Myanmar Transformed?: People Places and Politics (Myanmar Update)

The triumph of Aung San Suu Kyi’s National League for Democracy at the 2015 election was supposed to mark the consolidation of a reformist trajectory for Myanmar society. What has followed has not proved so straightforward. . This book takes stock of the mutations continuities and fractures at the heart of today’s political and economic transformations and asks many questions. What has changed under a democratically elected government? Where are the obstacles to reform? And is there scope to foster a more prosperous and inclusive Myanmar? With the peace process faltering over 1 million people displaced by recent violence and ongoing army dominance in key areas of decision-making the chapters in this volume identify areas of possible reform within the constraints of Myanmar’s hybrid civil–military governance arrangements. . This volume continues a long tradition of intense critical engagement with political economic and social questions in one of Southeast Asia’s most complicated countries. At a time of great uncertainty and anxiety the 13 chapters of Myanmar Transformed? offer new and alternative ways to understand Myanmar and its people.