Myanmar’s Changing Political Landscape

Makiko Takeda is an associate professor at the Faculty of Policy Studies, Aichi Gakuin University, Japan. Dr. Takeda is the author of Women, Children and Social Transformation in Myanmar (2020), and co-edited Social Transformations in India, Myanmar, and Thailand: Social, Political and Ecological Perspectives (2021).  Chosein Yamahata is a professor at the Graduate School of Policy Studies, Aichi Gakuin University, Japan. Dr. Yamahata co-edited for Rights and Security in India, Myanmar, and Thailand (2020), Social Transformations in India, Myanmar, and Thailand: Social, Political and Ecological Perspectives (2021), Demystifying Myanmar’s Transition and Political Crisis (2022), and Social Transformations in India, Myanmar, and Thailand: Identity and Grassroots for Democratic Progress (2022).

Part I: Introduction: Challenging Reality.- Chapter 1 Post-Coup Myanmar: Military, Divisions and Atrocities.- Chapter 2 NLD’s Governance in Myanmar’s Short-lived Democracy: Reforms, Weakness and Challenges.- Chapter 3 Aung San Suu Kyi’s Leadership and its Contradictions: General Election of November 2020.- Part II: Struggling Myanmar.- Chapter 4  Language Policy, Ethnic Identity, and Majority-Minority Relations in Myanmar.- Chapter 5 A Threatened Identity in Chinland of Burma/Myanmar: A Glimpse of Freedom of Religion and Belief.- Chapter 6 Development Policy and Processes in Kachin State: Development from Above during the Ceasefire Period (1994-2010).- Chapter 7  Ethnic Children at the Thai-Burma Border: Community-Based Organizations Protecting the Rights and Equality.- Chapter 8  The Role of Tatmadaw in Myanmar’s Transformation: A Burmese Version of Indonesia’s Dwifungsi.- Chapter 9  Failure of Third Force’s Role in Unlinking Myanmar’s Political Changes with Aung San Suu Kyi.- Part III: Conclusion: A Promising Future?.- Chapter 10 Hope at the End of the Tunnel: Myanmar’s Civil Disobedience Movement and Moving Toward a More Inclusive Myanmar.- Chapter 11 Fracturing the Monolith: Could Military Defections End the Dictatorship in Myanmar?.- Chapter 12 For Myanmar from my Adopted Country: Collective Resistance and New Revolution against Military Dictatorship.- Chapter 13 The National Unity Government: Legitimacy and Recognition.- Chapter 14 Japan’s “Special Relations” to Serious Warning: A Potential Change in Course?.- Index.

“Chapters are well researched, well organized and based on a clearly defined framework. … This book’s interdisciplinary composition invites readers from various backgrounds to engage with research that identifies the challenges and means to facilitate change from local and international perspectives. This book not only significantly advances our understanding of Myanmar’s political development, but it also provides new perspectives to explore its changing political landscape.” (Sueo Sudo, International Affairs, Vol. 100 (1), 2024)