Thailand After the Coup

Following the end of the Cold War, an international norm against coups began gaining strength, but it seems to have lost momentum in recent years. What has happened?

Indonesia’s 2014 legislative elections went smoothly. Yet the “money politics” that featured so heavily in these contests suggests a grave need to reform the country’s electoral system.

Although active or retired military officers still hold top government posts, direct rule by the military as an institution is over, at least for now.