Narrating Democracy in Myanmar

Narrating Democracy in Myanmar
Title Narrating Democracy in Myanmar PDF eBook
Author Tamas Wells
Publisher Amsterdam University Press
Pages 213
Release 2021-04-30
Genre Political Science
ISBN 9048553792

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This book analyses what Myanmar's struggle for democracy has signified to Burmese activists and democratic leaders, and to their international allies. In doing so, it explores how understanding contested meanings of democracy helps make sense of the country's tortuous path since Aung San Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy won historic elections in 2015. Using Burmese and English language sources, Narrating Democracy in Myanmar reveals how the country's ongoing struggles for democracy exist not only in opposition to Burmese military elites, but also within networks of local activists and democratic leaders, and international aid workers.

Domestic Constraints on South Korean Foreign Policy

Domestic Constraints on South Korean Foreign Policy
Title Domestic Constraints on South Korean Foreign Policy PDF eBook
Author Scott A. Snyder
Publisher Council on Foreign Relations
Pages 106
Release 2018-01-01
Genre International relations
ISBN 0876097336

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These essays support the argument that strong and effective presidential leadership is the most important prerequisite for South Korea to sustain and project its influence abroad. That leadership should be attentive to the need for public consensus and should operate within established legislative mechanisms that ensure public accountability. The underlying structures sustaining South Korea’s foreign policy formation are generally sound; the bigger challenge is to manage domestic politics in ways that promote public confidence about the direction and accountability of presidential leadership in foreign policy.

The Politics of Aid to Burma

The Politics of Aid to Burma
Title The Politics of Aid to Burma PDF eBook
Author Anne Decobert
Publisher Routledge
Pages 274
Release 2018-06-28
Genre
ISBN 9781138320154

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For over sixty years, conflict between state forces and armed ethnic groups was ongoing in parts of the borderlands of Burma. Ethnic minority communities were subjected to systematic and widespread abuses by an increasingly complex patchwork of armed state and non-state actors. Populations in more remote and disputed border areas typically had little to no access to even basic healthcare and education services. As part of its counter-insurgency campaign, the military state also historically restricted international humanitarian access to civilian populations in unstable border areas. It was in this context that "cross-border aid" to Burma had developed, as an alternative mechanism for channelling assistance to populations denied aid through more conventional systems. Yet by the late 2000s, national and international changes had significant impacts on an aid debate, which had important political and ethical implications. Through an ethnographic study of a cross-border aid organisation working on the Thailand-Burma border, this book focuses on the political and ethical dilemmas of "humanitarian government". It explores the ways in which aid systems come to be defined as legitimate or illegitimate, humanitarian or "un-humanitarian", in an international context that has witnessed the multiplication of often-conflicting humanitarian systems and models. It examines how an "embodied history" of violence can shape the worldviews and actions of local humanitarian actors, as well as institutions created to mitigate human suffering. It goes on to look at the complex and often-invisible webs of local organisations, international NGOs, donors, armed groups and other actors, which can develop in a cross-border and extra-legal context ¿ a context where competing constructions of systems as legitimate or illegitimate are highlighted. Exploring the history of humanitarianism from the local aid perspective of Burma, this book will be of interest to students and scholars of Southeast Asian Studies, Anthropology of Humanitarian Aid and Development Studies.

The Hidden History of Burma: Race, Capitalism, and the Crisis of Democracy in the 21st Century

The Hidden History of Burma: Race, Capitalism, and the Crisis of Democracy in the 21st Century
Title The Hidden History of Burma: Race, Capitalism, and the Crisis of Democracy in the 21st Century PDF eBook
Author Thant Myint-U
Publisher W. W. Norton & Company
Pages 240
Release 2019-11-12
Genre History
ISBN 1324003308

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A New York Times Critics' Top Book of 2019 A Foreign Affairs Best Book of 2020 “An urgent book.” —Jennifer Szalai, New York Times During a century of colonialism, Burma was plundered for its natural resources and remade as a racial hierarchy. Over decades of dictatorship, it suffered civil war, repression, and deep poverty. Today, Burma faces a mountain of challenges: crony capitalism, exploding inequality, rising ethnonationalism, extreme racial violence, climate change, multibillion dollar criminal networks, and the power of China next door. Thant Myint-U shows how the country’s past shapes its recent and almost unbelievable attempt to create a new democracy in the heart of Asia, and helps to answer the big questions: Can this multicultural country of 55 million succeed? And what does Burma’s story really tell us about the most critical issues of our time?

Myanmar/Burma

Myanmar/Burma
Title Myanmar/Burma PDF eBook
Author Alexis Rieffel
Publisher Brookings Institution Press
Pages 234
Release 2010
Genre Political Science
ISBN 0815705050

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Examines internal issues of Myanmar, also known as Burma, as well as the country's relations with its neighbors and the United States, discussing the Obama administration's policy of "pragmatic engagement," which links the removal of sanctions to implementation of greater freedom and respect of human rights. Original.

The Taming of Democracy Assistance

The Taming of Democracy Assistance
Title The Taming of Democracy Assistance PDF eBook
Author Sarah Sunn Bush
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Pages 287
Release 2015-04-30
Genre Political Science
ISBN 1107069645

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Most government programs seeking to aid democracy abroad do not directly confront dictators. This book explains how organizational politics 'tamed' democracy assistance.

U. S. Japan Approaches to Democracy Promotion

U. S. Japan Approaches to Democracy Promotion
Title U. S. Japan Approaches to Democracy Promotion PDF eBook
Author Larry Diamond
Publisher
Pages
Release 2017-03-31
Genre
ISBN 9780996656764

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Recommends practical ways in which the United States and Japan can support democratic development in countries that are emerging from autocratic regimes and those that have achieved a measure of democracy, but are in danger of regressing.