In the late 1990s, prominent scholars of civil-military relations detected a decline in the political significance of the armed forces across Southeast Asia. A decade later, however, this trend seems to have been reversed. The Thai military launched a coup in 2006, the Philippine armed forces expanded their political privileges under the Arroyo presidency, and the Burmese junta successfully engineered pseudo-democratic elections in 2010.
This book discusses the political resurgence of the military in Southeast Asia throughout the 2000s. Written by distinguished experts on military...
In the late 1990s, prominent scholars of civil-military relations detected a decline in the political significance of the armed forces across South...
