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Paperback. Condition: New. Myanmar: A Political Lexicon is a critical inquiry into how words animate politics. Across sixteen entries the lexicon stages dialogues about political speech and action in this country at the nexus of South, East and Southeast Asia. This Element offers readers venues in which to consider the history and contingency of ideas like power, race, patriarchy and revolution. Contention over these and other ideas, it shows, does not reflect the political world in which Myanmar's people live-it realizes it.…

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Hardback or Cased Book. Condition: New. Ruling Myanmar: From Cyclone Nargis to National Elections. Book.

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Soft cover. Condition: New. xiv + 395 pages ; 24 cm. Is Myanmar (Burma) democratizing, or is it moving towards a new form of authoritarianism, perhaps one more consonant with other contemporary authoritarian regimes in Asia?Coming at a critical time, and one of growing interest in this Southeast Asian country among researchers and policy-makers, Debating Democratization in Myanmar addresses this complex question from a range of disciplinary and professional perspectives. Chapters by leading international scholars and practitioners, activists and politicians from Myanmar and around the world cover political and economic updates, as well as the problems of democratization; the re-engagement of democratic activists and exiles in domestic affairs; the new parliament, the electoral system, and everyday politics; prospects for the economy; ethnic cooperation, contestation and conflict; the role of the army and police forces; and conditions for women. Together they constitute an empirically deep and analytically rich source of readable and relevant material for anyone keen to obtain a greater understanding of what is happening in Myanmar today, and why. Contents: Table of Contents; I: Foreword; 1. Myanmar Reforms Gathering Momentum by Winston Set Aung; II: Introduction; 2. Debating Democratization in Myanmar by Trevor Wilson; 3. Myanmar's Democratic Opening: The Process and Prospect of Reformn by Morten B. Pedersen; III: Encouraging Signs; 4. Myanmar 's Parliament: From Scorn to Significanceby Thomas Kean; 5. village Networks, Land Law, and Myanmar's Democratization by Tamas Wells and Kyaw Thu Aung; 6. Fom Exile to Elections by Than Than Nu; 7. Sidelined or Reinventing Themselves? Exiled Activists in Myanmar's Political Reforms by Kerstin Duell. 8. Understanding Recent Labour Protests in Myanmar by Kyaw Soe LwinIV: Anticipating Reforms; 9. Myanmar Economic Update: Macro-economy, Fiscal Reform, and Development Options by Anders Engvall and Soe Nandar Linn; 10. The Glass Has Water: A Stocktake of Myanmar's Economic Reforms: Exchange Rate, Financial System, Investment, and Sectoral Policies by Sean Turnell; 11. Police Reform in Myanmar: Changes ""In Essence and Appearance"" by Andrew Selth; 12. Electoral System Choice in Myanmar's Democratization Debate by Kyle Lemargie, Andrew Reynolds, Peter Erben, and David Ennis. V: Enduring Concerns13. The Continuing Political Salience of the Military in Post-SPDC Myanmar by Renaud Egreteau; 14. State Terrorism and International Compliance: The Kachin Armed Struggle for Political Self-Determination by Seng Maw Lahpai; 15. Engendering Development in Myanmar: Women's Struggle for San, Si, Sa by Ma Khin Mar Mar Kyi; VI: Conclusion; 16. Democratization, Violence and Myanmar by Nick Cheesman; List of Abbreviations; Index.…

Paperback. Condition: New. The rule of law is a political ideal today endorsed and promoted worldwide. Or is it? In a significant contribution to the field, Nick Cheesman argues that Myanmar is a country in which the rule of law is 'lexically present but semantically absent'. Charting ideas and practices from British colonial rule through military dictatorship to the present day, Cheesman calls upon political and legal theory to explain how and why institutions animated by a concern for law and order oppose the rule of law. Empirically grounded in both Burmese and English sources, including criminal trial records and wide ranging official documents, Opposing the Rule of Law offers the first significant study of courts in contemporary Myanmar. It sheds new light on the politics of courts during dark times and sharply illuminates the tension between the demand for law and the imperatives of order.…

Hardback. Condition: New. With the world watching closely, Myanmar began a process of political, administrative and institutional transition from 30 January 2011. After convening the parliament, elected in November 2010, the former military regime transferred power to a new government headed by former Prime Minister (and retired general), U Thein Sein. With parliamentary processes restored in Myanmar's new capital of Naypyitaw, Thein Sein's government announced a wide-ranging reform agenda, and began releasing political prisoners and easing press censorship. Pivotal meetings between Thein Sein and Aung San Suu Kyi led to amendment of the Election Law and the National League for Democracy contesting by-elections in April 2012. The 2011 Myanmar/Burma update conference considered the openings offered by these political changes and media reforms and the potential opportunities for international assistance. Obstacles covered include impediments to the rule of law, the continuation of human rights abuses, the impunity of the Army, and the failure to end ethnic insurgency.…