This study is concerned in particular with the ideological motive force behind the campaigns and expedition of pre-modern Siamese and Tradition State. Chakravartin is the issue of faith or belief in war making and the interaction between the religious concept of the ideal king. The kings of Siam and Tradition State sought to become Chakravartin, a Buddhist universal monarch, of the kingdom in which Buddhism was the primary religion. See also the concept of the Chakravartin king concern social, economic, and political condition of Siamese and Tradition State. But when the emergence of the Western colonial powers in the nineteenth century brought a sudden change to the paradigms of pre-modern interstate relations, and it also put an end to the traditional concept of the Chakravartin king.
