Beschreibung:
The Historical Contexts -- Australian Ambassador to Myanmar -- Working Under Military Authoritarian Rule -- Myanmar in 2000 : Ready Or Not For Change? -- Engagement Versus Disengagement -- Australia's 'Limited Engagement' Initiatives -- Encounters with Daw Aung San Suu Kyi -- Bilateral Sanctions and Successful Alternative Approaches -- Early Australian Public Diplomacy Possible in Myanmar -- Reflections on Coming to Terms with Myanmar : Personally and as Convener, ANU Burma/Myanmar Update 2004-13
By 2000, a ruthless military regime had ruled Myanmar for more than a decade, polarising opinion inside and outside Burma/Myanmar--with Western countries locked into non-UN sanctions and Asian countries and the rest of the world locked into unenthusiastic cooperation with Myanmar. While the United Nations and its agencies faced numerous obstacles as they sought to encourage national reconciliation in Myanmar, conditions in Myanmar were slowly starting to change. With a reform faction in charge, the military regime itself after 1999 slowly began experimenting with modest changes, before committing in 2008 to transfer power via a constitutional referendum and national elections, both of which it effectively controlled. This book provides the first eyewitness account of the early reform experiments