1st Edition
Soldiers and Politics in Southeast Asia Civil-Military Relations in Comparative Perspective, 1933-1975
Edited By J. Stephen Hoadley
Copyright 1975
319 Pages
by
Routledge
320 Pages
by
Routledge
319 Pages
by
Routledge
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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. Critically comparing these case studies and statistics, this volume provides readers with a deeper understanding of the causes and... Read more
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
Biography
J. Stephen Hoadley
