New Answers to Old Questions

Myanmar Before and After the 2021 Coup d’État

Aaron Connelly, Shona Loong

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2024
• eBook ISBN: 9781040216651
• Topic: Politics & International Relations
• Subtopic: Politics
• Index: Politics & International Relations

Outside Myanmar, the 2021 coup d'état has often been portrayed as the end of a hopeful period for the country. In this Adelphi book, however, Aaron Connelly and Shona Loong argue that the Aung San Suu Kyi government that preceded it was a false dawn, unlikely to fulfil the international community's aspirations for a stable, peaceful and strong Myanmar. Instead, the movement opposing the 2021 coup holds much greater promise – despite the bloody conflict that dominates the news today.

Connelly and Loong survey three fundamental relationships that have shaped Myanmar before and after the coup – between the military and the state, between the majority Burmese and ethnic minorities, and between Myanmar and the world – to explain how opposition to the coup has shifted all of them in a more liberal, pluralist and cosmopolitan direction.

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Half Title page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• Authors
• Acknowledgments
• Abbreviations
• Maps
• Introduction
• Chapter One The relationship between the armed forces and the state
• Chapter Two The relationship between the centre and the periphery
• Chapter Three The relationship between Myanmar and the world
• Chapter Four The relationship between Myanmar's past and its future
• Epilogue
• Notes
• Index