(DOWNLOAD) "Myanmar's International Relations Strategy: The Search for Security." by Contemporary Southeast Asia ~ eBook PDF Kindle ePub Free
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- Title: Myanmar's International Relations Strategy: The Search for Security.
- Author : Contemporary Southeast Asia
- Release Date : January 01, 2004
- Genre: Politics & Current Events,Books,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 295 KB
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Introduction Myanmar's overarching search for national security is both political and economic, reflecting its tortuous modern history, colonial experience, and legacy of civil conflict since 1948, when the insurgencies of every major ethnic minority except the Chin erupted, just as the newly independent state came into existence. Then, in 1988, as the state was emerging from 26 years of socialism and seeking to engage with the international market economy, international economic sanctions designed to undermine the regime and the state made that search for security problematic. In this sense, Myanmar reflects the prevailing liberal/constructivist view of security in the Asia-Pacific which privileges economic development, political stability and social well-being more than the traditional militaristic Western approach of the realist paradigm, (1) although Southeast Asian governments, including Myanmar, are inclined to revert to the realist balance-of-power paradigm when taking measures to ensure that no regional hegemon can emerge. From time to time, this approach is apparent in their international policies towards China, Japan and the United States. Thus, it appears that Myanmar's spate of diplomatic initiatives since the 25 August 2003 top structure changes, put in place to divert international criticism following the 30 May 2003 incident at Depeyin, are the latest in a series of strategies designed to deliver regime and state security to Yangon. The important correlative of human security is yet to achieve prominence in state discourse.