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[Michael Montesano]

*ISEAS ******SEMINAR** *
Topic:        *Preah Vihear *or *Phra Viharn*? An Autopsy of the Recent
Border Fight between Thailand and Cambodia

Speaker: Dr Pavin Chachavalpongpun

Visiting Research Fellow

ASEAN Studies Centre, ISEAS

Date: Tuesday, 14 April 2009

Time: 10.30 am – 12.00 noon

Venue: ISEAS Seminar Room II**

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*About the Speaker*

Pavin Chachavalpongpun is currently a Visiting Research Fellow and Lead
Researcher for Political and Strategic Affairs of the ASEAN Studies Centre
(ASC) of ISEAS. He received his Ph.D. from the School of Oriental and
African Studies, Department of Political Studies, University of London, in
2002. Pavin authored the book entitled*, A Plastic Nation: The Curse of
Thainess in Thai-Burmese Relations** *(2005). His latest work is titled
“Temple of Doom: Hysteria about the Preah Vihear Temple in the Thai
Nationalist Discourse”, a chapter in the forthcoming book *Conflict and
Legitimacy Crisis in Thailand* (to be released in Winter 2009). Pavin is
currently working on a Thailand's foreign policy project, examining the
Thaksin Shinawatra period in particular.

*Abstract*

The recent exchange of gunfire between the Thai and Cambodian troops along
their common border near the contentious Preah Vihear Temple (the second
time since the first fatal shootings in October last year) and the bloody
clash between members of the anti-government People’s Alliance for Democracy
(PAD) and a group of local residents in Si Sa Ket Province in June 2008 at
the foot of the temple complex, were seen as the culmination of the
relentless stoking of the nationalistic frenzy. This reached a point where
reason and good judgment were blatantly put aside. Not for the first time in
the Thai history, nationalism was once again exploited, this time by the
PAD, to win over its opponents at the expense of a deepening political
crisis at home and to the detriment of relations between Thailand and
Cambodia. This seminar investigates the litigious Preah Vihear issue from
two levels of analysis — local and international politics. At these levels,
it is evident that Thai nationalism was aroused by anti-government groups
and discursively used as a weapon to undermine the government and to gain
public support for anti-government acts through claims of Thai ownership of
the temple.

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