Burma or Myanmar? : the struggle for national identity /
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 fo...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Singapore ; London :
World Scientific,
©2010.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Sumario: | 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. |
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Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xiv, 380 pages) : illustrations |
Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
ISBN: | 9789814313650 9814313653 1283144743 9781283144742 9786613144744 6613144746 9789814464581 9814464589 |