Human Rights in Burma
Subtitle: Promoting Human Rights in Burma
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.; Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Published: August 28, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9780742555594
Subjects: Human Rights And Foreign Policy; Political Science; Politics / Current Events; Politics/International Relations; Myanmar (Burma); International Relations - General; Political Freedom & Security - Human Rights; Public Policy - General; Non-Classifiable; Burma; Foreign relations; Human rights; Sanctions (International law); Western countries
Description: "Years of escalating censure and sanctions, have the military firmly entrenched in power, the opposition marginalized, and the general population suffering from deepening poverty. Based on extensive field research, Promoting Human Rights in Burma proposes an alternative model of "critical engagement" that emphasizes more pragmatic efforts to help bring a deeply divided society together and promote socioeconomic development as the basis for longer-term political change. Although the focus is squarely on Burma, the fallacles in Western policy thinking that this case study reveals, as well as the alternative policy framework it offers, have wider relevance for other poor, conflict-ridden countries on the periphery of the global political and economic system."--BOOK JACKET.