A Delicate Relationship : The United States and Burma/Myanmar since 1945 /
"In 2012, Barack Obama became the first US president ever to visit Myanmar, formerly known as Burma. This official state visit marked a new period in the long and sinuous diplomatic relationship between the United States and Burma/Myanmar, which Kenton Clymer examines in A Delicate Relationship...
Auteur principal: | |
---|---|
Format: | Électronique eBook |
Langue: | Inglés |
Publié: |
Ithaca :
Cornell University Press,
2015.
|
Collection: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
|
Sujets: | |
Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
Table des matières:
- Burmese nationalism and the path to independence
- The leaky derelict
- The trial of the "Burma surgeon"
- The Kuomintang embarrassment
- China, communists, and other insurgents
- Changing course on the Kuomintang
- The neutrality conundrum
- The China border, a "polite coup," and return to democratic government
- The U Nu interregnum
- Ne Win's way to socialism
- The relationship stabilizes
- The narcotics era
- Revolt
- The thaw
- Appendix : US ambassadors and charges d'affaires appointed to Burma.