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Domination and Dereliction: Exploring the State's Roles in Burma

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 April 2012

Jacques P. Leider
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What these four quite different books broadly share is a focus on the role of the state in Myanmar society. Current scholarship describes the authoritarian state in Myanmar, which has been controlled by the army since 1962, as either dominantly present or neglectfully absent. Censorship and the repression of autonomous spaces in society, on the one hand, and the failure of the state to enforce efficient health and environmental policies, on the other, are keywords in these works that illustrate the double-faced appearance of the state's existence and role in society.

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The Journal of Asian Studies , Volume 71 , Issue 2 , May 2012 , pp. 361 - 370
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Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2012

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References

1 Steinberg, David, Burma: The State of Myanmar (Washington, D.C.: Georgetown University Press, 2001), viiiGoogle Scholar.

2 Craig Reynolds, “Autocratic Rule in Thailand and Its Neighbours,” Outsider view lecture at Chiang Mai University, August 3, 2011.