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Afghanistan: What Everyone Needs to Know®

Barnett R. Rubin

Published in Print:: 08 October 2020

Published Online:: 12 November 2020

eISBN:: 9780197569290

DOI:: 10.1093/wentk/9780190496630.001.0001

Format:: book

ISBN:: 9780190496630

Afghanistan, a landlocked country in Central Asia, has improbably been at the center of international geopolitics for four decades. After the Soviet Union invaded in 1980, Afghanistan ... More

Burma/Myanmar: What Everyone Needs to Know® (2 ed.)

David Steinberg

Published in Print:: 26 September 2013

Published Online:: 12 November 2020

eISBN:: 9780197570166

DOI:: 10.1093/wentk/9780199981687.001.0001

Format:: book

ISBN:: 9780199981687

It is unlikely that any country in Asia in recent years has undergone such internal policy shifts in so short a time as Myanmar. Until recently, the former British colony had one of the ... More

It is unlikely that any country in Asia in recent years has undergone such internal policy shifts in so short a time as Myanmar. Until recently, the former British colony had one of the most secretive, corrupt, and repressive regimes on the planet, a country where Nobel Peace Prize laureate Aung San Suu Kyi was held in continual house arrest and human rights were denied to nearly all. Yet events in Myanmar since the elections of November 2010 have profoundly altered the internal mood of the society, and have surprised even Burmese and seasoned foreign observers of the Myanmar scene. The pessimism that pervaded the society prior to the elections, and the results of that voting that prompted many foreign observers to call them a “sham” or “fraud,” gradually gave way to the realization that for reasons, variously interpreted, positive change was in the air. Taking into account the dramatic changes the country has seen in the past two years-including the establishment of a human rights commission, the release of political prisoners, and reforms in health and education-David I. Steinberg offers an updated second edition of Burma/Myanmar: What Everyone Needs to Know. More than ever, the history, culture, and internal politics of this country are crucial to understanding the breaking headlines emerging from it today and placing them in a broader context. Geographically strategic, Burma/Myanmar lies between the growing powers of China and India, and has a thousand-year history as an important realm in the region-yet it is mostly unknown to Westerners. Burma/Myanmar is a place of contradictions: a picturesque land with mountain jungles and monsoon plains, it is one of the world's largest producers of heroin. Though it has extensive natural resources including oil, gas, teak, metals, and minerals, it is one of the poorest countries in the world. And despite a half-century of military-dominated rule, change is beginning to work its way through the beleaguered nation, as it moves to a more pluralistic administrative system reflecting its pluralistic cultural, multi-ethnic base. Authoritative and balanced, Burma/Myanmar is an essential book on a country in the throes of historic change.Less

China in the 21st Century: What Everyone Needs to Know® (3 ed.)

Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom and Maura Elizabeth Cunningham

Published in Print:: 14 June 2018

Published Online:: 12 November 2020

eISBN:: 9780197569481

DOI:: 10.1093/wentk/9780190659073.001.0001

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ISBN:: 9780190659073

In this fully revised and updated third edition of China in the 21st Century: What Everyone Needs to Know® , Jeffrey Wasserstrom and Maura Elizabeth Cunningham provide cogent answers to the ... More

India in the 21st Century: What Everyone Needs to Know®

Mira Kamdar

Published in Print:: 28 June 2018

Published Online:: 12 November 2020

eISBN:: 9780197570159

DOI:: 10.1093/wentk/9780199973606.001.0001

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ISBN:: 9780199973606

India is fast overtaking China to become the most populous country on Earth. By mid-century, its 1.7 billion people will live in what is projected to become the world’s second-largest ... More

North Korea: What Everyone Needs to Know®

Patrick McEachern

Published in Print:: 08 August 2019

Published Online:: 12 November 2020

eISBN:: 9780197569795

DOI:: 10.1093/wentk/9780190937997.001.0001

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ISBN:: 9780190937997

After a year of trading colorful barbs with the American president and significant achievements in North Korea’s decades-long nuclear and missile development programs, North Korean leader ... More

The Philippines: What Everyone Needs to Know®

Steven Rood

Published in Print:: 12 December 2019

Published Online:: 12 November 2020

eISBN:: 9780197569726

DOI:: 10.1093/wentk/9780190920609.001.0001

Format:: book

ISBN:: 9780190920609

Since the colonization of the Philippines by Spain in the sixteenth century, the island chain has been at the center of global trade flows, imperial rivalries, and the globalization ... More

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David Steinberg

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Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom and Maura Elizabeth Cunningham

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Mira Kamdar

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Patrick McEachern

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Steven Rood

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