OPINION

Democracy studies in Thailand growing popular

News, Nigel Gould-Davies, Published on 19/09/2016

» Soon after the May 2014 coup I joined the faculty of Mahidol University and was asked to teach a course on "Democracy as a Political System". I wondered at what seemed a poisoned chalice. A colleague told me, only half-joking, to keep a wad of cash for a sudden escape. The subject was not new, but the setting was: how do you teach democracy in a country that has just suspended it?