Table of Contents

• Foreword by Winston Set Aung, (former) Deputy Minister of National Planning & Economic Development, Myanmar.
• 1. Introduction
• 2. Prospects for Myanmar's Democratization Process by Morten Pedersen.
• Encouraging Signs
• 3. Myanmar's Parliament: From Scorn to Significance by Thomas Kean
• 4. Land Law, Village Networks and Democracy in Myanmar by Tamas Wells and Kyaw Thu Aung
• 5. Exile to Elections: Politics in Post-2010 Myanmar - Personal Experiences and Reflections by Than Than Nu
• 6. Sidelined or Re-inventing Themselves? Exiled Activists and Democratization in Myanmar by Kerstin Duell
• 7. Understanding Recent Labour Protests in Myanmar by Kyaw Soe Lwin
• Anticipating Reforms
• 8. Economic Update - Macro-Economy, Fiscal Reform, Development Options by Anders Engvall and Soe Nandar Linn
• 9. Economic Reform in Burma: A Stock Take - The Glass Has Water: Exchange Rate, Financial System, Investment and Sectoral Policies by Sean Turnell
• 10. Police Reform and the 'Civilianization' of Security in Myanmar by Andrew Selth
• 11. The Electoral System Reform Discussion in Myanmar by Kyle Lemargie, Andrew Reynolds, Peter Erben and David Ennis.
• Enduring Concerns
• 12. 'Praetorianism' in Post-junta Myanmar: Revisiting the Political Intervention of the Burmese Armed Forces in the 2010s by Renaud Egreteau
• 13. State Terrorism and International Compliance: The Kachin Armed Struggle for Political Self-Determination by Seng Maw Lahpai
• 14. Engendering Development in Myanmar/Burma: Women's Struggle for San, Si, Sar (rice, oil and salt) by Ma Khin Mar Mar Kyi
• 15. Conclusion

About the Author

Nick Cheesman is Lecturer at the Department of Political and Social Change, ANU College of Asia and the Pacific.

Nicholas Farrelly is a Research Fellow at the School of Internatioal, Political and Strategic Studies, ANU College of Asia and the Pacific.

Trevor Wilson is a Visiting Fellow at the Department of Political amd Social Change, ANU College of Asia and the Pacific.