OPINION

Thai path to modernity likely long and fraught

News, Atiya Achakulwisut, Published on 16/11/2021

» If the current regime of constitutional monarchy began with a grand compromise between a burgeoning democracy and traditional absolute monarchy back in 1932, the question before us now could be where to strike a balance between these partly contradictory concepts in 2021, as this legacy-laden bundle threatens to unravel at the seams?