Delicate Relationship, A: The United States and Burma/Myanmar since 1945 Laso and Ratanakosin periods under royal

and Ratanakosin periods under royal patronage

Charles Keyes | anthropology | ethnicity | globalization | state | borders | Southeast Asia | nation

Thailand | migrant labor | women | factory workers | Burmese women | labor migration policies | labor rights | industrialization

while domestic capital is confined to service and rentier activities

This work has broad relevance for helping us understand the psychological impacts of social change

Delicate Relationship, A: The United States and Burma/Myanmar since 1945 Laso and Ratanakosin periods under royalIn 2012, Barack Obama became the first US president to visit Myanmar, formerly known as Burma. This marked a new period in the two countries sinuous diplomatic relationship, which Kenton Clymer examines in A Delicate Relationship. From the challenges of decolonization and heightened nationalism after World War II, to the Cold War concern with domino states, to the rise of human rights policy in the 1980s, Clymer demonstrates how Burma Myanmar has fit