02502nam a22003138i 4500 40860 BD-DhAAL 20230212152855.0 230212t2020 nyu b 001 0 eng 2019026007 9789353450533 978935345064 NIC/DLC eng rda DLC BD-DhAAL pcc a-br--- 959.1053 23 Thant Myint-U, author. 53334 The hidden history of Burma : race, capitalism, and the crisis of democracy in the 21st century / Thant Myint-U. New York : W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., 2019 288 pages : maps ; 21 cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. New world -- Changing lanes -- Drifting to dystopia -- Tempest -- Fighting chance -- Alignment -- Blood and belonging -- Virtual transitions -- Unfinished nation. "How did one of the world's "buzzy hotspots" (Fodor's 2013) become one of the top ten places to avoid (Fodor's 2018)? Less than a decade ago, the world cheered as a dictatorship crumbled and internationally beloved Nobel Laureate Aung San Suu Kyi emerged from twenty years of house arrest. Yet just three years after her landslide victory at the polls, the country stands accused of war crimes and the expulsion of hundreds of thousands of Rohingya Muslims. As an historian, former diplomat, and presidential advisor, Thant Myint-U was part of the momentous changes that pulled Burma toward democracy, working with the ex-generals and meeting many of the country's biggest supporters, from Bono to Barack Obama. Yet no one was prepared to Burma's underlying challenges, from fast- rising inequality, disintegrating state institutions, and the impacts of climate change, to the rise of China next door and the issues of race, religion, and "national identity" deeply rooted in the country's traumatic colonial past. In this riveting insider's diagnosis of a country at a breaking point, Thant Myint-U shows that Burma's perils, far from being unique, are many of the same facing all of us. Burma is a warning for the world"-- Refugee studies unit (RSU), CPJ. R. K. Corporation 40860 Burma History 1988- 53600 ddc BK 45442 45442 0 0 ddc 0 959_105300000000000_THA 0 72862 CPJ CPJ RSU 2023-01-11 R. K. Corporation 1400.00 0 959.1053 THA 3030040860 2023-01-11 1 1400.00 2023-01-11 BK