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, Burma 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.
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Author’s note
- Acronyms
- Introduction
- Naming a nation
- Framing a situation
- Analyzing a society
- Rebuilding a country
- 1 Dependence and Disintegration
- British Burma
- Liberal Burma
- Nationalist Burma
- Burma in flux
- 2 Dominion and dissent
- Democratic Burma
- Revolutionary Burma
- Socialist Burma
- Burma in revolt
- 3 Dictatorship and deadlock
- Political dispute
- Economic malaise
- Social control
- Government by junta
- 4 Democracy and deliberation
- Disciplined democracy
- Transitional process
- National reconciliation
- Transitional justice
- 5 Inattention and involvement
- Policy debate
- Engagement strategies
- Isolation strategies
- Political leverage
- 6 Injustice and implication
- Global justice
- Historical injustice
- Universal justice
- Demands of justice
- 7 Intervention and interaction
- Types of intervention
- Justifying intervention
- Deliberating intervention
- Interactive intervention
- 8Intercession and investment
- Interventionist options
- Interceding for change
- Investing in reform
- Interventionist strategy
- Conclusion
- Unmaking Myanmar
- Remaking Burma
- The world in Myanmar
- Burma in the world
- Notes
- Index
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