Coup risks lasting damage to Thai economy

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  • Political objectives
  • Substituting "performance legitimacy" for democratic legitimacy
  • 2014 vs 2006
  • Appealing to nationalism
  • Undermining Thaksin
  • Risks
  • Shrinking growth
  • Straining foreign businesses
  • Antagonising China
  • Alienating Myanmar
  • Increasing business costs
  • Stoking rural unrest?
  • Jeopardising stability

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