Burma

Part I: The Roots of Conflict 1. The Burmese Way to Stagnation and the Crisis of 1988 2. The Peoples of Burma: A Historic and Ethnic Background 3. Order Without Meaning: British Rule and the Rise of the National Liberation Movement 4. War and Independence: 1942-48 5. Insurgency as a Way of Life

Part II Insurrections in the Parliamentary Era 6. The Final Seizure of Power: A Country Goes Underground 7. Failure, Retrenchment and the United Fronts: The Communist Movement 1948-52 8. The Battle for Kawthoolei: The Spread of Ethnic Rebellion 9. Revisionism and the 1955 Line: The Prospect of Peace 10. The Collapse of Parliamentary Democracy: Ne Win Seizes Power

Part III Insurrections in the Ne Win era 11. Military Rule and Peace Parley 12. Cultural Revolution 13. The North-East Command and the Four Cuts 14. The Failure of U Nu's Parliamentary Democracy Party, Keren Unity and Emergence of the National Democratic Front 15. The War in the North, Opium and the 1980/1 Peace Parley 16. The Nationalities Question

Part IV: The 1980s: A Decade of Upheaval 17. The Democracy Upbringing and the CPB 18. The 1989 CPB Mutinies: The End of the road? 19. The War Goes On: The NDF and the KNU 20. A New Cycle of Conflict?: The 1990 General Election and the DAB Part V Burma at the Century's End 21. The 1990s: Deadlock or the Dawning of New Realities? Part I: The Roots of Conflict 1. The Burmese Way to Stagnation and the Crisis of 1988 2. The Peoples of Burma: A Historic and Ethnic Background 3. Order Without Meaning: British Rule and the Rise of the National Liberation Movement 4. War and Independence: 1942-48 5. Insurgency as a Way of Life

Part II Insurrections in the Parliamentary Era 6. The Final Seizure of Power: A Country Goes Underground 7. Failure, Retrenchment and the United Fronts: The Communist Movement 1948-52 8. The Battle for Kawthoolei: The Spread of Ethnic Rebellion 9. Revisionism and the 1955 Line: The Prospect of Peace 10. The Collapse of Parliamentary Democracy: Ne Win Seizes Power

Part III Insurrections in the Ne Win era 11. Military Rule and Peace Parley 12. Cultural Revolution 13. The North-East Command and the Four Cuts 14. The Failure of U Nu's Parliamentary Democracy Party, Keren Unity and Emergence of the National Democratic Front 15. The War in the North, Opium and the 1980/1 Peace Parley 16. The Nationalities Question

Part IV: The 1980s: A Decade of Upheaval 17. The Democracy Upbringing and the CPB 18. The 1989 CPB Mutinies: The End of the road? 19. The War Goes On: The NDF and the KNU 20. A New Cycle of Conflict?: The 1990 General Election and the DAB Part V Burma at the Century's End 21. The 1990s: Deadlock or the Dawning of New Realities?