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David A. Walsh ‘67 Arts & Sciences Seminar Series: Sinae Hyun

By Jake Newman / February 12, 2024

Clarkson University

Fall 2023 David A.Walsh‘67
Arts & Sciences Seminar Series
Monday, February 19 at 12pm via Zoom:
https://clarkson.zoom.us/j/98505334631?pwd=clFvQnEzbmRSVDdON0t4WldsZmFNdz09

Indigenizing the Cold War: Nation-Building
by the Border Patrol Police in Thailand
The Border Patrol Police of Thailand (BPP) was formed as
paramilitary intelligence police to assist the American
anticommunist counterinsurgency in the early 1950s. In the early
1960s, the force transformed into a rural development agency
sponsored by the U.S. government and the Thai monarchy and
extended its area of operation from the border areas to the entirety
of Thailand. It finally inscribed its name as the major perpetrator of
the October 6 Massacre in Bangkok in 1976. In the process of multiple
transformations, the BPP has become a symbolic missionary of royalist nationalism that
safeguards the border of Thainess. The BPP’s transformations and evolving missions
vividly show how the Thai ruling elite indigenized the American Cold War crusade in
Southeast Asia to build a royalist Thai nation in the second half of the twentieth century.
SINAE HYUN is a research professor in the Institute for East Asian Studies
at Sogang University, Seoul, specializing in the Cold War, nationalism, and
Southeast Asian studies. Her doctoral research titled “Indigenizing the Cold
War” surveys the history of the Thai Border Patrol Police and shows how the
Thai ruling elites used the American Cold War foreign policies to their cause.
Her book based on the research is published by the University of Hawaii Press
in April 2023. She is currently preparing a book manuscript focusing on the
histories of American Protestant missionaries in Southeast Asia and their
dealings with overlapping empires of Britain, China, and “Others”.
The Arts & Sciences Seminar Series is a weekly colloquium series that has been supported
by the School of Arts & Sciences Advisory Council atClarkson University especially through
generous gifts from David A. Walsh ‘67. Please contact ansseminar@clarkson.edu
SA&S 300: Arts and Sciences Seminaris a one credit course intended to foster an
interdisciplinary outlook in undergraduates majoring in the School of Arts and Sciences.

Zoom link: https://clarkson.zoom.us/j/98505334631?pwd=clFvQnEzbmRSVDdON0t4WldsZmFNdz09

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