Ethnic Politics in Burma : States of Conflict

ISBN-13: 9780415572699 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 302 str.

Ashley South

Opis

This text considers the conflict and civil war that has ravaged Burma, and considers the implications that conflict has had for Burma's development and prospects for democratisation.

Recenzje

'This book is essential contemporary reading for an academic, aid worker or United Nations official attempting to understand Myanmar's seemingly impossible challenges' - David Scott Mathieson, Contemporary Southeast Asia, April 2009

Spis treści

Part 1: Conflicting Histories  1. Shifting Identities [Pre-colonial and Colonial Burma]  2. State and Society, Grievance and Greed, Ethnicity and Insurgency [World War, Independence and Civil War]  Part 2: Armed Conflict Since 1988  3. Enemies and Allies on the Thailand Border [Insurgency and Exile]  4. The Costs of Conflict [Humanitarian Impacts and Responses: Refugees and the Internally Displaced, and International Agendas]  Part 3: State, Ceasefires and Civil Society  5. The SPDC and the Ceasefire Movement [Militarisation and Governance]  6. Civil Society and Social Change [Contested Domains]  7. Re-Imagining Communities [Development and Democracy]

O autorze

Ashley South is an independent analyst, specialising in politics and humanitarian issues in Burma and South-East Asia. He has published extensively, and undertaken various consultancies for the UN and other organisations. He is the author of Mon Nationalism and Civil War in Burma: The Golden Sheldrake (Routledge 2003).