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• Business, Trade and Investment

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• History

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• Politics

• Social values, Culture and Religion

Cook, Paul. 1993. "Privatisation in Myanmar," in P. Cook and F. Nixson, eds., The Move the Market. London: Macmillan.

Innes-Brown, Marc & Mark J. Valencia. 1993. "Thailand Resource Diplomacy in Indochina and Myanmar," Contemporary Southeast Asia, Vol. 14, No. 4, March 1993.

Adas, Michael. 1974. The Burmese Delta. Madison : University of Wincosin Press.

Andrus, J. Russel. 1948. Burmese Economic Life. Stanford : Stanford University Press.

Arumugam, Raja Segaran. 1975. "Burma: A Political and Economic Background." South East Asian Affairs 1975. Singapore : Institute of South East Asian Studies.

___. 1976. "Burma: Political Unrest and Economic Stagnation." Southeast Asian Affairs 1976. Singapore : Institute of South East Asian Studies.

___. 1977. State and Oil in Burma : An Introductory Survey. Singapore : Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, Research Notes and Discussion Series No. 3. April 1977.

Aye Hlaing, 1964. "Trends of Economic Growth and Income Distribution in Burma, 1870-1940". Journal of Burma Research Society, Vol. 47, No. 1 : 89-148.

Chen, David H.H. 1979. "Modern Burma : National Development, Problems and Perspectives." Asian Profile. Vol. 7, No. 1, February 1979.

Cook, Paul. 1993. "Privatisation in Myanmar," in P. Cook and F. Nixson, eds., The Move the Market. London: Macmillan.

___, J. Kennedy and R. Raitt. 1989. "Initial Assessment Mission in to Rehabilitating and Modernizing the Public and Private Sectors in Myanmar," New York : UNDP, August 1989.

___ and M. Minogue. 1992. "Economic Reform in Myanmar," in R. Adhikari, J.Weiss and C. Kirkpatrick, eds., Industry and Trade Policy Reform in Developing Countries. Manchester: Manchester University Press.

___ and M. Minogue. 1993. "Economic Reform and Political Change in Myanmar (Burma)," World Development, Vol. 21, No. 7: 1151-1161.

Cristian, John L. 1942. Modern Burma : A Survey of Political and Economic Development. New York : Institute of Pacific Relations.

Evans, Yi Yi Chit-Maung. 1972. "Marketing of Export Crops in Burma and Thailand, 1948-1967. A Comparative Study with Special Reference to Rice Marketing for the Export Trade." Ph.D. Diss. McGill University.

Fleischmann, Klaus. 1973. "The Economy of Burma." in The Economic Future of the Far East and Southeast Asia. Bruxellers : Center d"Etude du Sud-East Asiatique et de l'Exterme Orient, 1973.

___. 1973. "Problems of Contemporary Burma." Asia Quarterly. 1973.

Fredericks, L.J., and Wells, R.J.G. 1978. " Some Aspects of Tenancy Reform Measures in Southeast Asia." Asian Survey. Vol. 18, No. 6, June 1978.

Furnivall, J.S. 1957. An Introduction to the Political Economy of Burma. Rangoon : People's Literature Committee and House.

Hagen, E.E. 1956. The Economic Development of Burma. Washington : National Planning Association.

Hill, Hal. 1984. "Industrialization in Burma in Historical Perspective". Journal of Southeast Asian Studies, Vol. 15, No. 1 : 134-49.

___. 1987. Burma: An Inward-Looking Economy in Transition. Singapore : Institute of South East Asian Studies Publication.

Jayasuriya, S.K. 1984. "Technical Change and the Revival of the Burmese Rice Industry", The Developing Economies, Vol. 22, No. 2 : 137-54.

Khin Maung Kyi. 1982. "Modernisation of Burmese Agriculture: Problems and Prospects", Southeast Asian Affairs 1982 : 115-34. Singapore : Institute of South East Asian Studies.

Khin Win and Nyi Nyi. 1982. "The Special High Yielding Varieties Program", in The Proceedings of the 1980 Intenational Symposium in Cropping Systems Research, pp. 695-702. The International Rice Research Institute, Los Banos, Philippines.

Badgley, John. 1967. "Burma's China Crisis: The Choices Ahead." Asian Survey. Vol. 7, November 1967.

Bert, Wayne. "Chinese Relations with Burma and Indonesia." Asian Survey. Vol. 2, No.1, March 1962.

___. "Chinese Policy toward Burma and Indonesia: A post-Mao Perspective," Asian Survey, September 1985.

___. "Chinese Policy toward Democratization Movements: Burma and the Philippines,"

Asian Survey, November 1990.

Cady, John F. 1976. The United States and Burma. Cambridge : Harvard University Press.

Homes, Robert A. 1972. "China-Burma Relations Since the Rift." Asian Survey. Vol. 12, No. 8, August 1972.

Allen, Robert Loring. 1958. "Burma's Clearing Account Agreements." Pacific Affairs. Vol. 31, No. 2, June 1958.

Andrew, E.J.L. 1933. Indian Labour in Rangoon. Oxford : Oxford University Press.

Aung-thwin, Michael, 1983, " Divinity, Spirit and Human : Conceptions of Classical Burmese Kingship," in Lorraine Gesick, ed., Centers, Symbols and Hierarchies : Essays on the Classical State of Southeast Asia.

___. 1984, " Hierarchy and Order in Pre-Colonial Burma," Journal of Asian Studies, Vol 15, No. 2. September 1984 : 224-231.

___. 1985, Pagan : The Origins of Modern Burma.

Ba Oo, U. 1958. My Burma : The Autobiography of a President. New York : Taplinger.

Ba Maw, Dr., 1969. Breakthrough in Burma : Memoirs of a Revolution, 1939-1946. New Haven : Yale University Press.

Cady, John F. 1969. The History of Modern Burma. Ithaca: Cornell University Press.

Chakravarti, N.R. 1971. The Indian Minority in Burma. London : Oxford University Press.

Chang, Siok-hwa. 1968. The Rice Industry of Burma 1852-1940. Kuala Lumpur : University of Malaya Press.

Feldberg, Roslynn Lee Berman. " The Shaping of Political Systems : A Study of Participation and Styles of Politics in Burma, Pakistan, Malaya and India." Ph.D. Diss., University of Michigan.

Fenichel, Allen, and Huff, Gregg. 1975. "Colonialism and the Economic System of Independent Burma." Modern Asian Studies. Vol. 9, 1975.

Furnivall, J.S. 1939. "The Fashioning of Leviathan," Journal of the Burma Research Society, Vol 29, No. 3: 1-138.

___. 1956. Colonial Policy and Practice. New York : New York University Press.

___. 1959, The Governance of Modern Burma.

Guyot, Dorothy. " The Political Impact of Japanese Occupation of Burma." Ne Haven: unpublished Ph.D. dissertation, Yale University.

Hall, Daniel G. E. 1950. Burma. London : Hutchison's University Library.

Harvey, Geoffrey E. 1925. History of Burma from the Earliest Times to 10 March 1824 : The Beginning of the English Conquest. London : Longman's Green.

Htin Aung, 1965. The Sticken Peacock : Anglo-Burmese Relations 1752-1948.

___. 1967, A History of Burma, New York : Columbia University Press.

Bagley, John. 1967, " Burma's Military Government : A Political Annalysis." Inn Wilson C. McWilliams, ed., Garrisons and Government. San Francisco : Chandler.

___. 1972. "Burma: The Army Vows Legitimacy." Asian Survey. Vol. 12, No. 2, February 1972.

Becka, Jan. 1969. Military Rule in Burma. Brussels : Center d'Etude de Sud-Est Asiatique et de l'Extreme Orient.

___. 1981. " The Origin and Role of the National Armed Forces in Burma's Struggle for Independence (1941-1945). Archiv Orientalni 4:49.

___. 1983. The National Liberation Movement in Burma during the Japanese Occuapation Period (1941-1945). Prague : Oriental Institute.

Butwell, Richard. 1961. "Civilians and Soldiers in Burma." In Robert K. Sakai, ed., Studies on Asia, 1961. Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press.

Dupy, Revor N. 1961. "Burma and Its Army : A Contrast in Motivations and Chararcteristics." Antioch Review. Winter 1960-61.

Guyot, Dorothy. 1967. " The Burma Independence Army : A Political Movement in Military Garb." in Josef Silverstein, ed., Southeast Asia in World War II : Four Eassys. New Haven : Yale University Southeast Asian Studies.

Guyot, James. 1989. "Burma in 1988: Perestroika with a Military Face," Southeast Asian Affairs 1989, Singapore: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies.

Hoadley, J. Stephen. 1975. Soldiers and Politics in Southeast Asia : Civil-Military Relations in Comparative Perspective. Cambridge, MA : Schenkman Publishing Company.

Krishnanmurthy, S. "The Political Role of the Army in Burma and Indonesia." International Studies (New Delhi), July-August 1973.

Fairbairn, Geoffrey. 1957. "Some Minority Problems in Burma." Pacific Affairs. Vol. 30, No. 4, December 1957.

Homes, Robert A. 1967. "Burmese Domestic Policy : The Politics of Burmanization." Asian Survey. Vol. 7, No. 3, March 1967.

Leach, Edmund R. 1960. " The Frontiers of Burma," in Comparative Studies in Society and History. Vol. 3, No. 1. October 1960.

___. 1965. Political Systems of Highland Burma. London : Bell.

Lehman, F.K. 1963. The Structure of Chin Society : A Tribal People of Burma Adapted to a Non-Western Civilization. Urbana : University of Illinois.

Arumugam, Raja Segaran. 1975. "Burma: A Political and Economic Background." South East Asian Affairs 1975. Singapore : Institute of South East Asian Studies.

___. 1976. "Burma: Political Unrest and Economic Stagnation." Southeast Asian Affairs 1976. Singapore : Institute of South East Asian Studies.

Aung Khin, Dr. 1981. "Burma in 1980," Southeast Asian Affair 1981. Singapore: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies.

___. 1983. "Burma in 1982: On the Road to Recovery," Southeast Asian Affairs 1983. Singapore: Institute of Southeast Asian Affairs.

Aung-thwin, Michael. 1989, " 1948 and Burma's Myth of Independence." In Josef Silverstein, ed., Independent Burma at Forty Years : Six Assessments. Ithaca: Cornell Southeast Asia Program.

Badgley, John. 1962, "Burma's Military Government : A Political Analysis." Asian Survey. Vol. 2, No. 6, August 1962.

___. 1963, " Burma : The Nexus of Socialism and Two Political Traditions." Asian Survey. 3:2.

___. 1965. "Burma's Zealot Wungyis: Maoists or St. Simonists?" Asian Survey. Vol. 5, No. 1, January 1965.

___. 1967, " Burma's Military Government : A Political Annalysis." Inn Wilson C. McWilliams, ed., Garrisons and Government. San Francisco : Chandler.

___. 1969. "Intellctuals and the National Vision: The Burma Case." Asian Survey. Vol. 9, No. 8, August 1969.

___. 1969. " The Communist Party of Burma," in R.A. Scalapino, ed., The Communist Revolution in Asia.

___. 1970, Politics Among Burmans : A Study of Intermediary Leaders. Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Center for International Studies.

___. 1971. "The Union of Burma: Age Twenty-Two." Asian Survey. Vol. 11, No. 2, February 1971.

___. 1974. "Burmese Communist Schisms," in J.W. Lewis, ed., Peasant Rebellion and Communist Revolution in Asia.

___ and James F. Guyot, 1990. " Myanmar in 1989 : Tatmadaw V," Asian Survey, Vol. XXX, No.2 ( February, 1990).

Blackburn, Paul Pritchard. 1971. " Communications and National Development in Burma, Malaysia and Thailand : A Comparative Systemic Analysis." Ph.D. dissertation, American University.

Butwell, Richard. 1961. "Civilians and Soldiers in Burma." In Robert K. Sakai, ed., Studies on Asia, 1961. Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press.

___. "The Four Failures of U Nu's Second Premiership." Asian Survey. Vol. 2, No. 1. March 1962.

___. 1963. U Nu of Burma. Carlifornia : Stanford University Press.

___. 1969. "U Nu's Second Comeback Try." Asian Survey. Vol. 9, No. 11, November 1969.

___. 1972. "Ne Win's Burma: At the End of the First Decade." Asian Survey. Vol. 12, No. 10, October 1972.

Butwell, Richard, and von der Mehden, Fred. 1960. " The 1960 Election in Burma." Pacific Affairs. Vol. 33, No. 2, June 1960.

Cady, John F. 1948. The Development of Self-Rule and Independence in Burma, Malaya and Philippines. New York : American Institute of Pacific Relations. January 1948.

___. 1960. "Burma's Military Regime." Current History, February 1960.

Cristian, John L. 1942. Modern Burma : A Survey of Political and Economic Development. New York : Institute of Pacific Relations.

___. 1945. Burma and the Japanese Invader.

Feldberg, Roslynn Lee Berman. " The Shaping of Political Systems : A Study of Participation and Styles of Politics in Burma, Pakistan, Malaya and India." Ph.D. Diss., University of Michigan.

Fenichel, Allen. and A. Khan. 1981. "The Burmese Way to Socialism," World Development 9, No. 9 & 10 : 813-24.

Guyot, James. 1966. " Bureaucratic Transformation in Burma." In Ralph Braibanti, ed., Asian Bureaucratic Systems Emergent from the Briish Imperial Tradition. Durham, N.C. : Duke University Press.

___. 1970. "Political Involution in Burma." Journal of Comparative Administration. Vol. 2, No. 3, November 1970.

___. 1988. Phaya Krut and the Chinthe: A Demographic Detective Story in 20th Century Southeast Asia. DeKalb: Center for Southeast Asian Studies.

___. 1991. "Myanmar in 1990: The Unconsummated Election," Asian Survey, Vol. XXXI, No. 2, February 1991.

Haseman, John B. Col. 1988. "Burma in 1987: Change in the Air?" Asian Survey, Vol. XXVIII, No. 2, February 1988.

Huntington, Samuel P. 1968. The Political Order in Changing Societies. New Haven : Yale University Press. 1:1-92, 4:192-263.

Johnstone, William. "Observation on Contemporary Burma." Rand Corporation (RM-2535-RC), Santa Monica, Calif., May 9, 1960.

Khin Maung Gyi. 1966. "Patterns of Accommodation to Bureaucratic Authority in a Transitional Culture. A Sociological Analysis of Burmese Bureaucrats with Respect to Their Orientation Towards Authority." Ph.D. Diss., Cornell University.

___ and Tin Tin, 1973, Administrative Patterns in Historical Burma.

Lehman, F.K. ed., 1981. Military Rule in Burma since 1962 : Kaleidoscope of Views. Singapore : Institute of Southeast Asian Program Publications.

Allot, Anna J. 1989. " Prose Writing and Publishing in Burma Today - Government Policy and Popular Practice." in Than Seong Chee, ed., Literature and Society in Southeast Asia. University of Singapore.

Aung-thwin, Michael. 1987. " The Role of Sasana Reform in Burmese History : Economic Dimensions of a Religious Purification," Journal of Asian Studies. Vol. 38 : 671-688.

Khin Maung Gyi. 1966. "Patterns of Accommodation to Bureaucratic Authority in a Transitional Culture. A Sociological Analysis of Burmese Bureaucrats with Respect to Their Orientation Towards Authority." Ph.D. Diss., Cornell University.

Khin Maung Win. 1959. "Some Philosophical Problems in Contemporary Burma : A Study in Comparative Philosophy of Culture." Ph.D. Diss., Yale University.

Leach, Edmund R. 1973. "Buddhism in the Post-Colonial Political Order in Burma and Ceylon." Daedalus. Vol. 102. Issue 1, 1973.

Lewy, Guenter. 1972. "Militant Buddhist Nationalism: The Case of Burma." Journal of Church and State. Vol. 14, No. 1, Winter 1972.

Liberman, Victor. 1980. " The Political Significance of Religious Wealth in Burmese History : Some Further Thoughts," in Journal of Asian Studies. Vol. 39: 753-769.