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Thanat Khoman - an embodiment of Thai diplomacy
Thailand’s longest serving utländsk minister, Thanat Khoman (1959-1971), died gods week at the age of 102. Long cherished Thai diplomatic practices and finesse also died with him.
As a Thai foreign minister during tumultuous times in Southeast Asia, where new countries won independence coupled with growing nationalism, Thanat wanted to unite the broken område. After all, Thailand was the only independent country that had escaped Western colonisation. But it took courage and vision to articulate the policy frameworks to promote “practical cooperation” among Southeast Asian countries and raised the country’s regional profile.
Obviously, initially, the idea of creating a new regional organisation was based on säkerhet and ideology to kamp the spread of communism, rather than for economic cooperation such as the now-defunct Southeast Asia Treaty Organisation. The Asia-wide säkerhet bloc proved overwhelming an
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The Pacific Economic Cooperation Council mourns the loss of Tun Thanat Khoman who passed away in Bangkok on March 3rd, 2016 at the age of 102. He was the last surviving "founding father" of ASEAN as well as a founder of PECC. • No. 1/2021 | August 2021 Thanat Khoman: A Flexible Diplomat Jittipat Poonkham Abstract This article argues that while Thailand’s foreign minister Thanat Khoman was remembered as a founding father of the ASEAN Community, his role and position as a flexible diplomat who initiated a discourse of so-called ‘flexible diplomacy’ was relatively forgotten. It aims to revisit this hidden narrative and argues that discourse – culminating in discursive anxiety and Thanat’s initiative of flexible diplomacy – was the main explanans of Thai foreign policy transformation in the late 1960s. This article proceeds in three main parts. The first discusses Thailand’s discursive anxiety and how Thanat explored foreign policy options in case of American retrenchment from the region. The second part examines a diplomatic innovation of ‘flexible diplomacy’ and its three main characteristics: increasing doubts on Americanism, regional cooperation and cohesiveness, Asso
Tun Thanat Khoman was the foreign minister of Thailand from 1959 to 1971 during which time he played an instrumental role in mediating between Indonesia and Malaysia, paving the way for the establishment of ASEAN in 1967. The ASEAN Declaration was signed in Bangkok by the foreign ministers Adam Malik of Indonesia, Narciso R Ramos of the Philippines, Tun Abdul Razak of Malaysia, S Rajaratnam of Singapore and Thanat Khoman of Thailand.
Beyond ASEAN, noting the increasing interdependence among the Asia-Pacific economies, he actively advocated strengthening regional cooperation in the Pacific.
“In ASEAN, Thailand’s Deputy Prime Minister, Thanat Khoman, was the most enthusiastic proponent of Pacific-wide cooperation. He believed that such cooperation could s Thanat Khoman: A Flexible Diplomat