LEADER 03762nam 2200589 450 001 9910522593303321 005 20220921142315.0 010 $a1-76046-499-6 035 $a(CKB)5860000000000211 035 $a(NjHacI)995860000000000211 035 $a(oapen)https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/78102 035 $a(EXLCZ)995860000000000211 100 $a20220921d2022 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aGenealogy of Bamboo Diplomacy. $eThe Politics of Thai De?tente with Russia and China /$fC?hittiphat Phu?nkham 205 $aFirst edition. 210 $aCanberra$cANU Press$d2022 210 1$aCanberra, ACT ; :$cANU Press,$d2022. 215 $a1 online resource (ix, 326 pages) 311 $a1-76046-498-8 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aIntroduction -- 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 Da?etente (1969-1971) -- Interregnum - 1971: A Coup against Diplomacy? -- A Diplomatic Transformation: Chatichai, Kukrit and the Second Da?etente (1975-1976) -- Equidistance: Kriangsak and the Third Da?etente (1977-1980) -- Conclusion: The End of 'Bamboo' -- Diplomacy? Back to the Future. 330 $aIn 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. 517 $aPolitics of Thai de?tente with Russia and China 606 $aDiplomacy 606 $aDetente 607 $aThailand$xForeign relations$y1945-1988 607 $aThailand$xForeign relations$zChina 607 $aChina$xForeign relations$zThailand 607 $aThailand$xForeign relations$zRussia 607 $aRussia$xForeign relations$zThailand 607 $aChina$xForeign relations$y1949-1976 607 $aSoviet Union$xForeign relations$y1953-1975 610 $aThailand 610 $aBamboo Diplomacy 610 $aGenealogy 610 $aDétente 610 $aCommunist Powers 615 0$aDiplomacy. 615 0$aDetente. 676 $a327.5 700 $aPhu?nkham $b C?hittiphat$01260787 801 0$bNjHacI 801 1$bNjHacl 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910522593303321 996 $aGenealogy of Bamboo Diplomacy$92922187 997 $aUNINA