Domestic and international development strategies often focus on
private ownership as a crucial anchor for long-term investment; the
security of property rights provides a foundation for capitalist
expansion. In recent years, Thailand's policies have been hailed as
a prime example of how granting formal land rights to poor farmers
in low-income countries can result in economic benefits. But the
country provides a puzzle: Thailand faced major security threats
from colonial powers in the nineteenth century and from communism
in the twentieth century, yet only in the latter case did the
government respond with pro-development tactics.
In Land and Loyalty, Tomas Larsson argues that institutional
underdevelopment may prove, under certain circumstances, a
strategic advantage rather than a weakness and that external
threats play an important role in shaping the development of
property regimes. Security concerns, he find, often guide economic
policy. The domestic legacies, legal and socioeconomic, resulting
from state responses to the outside world shape and limit the
strategies available to politicians. While Larsson's extensive
archival research findings are drawn from Thai sources, he situates
the experiences of Thailand in comparative perspective by
contrasting them with the trajectory of property rights in Japan,
Burma, and the Philippines.
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