Interrogating Contemporary Myanmar : The Difficult Transition / Adam Simpson and Nicholas Farrelly -- Elections and Political Reform : New Hopes, Old Fears / Nicholas Farrelly -- The Military : Institution and Politics / Maung Aung Myoe -- Law, Lawyers and Legal Institutions / Mish Khan & Nick Cheesman -- Ethnic Politics : Diversity and Agency Amidst Persistent Violence / Matthew Walton -- Democracy and Human Rights : In the Shadow of Myanmar's National Security State / Morten Pedersen -- Foreign Policy and International Engagement : Strategic Realities, Domestic Priorities / Renaud Egreteau -- Political Regimes and Economic Policy : Isolation, Consolidation, Reintegration / Michele Ford, Michael Gillan & Htwe Htwe Thein -- Industrial Policy and Special Economic Zones : Engaging Transformation in a Globalised World / Giuseppe Gabusi & Michele Boario -- Agriculture and the Rural Economy : The Struggle to Transform Rural Livelihoods / Duncan Boughton, Ikuko Okamoto, Siu Sue Mark, Tin Htut Oo, Theingi Myint and Ardeth Maung Thawnghmung -- Natural Resources : Wealth and Conflict / Adam Simpson -- Art and Heritage : Creating and Preserving Cultural Histories / Charlotte Galloway -- Women's Rights : Change and Continuity / Jenny Hedstrom, Elisabeth Olivius &Valentina Kay Soe -- Myanmar's Contested Borderlands : Uneven Development and Ongoing Armed Conflict / Busarin Lertchavalitsakul & Patrick Meehan -- Ethnicity, Culture and Religion : Centralisation, Burmanisation and Social Transformation / Violet Cho & David Gilbert -- Journalism and Free Speech : Freedom and Fear / Tom Kean & Mratt Kyaw Thu -- The Rohingya Crisis : Nationalism and its Discontents / Adam Simpson & Nicholas Farrelly.
Summary:
"This book provides a sophisticated, yet accessible, overview of the key political, economic and social challenges facing contemporary Myanmar and explains the complex historical and ethnic dynamics that have shaped the country. With clear and incisive contributions from the world's leading Myanmar scholars, this book assesses the policies and political reforms that have provoked contestation in Myanmar's recent history and driven both economic and social change. In this context, questions of economic ownership and control and the distribution of natural resources are shown to be deeply informed by longstanding fractures amongst ethnic and civil-military relations. The chapters analyse the key issues that constrain or expedite societal development in Myanmar and place recent events of national and international significance in the context of its complex history and social relations. In doing so, the book demonstrates that ethnic and cultural diversity is at the core of Myanmar's society and heavily influences all aspects of life in the country. Filling a gap in the market, this research textbook and primer will be of interest to upper undergraduates, postgraduates and scholars of Southeast Asian politics, economics and society and to journalists and professionals working within governments, companies and other organisations"-- Provided by publisher.
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