Ethnic politics in Burma
Subtitle: states of conflict
By: Ashley South.
Series: Routledge contemporary Southeast Asia series -- 19
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon; New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780415410083; 9780203895191
Subjects: Ethnic conflict -- Burma; Conflict management -- Burma; Burma -- Ethnic relations; Burma -- Politics and government -- 1988-
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Shifting identities [pre-colonial and colonial Burma]; title: State and society, grievance and greed, ethnicity and insurgency [world war, independence and civil war]; title: Armed conflict since 1988; title: Enemies and allies on the Thailand border [insurgency and exile]; title: The costs of conflict [humanitarian impacts and responses: refugees and the internally displaced, and international agendas]; title: State, ceasefires and civil society; title: The SPDC and the ceasefire movement [militarisation and governance]; title: Civil society and social change [contested domains]; title: Re-imagining communities [development and democracy].