Myanmar's changing political landscape : old and new struggles

Part I Introduction: Challenging Reality

1 Post-coup Myanmar: Military, Divisions, and Atrocities ........................ 3

Chosein Yamahata and Makiko Takeda

2 NLD’s Governance in Myanmar’s Short-Lived Democracy: Reforms, Weaknesses and Challenges ............ 23

Khine Win

3 Aung San Suu Kyi’s Leadership and Its Contradictions: Reflections on the General Election of November 2020 ...37

Donald M. Seekins

Part II Struggling Myanmar

4 Language Policy, Ethnic Identity, and Majority-Minority Relations in Myanmar ........................ 55

Makiko Takeda

5 A Threatened Identity in Chinland of Burma/Myanmar: A Glimpse of Freedom of Religion and Belief ........................ 77

Khen Suan Khai

6 Development Policy and Processes in Kachin State: Development from Above During the Ceasefire Period (1994–2010) 93

Dan Seng Lawn

7 Ethnic Children at the Thai-Burma Border: Community-Based Organizations Promoting the Rights and Equality ........... 113

Makiko Takeda

8 The Role of Tatmadaw in Myanmar’s Transformation: A Burmese Version of Indonesia’s Dwifungsi ........................ 133

Michał Lubina

9 Failure of Third Force’s Role in Unlinking Myanmar Political Changes with Aung San Suu Kyi ........................ 151

Mon Mon Myat

Part III Conclusion: A Promising Future?

10 Hope at the End of the Tunnel: Myanmar’s Civil Disobedience Movement and Moving Toward a More

     Inclusive Myanmar .... 187

     Khin Mai Aung

11 Fracturing the Monolith: Could Military Defections End the Dictatorship in Myanmar? ........................ 195

Terence Lee and Gerard McCarthy

12 For My Country from Country I Live: Collective Resistance and New Revolution Against Military Dictatorship ......211

Ma Thida

13 The National Unity Government: Legitimacy and Recognition ........................ 225

Catherine Renshaw

14 Japan’s ‘Special Relations’ to Serious Warning: A Potential Change in Course? ........................ 243

Chosein Yamahata and Makiko Takeda

Index ........................ 255