Международная научная конференция ЮВА в СПбГУ-65

Международная научная конференция, посвященная 65-й годовщине начала изучения языков ЮВА в нашей стране Circumventing the ColdWar divisions:Thailand and India in the South-to-South Diplomatic Space 339 Bandung Conference was in the moment of Quest, before the Third World project faced what he called its Pitfall and Assassination. This paper also aims to place Thailand into the historiography of the Third World in the Cold War. In so doing, it will be the first scholarly narrative of the relationship between Thailand and the non-aligned moment. The Bandung Conference, a subject of so much debate and discussion in Thailand in 1954–1955, has not been examined in seminal works on the foreign policy of Thailand and on Thailand in the ColdWar. These works, examine this period in modern Thai history through Thai relations with the United States [Duke 2001; Chulasirivong 1991; Philip 2017]. Duke did not mention the Bandung Conference in her survey, and Philips did not focus on Thai relationship with non-alignment. Moreover, while Fineman and, more recently, Benjamin did include the Bandung Conference and the Thai underground diplomatic mission to the People’s Republic of China (PRC) in their analyses. Both argue that this was a moment of second thought in the Phibun Government. These scholars did not link Thai interaction with the non-aligned moment and the consequential rapprochement with the PRC into a wider framework of Nehru’s foreign policy towards Thailand [Fineman 1997: 212–15; Zawacki 2017: 27–31]. This paper will also make an original contribution to the historiography by examining Thai participation in the forum in which India played so prominent a role during the early years of the Cold War. At the current stage, the historiography of Indo-Thai relations remains sporadic. The existing works focus on these three themes: the Indian independence movement in Thailand [Charoenpong 2014; Beaumont 1999] and the primordial cultural connections and post-Cold War relations following India’s Look East policy in 1992 [Ghosh 2017; Sahai and Mishra 2006]. Nevertheless, Charoenpong and Beaumont did not give any narrative of what had happened after 1945, while the two edited volumes by Ghosh, and Sahai and Mishra only touched the subject of Indo-Thai relations between 1947 and 1957 very briefly. The years between 1947 and 1957 were important because they were the formative years of the foreign policies of India and Thailand that