"Nishikawa explores how international norms have been adopted in the local context in Myanmar to project a certain international image while in fact the authorities are exploiting these norms to protect their own interests. In the liberal international world order promoted since…
"A rare, intimate look inside the Karen people's liberation struggle against the Burmese armed forces, one of the longest ethnic insurgencies in the world (1949- ) through the eyes of a guerilla leader and his wife"--
"A rare, intimate look inside the Karen people's liberation struggle against the Burmese armed forces, one of the longest ethnic insurgencies in the world (1949- ) through the eyes of a guerilla leader and his wife"--
"A rare, intimate look inside the Karen people's liberation struggle against the Burmese armed forces, one of the longest ethnic insurgencies in the world (1949- ) through the eyes of a guerilla leader and his wife"--
"A rare, intimate look inside the Karen people's liberation struggle against the Burmese armed forces, one of the longest ethnic insurgencies in the world (1949- ) through the eyes of a guerilla leader and his wife"--
"A rare, intimate look inside the Karen people's liberation struggle against the Burmese armed forces, one of the longest ethnic insurgencies in the world (1949- ) through the eyes of a guerilla leader and his wife"
"A rare, intimate look inside the Karen people's liberation struggle against the Burmese armed forces, one of the longest ethnic insurgencies in the world (1949- ) through the eyes of a guerilla leader and his wife"--
"A rare, intimate look inside the Karen people's liberation struggle against the Burmese armed forces, one of the longest ethnic insurgencies in the world (1949- ) through the eyes of a guerilla leader and his wife"--
"A rare, intimate look inside the Karen people's liberation struggle against the Burmese armed forces, one of the longest ethnic insurgencies in the world (1949- ) through the eyes of a guerilla leader and his wife"--
"A rare, intimate look inside the Karen people's liberation struggle against the Burmese armed forces, one of the longest ethnic insurgencies in the world (1949- ) through the eyes of a guerilla leader and his wife"--
Recent years have seen the Israeli state become ever more extreme in its treatment of Palestinians, manifested both in legislation stripping Palestinians of their rights and in the escalating scale and violence of the Israeli occupation. But this hard-line stance has in turn pro…
Recent years have seen the Israeli state become ever more extreme in its treatment of Palestinians, manifested both in legislation stripping Palestinians of their rights and in the escalating scale and violence of the Israeli occupation. But this hard-line stance has in turn pro…
Recent years have seen the Israeli state become ever more extreme in its treatment of Palestinians, manifested both in legislation stripping Palestinians of their rights and in the escalating scale and violence of the Israeli occupation. But this hard-line stance has in turn pro…
This text considers the conflict and civil war that has ravaged Burma, and considers the implications that conflict has had for Burma's development and prospects for democratisation.
A well-documented and extremely engaging account of the Burmese Communist Party that details the development of the Party and the events and forces that led to the 1989 Mutiny and subsequent fall of the CPB. This study explores the ethnic tensions that influenced the attitudes o…
Founded in 1981, Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) is one of the most important yet least understood Palestinian armed factions, both in terms of its history and ideology. Yet no in-depth translation of its ideological corpus exists. This book is the first to provide a comprehensi…