New Books Podcast: Indigenizing the Cold War

2023) by Sinae Hyun, argues that local political elites in Thailand skillfully used the Cold War to achieve their own political needs, and explores the role of Thailand’s Border Patrol Police, a unit which was instrumental in nation-building in the rural regions of the country and notorious for its involvement in the massacre of leftist students at Thammasat University in 1976.

Sinae Hyun is a research professor at the Institute for East Asian Studies, Sogang University.

This episode was produced by NYSEAN partner the New Books Network.