"Contemporary Myanmar faces immense political challenges, and the role outsiders might play in dealing with them is highly contentious. Drawing on views expressed by local citizens, Burma redux argues for committed strategies of grassroots involvement that engage international a…
"The rule of law is a political ideal today endorsed and promoted worldwide. Or is it? In a significant contribution to the field, Nick Cheesman argues that Myanmar is a country in which the rule of law is 'lexically present but semantically absent'. Charting ideas and practices…
State and opposition in military Brazil
Based on extensive research into opposition and government documents, including the previously unavailable Manual Basico da Escola de Guerra, the author describes the long and tortuous attempt by the Brazilian military government to create a workable "national security state" in…
Based on extensive research into opposition and government documents, including the previously unavailable Manual Basico da Escola de Guerra, the author describes the long and tortuous attempt by the Brazilian military government to create a workable "national security state" in…
Speaking of Flowers is an innovative study of student activism during Brazil's military dictatorship (1964-85) and an examination of the very notion of student activism, which changed dramatically in response to the student protests of 1968. Looking into what made students engag…
"In December 1931, El Salvador's civilian president, Arturo Araujo, was overthrown in a military coup. Such an event was hardly unique in Salvadoran history, but the 1931 coup proved to be a watershed. Araujo had been the nation's first democratically elected president, and alth…
