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URL:https://www.harvard-yenching.org/events/puangthong-pawakapan-november-
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SUMMARY:The Thai Military’s Civil Affairs Projects: From Counter-Insurgen
 cy to Counter-Democracy
DESCRIPTION:\n	Puangthong Pawakapan (Associate Professor\, Faculty of Polit
 ical Science\, Chulalongkorn University\; HYI Visiting Scholar 2018-19)\n	
 Chair/discussant: Michael Herzfeld (Ernest E. Monrad Professor of the Soci
 al Sciences\, Department of Anthropology\, Harvard University)\n\n	Co-spon
 sored with the Thai Studies Program\, Harvard University Asia Center \n\
 n\n	Despite numerous successful coups d’etat\, the Thai military’s ext
 ensive involvement in various civilian affairs projects has attracted litt
 le attention from scholars. Within Thailand’s armed forces\, the Interna
 l Security Operations Command (ISOC) was the main agency charged with carr
 ying out a wide range of civilian affairs projects during the counter-insu
 rgency period. Its activities included rural development\, creating mass o
 rganizations and mobilization campaigns\, and psychological operations. Ho
 wever\, the demise of communism did not see the winding down of ISOC or th
 e end of its activities. Indeed\, after the coups in 2006 and 2014 that to
 ppled the elected governments\, ISOC became more active and powerful in su
 pporting the military governments and entrenching its control over elector
 al politics. It has become a state within a state.
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