Burma : protracted conflict, governance and non-traditional security issues

• Main Author: Ananda Rajah
• Other Authors: S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies
• Format: Working Paper
• Published: 2009
• Subjects: DRNTU::Social sciences::Political science::Public administration::Asia
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/91390; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/4413
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Of all countries in Southeast Asia, Burma has the uneviable reputation of having the largest number of armed ethnic insurgencies, as well as an entreched civil opposition to the ruling military regime. The ethnic insurgencies began in 1948 while civel opposition has grown more open during the last d...