State in Myanmar by Robert H Taylor
"The State in Myanmar" is a totally revised and expanded and 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, and third, post-colonial regime in this strategically important and little studied South East Asian nation. The book explains the dramatic and unpredicted collapse of the previous socialist regime and the attempts by new and old political forces to wrest control of the state from a revitalised and 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 and far from unified nation and "The State in Myanmar" places those experiences in comparative perspective.
'a well researched, masterly presentation of political, economic and social developments in Burma... will no doubt become a standard reference work.' - The Round Table
Robert H. Taylor was Pro-Director and Professor of Politics at SOAS and later Vice-Chancellor of Buckingham University. His publications include four monographs on Myanmar and seven edited or co-edited volumes
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| ISBN 13 | 9781850659099 |
| ISBN 10 | 1850659095 |
| Title | State in Myanmar |
| Author | Robert H Taylor |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd |
| Year published | 2009-01-16 |
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