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Myanmar's Peace Process and the Role of Middle Power States (Hardcover)
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Myanmar's Peace Process and the Role of Middle Power States (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Contemporary Southeast Asia Series
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This book explores middle power engagement in peace processes
through the cases of Australian, Japanese and Norwegian engagement
in Myanmar's peace process, a core event in Myanmar's contemporary
recent political history. The book asks to what extent, and how,
middle powers have engaged in Myanmar's peace process as a form of
peacemaking entrepreneurship. Underpinning this study is a concern
for the lack of clarity surrounding the middle power concept.
Traditional conceptions of middle powers, steeped in idealist
thinking, locate such states as capable peacemakers, without
elucidating the motivations that drive middle powers to peacemaking
beyond mere status seeking. Drawing on recent fieldwork interviews
from within Myanmar as well as political economy literature, the
author scrutinises this notion while concomitantly offering an
incisive analysis of Myanmar's peace process. Based on the Myanmar
context, the book argues that middle powers can better be
conceptualised as "peace-making entrepreneurs," as actors that use
peacemaking as an instrumental tool to cement their status and
craft an image, which they can then trade upon to secure
additional, namely, commercial, benefits. Significantly, this
notion of peacemaking entrepreneurship problematises core
theoretical assumptions of middle powers as capable peacemakers,
presenting implications for future scholarship on middle powers. A
timely addition as Myanmar continues to grapple with its own
future, the book is located within the fields of International
Relations and Development Studies. It will be of interest to
researchers studying Asian Studies, Peace and Conflict Studies, and
Myanmar Politics.
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