Fighting for Virtue
Justice and Politics in Thailand
$162.72
- Hardcover
282 pages
- Release Date
15 January 2020
Summary
Fighting for Virtue investigates how Thailand’s judges were tasked by the late King Bhumibol Adulyadej (Rama IX) in 2006 with helping to solve the country’s intractable political problems-and what happened next. Ac…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780801449994 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0801449995 |
| Author: | Duncan McCargo |
| Publisher: | Cornell University Press |
| Imprint: | Cornell University Press |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 282 |
| Release Date: | 15 January 2020 |
| Weight: | 907g |
| Dimensions: | 229mm x 152mm x 25mm |
| Series: | Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University |
What They're Saying
Critics Review
“This is an original, heavily researched, fascinating, highly readable, and ultimately frightening book.”
This is an original, heavily researched, fascinating, highly readable, and ultimately frightening book.
(Bangkok Post)Fighting for Virtue makes an original contribution to critical debates about the rule of law in Southeast Asia. It will be an essential point of reference for anyone interested in understanding the morbid politics of the final decade of King Bhumibol’s reign. For both these reasons, it deserves to be read widely.
(Contemporary Southeast Asia)Duncan McCargo has tackled yet another fascinating aspect of Thailand’s politics in Fighting for Virtue. McCargo treats the reader to an abundance of details, thoughtful analysis, and savvy observation. Overall, this book is an important contribution that will be cited for years to come.
(Pacific Affairs)Fighting for Virtue is a compelling text that portrays the dynamics of a complicated judiciary, a central player in the fractious political landscape of contemporary Thailand. It is highly recommended to readers of political anthropology, legal studies, history, political science and Southeast Asian studies.
(The London School of Economics and Political Science)About The Author
Duncan McCargo
Duncan McCargo is Director of the Nordic Institute of Asian Studies and Professor of Political science at the University of Copenhagen. He is author of Tearing Apart the Land, which won the inaugural Bernard Schwartz Book Prize from the Asia Society in 2009.
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