title: Legitimacy Crisis in Thailand (King Prajadhipok's Institute Yearbook)
author: Marc Askew
description: "The Thailand- and Singapore-based contributors to this volume diagnose what ails Thailand with clinical clarity."G. John Ikenberry, <i>Foreign Affairs</i>, November/December 2011<P>"It took only fifteen years for Thailand's democracyonce considered among the most promising in Asiato break down and return to autocratic rule. As we watch the mass demonstrations that are roiling the Middle East we would be wise to remember what happened in Thailand."<i>Washington Monthly</i>
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  Thailand: return of the mass
  movement for democracy
  Issue: 169 (/issue-169 )
  Posted on 30th December 2020 (http://isj.org.uk/thailand-return-of-the-movement/)
  Giles Ji Ungpakorn
  Large, youth-led pro-democracy protests hit the Thai military junta in autumn 2020.
  Crowds of up to 50,000 started to gather around the Democracy Monument in central
  Bangkok in August. By 19 September—an important anniversary marking a military coup
  against an elected government in 2006—crowds had swelled to over 100,000. Then, on
  the 14 October, the 47th anniversary of a mass uprising against an earlier military
  dictatorship, crowds gathered in similar numbers and marched on Government House,
  demanding the resignation of the dictator Prayut Chan-ocha, the writing of a new
  constitution and reform of the monarchy.
  By then, the stakes had been raised by the military government, which insisted that
  protests should be cancelled because the king had decided to visit a nearby temple in
  Bangkok