Fighting for Virtue: Justice and Politics in Thailand

Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University

by Duncan McCargo

"Offers an analysis of the recent era of "judicialization," using close scrutiny of some key trials to explain how and why Thailand's judges proved unable to resolve the country's longstanding political crisis, despite their royal mandate to do so"--

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Published January 1, 2020

About the author

Duncan McCargo is a professor of Southeast Asian politics at the University of Leeds specializing in Thailand and Asia-related topics. He holds three degrees from the University of London: a First in English (Royal Holloway 1986); then an MA in Area Studies (Southeast Asia) (1990), and a PhD in Politics (1993) (the later two from the School of Oriental and African Studies). He has also taught at Queen's University Belfast, and at Kobe Gakuin University, Japan. In 2006-07, he was a visiting senior research fellow at the Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore, and he served as a Distinguished Visiting Professor at Universiti Utara Malaysia in September 2011. McCargo is a Visiting Scholar at the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University and also an Associate Fellow of the New-York-based Asia Society.

Reviews

[Joe Higgs · Rating 5 out of 5]

Read this as part of my research on my dissertation.

Excellently constructed and thought out. Though some of the chapters drag (legalism is not my area of expertise), the information and conclusions drawn are also well-dumbed down alongside deep analysis.

A must-read for anyone interested in understanding the deepest elements of Thailand's ongoing issues.