Soldiers and Politics in Southeast Asia: Civil-Military Relations in Comparative Perspective, 1933-1975

ISBN-13: 9781138533264 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 319 str.

J. Stephen Hoadley

Opis

By exploring the role of military officers and chronicling the sequences of events, Soldiers and Politics in Southeast Asia offers insight into the conditions that fostered military governments specifically in Thailand, Burma, South Vietnam, Indonesia, and Cambodia

Spis treści

1. Introduction: Trends and Approaches to the Study of Armies in the Politics of Developing Nations 2. Thailand: Kings, Coups, and Cliques 3. Burma: The Military Way to Socialism 4. South Vietnam: A Militarized Polity 5. Indonesia: An Army’s Middle Way 6. Cambodia: Marshal Lon Nol’s Khmer Republic 7. Armies and Interventions: A Southeast Asian Overview 8. Categorization and Quantification in Comparisons of Southeast Asian Civil-Military Relations 9. Testing Hypotheses on Preconditions and Dynamics of Military Intervention in Politics 10. The Military and Development: An Evaluation, Bibliographic Essay

O autorze

J. Stephen Hoadley