The Political Theory of Tyranny in Singapore and Burma - 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 Political Theory of Tyranny in Singapore and Burma write by Stephen McCarthy. This book was released on 2006-04-18. The Political Theory of Tyranny in Singapore and Burma available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Covering various fields in political science, this new book presents an historical and political-cultural analysis of Buddhism and Confucianism. Using Singapore and Burma as case studies, the book questions the basic assumptions of democratization theory, examining the political science of tyranny and exploring the rhetorical manipulation of religion for the purpose of political legitimacy. A welcome addition to the political science and Asian studies literature, McCarthy addresses many of the current issues that underlie the field of democratization in comparative politics and discusses the issue of imposing Western cultural bias in studying non-Western regimes by analyzing rhetorical traits that are universally regular in politics.
The Rhetoric of Benevolent Despotism
The Rhetoric of Benevolent Despotism - 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 Rhetoric of Benevolent Despotism write by Stephen N. McCarthy. This book was released on 2003. The Rhetoric of Benevolent Despotism available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Social Transformations in India, Myanmar, and Thailand: Volume II
Social Transformations in India, Myanmar, and Thailand: Volume II - 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 Social Transformations in India, Myanmar, and Thailand: Volume II write by Chosein Yamahata. This book was released on 2022-03-02. Social Transformations in India, Myanmar, and Thailand: Volume II available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book explores the multifaceted obstacles to social change that India, Myanmar and Thailand face, and ways to overcome them. With a collection of essays that identify common challenges and salient features affecting diverse communities, this volume examines topics from subnational and local perspectives across the peripheries. The book argues that identity-based divisions have created a system of oppression and political contention that have led to conflicts of different kinds, and hence serving as the common cause of different social issues. At the same time, such issues have created space for marginalized groups around the world to call for change. The volume recognizes that social transformation comes into being through an active process of deconstructing and reconstructing shared norms and ideas. The contents in this book are thus centered around two focuses: the impacts of identities and grassroots. Both of these aspects are at the heart of each country’s transformations towards democracy, peace, justice, and freedom. Under this framework, the chapters cover a diverse range of common issues, such as, minority grievances, gender inequality, ethnic identity, grassroots power in alliance-making towards community peace, recovery and resilience, digital freedom, democracy assistance and communication, and bridging multiple divides. As identity-based cleavages are daily lived experiences for individuals and communities, it requires grassroots initiatives and alliances as well as democratic communication to tackle obstacles at the root. Ultimately, the book convinces readers that social transformations must begin at the individual to communal level and local to national level.
A Political Biography of Aung San Suu Kyi
A Political Biography of Aung San Suu Kyi - 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 A Political Biography of Aung San Suu Kyi write by Michał Lubina. This book was released on 2020-08-31. A Political Biography of Aung San Suu Kyi available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book is the first political biography of Aung San Suu Kyi covering both her years in opposition and all her years in power from 2016 onwards. It offers a new interpretation of Aung San Suu Kyi by presenting a balanced and thorough account of Suu Kyi’s policies. In the last 30 years there has not been a person in global politics who has risen so high and fallen so low – and so quickly – as Aung San Suu Kyi. Using postcolonial theory and introducing the new concept of `a hybrid politician', this book explains apparent inconsistencies of Suu Kyi’s agenda. It demonstrates that Suu Kyi considers herself a democrat and yet, rules autocratically. Immersed in her country’s tradition of policymaking, she has at the same time been influenced by foreign concepts, both Western and Asian. Drawing on first-hand research, including talks with Suu Kyi, conversations with her supporters and rivals, observations of Suu Kyi’s behaviour during intergovernmental talks as well as an extensive number of sources and fieldwork in Myanmar, the author argues that Suu Kyi’s case shows both the strengths and limits of hybridity. This brings Suu Kyi priceless political assets such as visibility, recognition and support while proving that such a model of leadership has its restrictions. A timely biography of the Nobel Peace Prize Laureate as she appears at the International Court of Justice to defend her country against charges of genocide committed against the Rohingya Muslim minority, this book will be of interest to students and researchers of Myanmar politics, Southeast Asian politics, Asian politics, Political Science more generally, Postcolonial Studies, Cultural Studies and Leadership Studies.
Soldiers and Diplomacy in Burma
Soldiers and Diplomacy in Burma - 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 Soldiers and Diplomacy in Burma write by Renaud Egreteau. This book was released on 2013-06-10. Soldiers and Diplomacy in Burma available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Soldiers and Diplomacy addresses the key question of the ongoing role of the military in BurmaÍs foreign policy. The authors, a political scientist and a former top Asia editor for the BBC, provide a fresh perspective on BurmaÍs foreign and security policies, which have shifted between pro-active diplomacies of neutralism and non-alignment, and autarkical policies of isolation and xenophobic nationalism. They argue that important elements of continuity underlie BurmaÍs striking postcolonial policy changes and contrasting diplomatic practices. Among the defining factors here are the formidable dominance of the Burmese armed forces over state structure, the enduring domestic political conundrum and the peculiar geography of a country located at the crossroads of India, China and Southeast Asia. Egreteau and Jagan argue that the Burmese military still has the tools needed to retain their praetorian influence over the countryÍs foreign policy in the post-junta context of the 2010s. For international policymakers, potential foreign investors and BurmaÍs immediate neighbors, this will have strong implications in terms of the countryÍs foreign policy approach.
