International Initiatives in Thai Foreign Affairs and its Lost Decade
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Thai foreign policy, geopolitics, great power politicsบทคัดย่อ
This research article argues that the lost years of Thailand roles as an initiator in regional cooperation are the result of the changing great power politics since 2010. The US and China has competed with each other to play the leading role in initiating and driving many regional architectures since early 2010’s. Applying the neorealist paradigm shows that there are more than one international structures a state has to encounter at the same time, namely the international structure, a regional structure and a sub-regional structure. Certainly, a state acts differently in each structure. The geopolitical competition between the US and China has taken place in both regional and sub-regional levels, where Thailand used to play a very active role before. Therefore, the lost decade of Thai foreign policy actually means the period when Thailand has to reconsider its role in both regional and sub-regional structures.
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