Historical Institutionalism: A Critical Analysis of State-Local Relations in Conflict Management in the Southern Border Provinces
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This research article aims to study state-local relations in conflict management in the southern border provinces with a critical analysis perspective through the framework of the historical institutional approach. The method of data collection from documents is the main one and supports the analysis of controversies with in-depth interviews with academics and local leaders in the areas with the highest cumulative frequency of violent incidents during 2004-2021 in Yarang District of Pattani Province, Mueang District of Yala Province, Ra-ngae District of Narathiwat Province, and Thepha District of Songkhla Province. The results of the study revealed that state-local relations are conflicting power relations as a result of the historical development of modern state formation, the annexation of Patani with Siam, changes of governance, and centralized administration of the state by supporting the role of the army and the military as main institutions or actors. The Thai state exercised the power to control, direct, suppress, reduce, and limit the actions of local institutions or actors in the southern border provinces in which the historical shackles determined the formation of the institutional structure that was the path dependency.
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