Burma Redux - Global Justice and the Quest for Political Reform in Myanmar

Erscheinungsjahr 2012
ISBN: 978-0-231-16126-8
Verlag: Columbia University Press

Buch, Englisch, 304 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 233 mm, Gewicht: 522 g

Contemporary Myanmar faces a number of political challenges, and it is unclear how other nations should act in relation to the country. Prioritizing the opinions of local citizens and reading them against the latest scholarship on this issue, Ian Holliday affirms the importance of foreign interests in Myanmar's democratic awakening, yet only through committed, grassroots strategies of engagement encompassing foreign states, international aid agencies, and global corporations.

Holliday supports his argument by using multiple sources and theories, particularly ones that take historical events, contemporary political and social investigations, and global justice literature into account, as well as studies that focus on the effects of democratic transition, the aid industry, and socially responsible corporate investing and sanctions. One of the only volumes to apply broad-ranging global justice theories to a real-world nation in flux, Burma Redux will appeal to professionals researching Burma/Myanmar; political advisers and advocacy groups; nonspecialists interested in Southeast Asian politics and society and the local and international problems posed by pariah states; general readers who seek a richer understanding of the country beyond journalistic accounts; and the Burmese people themselves both within the country and in diaspora. Burma Redux is also the first book-length study on the nation to be completed after the contentious general elections of 2010.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Holliday, Ian

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Studien zu einzelnen Ländern und Gebieten
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Asiatische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Transformationsprozesse (Politikwiss.)

Inhaltsverzeichnis

AcknowledgementsAuthor's noteAcronymsMap of MyanmarIntroduction1. Dependence and disintegration2. Dominion and dissent3. Dictatorship and deadlock4. Democracy and deliberation5. Inattention and involvement6. Injustice and implication7. Intervention and interaction8. Intercession and investmentConclusionNotesIndex

Über Autor(innen)

Holliday, Ian
Ian Holliday is professor of political science at The University of Hong Kong and has taught at New York University and the University of Manchester. His research focuses on problems in the contemporary government and politics of Burma/Myanmar and his teaching centers on Southeast Asia, particularly issues of humanitarian intervention and global justice. He is a founding editor of the journal Party Politics and has relaunched the journal Contemporary Politics.