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A Delicate Relationship The United States and Burma/Myanmar since 1945
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A Delicate Relationship [electronic resource] : The United States and Burma/Myanmar since 1945 / Kenton Clymer.
ISBN
1501701029
9781501701023
0801454484
9780801454486 (cloth : alk. paper)
Published
Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2015. (Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2015)
Physical Description
1 online resource (xiii, 409 pages :) : illustrations, maps ;
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Summary
"In 2012, Barack Obama became the first US president ever to visit Myanmar, formerly known as Burma. This official state visit marked a new period in the long and sinuous diplomatic relationship between the United States and Burma/Myanmar, which Kenton Clymer examines in A Delicate Relationship. From the challenges of decolonization and heightened nationalist activities that emerged in the wake of World War II, to the Cold War concern with domino states, to the rise of human rights policy in the 1980s and beyond, Clymer demonstrates how Burma/Myanmar has fit into the broad patterns of US foreign policy and yet has never been fully integrated into diplomatic efforts in the region of Southeast Asia"-- Publisher's Web site.
Variant and related titles
Project MUSE - UPCC 2016 Complete.
Project MUSE - UPCC 2016 History.
UPCC book collections on Project MUSE.
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
December 19, 2016
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 387-393) and index.
Contents
Burmese nationalism and the path to independence
The leaky derelict
The trial of the "Burma surgeon"
The Kuomintang embarrassment
China, communists, and other insurgents
Changing course on the Kuomintang
The neutrality conundrum
The China border, a "polite coup," and return to democratic government
The U Nu interregnum
Ne Win's way to socialism
The relationship stabilizes
The narcotics era
Revolt
The thaw
Appendix : US ambassadors and charges d'affaires appointed to Burma.
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