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Making Enemies: War and State Building in Burma

Making Enemies: War and State Building in Burma Paperback - 2005

by Callahan, Mary P

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  • Title Making Enemies: War and State Building in Burma
  • Author Callahan, Mary P
  • Binding Paperback
  • Condition Used - Very Good
  • Pages 296
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Cornell University Press
  • Date 2005-12-08
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Maps, Table of Contents
  • Bookseller's Inventory # GOR008395963
  • ISBN 9780801472671 / 0801472679
  • Weight 0.83 lbs (0.38 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.02 x 7 x 0.68 in (22.91 x 17.78 x 1.73 cm)
  • Ages 18 to UP years
  • Grade levels 13 - UP
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: Southeast Asian
  • Library of Congress subjects Burma - Politics and government - 1824-1948, Burma - Politics and government - 1948-
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2003007602
  • Dewey Decimal Code 322.509

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The Burmese army took political power in Burma in 1962 and has ruled the country ever since. The persistence of this government--even in the face of long-term nonviolent opposition led by activist Aung San Suu Kyi, who was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1991--has puzzled scholars. In a book relevant to current debates about democratization, Mary P. Callahan seeks to explain the extraordinary durability of the Burmese military regime. In her view, the origins of army rule are to be found in the relationship between war and state formation.Burma's colonial past had seen a large imbalance between the military and civil sectors. That imbalance was accentuated soon after formal independence by one of the earliest and most persistent covert Cold War conflicts, involving CIA-funded Kuomintang incursions across the Burmese border into the People's Republic of China. Because this raised concerns in Rangoon about the possibility of a showdown with Communist China, the Burmese Army received even more autonomy and funding to protect the integrity of the new nation-state.The military transformed itself during the late 1940s and the 1950s from a group of anticolonial guerrilla bands into the professional force that seized power in 1962. The army edged out all other state and social institutions in the competition for national power. Making Enemies draws upon Callahan's interviews with former military officers and her archival work in Burmese libraries and halls of power. Callahan's unparalleled access allows her to correct existing explanations of Burmese authoritarianism and to supply new information about the coups of 1958 and 1962.

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Citations

  • New York Review of Books, 02/14/2008, Page 36

About the author

Mary P. Callahan is Associate Professor and Director of the International Studies Program at the Jackson School of International Studies, University of Washington.

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