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This book is a historical study of the rice policies of the government in the Kingdom of Thailand between the years from 1932 to 1960 in the context of the rice shortage and global economic crises of the Great Depression and World War II. It examines the production, trading and pricing policies of the government, including the effects of such policies. While initially the moves proved favourable, the book shows how the policy aimed at increasing production by expanding planting areas rather than developing agricultural technology led to a decline in rice production and was one of the causes of the economic problems experienced by the Thai farmers later. Rice Policies of the Kingdom of Thailand, 1932– 1960 will be of interest to the historians, researchers, students and policymakers in the fields of Southeast Asian studies, international history, international political economy and security studies as well as public policy.

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Pak Nung Wong (D.Phil Oxon) teaches politics and international relations at the Department of Politics, Languages and International Studies, University of Bath, UK. His books include: Decolonizing Global Intelligence: Emerging Intelligence Trends and the Practice of Inclusive Statecraft (2026), Post-Colonial Statecraft in South East Asia: Sovereignty, State- Building and the Chinese in the Philippines (2024), Techno- Geopolitics: US- China Tech War and the Practice of Digital Statecraft (2022), and Logic of the Powers: Towards an Impact- driven Practice of Futurist Statecraft (2022). He is the founding Editor- in- Chief of Bandung: Journal of the GlobalSouth. His research interests are statecraft and geopolitics in the Indo-Pacific region. Suchitra Chongstitvatana (Ph.D., SOAS London) was Director of the Institute of Thai Studies, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand. Her contributions to the scholarly field of Thai studies include not only quality teaching and research publications on culture, history, languages and religion, but also pioneering leadership in the peer- reviewed journal Rian Thai: International Journal of Thai Studies and editorship service to the Journal of Thai Studies. She sits on the International Advisory Board of Bandung: Journal of the Global South. Paul Vinod Khiatani (Ph.D., CityUHK) is Research Assistant Professor at the Department of Applied Social Sciences, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China. He teaches contemporary social development and comparative social policies, primarily with a focus on East Asia. He is Managing Editor of Bandung: Journal of the Global South. His research interests are broadly in young people, politics and policy, and development.

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