New Mandala

I recently came across a book from a very different period of global interest in Southeast Asian affairs.  It is Daniel Wit’s Thailand: Another Vietnam? published in New York by Charles Scribner’s Sons in 1968.  I thought New Mandala readers would be keen to digest the analysis.  The book concludes, on page 191, with this reflection:
Is Thailand going [...]

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Occasional New Mandala guest contributor and Burmese political-economist, Kyi May Kaung, has written a nice piece for The American Prospect discussing the “post-clampdown” situation.  It is well worth a read.

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[Michael H. Nelson is a visiting scholar at the Faculty of Political Science, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand, and a senior research associate in Southeast Asian Studies at the University of Passau, Germany.  He will be providing regular commentary from Chachoengsao province throughout Thailand's 2007 general election campaign.]
Country-wide, the registration of provincial constituency candidates for the election on 23 December, [...]

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A regular New Mandala reader with camera at the ready captured these images of local campaigning in Chiang Mai’s Wororot market. Featured are Boosaba Yodbangtey and Dr. Anusorn Khunanusorn. I have crossed paths with Boosaba a few times in the past, as she has been active in building up political connections in the district where I [...]

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