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Surveying the Wreckage of Thailand’s Monarchy

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Philip Bowring
May 27, 2014
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The past week has been a great one for determined republicans, but it has been sorrowful for those, like this writer, who believe that monarchies still have a useful role to play in modern states.

Republicans may be few in number in Thailand – at least in public – but their numbers must surely grow as the institution of the monarchy is increasingly regar…

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