Articles on Burma on the New York Book Review

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[1]VOLUME 55, NUMBER 2 • FEBRUARY 14, 2008
- The Revolt of the Monks
- By Pankaj Mishra

[2] Crackdown: Repression of the 2007 Popular Protests in Burma
- a Report by Human Rights Watch
- 131 pp., December 2007

[3] Making Enemies: War and State Building in Burma
- By Mary P. Callahan
- Cornell University Press, 296 pp., $21.95 (paper)

[4] The River of Lost Footsteps: A Personal History of Burma
- By Thant Myint-U
- Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 400 pp., $15.00 (paper)

[5] "Burma/Myanmar: The Role of the Military in the Economy"
- By David I. Steinberg
- Burma Economic Watch, Vol. 1 (2005)

Others:
- See "Burmese Maze," The Economist, December 19, 2007.

- See Christopher Bayly and Tim Harper, Forgotten Armies: The Fall of British Asia, 1941–1945 (Belknap Press/Harvard University Press, 2005) (For an authoritative account of the traumatic remaking of Burma during the war)

- See Forgotten Wars: Freedom and Revolution in Southeast Asia (Belknap Press/Harvard University Press, 2007).

- See Martin Smith, Burma: Insurgency and the Politics of Ethnicity (Zed Books, 1999).

- See "My Gun Was as Tall as Me": Child Soldiers in Burma (Human Rights Watch, October 2002).

- See Amy Kazmin, "Burma's Outlook 'Poor' as Inflation Soars," Financial Times, December 7, 2007.

- See The Gathering Storm: Infectious Diseases and Human Rights in Burma, a report by Human Rights Center, University of California, Berkeley, July 2007.

- See "Myanmar: Misery Piled Upon Misery," The Economist, October 4, 2007.

- See "What to Do About Burma?" London Review of Books, February 8, 2007.

- See Joshua Kurlantzick, "Burma's Buddy: India's Craven Appeasement in Burma," The New Republic, October 2, 2007.

- See Glenn Kessler, "India's Halt to Burma Arms Sales May Pressure Junta," The Washington Post, December 30, 2007.

- See the report by the International Crisis Group, "Myanmar: Sanctions, Engagement or Another Way Forward?," April 26, 2004;

- See "The List: Burma's Economic Lifelines," Foreign Policy Web site, October 2007;

- See "Myan-mar: How to Save It," The Economist, July 21, 2005;

- See Michael Green and Derek Mitchell, "Asia's Forgotten Crisis: A New Approach to Burma," Foreign Affairs, November/December 2007.

- See "Myanmar: Investing in a Misruled Land," The Economist, April 10, 2003.
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