Monday: Thaksin Shinawatra, prime minister of Thailand, answers questions at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York. 

Q: In your vision of a Thai democracy, who provides the check and balances on the military and security class?

THAKSIN: The role of military is [decreasing] in terms of involving in politics. So we don't need a check and balance system on that part anymore because...this is [the] 21st century...[t]he memory is still about the 20th century. This is 21st. I think things [are] changing a lot. Thank you.

Tuesday: Military coup puts him out of a job.