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Pages: 562
Authors: Renaud Egreteau
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-06-10 - Publisher: NUS Press

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Soldiers and Diplomacy addresses the key question of the ongoing role of the military in BurmaÍs foreign policy. The authors, a political scientist and a forme
The Wa of Myanmar and China's Quest for Global Dominance
Language: en
Pages: 264
Authors: Bertil Lintner
Categories: Burma
Type: BOOK - Published: 2021-03 - Publisher:

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The United Wa State Army (UWSA) is a nonstate armed group that administers an autonomous zone in the difficult-to-reach Wa Hills of eastern Myanmar. As China ex
The Hidden History of Burma: Race, Capitalism, and the Crisis of Democracy in the 21st Century
Language: en
Pages: 240
Authors: Thant Myint-U
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-11-12 - Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

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A New York Times Critics' Top Book of 2019 A Foreign Affairs Best Book of 2020 “An urgent book.” —Jennifer Szalai, New York Times During a century of colo
The United Wa State Army and Burma's Peace Process
Language: en
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Authors: Bertil Lintner
Categories: Burma
Type: BOOK - Published: 2019 - Publisher:

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The United Wa State Army, a force of some twenty-thousand fighters, is the largest of Burma’s ethnic armed organizations. It is also the best equipped, boasti
Back to Old Habits
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Authors: Renaud Egreteau
Categories: Political Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-07-03 - Publisher: Institut de recherche sur l’Asie du Sud-Est contemporaine

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This book argues that the Burmese military regime has always favoured an isolationist-type policy that finds its grassroots in Ne Win’s autarchic and xenophob