Abstract
Burma’s leaders have followed a singular path in foreign affairs. While their neighbors have been drawn into pacts, alliances, and various treaty commitments, the Burmese have chosen to enter no arrangement of a political or economic nature that would suggest alignment between East or West, North or South. Only the Non-Aligned Movement attracted their attention as founding members, and that attraction waned as Soviet-oriented governments gained control of the organization. Isolation from world and even regional affairs became Burma’s hallmark, until after the 1988 coup, when a new regime opened the country to joint ventures and oil exploration.
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Badgley, J. (1990). The Foreign Policy of Burma. In: Wurfel, D., Burton, B. (eds) The Political Economy of Foreign Policy in Southeast Asia. International Political Economy Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-20813-5_11
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