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The peer-reviewed monographs are a continuation of a series of works previously published by these authors on the political problems of the Indochina Peninsula countries and carried out under the auspices of the Departments of Political Science of the East and History of Southeast Asia and the Far East of the Institute of Asia and Africa of Moscow State University.
At the turn of the 20th and 21st centuries, democratization processes affected countries on all continents. South-East Asia was also not left out. The political relevance and scientific significance of the peer-reviewed works consists in a comparative analysis of the development of liberal-democratic processes in the socio-political life of two countries - Thailand and Cambodia, as well as in a comparison of democratization based on accelerated modernization (Thailand) and initiated and funded from outside by the international community (Cambodia). Despite the common civilizational characteristics, the fate of these two countries developed differently after the Second World War: Thailand developed in general in conditions of peace, despite crises and military upheavals.-
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Cambodia, from 1970 to the early 1990s, lived in a continuous and full-scale civil conflict, aggravated by the impact of destructive external aggression.
The influence of liberal democracy on the political culture of the region correlates well with the concept of three waves of democratization proposed by S. Huntington.
In Thailand , the only country in Southeast Asia that has maintained formal political independence, the first wave of democratization resulted in the coup of 1932, which is also called the bourgeois revolution, because it objectively ...
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