CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2008
| Author | Brown, Elizabeth Michelle |
|---|---|
| Title | The Necessity for an Integrated International Approach to Address the Humanitarian Crises in Burma/Myanmar |
| Summary | The humanitarian crises in Myanmar are rapidly deteriorating and there is an increasing international appeal to the military regime in Myanmar to improve the situation in the country. The lasting colonial legacies of ethnic fractionalization and a pervasive fear of foreigners in Burmese society have been exacerbated and perpetuated by the international community’s politicized actions and approaches towards the regime. This thesis analyzes the institutional, geographical, historical, and socio-political aspects of Burmese society and the contradictory approaches currently being pursued by the international community in an effort to change the situation within the country. The UN and ASEAN are among the few international actors that have not generated extremism from the military regime, and their current access to the regime and the country in the 2008 cyclone aftermath provide a working framework for these two international actors to be at the forefront of an apolitical international humanitarian effort in Myanmar. |
| Supervisor | Valentina Dimitrova |
| Department | Public Policy MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2008/brown_elizabeth.pdf |
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