Ontological Security and Status-Seeking: Thailand's Proactive Behaviours During the Second World War

ISBN-13: 9781032337241 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 228 str.

Peera Charoenvattananukul

Opis

Putting ontological security theory into dialogue with status seeking approaches, Charoenvattananukul uses a case study of Thailand in the early 1940s to interrogate the dynamics and logic of a small state foreign policy.

Spis treści

List of Figures List of Abbreviations Acknowledgements Note on Names and Transcription PART I: INTRODUCTION AND THEORY 1. CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION 2. CHAPTER 2 ONTOLOGICAL SECURITY, STIGMATISATION, TRAUMA, AND STATUS PART II: THE ORIGINS OF THAILAND'S SENSE OF ONTOLOGICAL INSECURITY 3. CHAPTER 3 LATECOMER: SIAM AND THE QUEST FOR CIVILISATION 4. CHAPTER 4 INTEREST, STATUS ANXIETY, AND STATUS SEEKING PART III: THAILAND'S TWO GAMBITS 5. CHAPTER 5 BEATING GOLIATH FOR PRESTIGE: THAILAND'S WAR WITH FRANCE 6. CHAPTER 6 ALLIANCE ANXIETY: THAILAND'S SEARCH FOR RECOGNITION FROM JAPAN 7. CHAPTER 7 CONCLUSION Index

O autorze

Peera Charoenvattananukul is a lecturer in the Department of International Affairs at the Faculty of Political Science, Thammasat University, Thailand