Books written by Nick Cheesman
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Opposing the Rule of Law
A striking new analysis of Myanmar's court system, revealing how the rule of law is 'lexically present but semantically absent'.
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Interpreting Communal Violence in Myanmar
Interpreting Communal Violence in Myanmar addresses one such violent chapter in Myanmar’s recent past: the communal violence that shook the country between 2012 and 2014.
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Conflict in Myanmar
This latest volume in the Myanmar Update Series from the ANU College of Asia and the Pacific continues and deepens a tradition of intense, critical engagement with political, economic and social questions that matter to both the inhabitants ...
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Interpreting Communal Violence in Myanmar
This book addresses the communal violence that shook Myanmar from 2012 to 2014, as well as engaging with broader debate about the characteristics, causes and consequences of communal violence.
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Myanmar's Transition: Openings, Obstacles, and Opportunities
INTERPRETING. THE. TRANSITION. IN. MYANMAR. Monique Skidmore and Trevor Wilson The first elections in Myanmar since 1990, held on 7 November 2010, were a significant moment in the country's political life. Admittedly, the elections were ...
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Debating Democratization in Myanmar
... for citizenship.11 One of the intriguing outcomes of the commission's work as an interpretation specialist is that, ... Letpadaung Hills that was chaired by Myanmar's democracy icon and leader of the National League for Democracy, ...
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Ruling Myanmar: From Cyclone Nargis to National Elections
Leading experts from the United States, Japan, France, and Australia as well as from Myanmar/Burma have conributed to this collection of papers from the Conference.
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Myanmar's Transition
With the world watching closely, Myanmar began a process of political, administrative and institutional transition from 30 January 2011.
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Opposing the Rule of Law: How Myanmar's Courts Make Law and Order
Empirically grounded in both Burmese and English sources, including criminal trial records and wide ranging official documents, Opposing the Rule of Law offers the first significant study of courts in contemporary Myanmar.
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Opposing the Rule of Law: How Myanmar's Courts Make Law and Order
... opposing concepts, scholars need to be attentive to whether the relation is asymmetrical or symmetrical. Does the problem concern qualitatively distinct concepts, or, as Joseph Raz would have it, the ... LAW AND ORDER OPPOSES THE RULE OF LAW.
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Conflict in Myanmar: War, Politics, Religion
This latest volume in the Myanmar Update Series from the ANU College of Asia and the Pacific continues and deepens a tradition of intense, critical engagement with political, economic and social questions that matter to both the inhabitants ...