it immediately initiated the process of reinventing the Thai national interest concept. The period saw a decline of the military's role in foreign affairs, coinciding with Thailand's rapid economic growth throughout the 1980s, which peaked with an annual growth rate of 13.2 percent in 1988. Local business communities in Thailand urgently requested the new Government to downplay its security-centric foreign policy and implement a business-oriented one. The intervention of the public sector highlighted the role of non-state actors in the foreign policy-making process. Across the border, signs of the Cambodian conflict reaching its final phase were increasingly evident, including the withdrawal of Vietnamese crops from Cambodia in in 1989, paving the way for the signing of the Agreements on a Comprehensive Political Settlement of the Cambodia Conflict in Paris in 1991 and the general elections in 1993 sponsored by The United Nations (UN) Transitional Authority for Cambodia.
Chatichai was keen to exploit new developments both within and outside Thailand for his political advantage. He thus established a group of well-educated and iconoclastic advisors, the so- called Ban Phitsanulok team, to remake a foreign policy aimed at turning the battlefield in The Indochina into a marketplace, for Thai businesses The end of the Cold War, for Chatichai, was an opportune moment for Thailand to pursue an independent foreign policy. Thus, in December 1988, he daringly declared: "The age of bending with the wind, a metaphor used to describe tradition foreign policy, had come to an end. Chatichai's declaration suggested that Thailand was embracing a revised definition of national interests, "Economic prosperity, was now a priority for the Chatichai Government, taking center stage in Thai diplomacy, and statecraft. it was juxtaposed with the old concept of ‘national security ‘as equally significant aspects of the national interest.
it immediately initiated the process of reinventing the Thai national interest concept. The period saw a decline of the military's role in foreign affairs, coinciding with Thailand's rapid economic growth throughout the 1980s, which peaked with an annual growth rate of 13.2 percent in 1988. Local business communities in Thailand urgently requested the new Government to downplay its security-centric foreign policy and implement a business-oriented one. The intervention of the public sector highlighted the role of non-state actors in the foreign policy-making process. Across the border, signs of the Cambodian conflict reaching its final phase were increasingly evident, including the withdrawal of Vietnamese crops from Cambodia in in 1989, paving the way for the signing of the Agreements on a Comprehensive Political Settlement of the Cambodia Conflict in Paris in 1991 and the general elections in 1993 sponsored by The United Nations (UN) Transitional Authority for Cambodia. Chatichai was keen to exploit new developments both within and outside Thailand for his political advantage. He thus established a group of well-educated and iconoclastic advisors, the so- called Ban Phitsanulok team, to remake a foreign policy aimed at turning the battlefield in The Indochina into a marketplace, for Thai businesses The end of the Cold War, for Chatichai, was an opportune moment for Thailand to pursue an independent foreign policy. Thus, in December 1988, he daringly declared: "The age of bending with the wind, a metaphor used to describe tradition foreign policy, had come to an end. Chatichai's declaration suggested that Thailand was embracing a revised definition of national interests, "Economic prosperity, was now a priority for the Chatichai Government, taking center stage in Thai diplomacy, and statecraft. it was juxtaposed with the old concept of ‘national security ‘as equally significant aspects of the national interest.
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