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Securing a democratic future for Myanmar / Priscilla A. Clapp.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: CSR (New York, N.Y.) ; no. 75.Publisher: New York, NY : Council on Foreign Relations, [2016]Copyright date: �2016Description: 1 online resource (xi, 45 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780876096710
  • 0876096712
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 301.09591 23
LOC classification:
  • E183.8.B93
Online resources:
Contents:
Introduction -- Challenges to stability in Myanmar -- The United States and Myanmar -- Obstacles and dilemmas for U.S. policy -- Recommendations -- Conclusion.
Summary: "To ensure the success of Myanmar's historic democratic transition, the United States should revise its outdated and counterproductive sanctions policy ... When the Aung San Suu Kyi-led National League for Democracy assumes power in Myanmar next week, the party will inherit the long-standing problems that developed in the country's half-century of military dictatorship. U.S. support for a successful transition will help strengthen the newly elected government and prevent a return to martial law ... Clapp offers several other recommendations for how the United States and other international actors can support the democratic transition in Myanmar, including expanding and coordinating global aid, helping to resolve the stateless status of Rohingya Muslims, developing a stronger relationship with the military, and strengthening Myanmar's integration into the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN)"--Publisher's web site.
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"March 2016."

Includes bibliographical references (pages 34-36).

Introduction -- Challenges to stability in Myanmar -- The United States and Myanmar -- Obstacles and dilemmas for U.S. policy -- Recommendations -- Conclusion.

"To ensure the success of Myanmar's historic democratic transition, the United States should revise its outdated and counterproductive sanctions policy ... When the Aung San Suu Kyi-led National League for Democracy assumes power in Myanmar next week, the party will inherit the long-standing problems that developed in the country's half-century of military dictatorship. U.S. support for a successful transition will help strengthen the newly elected government and prevent a return to martial law ... Clapp offers several other recommendations for how the United States and other international actors can support the democratic transition in Myanmar, including expanding and coordinating global aid, helping to resolve the stateless status of Rohingya Muslims, developing a stronger relationship with the military, and strengthening Myanmar's integration into the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN)"--Publisher's web site.

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