Burma Redux: Global Justice And The Quest For Political Reform In Myanmar
by Ian Holliday /
2012 / English / EPUB
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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.
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,
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
BurmaRedux 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
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.
is also the first book-length study on the nation to be completed
after the contentious general elections of 2010.
