Myanmar : politics, economy and society / edited by Adam Simpson, Nicholas Farrelly.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Analysing a Disaster, Wrapped in a Catastrophe, Inside a Tragedy / Adam Simpson & Nicholas Farrelly -- Deja Vu All Over Again : The 2021 Coup in Historical Perspective / Nicholas Farrelly & Adam Simpson -- Ethnic Politics : Diversity and Agency Amidst Persistent Violence / Matthew Walton & Aye Thein -- The Military : Institution and Politics / Maung Aung Myoe -- Land and Law Between Reform and Revolution / Dorothy Mason & Nick Cheesman -- Democracy and Human Rights under Military Rule : Three Iterations of Myanmar's National Security State / Morten B Pedersen -- Foreign and Diplomatic (Dis)Engagement : Military Priorities, Strategic Realities and Contested Legitimacies / Renaud Egreteau -- Political Regimes and Economic Policy : Isolation, Consolidation, Reintegration and Rupture/ Michele Ford, Michael Gillan & Htwe Htwe Thein -- Agriculture and Rural Livelihoods : Incipient Progress Aborted / Duncan Boughton, Ardeth Maung Thawnghmung, Cho Cho San, Nilar Aung, Siu Sue Mark & Ikuko Okamoto -- Natural Resource Governance and the Environment : Unconstrained Exploitation Under Authoritarianism / Adam Simpson -- Industrial Policy and Special Economic Zones : Engaging Transformation in a Globalised World / Giuseppe Gabusi & Michele Boario -- Art and Heritage : Creating and Preserving Cultural Histories / Charlotte Galloway -- Public Health : State and Non-State Systems in a Changing Society / Anne Decobert, Adam Richards & Si Thura - Education : Reforms Undone / Marie Lall -- Women in Myanmar : Change and Continuity / Jenny Hedstrom, Elisabeth Olivius & Kay Soe -- Myanmar's Contested Borderlands : Centre-Periphery Power Relations and Fragmented Sovereignty / Busarin Lertchavalitsakul & Patrick Meehan -- Ethnicity, Culture and Religion : Centralisation, Burmanisation and Social Transformation / Violet Cho & David F Gilbert -- Journalism and Free Speech : Freedom and Fear / Thomas Kean & Mratt Kyaw Thu -- Myanmar's Complex and Intersecting Crises : Pathways to Accountability and International Justice / Adam Simpson & Nicholas Farrelly.

"This new edition of Myanmar: Politics, Economy and Society provides a sophisticated, yet accessible, overview of the key political, economic and social challenges facing contemporary Myanmar and explains the complex historical and ethnic dynamics that have shaped the country. Thoroughly revised, the book analyses the context and tragic consequences of the military coup in February 2021 and the COVID-19 pandemic. With clear and incisive contributions from the world's leading Myanmar scholars, this book assesses the policies and political reforms that have provoked contestation in Myanmar's recent history and driven both economic and social change. In this context, questions of economic ownership and control and the distribution of natural resources are shown to be deeply informed by long-standing fractures among ethnic and civil-military relations. The chapters analyse the key issues that constrain or expedite societal development in Myanmar and place recent events of national and international significance in the context of its complex history and social relations. The book provides detailed analysis of the coup, which overturned a decade of political and economic reforms and threw the country into chaos. It explains the drivers for the coup, how it has impacted on the country and the future prospects for accountability and justice. Filling a gap in the market, this research textbook and primer will be of interest to upper undergraduates, postgraduates and scholars of Southeast Asian politics, economics and society and to journalists and professionals working within governments, companies and other organisations"-- Provided by publisher.