Martin Smith

Burma

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Produktbeschreibung

This book charts the rise of modern political parties, unravels the complexities of the long-running insurgencies waged by opposition groups, and explains how a fertile and potentially prosperous Asian country has become one of the world's poorest. This revised and updated edition of the standard work on 40 years of Burmese independence includes a new chapter on the 1990 elections and events since.

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Burma remains a land in deep crisis. The popular uprising of 1988 swept away 26 years of military rule under General Ne Win in name only. The National League for Democracy of Aung San Suu Kyi won a landslide victory in the 1990 election. But, as this book relates, the military remained in control and the future of Burma looks more problematic than ever. With unparalleled command of largely inaccessible Burmese sources and interviews with many of the leading participants, Martin Smith charts the rise of modern political parties and unravels the complexities of the long-running insurgencies waged by opposition groups, including the Communist Party of Burma, the Karen National Union and a host of other ethnic nationalist movements. It is essential reading for those interested in the conditions giving rise to guerrilla warfare, the character of national liberation movements, and the impact of ethnicity on political conflict.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury 3PL
• Seitenzahl: 544
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Juni 1999
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 32mm
• Gewicht: 916g
• ISBN-13: 9781856496605
• ISBN-10: 1856496600
• Artikelnr.: 32889931

Autorenporträt

Martin Smith

Inhaltsangabe

Part I: The Roots of Conflict 1. The Burmese Way to Stagnation and the
Crisis of 1988 2. The Peoples of Burma: A Historic and Ethnic Background 3.
Order Without Meaning: British Rule and the Rise of the National Liberation
Movement 4. War and Independence: 1942-48 5. Insurgency as a Way of Life
Part II Insurrections in the Parliamentary Era 6. The Final Seizure of
Power: A Country Goes Underground 7. Failure, Retrenchment and the United
Fronts: The Communist Movement 1948-52 8. The Battle for Kawthoolei: The
Spread of Ethnic Rebellion 9. Revisionism and the 1955 Line: The Prospect
of Peace 10. The Collapse of Parliamentary Democracy: Ne Win Seizes Power
Part III Insurrections in the Ne Win era 11. Military Rule and Peace Parley
12. Cultural Revolution 13. The North-East Command and the Four Cuts 14.
The Failure of U Nu's Parliamentary Democracy Party, Keren Unity and
Emergence of the National Democratic Front 15. The War in the North, Opium
and the 1980/1 Peace Parley 16. The Nationalities Question Part IV: The
1980s: A Decade of Upheaval 17. The Democracy Upbringing and the CPB 18.
The 1989 CPB Mutinies: The End of the road? 19. The War Goes On: The NDF
and the KNU 20. A New Cycle of Conflict?: The 1990 General Election and the
DAB Part V Burma at the Century's End 21. The 1990s: Deadlock or the
Dawning of New Realities? Part I: The Roots of Conflict 1. The Burmese Way
to Stagnation and the Crisis of 1988 2. The Peoples of Burma: A Historic
and Ethnic Background 3. Order Without Meaning: British Rule and the Rise
of the National Liberation Movement 4. War and Independence: 1942-48 5.
Insurgency as a Way of Life Part II Insurrections in the Parliamentary Era
6. The Final Seizure of Power: A Country Goes Underground 7. Failure,
Retrenchment and the United Fronts: The Communist Movement 1948-52 8. The
Battle for Kawthoolei: The Spread of Ethnic Rebellion 9. Revisionism and
the 1955 Line: The Prospect of Peace 10. The Collapse of Parliamentary
Democracy: Ne Win Seizes Power Part III Insurrections in the Ne Win era 11.
Military Rule and Peace Parley 12. Cultural Revolution 13. The North-East
Command and the Four Cuts 14. The Failure of U Nu's Parliamentary Democracy
Party, Keren Unity and Emergence of the National Democratic Front 15. The
War in the North, Opium and the 1980/1 Peace Parley 16. The Nationalities
Question Part IV: The 1980s: A Decade of Upheaval 17. The Democracy
Upbringing and the CPB 18. The 1989 CPB Mutinies: The End of the road? 19.
The War Goes On: The NDF and the KNU 20. A New Cycle of Conflict?: The 1990
General Election and the DAB Part V Burma at the Century's End 21. The
1990s: Deadlock or the Dawning of New Realities?