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Ontological Security and Status-Seeking: Thailand’s Proactive Behaviours during the Second World War book cover

1st Edition

Ontological Security and Status-Seeking Thailand’s Proactive Behaviours during the Second World War

By Peera Charoenvattananukul Copyright 2020
228 Pages
by Routledge

228 Pages
by Routledge

228 Pages
by Routledge
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How and why was it possible for a small state such as Thailand to challenge great powers France and Japan during the Second World War? 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. During this period, Thailand’s foreign... Read more

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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 

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Biography

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

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