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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Dittmer, Lowell.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

National characteristics, Burmese.

Burma--Politics and government--1988-.

Burma.

Burma--Foreign relations--1948-.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (396 p.)

Place of Publication:

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

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-283-14474-3

9786613144744

981-4313-65-3

OCLC:

740446061