THE ASCENT TO NATIONAL POWER STUCTURE OF THAI KOH KONG IN COMBODIA

Abstract

               This research aimed to study the factor and process of being the ascent to the national power structure of Thais Koh Kong in The ascent to national power structure of Thai Koh Kong in Cambodia. The researcher selected qualitative research methodology on social network in political economy and integrated between micro level and macro level together. The results showed that the process of being the ascent to the national power structure of the Thais Koh Kong elite had been under the French-ruled until the situation of political conflicts and civil war ended and the phenomenon of being the ascent to the national power structure of the Thai leaders. The conclusion, the process of being the ascent to the national power structure of the Thais Koh Kong was the integration of the Thais Koh Kong form network in both formal and informal. The ideological network was the first prominent network, always associated, with political and military network. The integration of these the networks led to formation of a national power structure in Cambodia, under the social context, economy in war time and the political historical development of the France colonization and the civil war more than a century period on the cultural-based and social capital of the kinship between Thais and Thais Koh Kong sharing together.