North Korea and Myanmar - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook North Korea and Myanmar write by Andray Abrahamian. This book was released on 2018-02-12. North Korea and Myanmar available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. North Korea and Myanmar (Burma) are Asia's most mysterious, tragic stories. For decades they were infamous as the region's most militarized and repressed societies, self-isolated and under sanctions by the international community while, from Singapore to Japan, the rest of Asia saw historic wealth creation and growing middle class security. For Burma, the threat was internal: insurgent factions clashed with the government and each other. For North Korea, it was external: a hostile superpower--the United States--and a far more successful rival state--South Korea--occupying half of the Korean peninsula. Over time, Myanmar defeated its enemies, giving it space to explore a form of democratization and openness that has led to reintegration into international society. Meanwhile, North Korea's regime believes its nuclear arsenal--the primary reason for their pariah status--is vital to survival.
Burma's North Korean Gambit
Burma's North Korean Gambit - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Burma's North Korean Gambit write by Andrew Selth. This book was released on 2004. Burma's North Korean Gambit available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The Authoritarian Public Sphere
The Authoritarian Public Sphere - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Authoritarian Public Sphere write by Alexander Dukalskis. This book was released on 2017-01-20. The Authoritarian Public Sphere available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Authoritarian regimes craft and disseminate reasons, stories, and explanations for why they are entitled to rule. To shield those legitimating messages from criticism, authoritarian regimes also censor information that they find threatening. While committed opponents of the regime may be violently repressed, this book is about how the authoritarian state keeps the majority of its people quiescent by manipulating the ways in which they talk and think about political processes, the authorities, and political alternatives. Using North Korea, Burma (Myanmar) and China as case studies, this book explains how the authoritarian public sphere shapes political discourse in each context. It also examines three domains of potential subversion of legitimating messages: the shadow markets of North Korea, networks of independent journalists in Burma, and the online sphere in China. In addition to making a theoretical contribution to the study of authoritarianism, the book draws upon unique empirical data from fieldwork conducted in the region, including interviews with North Korean defectors in South Korea, Burmese exiles in Thailand, and Burmese in Myanmar who stayed in the country during the military government. When analyzed alongside state-produced media, speeches, and legislation, the material provides a rich understanding of how autocratic legitimation influences everyday discussions about politics in the authoritarian public sphere. Explaining how autocracies manipulate the ways in which their citizens talk and think about politics, this book will be of interest to students and scholars of Asian politics, comparative politics and authoritarian regimes.
Being in North Korea
Being in North Korea - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Being in North Korea write by Andray Abrahamian. This book was released on 2020. Being in North Korea available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In 2009, while working on a PhD in Seoul, Andray Abrahamian visited North Korea, a country he had studied for years but never seen. He returned determined to find a way to work closely with North Koreans. Ten years and more than thirty visits later, Being in North Korea tells the story of his experiences setting up and running Choson Exchange, a non-profit that teaches North Koreans about entrepreneurship and economic policy. Abrahamian was provided a unique vantage into life in North Korea that belies stereotypes rampant in the media, instead revealing North Koreans as individuals ranging from true believers in the system to cynics wishing the Stalinist experiment would just end; from introverts to bubbly chatterboxes, optimists to pessimists. He sees a North Korea that is changing, invalidating some assumptions held in the West, but perhaps reinforcing others. Amid his stories of coping with the North Korean system, of the foreigners who frequent Pyongyang, and of everyday relationships, Abrahamian explores the challenges of teaching the inherently political subject of economics in a system where everyone must self-regulate their own minds; he looks at the role of women in the North Korean economy, and their exclusion from leadership; and he discusses how information is restricted, propaganda is distributed and internalized, and even how Pyongyang's nominally illicit property market functions. Along with these stories he interweaves the historical events that have led to today's North Korea. Drawing on the breadth of the author's in-country experience, Being in North Korea combines the intellectual rigor of a scholar with a writing style that will appeal to a general audience. Through the personal elements of a memoir that provide insights into North Korean society, readers will come away with a more realistic picture of the country and its people, and a better idea of what the future may hold for the nation.
No Hope Without Change: Myanmar's Reforms and Lessons for North Korea
No Hope Without Change: Myanmar's Reforms and Lessons for North Korea - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook No Hope Without Change: Myanmar's Reforms and Lessons for North Korea write by Jonathan T. Chow. This book was released on 2022. No Hope Without Change: Myanmar's Reforms and Lessons for North Korea available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
