Former U.S. Secretary of State Madeline Albright has a reasonably decent piece on Burma and the need for humanitarian intervention there. While she completely fails to distinguish the criteria for intervening in Burma from those in other places (indeed, her argument relies on ignoring the difference), and fails to distinguish between the actors in various interventions (the U.S. vs. the U.N., for example).
The Irrawaddy has a much more effective and important editorial: “Don’t Depoliticize Burma’s Cry for Help.”
And meanwhile, 10,000 pregnant Burmese women desperately need care.
All the above are via the increasingly excellent Chaplain Danny Blog.
Also, the new edition of the Journal of Southeast Asia Studies is totally devoted to Burma. From New Mandala,
The new issue of the Journal of Southeast Asian Studies is out. The umbrella for this batch of articles is “Communities of interpretation and the construction of modern Myanmar” and there are contributions from Michael Aung-Thwin, Robert H. Taylor, U Chit Hlaing, Juliane Schober, Bob Hudson and Terry Lustig, and Maitrii Aung-Thwin.
Here’s a link to the whole thing.
Hey, thanks for the nice shout-out. And for posting about the JSEAS issue–that’s good to know they did that.
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