03762nam 2200589 450 991052259330332120220921142315.01-76046-499-6(CKB)5860000000000211(NjHacI)995860000000000211(oapen)https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/78102(EXLCZ)99586000000000021120220921d2022 uy 0engur|||||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierGenealogy of Bamboo Diplomacy. The Politics of Thai Détente with Russia and China /Čhittiphat PhūnkhamFirst edition.CanberraANU Press2022Canberra, ACT ; :ANU Press,2022.1 online resource (ix, 326 pages)1-76046-498-8 Includes bibliographical references and index.Introduction -- Cold War Discursive Hegemony: Anticommunism, Americanism and Antagonism --Bending Before the Wind: The Emergence of 'Flexible Diplomacy' (1968-1969) -- Flexible Diplomacy: Thanat and the First Dâetente (1969-1971) -- Interregnum - 1971: A Coup against Diplomacy? -- A Diplomatic Transformation: Chatichai, Kukrit and the Second Dâetente (1975-1976) -- Equidistance: Kriangsak and the Third Dâetente (1977-1980) -- Conclusion: The End of 'Bamboo' -- Diplomacy? Back to the Future.In 1975, M.R. Kurkrit Pramoj met Mao Zedong, marking the eventual establishment of diplomatic relations and a discursive rupture with the previous narrative of Communist powers as an existential threat. This book critically interrogates the birth of bamboo (bending with the wind) diplomacy and the politics of Thai détente with Russia and China in the long 1970s (1968–80). By 1968, Thailand was encountering discursive anxiety amid the prospect of American retrenchment from the Indo-Pacific region. As such, Thailand developed a new discourse of détente to make sense of the rapidly changing world politics and replace the hegemonic discourse of anticommunism. By doing so, it created a political struggle between the old and new discourses. Jittipat Poonkham also argues that bamboo diplomacy – previously seen as a classic and continual 'tradition' of Thai-style diplomacy – had its origins in Thai détente and has become the metanarrative of Thai diplomacy since then. Based on a genealogical approach and multi‑archival research, this book examines three key episodes of Thai détente: Thanat Khoman (1968–71), M.R. Kukrit Pramoj (1975–76), and General Kriangsak Chomanan (1977–80). This transformation was represented in numerous diplomatic/discursive practices, such as ping‑pong diplomacy, petro‑diplomacy, trade and cultural diplomacy, and normal visits.Politics of Thai détente with Russia and ChinaDiplomacyDetenteThailandForeign relations1945-1988ThailandForeign relationsChinaChinaForeign relationsThailandThailandForeign relationsRussiaRussiaForeign relationsThailandChinaForeign relations1949-1976Soviet UnionForeign relations1953-1975ThailandBamboo DiplomacyGenealogyDétenteCommunist PowersDiplomacy.Detente.327.5Phūnkham Čhittiphat1260787NjHacINjHaclBOOK9910522593303321Genealogy of Bamboo Diplomacy2922187UNINA