Burma : prospects for a democratic future /

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Imprint:Cambridge, Mass. : The World Peace Foundation and Harvard Institue for International Development : Washington D.C. ; Brookings Institute Press, c1998.
Description:xi, 308 p. : map ; 24 cm.
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/3198727
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Other authors / contributors:Rotberg, Robert I.
World Peace Foundation.
ISBN:0815775822 (cloth)
0815775814 (pbk.)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgments
  • Myanmar or Burma?
  • Introduction Prospects for a Democratic Burma
  • Part 1. Political Considerations
  • Chapter I. The Evolution and Salience of Burma's National Political Culture
  • Chapter 2. Political Values and Political Conflict in Burma
  • Chapter 3. On Time Warps and Warped Time Lessons from Burma's "Democratic Era
  • Chapter 4. From Isolation to Relevance Policy Considerations
  • Part 2. The Military
  • Chapter 5. The Armed Forces and Military Rule in Burma
  • Chapter 6. Burma's Role in Regional Security--Pawn or Pivot?
  • Chapter 7. Ethnicity and Civil War in Burma Where is the Rationality?
  • Notes
  • Part 3. Economic Considerations
  • Chapter 8. Development Prospects for Burma Cycles and Trends
  • Notes
  • Notes
  • Chapter 9. Drugs and Economic Growth Ethnicity and Exports
  • Chapter 10. Burma: The Booming Drug Trade
  • Chapter II. the New Burma Road (paved by Polytechnologies?)
  • Notes
  • Chapter 12. Foreign Direct Investment in Burma Trends, Determinants, and Prospect s
  • Part 4. Health And Education
  • Chapter 13. The State's Role in Education in Burma: An Overview
  • Chapter 14. Health in Burma an Interpretive Review
  • Notes
  • Part 5. Looking Forward
  • Chapter 15. The Road to Political Recovery The Salience of Politics in Economics
  • About the Authors
  • About the Sponsoring Institutions
  • Index