bout de papier, Volume 30, Issue No. 1, 2017
bout de papier, Volume 15, Issue No. 4, 1998-1999
Looking and Seeing: Foreign Policy and Squeegee Kids
In the early 1980s as a junior political officer I was posted to Bangkok, Thailand. The Southeast Asian wars had ended less than a decade earlier, although the horrors of the Cambodian genocide were still vivid. Cold War geostrategists had imposed a…
Stitches and Time
Much like the weather, consular work in Thailand is typically hot and heavy. Complex, difficult cases, often punctuated by elements of the macabre or exotic, are frequent and exceptionally demanding, both personally and professionally. It was therefore with a profound sense of…
