Addressing Myanmar’s Citizenship Crisis

Among many problematic issues surfacing in reformist Myanmar is a citizenship crisis with four main dimensions. First, in a state with fragile civil liberties, skewed political rights and limited social rights, there is a broad curtailment of citizenship. Second, Rohingya Muslims living mainly in Rakhine State are denied citizenship, and other Muslims throughout the country are increasingly affected by this denial. Third, designated ethnic minorities clustered in peripheral areas face targeted restrictions of citizenship. Fourth, the dominant Bamar majority concentrated in the national heartland tends to arrogate or appropriate citizenship. The result is growing social tension that threatens to undermine the wider reform process. To examine this crisis, the article sets Myanmar in a comparative context. In particular, it considers how multicultural states in the developed world have sought to manage a political switch from racial or ethnic hierarchy to democratic citizenship. Drawing on global experience with multiculturalism and enabling civic integration, it advances a series of policy options focused on rights, duties and identity. It argues for domestic political leadership, backed by global political support, to address Myanmar’s citizenship crisis.     

Reforming government with information technology in South Korea

The South Korean government recently launched 11 major e‐government services after a long period of inter‐ and intra‐ministry politics concerning the allocation of jurisdiction over various e‐government services. This article analyses the politics of e‐government efforts in South Korea. It begins by describing the development of e‐government policy in South Korea for the past two decades, and identifies its four major features as comprehensiveness, fragmentation, the orientation toward operational efficiency and citizen services, and the inclination toward new technological solutions. The article concludes that these features can be attributed to the heavy involvement of the macro political system, its high susceptibility to inputs from experts, and the institutional design of the informatisation subsystem.     

缅甸独立后华侨经济的变化(1948—1962年)

缅甸独立后,华侨经济在经济实力、产业结构、资本属性方面发生了很大的变化。造成这种变化的主要原因是当局的政策、缅甸国内各种势力的互动以及华缅两族的历史关系等。     

缅甸华人穆斯林研究——曼德勒“潘泰”社群的形成

前殖民时代,“潘泰”是活跃在华南和东南亚北部的出色马帮商人,他们实际控制了整个云南的马帮贸易。从贡榜王朝晚期开始,“潘泰”开始在曼德勒定居。1868年,华人清真寺的建成标志着“潘泰”在曼德勒形成了一个独特的群体。1873年,云南杜文秀起义失败后,大批云南穆斯林逃亡到缅甸,曼德勒“潘泰”的数量逐渐增加。虽然第一代“潘泰”的数量还不多,但是他们保持下来,标志着曼德勒第一批华人穆斯林会众历史的开端。     

Power,cultural nationalism,and postcolonial public architecture: building a parliament house in post-independence Myanmar

This article focuses on the contested, and frequently postponed, construction of a new parliament house in postcolonial Myanmar. Since the late colonial period, the country’s legislative bodies have convened in four different buildings, three located in the former capital Yangon and the latest one in Naypyitaw. Drawing on legislative proceedings and media reports, this study interrogates the relationship between decolonisation, national identity, state-building, and public architecture in post-independence Myanmar. It suggests that the commissioning and construction of a new legislative house has always served a dual objective: projecting state power and national pride in both Myanmar’s early postcolonial and later post-junta political contexts, whilst symbolising a sense of nationhood grounded on the representational ideals of the dominant and ruling ethnic Bamar elites.     

印度在缅甸的战略利益、战略举措及制约因素

缅甸在印度的对外战略考虑中具有重要的地位：油气资源的重要来源、进入东南亚的陆上通道、抗衡中国影响力的前沿阵地、提高地区影响力的重要平台和应对东北部反政府武装的合作伙伴。为了实现这些利益，印度采取了一系列措施，包括政治措施、经济措施和安全措施等。但是印度在缅甸的战略利益仍然受到很多因素的影响，印度要实现这些利益还有很长的路要走。     

缅甸政局波动对中国地缘战略安全的影响

缅甸是中国的近邻,是我国在新世纪为确保国内现代化建设顺利推进而构筑周边安全战略依托的一个重要环节。昂山素季的获释无疑对缅甸政局和中缅、中美、缅美关系起到重要作用,进而对中国地缘安全产生重要影响。     

20世纪初以前华侨移民缅甸述略——兼论缅甸华侨社会的形成

本文阐述了20世纪初以前中缅之间贸易及人员往来的过程，认为双方交往虽发端于汉代，但直至元代时，才有华侨定居于缅甸。到了明代，华侨社会开始在华侨人口较为集中的上缅甸的部分地区形成和出现。清代是华侨大规模移居缅甸时期，既有陆路迁移也有海路迁移，随着华侨大量移居缅甸，一些能够聚合缅甸华侨的纽带，如地缘组织、血缘组织和业缘组织纷纷成立，华侨社会则在缅甸较多地区形成。