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Myanmar’s Peace Process and the Role of Middle Power States book cover

1st Edition

Myanmar’s Peace Process and the Role of Middle Power States

By Chiraag Roy Copyright 2022
162 Pages
by Routledge

162 Pages
by Routledge

162 Pages
by Routledge
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This book explores middle power engagement in peace processes through the cases of Australian, Japanese and Norwegian engagement in Myanmar’s peace process, a core event in Myanmar’s contemporary recent political history. The book asks to what extent, and how, middle powers have engaged in Myanmar’s peace process as a form of peacemaking entrepreneurship. Underpinning this study is a concern... Read more

Acknowledgments

List of acronyms

Preface

Introduction

PART 1

Myanmar’s peace process and the relevance of middle powers

1 Myanmar’s domestic and geopolitical context

2 Theory on middle powers

3 Political economy lenses

PART 2

The peacemaking landscape – International engagement with Myanmar’s peace process

4 Major powers in Myanmar’s peace process

5 Identity and middle power peacemaking in Myanmar

6 The political economy of middle-power peacemaking in Myanmar

PART 3

Contesting the peacemaking image of middle powers

7 Middle powers as "peacemaking entrepreneurs" in Myanmar’s peace process

8 Where to for middle-power theory?

Conclusion

Appendix 1 Interview Participants

Appendix 2 Interview guiding questions

References

Index

Biography

Chiraag Roy is an International Relations scholar with research interests in International Relations theory, Asia-Pacific politics, Australian foreign policy and middle power theory.

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