Myanmar : Politics, Economy and Society 2nd Edition

1 Analysing a Disaster, Wrapped in a Catastrophe, Inside a Tragedy 1

ADAM SIMPSON AND NICHOLAS FARRELLY

2 Déjà Vu All Over Again: The 2021 Coup in Historical Perspective 16

NICHOLAS FARRELLY AND ADAM SIMPSON

PART 1

Politics 29

3 Ethnic Politics: Diversity and Agency Amidst Persistent Violence 31

MATTHEW J. WALTON AND AYE THEIN

4 The Military: Institution and Politics 46

MAUNG AUNG MYOE

5 Land and Law Between Reform and Revolution 60

DOROTHY MASON AND NICK CHEESMAN

6 Democracy and Human Rights under Military Rule: Three Iterations of Myanmar’s National

Security State 75

MORTEN B. PEDERSEN

7 Foreign and Diplomatic (Dis)Engagement: Military Priorities, Strategic Realities, and Contested Legitimacies 91

RENAUD EGRETEAU

PART 2

Economy 107

8 Political Regimes and Economic Policy: Isolation, Consolidation, Reintegration and Rupture 109

MICHELE FORD, MICHAEL GILLAN AND HTWE HTWE THEIN

9 Agriculture and Rural Livelihoods: Incipient Progress Aborted 124

DUNCAN BOUGHTON, ARDETH MAUNG THAWNGHMUNG, CHO CHO SAN,

NILAR AUNG, AND IKUKO

OKAMOTO

10 Natural Resource Governance and the Environment: Unconstrained Exploitation Under

Authoritarianism 139

ADAM SIMPSON

11 Industrial Policy and Special Economic Zones: Engaging Transformation in a Globalised World 157

GIUSEPPE GABUSI AND MICHELE BOARIO

PART 3

Society 173

12 Art and Heritage: Creating and Preserving Cultural Histories 175

CHARLOTTE GALLOWAY

13 Public Health: State and Non-State Systems in a Changing Society 191

ANNE DÉCOBERT, ADAM RICHARDS, AND SI THURA

14 Education: Reforms Undone 207

MARIE LALL

15 Women in Myanmar: Change and Continuity 220

JENNY HEDSTRÖM, ELISABETH OLIVIUS AND KAY SOE

16 Myanmar’s Contested Borderlands: Centre-Periphery Power Relations and Fragmented Sovereignty 237

BUSARIN LERTCHAVALITSAKUL AND PATRICK MEEHAN

17 Ethnicity, Culture and Religion: Centralisation, Burmanisation and Social Transformation 252

VIOLET CHO AND DAVID F. GILBERT

18 Journalism and Free Speech: Freedom and Fear 268

THOMAS KEAN AND MRATT KYAW THU

19 Myanmar’s Complex and Intersecting Crises: Pathways to Accountability and International Justice 284

ADAM SIMPSON AND NICHOLAS FARRELLY

Index 305