FOREWORD

This bibliographic guide is one product of a venture in cooperation that began over fourteen years ago with agreements between Lidiana University, the Thai College of Education, Thammasat University, and the Agency for International Development. Today the effort continues in new and expanded form, with Indiana University and the four other members of the Midwest Universities Consortium for International Affairs, aided by the Ford Foundation, all joined to assist the Thai National Institute of Development Administration in its formative years.

Some of the fruits of Indiana University’s association are reflected in the contents of this work — books and articles by members of our faculty, and the numerous theses, dissertations and other useful studies by Thais who have been the chief partieipants in our joint enterprises. The Thai studies produced by our faculty, past and present, have been greatly aided by the access to materials and assistance that has been generously provided by our Thai associates. We, in turn, are pleased to have played a supporting role in the growing contribution of Thais to the study of Thai government and its setting.

This work is the result of cooperative academic efforts. Professors Thrombley and Siffin share primary responsibility, but much assistance, acknowledged elsewhere, was received from the staff of the Thai Institute of Public Administration and its successor organization, the National Institute of Development Administration.

As I look back over the record of Indiana University’s cooperative associations with Thailand, I regard this bibliographic guide with particular satisfaction. It is in itself a useful scholarly tool, and it also documents the swelling stream of scholarship in this area, a literature to which we at the University are pleased to have added a small share. The further aim of international cooperation must always be to add to the store of our knowledge and to expand the range of mankind’s capabilities. This little volume, and some of the citations it contains, are evidence that one particular venture in cooperation has achieved gratifying results.

Lynne L. Merritt, Jr.

Vice President and Dean,

Research and Advanced Studies

Indiana University

December, 1970