Burma or Myanmar?
Subtitle: the struggle for national identity
By: editor, Lowell Dittmer
Publisher: World Scientific; World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Singapore; Hackensack, NJ
Language: eng
Number of pages: 380
ISBN-13: 9789814313643
Subjects: Politics and government; Foreign relations; Burmese National characteristics
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Burma vs. Myanmar, what's in a name? / Lowell Dittmer; title: Voting and violence in Myanmar / Ian Holliday; title: Ethnic conflict in Burma / Tom Kramer; title: Relieving Burma's humanitarian crisis / Christina Fink; title: Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, a Burmese dissindent democrat / Kyaw Yin Hlaing; title: Looking inside the Burmese military / Win Min; title: Naypyidaw vs. Yangon, the reasons behind the junta's decision to move the Burmese capital / Daniel Gomà; title: Burma's property of riches, natural gas and the voracious state / Sean Turnell; title: Myanmar/Burma, international trade and domestic power under an "isolationist" indentity / Jalal Alamgir; title: China-Burma relations / Min Zin; title: India's unquenched ambitions in Burma / Renaud Egreteau; title: Burma and ASEAN / Stephen McCarthy.