Burma Redux

Informationen zum Autor Ian Holliday is professor of political science at The University of Hong Kong and has taught at New York University and the University of Manchester. His research focuses on problems in the contemporary government and politics of Burma/Myanmar and his reaching centers on Southeast Asia! particularly issues in humanitarian intervention and global justice. He is a founding editor of the journal Party Politics and the relaunch editor of the journal Contemporary Politics. Klappentext Contemporary Myanmar faces a number of political challenges! and no one is certain whether external forces should intervene. 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. Burma Redux is also the sole book-length study on the nation to be completed after the contentious general elections of 2010

Product details

• Authors: Holliday, Ian Holliday, Holliday Ian
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.03.2012
• EAN: 9780231161275
• ISBN: 978-0-231-16127-5
• No. of pages: 304
• Dimensions: 153 mm x 228 mm x 16 mm
• Series: Columbia University Press
• Subjects: Non-fiction book; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Comparative and international political science; Myanmar, POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Asian, International Relations, Politics & government, Asian History