Thailand broke away from the problem of multi-party coalition politics following the Thaksin’s landslide victory in the 2001 election. Thaksin’s party, Thai Rak Thai (TRT) survived its full legislative term for the first time in Thailand’s political history. With a strong confidence and stability of this new political structure, the Thaksin government could deliver a clear and assertive strategy including in foreign affairs. Thaksin’s Forward Engagement initiative was arguably bold, assertive, unconventional, controversial, and departing from business-as-usual (Pongsudhirak, 2004). However, the problem resumed after the military coup in September 2006. The oscillation of political leadership and policy direction has, therefore, left most of foreign policy implementation in the hand of the bureaucracy. The lack of clear and consistent political guidelines affects the pace of many projects and fails to harmonize the differences between key agencies.