Burma's Military and the Construction of a Despotic Order: A Master's Thesis Proposal and Outline

Abstract

Burma has been neglected by the outside world for quite some time, and as a result, the awareness and knowledge of its political system and politics is scanty, and worse, out-dated and marred by stereotyped images. For example, there still persists in writings on Burma, in academic journals even, the perception of the military as modernizers, although such a view has long been seriously questioned and even discredited in the literature of third world military intervention.