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This volume offers the most significant analysis of how parliament re-emerged in Myanmar in the span of a post-junta decade (2011-2021).

In 2014 Myanmar introduced a constituency development fund (CDF) to sponsor small public works and development projects in each of the country's 330 electoral constituencies. As a form of "pork-barrel” spending, CDF programmes have long remained controversial among international donors, anti-corruption agencies and civil society watchdogs for their potential for corruption.

This book examines the political landscape that took shape in Myanmar after the 2010 elections and the subsequent transition from direct military rule to a quasi-civilian 'hybrid' regime. Striking political, social, and economic transformations have indeed taken place in the long-isolated country since the military junta was disbanded in March 2011. To better construe - and question - what has routinely been labelled a 'Burmese Spring', Egrete...

Explores Burma's relations with the outside world since independence in 1948, and addresses the key question of the ongoing role of the military in Burma's foreign policy in a post-junta context. The co-authors provide a fresh perspective on Burma's foreign and security policies, arguing that key elements of continuity underlie Burma's striking postcolonial policy changes and contrasting diplomatic practices.

An unsparing and revealing portrayal of Somalia from the Siad Barre decades to Al-Shabaab, seen through the eyes of Mohamoud 'Tarzan' Nur, a formidable Mogadishu politician.