'A tender gourd among the cactus'. Making sense of Myanmar's alignment policies through the lens of strategic culture. Issue 6 (1st November 2020)
- Record Type:
- Journal Article
- Title:
- 'A tender gourd among the cactus'. Making sense of Myanmar's alignment policies through the lens of strategic culture. Issue 6 (1st November 2020)
- Main Title:
- 'A tender gourd among the cactus'. Making sense of Myanmar's alignment policies through the lens of strategic culture
- Authors:
- Passeri, Andrea
- Abstract:
- Abstract: The article sheds light on a series of cognitive features and cultural determinants ingrained in the historical evolution of Myanmar's alignment choices vis-à-vis regional great-powers. Building upon Alastair Johnston's conceptualisation of 'strategic culture', the study traces the genesis, articulation, and perpetuation of a distinctive set of beliefs and assumptions embraced by different generations of Burmese decision-makers to cope with the country's security dilemma. Accordingly, Myanmar's hedging attitude in the midst of the ongoing Sino-American rivalry is presented as a further manifestation of its deep-rooted neutralist practice, which was firstly employed to navigate the perilous waters of the Cold War and then evolved into a crucial standard of conduct to safeguard a relative degree of autonomy in the shadow of a rising China.
- Is Part Of:
- Pacific review. Volume 33:Issue 6(2020)
- Journal:
- Pacific review
- Issue:
- Volume 33:Issue 6(2020)
- Issue Display:
- Volume 33, Issue 6 (2020)
- Year:
- 2020
- Volume:
- 33
- Issue:
- 6
- Issue Sort Value:
- 2020-0033-0006-0000
- Page Start:
- 931
- Page End:
- 957
- Publication Date:
- 2020-11-01
- Subjects:
- Myanmar -- strategic culture -- non-alignment -- neutralism -- security
Pacific Area -- Politics and government -- Periodicals
990 - Journal URLs:
- http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rpre20/current ↗
http://www.tandfonline.com/ ↗
http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/09512748.asp ↗ - DOI:
- 10.1080/09512748.2019.1615537 ↗
- Languages:
- English
- ISSNs:
- 0951-2748
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- Legaldeposit
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- British Library DSC - 6330.877000
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