The Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Thailand is a timely survey and assessment of the state of contemporary Thailand.

PART ONE: THE HISTORY; 1 Introduction: A Timeless Thailand; 2 Thailand in the Longue Durée; 3 Thai Historiography; 4 Economic Development of Post-war Thailand; PART TWO: THE POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC LANDSCAPE; 5 The Two Faces of Democracy; 6 The Logic of Thailand's Royalist Coups d'État; 7 The Development of the Hybrid Regime: The Military and Authoritarian Persistence in Thai Politics; 8 Securing an Alternative Army: The Evolution of the Royal Thai Police; 9 The Monarchy and Succession; 10 Lèse-majesté within Thailand's Regime of Intimidation; 11 From the Yellow Shirts to the Whistle Rebels: Comparative Analysis of the People's Alliance for Democracy (PAD) and the People's Democratic Reform Committee (PDRC); 12 Mass Politics and the Red Shirts; 13 Judiciary and Judicialisation in Thailand; 14 Local Government and Intergovernmental Relations in Thailand; 15 Thai State Formation and the Political Economy of the Middle Income Trap; 16 Thailand's Corporate Sector and International Trade; 17 Industrialisation, Technological Upgrading, and Innovation; 18 Transport and the Thai State; PART THREE: THE SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT; 19 Thai Identity and Nationalism; 20 Money and Politics in Buddhist Sangha in Modern Thailand; 21 Buddhism and Power; 22 Secularisation, Secularism, and the Thai state; 23 The Southern Conflict; 24 Class, Race, and Uneven Development in Thailand; 25 The Politics, Economics and Cultural Borrowing of Thai Higher Education Reforms; 26 The State of Human Rights in the Aftermath of the 2014 Coup d'État; 27 Sex and Gender Diversity, Douglas Sanders; 28 The Social Media; 29 NGOs and Civil Society in Thailand; 30 Environmental Politics in Thailand: Pasts, Presents, and Futures; PART FOUR: THE INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS; 31 Thailand's Foreign Policy; 32 Beyond Bamboo Diplomacy: The Factor of Status Anxiety and Thai Foreign Policy Behaviours; 33 Thailand and the Great Powers; 34 Thailand's Foreign Policy Towards Neighbouring Countries and ASEAN