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FOREIGN RELATIONS OF LAST BURMA’S KING * W. S . DESAI† THE the maintenance of relations principle underlying foreign through means was neither nor known in Burma under her diplomatic practised ...
for other governments, and for profit. Nathan’s career trajectory reveals important continuities across twentieth-century U.S. political economy and U.S. foreign relations history. Scholars have long ...
during the Cold War Thailand’s alliance-oriented foreign policy stands in sharp contrast to Burma’s studied neutrality. After ousting Pridi in 1948 to become Thailand’s Prime Minister, Phibun ...
and their American hosts. By drawing on existing notions of Thai-Buddhist space and inter-state relations , King Bhumibol was presented to Thai audiences as a universal monarch in the Theravada tradition.3 Moreover ...
that powerful Burman monarchs certainly invaded and conquered many of their neighboring states, these eminent Burma experts adamantly insisted that Burman kings were actually unable to have founded any strong ...
in Burma was not a practice unique to foreign colonizers. For example, in 1752, King Alongphaya (Kongoun dynasty) declared that teak was a ‘royal tree’ and could not be cut without permission (Myint 2007 ...
a rebellion to overthrow the Qing dynasty and to install himself as the ‘ king of China’.1 Unfortunately for Mason's plan, two of his colleagues in the Imperial Maritime Customs Service, which had been tipped ...
, and developed a press strategy before leaving Burma in late September. He used the Charter when speaking to foreign journalists, addressing audiences in Britain and the United States. Saw believed these publics ...
of the connection to the treasure trove and related spirits is intrinsically linked to the varieties of prosperity Buddhism that have evolved in Burma since the 1990s—and especially during the last decade ...
San's efforts to unify Burma were so meaningful to the people of Burma that they associated him in their songs and literature with the longstanding figure of the minlaung, or imminent king , a just ruler ...
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