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Record Nr.

UNINA9910814792303321

Titolo

Burma or Myanmar? : the struggle for national identity / / editor, Lowell Dittmer

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Singapore ; ; Hackensack, N.J., : World Scientific Pub. Co., c2010

ISBN

1-283-14474-3

9786613144744

981-4313-65-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (396 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

DittmerLowell

Disciplina

320.9591

Soggetti

National characteristics, Burmese

Burma Politics and government 1988-

Burma Foreign relations 1948-

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Burma vs. Myanmar : what's in a name? / Lowell Dittmer -- Voting and violence in Myanmar : Nation building for a transition to democracy / Ian Holliday -- Ethnic conflict in Burma : the challenge of unity in a divided country / Tom Kramer -- Relieving Burma's humanitarian crisis / Christina Fink -- Daw Aung San Suu Kyi : a Burmese dissindent democrat / Kyaw Yin Hlaing -- Looking inside the Burmese military / Win Min -- Naypyidaw vs. Yangon : the reasons behind the Junta's decision to move the Burmese capital / Daniel Gomà€ -- Burma's poverty of riches : natural gas and the voracious state / Sean Turnell -- Myanmar/Burma : international trade and domestic power under an "isolationist" indentity / Jalal Alamgir -- China-Burma relations : China's risk, Burma's dilemma / Min Zin -- India's unquenched ambitions in Burma / Renaud Egreteau -- Burma and ASEAN : a marriage of inconvenience / Stephen McCarthy -- Conclusion / Lowell Dittmer.

Sommario/riassunto

Burma, also known as Myanmar, strategically located between China and India, is one of the largest and most richly endowed states in Southeast Asia. Yet it remains both economically and politically underdeveloped. Why is this so? We argue that much of the reason has



to do with an ongoing struggle for national identity. This struggle involves not only whether the state should be authoritarian or democratic, but how Burma's myriad ethnic minorities should be accommodated within it, what external reference national reference groups the country should identify and align with, and how it should mov