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NIAS Press catalogue 2020–21 NEW NEW TITLE Future Forward The Rise and Fall of a Thai Political Party Duncan McCargo and Anyarat Chattharakul • First book to examine the most interesting new force to emerge in Thailand’s politics for two decades. • Based on exclusive interviews with party leaders and a wide range of Thai-language sources. Future Forward deals with a remarkable phenomenon in Thailand’s recent politics: the rise of a new party led by Thanathorn Juangroong- ruangkit, a wealthy, charismatic politician who upended convention- al understandings of how elections work in the country. One year after Future Forward was founded, it became the third largest party Politics, Future Forward, in parliament. Another year on, it was summarily dissolved by the Thanathorn, elections, courts, political parties, Constitutional Court. The first book to examine a fascinating devel- campaigning, social opment in Thai politics, it also explores the wider dynamics of politi- media cal leadership, party formation and voter behavior in a society where popular participation has waned since the 2014 military coup. Thailand Critical acclaim: ‘Future Forward is a captivating and accessible read on the rise and fall of one of Thailand’s most fascinating political parties in contemporary times. … a must-read for those interested in the Future Forward Party and Thai politics more broadly.’ – Aim Sinpeng, University of Sydney ‘As frenetically paced as the events it retells, Future Forward is a must-read work of original scholarship … readers are thrust into a lively world of digital politics, hopeful party-beginnings, tweeting leaders, fandoms and voting constituencies. Can a new generation make a sustainable democratic breakthrough not just against the military but the whole business of doing politics in Thailand?’ – Mi- chael Connors, Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University ‘Expertly researched and well written, the book captures the ex- citement and suspense of a phenomenal movement that has trans- formed the landscape of Thai politics today and for years to come.’ – Thongchai Winichakul, University of Wisconsin-Madison About the authors: A leading specialist and prize-winning author on the politics of Thailand, Duncan McCargo is Director of the Nor- dic Institute of Asian Studies and Professor of Political Science at the University of Copenhagen. Anyarat Chattharakul is a NIAS- affiliated researcher with a PhD from the University of Leeds, who specialises on Thailand’s electoral politics. OCT. 2020 / FEB. 2021 NIAS Monographs, 150 388 pp., 1 map, 34 illustrations, 229 x 152 mm (9” x 6”) Hardback: 978-87-7694-290-8: £65, $75 Paperback: 978-87-7694-291-5: £19.99, $24 F E-book: 978-87-7694-711-8: £15 (NIAS website only) 1 NIAS Press catalogue 2020–21 BURMA STUDIES War and Peace in the Borderlands of Myanmar The Kachin Ceasefire, 1994–2011 Mandy Sadan (ed.) In 2011 armed hostilities between the Kachin Independence Organ- isation and Myanmar Army ended a 17-year ceasefire agreement. Surprisingly little attention has been paid to understanding how the ceasefire was experienced in the Kachin region. This book reflects on these experiences from a variety of cultural, political, economic and social perspectives. It raises important questions about the social, Politics economic and political development of Myanmar’s ‘border regions’ Conflict studies in recent years that will be relevant long into the future. Crucially, Ethnic studies the chapters provide important lessons about the dangers inherent in International relations ceasefire agreements when an ‘armed peace’ is implemented that is Develop ment economics not accompanied by a substantive commitment to political change. Social anthropology Gender studies Critical acclaim: ‘This book is an important and timely contribution Diaspora studies to the literature on peace and conflict in Myanmar, and Kachin history History and socio-political dynamics’ (Ashley South, Chiang Mai University). ‘It should be read by those “peacemakers” as well as others with an Myanmar / Burma interest in Burma’s ethnic conflicts — and, last but not least, the Bur- China mese public of whom far too many seem bewildered by what is hap- India pening in the north of their country’ (Bertil Lintner, The Irrawaddy). Thailand ‘To say that the [book] arrives at a critical time in Myanmar’s polit- ical history is perhaps an understatement’ – Courtney T. Wittekind, Tea Circle Oxford. OCTOBER 2016 NIAS Studies in Asian Topics, 56 500 pp., maps and illustrations, 152 x 228 mm (6” x 9”) Hardback: 978-87-7694-188-8: £65, $85 Paperback: 978-87-7694-189-5: £25, $32 RELATED STUDIES In Search of Chin Identity Exploring Ethnic Diversity in A Study in Religion, Politics and Ethnic Burma Identity in Burma Mikael Gravers (ed.) Lian H. Sakhong This is the most comprehensive and Written by an exiled former Secre- detailed study ever of the huge vari- tary General of the Chin National ety of ethnic groups living in Burma, League for Democracy, this study and as such provides an important contains valuable data on the Chin contribution to the study of the for- and their role in the history of Burma, mation of ethnic identity, boundaries and provides a clear analysis of the and space. ‘[Redresses] sthe fact that close relationship between religion, much popular discourse conflates ethnicity and nationalism. Burma Studies with Bamar Studies’ Published 2003, 304 pp., illus. (Jane Ferguson, ANU). Hbk • 978-87-91114-15-1 • £49, $75 Published 2007, 283 pp., illus. Pbk • 978-87-91114-96-0 • £22.50, $29 NIAS Press catalogue 2020–21 2 NEW NEW TITLE The Wa of Myanmar and China’s Quest for Global Dominance Bertil Lintner • A compelling account of ethnic conflict, drug barons and Chinese geopolitical ambitions. • Reveals how the Wa have come to play a pivotal role in Beijing’s current efforts to extend its influence in Myanmar and beyond. Shan State in the north-eastern corner of Myanmar has long been plagued by conflict – political insurrection, ethnic strife and drug wars. It is also part of the Golden Triangle, a global centre of illicit only sale in Europe For drug production. The region is home to the Wa, a tribal hill people Ethno-nationalism, straddling the Chinese border who in three decades have built a ethnic conflict, drug military force now the largest and best-equipped military non-state trade, Belt and actor in the Asia-Pacific region.