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Seeking to look beyond the day-to-day headlines and judgemental comments on developments in Myanmar, this volume gets under the surface to look at the underlying issues which the country faces regardless of its political future. After looking back to essay the historical forces and human agencies which have shaped contemporary Myanmar, the volume addresses health care and public policy provision with suggestions as to what potential roles the international community might have in assisting Myanmar's future socioeconomic development. Myanmar: Beyond Politics to Societal Imperatives broadens...

This volume focuses on some of the most important and topical questions about Myanmar. Many of these issues have not been sufficiently researched, comprehensively compiled, and comparatively examined within the broader Southeast Asian context. Especially important contributions in the book pertain to issues of historical influence and political considerations that have shaped the dominant thinking within the state and the military. There are equally important studies of sensitive topics like the political economy of the state and the level of human security in the country. The three major...

Just as the prismatic effects of glass mosaics or mirrors produce the spectrums of colour that give Myanmar s pagodas their glittering iridescence, Prisms on the Golden Pagoda offers a spectrum of views on the country s national reconciliation process. Because many of Myanmar s outlying ethnic groups straddle the country s borders with neighbouring countries in South and Southeast Asia and with China, the outcome of this process is crucial not only for the country s current domestic liberalization but also for regional geopolitics.

The editor of this volume, Kyaw Yin Hlaing is a...

This is a colourful tapestry, by a Rangoon-based writer, of the lives of ordinary Burmese; from porters and sailors, fortune tellers, waitresses and artists, to petty criminals, 'on the road to Mandalay'.