

In 1975, M.R. Kurkrit Pramoj met Mao Zedong, marking the eventual establishment of diplomatic relations and a discursive rupture with the previous narrative of Communist powers as an existential threat. This book critically interrogates the birth of bamboo (bending with the wind) diplomacy and the politics of Thai d tente with Russia and China in the long 1970s (1968-80). By 1968, Thailand was encountering discursive anxiety amid the prospect of American...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1760464988
• ISBN13: 9781760464981
• Release Date: January 2022
• Publisher: Anu Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.38 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.2"