title: Stay Where You Are Until Our Backs Are Turned' Imagining the Border from Kuala Lumpur and Bangkok
abstract: This thesis examines the security situation along the border between Thailand and Malaysia by conducting a discursive analysis of the security concerns of government officials on both sides of the border. The border between is the site of considerable contradiction. At once, dividing two ethnically and linguistically disparate states with different conceptions of security, the border also serves as the site for a number of cooperation efforts, including joint military patrols along the border, a