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Making Enemies - War and State Building in Burma (Hardcover, illustrated edition)
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Making Enemies - War and State Building in Burma (Hardcover, illustrated edition)
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The Burmese army took political power in Burma in 1962 and has
ruled the country ever since. The persistence of this government -
even in the face of long-term non-violent opposition led by
activist Aung San Suu Kyi, who was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in
1991 - has puzzled scholars. In a book relevant to debates about
democratization, Mary P. Callahan seeks to explain the
extraordinary durability of the Burmese military regime. In her
view, the origins of army rule are to be found in the relationship
between war and state formation. civil sectors. That imbalance was
accentuated soon after formal independence by one of the earliest
and most persistent covert Cold War conflicts, involving CIA-funded
Kuomintang incursions across the Burmese border into the People's
Republic of China. Because this raised concerns in Rangoon about
the possibility of a showdown with Communist China, the Burmese
Army received even more autonomy and funding to protect the
integrity of the new nation-state. group of anti-colonial guerrilla
bands into the professional force that seized power in 1962. The
army edged out all other state and social institutions in the
competition for national power. Making Enemies draws upon
Callahan's interviews with former military officers and her
archival work in Burmese libraries and halls of power. Callahan's
access allows her to correct existing explanations of Burmese
authoritarianism and to supply new information about the coups of
1958 and 1962.
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