The US-Thai Alliance and Asian International Relations

Raymond, Gregory V.; Blaxland, John

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“…Thailand's two most powerful institutions, the military and the monarchy, collective memory, are powerful gatekeepers. They have shaped a state-sanctioned memory scape that reflects a royalist-nationalist view of Thai history (Raymond and Blaxland 2021). This memoryscape celebrates the deeds of royals, or their loyal servants especially in Thailand's pre-modern history.…”

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Olive Oil and Basketball: On Collective Memory and America’s Troubled Alliances with the Philippines and Thailand

Raymond¹

2022

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United States’ alliances in Southeast Asia are troubled. This paper argues that dominant frameworks for understanding alliance dynamics, which assume that rational calculation and bargaining are the primary sources of alliance dynamics, are inadequate for explaining the fragility of US alliances with Thailand and the Philippines. It proposes that a constructivist perspective, emphasising identity, emotion, and collective memory, offers a useful supplementary lens for explaining why some alliances experience turbulence. The paper sets out the theoretical case for examining collective memory in an alliance context, together with a methodology for practical application. The paper finds that in the US-Thai alliance, the domestic politics of collective memory has constrained commemoration of highpoints in the longstanding US-Thai military partnership, leaving the alliance with weaker public support and more vulnerable to strains than would otherwise have been the case. In the Philippines, state sanctioned narratives recognising shared sacrifice during the Second World War are counterbalanced by traumatic memories of the United States-Philippines colonial war, producing a deep ambivalence. These results point to the need for more systematic analysis of collective memory as an important variable in international politics.

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“…When Filipino President Rodrigo Duterte declared he had broken with America in 2016 it made for powerful theatre (McCoy 2016). Thailand's disgruntlement has been less flamboyant but just as intense-our 2015-2017 surveys found that Thai military officers saw the United States as more likely to be a military threat than China (Raymond and Blaxland, 2021…”

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Olive Oil and Basketball: On Collective Memory and America’s Troubled Alliances with the Philippines and Thailand

Raymond¹

2022

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Nationhood in the Cloud: Cyber Sovereignty in Thailand

Chachavalpongpun

2022

Asian Studies Review

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Thailand’s Balancing Behavior, 1947–1991: Some Empirical Evidence

Bunyavejchewin¹,

Suporn²,

Sirichuanjun³

2022

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This study examines the determinants that shaped the balancing behavior of Thailand from 1947 to 1991 by testing hypotheses developed from arguments on three competing theories of balancing behavior, namely the systemic balance of power and balance of threat theories, as well as Martin’s simple model of balancing behavior. We found that a combination of power, geographic distance, and perceived offensive intentions was the factor that prompted Thailand to balance against threatening states. The finding was found using quantitative data extracted from the Correlates of War (COW) Project and the Alliance Treaty Obligations and Provisions (ATOP) Project and those generated by Expected Utility Generation and Data Management Program (EUGene) software to test the hypotheses. The statistical evidence confirms the historical narrative of Thai diplomatic history: that is, Thailand did not try to balance against communist China, its giant neighbor, but rather against Vietnam and Cambodia, which were perceived as essentially dangerous to the country’s security and territorial integrity. In addition, we found that the major-power capability concentration of the Cold War international system had a mild effect on Thai behavior. However, it is difficult to generalize how such systemic attributes dictated directions in Thai foreign policy.

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The US-Thai Alliance and Asian International Relations

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Olive Oil and Basketball: On Collective Memory and America’s Troubled Alliances with the Philippines and Thailand

Olive Oil and Basketball: On Collective Memory and America’s Troubled Alliances with the Philippines and Thailand

Nationhood in the Cloud: Cyber Sovereignty in Thailand

Thailand’s Balancing Behavior, 1947–1991: Some Empirical Evidence

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