Within the aftermath of revolutionary youth-led protests in 2020–21, Thailand is now ruled by an elected administration led by Paetongtarn Shinawatra‘s coalition authorities. This peculiar coalition contains royalist, military-linked, and clientelistic events, all below the management of the Pheu Thai Occasion (PTP), a centrist and personalistic occasion with pro-reform democratic components. Because the Might 2023…
The previous month has seen the livid return of Rodrigo Duterte, who was summoned by the Philippine Congress to reply for the brutal excesses of his “drug battle.” Throughout two subcommittee hearings, the primary by the Senate after which by the Home of Representatives, lawmakers pressed Duterte on the estimated 30,000 abstract executions he inspired,…
After the 1962 coup in Myanmar (then referred to as Burma), one of many first steps taken by Normal Ne Win was to “revamp and reorganise” the nation’s army intelligence equipment. In keeping with the British author Harriet O’Brien, the Directorate of Defence Companies Intelligence (DDSI), broadly referred to as the Navy Intelligence Service (MIS,…
