Myanmar transformed? : people, places and politics
| Full title: |
Myanmar transformed? : people, places and politics / edited by Justine Chambers, Gerard McCarthy, Nicholas Farrelly and Chit Win. |
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| Corporate Author: | Australian National University., ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute., Myanmar Update Conference (2017 : Canberra, Australia) |
| Other authors: | Chambers, Justine, (Editor)McCarthy, Gerard, (Editor)Farrelly, Nicholas, 1982- (Editor)Chit Win, (Editor) |
| Format: | Book |
| Summary: |
The triumph of Aung San Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy at the 2015 election was supposed to mark the consolidation of a reformist trajectory for Myanmar society. What has followed has not proved so straightforward. This book takes stock of the mutations, continuities and fractures at the heart of today's political and economic transformations. We ask: What has changed under a democratically elected government? Where are the obstacles to reform? And is there scope to foster a more prosperous and inclusive Myanmar? With the peace process faltering, over 1 million people displaced by recent violence, and ongoing army dominance in key areas of decision-making, the chapters in this volume identify areas of possible reform within the constraints of Myanmar's hybrid civil-military governance arrangements. This latest volume in the Myanmar Update Series from the Australian National University continues a long tradition of intense, critical engagement with political, economic and social questions in one of Southeast Asia's most complicated countries. At a time of great uncertainty and anxiety, the 13 chapters of Myanmar Transformed? offer new and alternative ways to understand Myanmar and its people. |
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| Other authors: | Chambers, Justine, (Editor), McCarthy, Gerard, (Editor), Farrelly, Nicholas, 1982- (Editor), Chit Win, (Editor) |
| Corporate Author: | Australian National University., ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute., Myanmar Update Conference (2017 : Canberra, Australia) |
| Language: | English |
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Singapore :
ISEAS, Yusof Ishak Institute,
2018.
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| Classmark: |
GB959.1 /539143 |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: |
9814818542 9789814818544 9789814818537 9814818534 |