Back to Old Habits : Isolationism or the Self-Preservation of Burma's Military Regime

• Main Author: Larry Jagan (auth)
• Other Authors: Renaud Egreteau (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Institut de recherche sur l'Asie du Sud-Est contemporaine 2008
• Subjects: Peace studies & conflict resolution; army; Civil Society; freedom; autarchy; junta; democracy
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

This book argues that the Burmese military regime has always favoured an isolationist-type policy that finds its grassroots in Ne Win's autarchic and xenophobic era as well as in Burma's royal traditions, but without being completely cut off from the outside world. This policy approach is...