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Burma or Myanmar? [[electronic resource] ] : the struggle for national identity / / editor, Lowell Dittmer



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Titolo: Burma or Myanmar? [[electronic resource] ] : the struggle for national identity / / editor, Lowell Dittmer Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Singapore ; ; Hackensack, N.J., : World Scientific Pub. Co., c2010
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (396 p.)
Disciplina: 320.9591
Soggetto topico: National characteristics, Burmese
Soggetto geografico: Burma Politics and government 1988-
Burma Foreign relations 1948-
Altri autori: DittmerLowell  
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
Titolo autorizzato: Burma or Myanmar  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-283-14474-3
9786613144744
981-4313-65-3
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910788557003321
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