Archivo etiqueta «Tailandia»
Par David Camroux, maître de conférences des universités rattaché au CERI-Sciences Po (LE MONDE, 07/02/12):
Les inondations qui ont frappé la Thaïlande au mois d’octobre et coûté la vie à plus de cinq cents personnes sont les plus graves que le pays ait connues depuis plus d’un demi-siècle.
Dans l’imaginaire thaïlandais, cette catastrophe naturelle est bien plus qu’un désastre. N’estelle pas annonciatrice de la fin d’une époque ? En effet, dans l’ancien Siam, le fondement du pouvoir royal reposait sur la maîtrise des eaux (travaux d’irrigation, construction de digues, canaux, etc.) et sur le contrôle de la main-d’oeuvre employée … Seguir leyendo
By Michael D. Lemonick, a senior writer for Climate Central, a nonprofit science and journalism organization in Princeton, N.J. (LOS ANGELES TIMES, 02/11/11):
An obese, middle-aged man is running to catch a bus. Suddenly, he clutches his chest, falls to the ground and dies of a massive heart attack. It turns out that he’s a smoker and a diabetic, has high blood pressure, eats a diet high in saturated fat and low in leafy green vegetables, pours salt on everything, drinks too much beer, avoids exercise at all costs and has a father, grandfather and two uncles who also … Seguir leyendo
By Thitinan Pongsudhirak, Director of the Institute of Security and International Studies at Chulalongkorn University (Project Syndicate, 06/07/11):
The thunderous results of Thailand’s general election on July 3 will seem familiar to anyone attuned to the political upheaval in the Middle East and North Africa. Entrenched incumbent regimes everywhere are under severe stress from advances in information technology, shifts in demographics, rising expectations, and the obsolescence of Cold War exigencies. In the absence of a willingness and ability to use violent repression, regime survival can be achieved only through concessions, accommodation, and periodic reinvention.
With 47 million voters and … Seguir leyendo
Por Thitinan Pongsudhirak, profesor y director del Instituto de Estudios Internacionales y de Seguridad de la Universidad de Chulalongkorn en Bangkok. Es además profesor visitante en la Escuela de Estudios Avanzados de las Universidad Johns Hopkins en Washington. DC. Traducido del inglés por David Meléndez Tormen (Project Syndicate, 06/05/11):
Las escaramuzas militares entre Tailandia y Camboya, que desde febrero se han cobrado más de dos decenas de vidas, causaron numerosos heridos y desplazaron a decenas de miles de personas se pueden atribuir principalmente a la política interna en ambos países. Con raíces en antiguas enemistades y el legado de … Seguir leyendo
Por Thitinan Pongsudhirak, profesor y director del Instituto de Estudios Internacionales y de Seguridad de la Universidad Chulalongkorn de Bangkok. También es profesor visitante de la Escuela Johns Hopkins de Estudios Internacionales Avanzados de Washington, D. C. Traducido del inglés por Carlos Manzano (Project Syndicate, 18/03/11):
Después de tres años consecutivos de sangrientas protestas callejeras, Tailandia ha llegado al punto en el que tendrá que celebrar nuevas elecciones, pues la legislatura actual de su Asamblea Nacional expira el próximo mes de diciembre. De hecho, el Primer Ministro, Abhisit Vejjajiva, ha indicado que pedirá la disolución de la cámara baja … Seguir leyendo
By Ed Royce, a representative from California, is the ranking Repulican on the House Foreign Affairs subcommittee on terrorism, nonproliferation and trade. He previously served as chairman of the Africa subcommittee (THE WASHINGTON POST, 19/08/10):
Viktor Bout has sat in a Thai jail for more than two years with a U.S. extradition request pending. By Friday we will know if a notorious international arms dealer will head home to Russia to once again ply his deadly trade or land in New York to face terrorism charges. Will his extradition be a diplomatic win for the Obama administration and solidify … Seguir leyendo
Par Richard Werly, journaliste (LIBERATION, 24/05/10):
Où sont-ils ? Où sont les capitaines d’industrie, les banquiers, les hauts fonctionnaires et les universitaires dont la Thaïlande émergente s’enorgueillit en temps normal ? La réponse, après la reddition des protestataires mercredi à Bangkok et le départ de plusieurs incendies au cœur de la capitale, est malheureusement peu reluisante.
A quelques rares exceptions près, les acteurs clés de cette nouvelle élite thaïlandaise mondialisée, majoritairement résidents de Bangkok, ont préféré se taire et attendre.
Beaucoup plaidaient même, en privé, pour que l’ordre revienne à tout prix dans la capitale thaïlandaise. Sous entendu : seuls les militaires … Seguir leyendo
By Thitinan Pongsudhirak, a professor of political science on leave from Chulalongkorn University, currently FSI-Humanities Center International Scholar at Stanford University (THE GUARDIAN, 20/05/10):
As Thailand picks up the pieces after Bangkok’s worst-ever protests and street riots, the country is further away from peace and reconciliation than it was two months ago, when the redshirts under the United Front for Democracy Against Dictatorship took to the streets.
The way out of this will require a return to parliamentary and constitutional processes, with revised rules and eligible political players acceptable to all sides. This difficult way forward, towards reconciliation, will … Seguir leyendo
By Roger Mitton, a former senior correspondent with Asiaweek and a former bureau chief in Washington and Hanoi for the Straits Times of Singapore (THE WASHINGTON TIMES, 29/04/10):
It is sad to witness the unrest on the streets of this city but even sadder to see how Thailand’s ‘fraternal’ ASEAN partners are trying to exploit its troubles. Consider Vietnam. Its ruling Communist Party is openly using the political crisis in democratic Thailand to shore up ebbing support for its own authoritarian one-party regime.
Journalists in Hanoi confirm that the government-controlled press has been instructed to give prominent coverage to … Seguir leyendo
By Thitinan Pongsudhirak, a professor of political science at Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok and currently a visiting scholar at Stanford University’s FSI-Humanities Center (THE NEW YORK TIMES, 01/04/10):
For nearly three weeks now, tens of thousands of disenfranchised and disillusioned supporters of former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra have demonstrated in the streets of Bangkok, calling for a dissolution of the lower house of Parliament and new elections to reset Thailand’s troubled democracy.
The demonstrations have been peaceful, and though the authorities have invoked a security law that allows the military to restore order, the need has not arisen. Bangkok, … Seguir leyendo
By Philip Bowring (THE NEW YORK TIMES, 04/11/09):
Thais are naturally preoccupied with immediate issues — their convoluted politics and the succession to the revered but ailing King Bhumibol, 81. But in the long term they may need to be thinking about how the country will rate 20 years from now against its traditional rivals, Vietnam and Myanmar, long-established nation states of roughly similar size, as well as against the nearby giants, India and China.
As of now, Thailand is well ahead of all but China when measured by G.D.P. per capita and all of the other countries by most … Seguir leyendo
By Thitinan Pongsudhirak, a professor of political science at Chulalongkorn University (THE NEW YORK TIMES, 18/04/09):
Monday was the Thai New Year, a public holiday. Normally you would see people in the streets, having fun and, in keeping with tradition, throwing water at one another. But this year hardly anyone was celebrating in downtown Bangkok. Instead, protesters were clashing with soldiers; at least two people were killed and scores were wounded. I had never seen anything like it. This was raw anger, expressed in wanton violence.
The demonstrators claimed to be protesting systemic injustices and differing standards for rich … Seguir leyendo
Por Sin-ming Shaw, investigador visitante en la Universidad de Oxford © Project Syndicate, 2008 Traducción: Kena Nequiz (LA VANGUARDIA, 11/12/08):
“El futuro de Tailandia está en juego”, declaró el eminente académico tailandés Thitinan Pongsudhirak justo antes de que el Tribunal Constitucional resolviera que el partido en el poder, el Partido del Poder del Pueblo, y sus dos compañeros más pequeños de coalición eran “ilegales” y debían ser disueltos debido a los “fraudes electorales” cometidos por funcionarios del partido hace un año. Los líderes del partido, incluyendo al primer ministro, Somchai Wongsawat, quedaron inhabilitados para ejercer la política durante cinco … Seguir leyendo
By Duncan McCargo, a professor of Southeast Asian politics at the University of Leeds (THE GUARDIAN, 03/09/08):
When the first fatality occurred in the clashes between rival “pro-democratic” forces in Bangkok early yesterday morning, people were shocked but not exactly surprised. Pressure had been building for more than three months, as yellow-shirted protesters styling themselves as the People’s Alliance for Democracy appropriated royalist colours and nationalist language to oppose the government of prime minister Samak Sundaravej and his People Power Party (PPP). Late last year, Samak proclaimed himself a nominee of the party’s mentor and financier, the former PM … Seguir leyendo
Asia Briefing N°80 (CRISIS GROUP, 28/08/08):
OVERVIEW
The government of Thai Prime Minister Samak Sundaravej is struggling for political survival and has handed the military full responsibility for tackling the violent insurgency in the Muslim-dominated Deep South, which has claimed more than 3,000 lives in
the past four years. The military has restructured its operations and has made headway in reducing the number of militant attacks, but temporary military advances, though welcome, do nothing to defuse the underlying grievances of the Malay Muslim minority. For that to happen, the otherwise preoccupied government needs to find the will and energy to … Seguir leyendo