Bangkok and Beyond

Bangkok and Beyond

Life is an ever-changing journey, and in spite of recent events in our troubled world we must continue on our way. We have to keep moving, experiencing new cultures, learning and broadening our horizons. This is what keeps us alive.

Looking and Seeing: Foreign Policy and Squeegee Kids

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…