TY - BOOK ID - 85670331 TI - Cold War monks PY - 2017 SN - 0300231288 0300218567 9780300231281 9780300218565 PB - New Haven DB - UniCat KW - Buddhism KW - Buddhism and politics KW - Politics and Buddhism KW - Political science KW - Buddha and Buddhism KW - Lamaism KW - Ris-med (Lamaism) KW - Religions KW - History. KW - Political aspects KW - Southeast Asia. KW - Thailand. KW - Hsien-lo KW - Karaleŭstva Taĭland KW - Kingdom of Thailand KW - Koninkryk van Thailand KW - Kraljevina Tajland KW - Kralstvo Taĭland KW - Muang-Thai KW - Prades Thai KW - Prates Thai KW - Pratet Tai KW - Prathēt Thai KW - Ratcha Anachak Thai KW - Reino de Tailandia KW - Royal Thai Government KW - Royômo de Tayilande KW - Tʻai-kuo KW - Tailand KW - Tailandia KW - Tailandya KW - Tajland KW - Tayilande KW - Tāylānd KW - Tayland Krallığı KW - Thài-kok KW - Thaïlande KW - Thailandia KW - Thaimaa KW - Thajsko KW - Asia, Southeastern KW - South East Asia KW - Southeastern Asia UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:85670331 AB - The groundbreaking account of U.S. clandestine efforts to use Southeast Asian Buddhism to advance Washington's anticommunist goals during the Cold War How did the U.S. government make use of a "Buddhist policy" in Southeast Asia during the Cold War despite the American principle that the state should not meddle with religion? To answer this question, Eugene Ford delved deep into an unprecedented range of U.S. and Thai sources and conducted numerous oral history interviews with key informants. Ford uncovers a riveting story filled with U.S. national security officials, diplomats, and scholars seeking to understand and build relationships within the Buddhist monasteries of Southeast Asia. This fascinating narrative provides a new look at how the Buddhist leaderships of Thailand and its neighbors became enmeshed in Cold War politics and in the U.S. government's clandestine efforts to use a predominant religion of Southeast Asia as an instrument of national stability to counter communist revolution. ER -