The State In Myanmar

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” The State in Myanmar” is a totally revised & expanded & updated version of ” The State in Burma” (1987), with additional chapters covering the last twenty years of Myanmar`s political history. It attempts to explain the country`s current politics in the light of the historical evolution of state-society relations in Myanmar since the pre-colonial kings, through the colonial era to the current, & third, post-colonial regime in this strategically important & little studied South East Asian nation. The book explains the dramatic & unpredicted collapse of the previous socialist regime & the attempts by new & old political forces to wrest control of the state from a revitalised & increasingly confident military government. Myanmar`s state builders have applied varying ideas in their attempts to fashion a stable political order in an often fractious & far from unified nation & ” The State in Myanmar” places those experiences in comparative perspective.