Dictatorship on Trial: Coups and the Future of Justice in Thailand

by Tyrell Haberkorn

In 2014, after a decade of political turmoil, the National Council for Peace and Order (NCPO) carried out Thailand's 13th coup since the country's transformation from absolute to constitutional monarchy in 1932. Though the NCPO promised to restore the rule of law, justice-long tenuous in Thailand-disappeared entirely. The legal system was used to criminalize the thoughts and actions of democratic dissidents, facilitate extrajudicial violence, and...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1503635465
• ISBN13: 9781503635463
• Release Date: June 2024
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.29 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"