As Thailand moves toward early elections against the backdrop of one of the most volatile sociopolitical periods in its recent history, William Hilderbrandt welcomes Japhet Quitzon, Associate Fellow in the Southeast Asia Programme at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. He asserts that framed this high-risk political move is not a spontaneous gamble but as a very calculated strategy relying on domestic political fragmentation, rising nationalism, and the intensifying border conflict with Cambodia.
