Burma
Subtitle: prospects for a democratic future
By: Robert I. Rotberg, editor.
Contributors: Rotberg, Robert I.; World Peace Foundation.
Publisher: The World Peace Foundation and Harvard Institue for International Development; Brookings Institute Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass; Washington D.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 308
Subjects: Political culture -- Burma.; Burma -- Politics and government -- 1988-; Burma -- Economic policy.; Burma -- Social policy.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The evolution and salience of Burma's national political culture / Josef Silverstein; title: Political values and political conflict in Burma / R.H. Taylor; title: On time warps and warped time : lessons from Burma's "democratic era" / Mary P. Callahan; title: From isolation to relevance : policy considerations / Marvin C. Ott; title: The Armed Forces and military rule in Burma / Andrew Selth; title: Burma's role in regional security; title: pawn or pivot? / J. Mohan Malik; title: Ethnicity and Civil War in Burma : where is the rationality? / Ananda Rajah; title: Development prospects for Burma : cycles and trends / David Dapice; title: Drugs and economic growth : ethnicity and exports / Bertil Lintner; title: Burma : the booming drug trade / Robert S. Gelbard; title: The New Burma Road (paved by polytechnologies?) / Frank S. Jannuzi; title: Foreign direct investment in Burma : trends, determinants, and prospects / Mark Mason; title: The State's role in education in Burma : an overview / John J. Brandon; title: Health in Burma : an interpretive review / David A. Chandler; title: The road to political recovery : the salience of politics in economics / David I. Steinberg.