Front cover

About the author

Title page

Copyright

Contents

Acknowledgements

One. Introduction

Contrasting pathways to change

The research

The road to NLD-led Myanmar

Two. The clash that galvanized a global movement

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The Saffron Revolution

Armed resistance

The pathway: contentious politics

Global framing around contentious politics

Three. The Third Force

Profiling the Third Force

The pathway: reconstructive politics

Constructing reconstructive politics

Engaging a malleable system

The dissolution of the Third Force

Four. Everyday resistance

Weapons of the weak in military-ruled Myanmar

Successful coping

Flexed political muscles at the extremities

The exclusion of everyday resistance

Valuing local navigation

Five. From bullets to bribery

Published and palpable tensions

“Real” change

Whose concerns?

Compromise

Sacrifice

Moral compasses

Recognition

Six. Sanctions: a cure and a disease

Sanctions as a cure

Sanctions as a disease

What sanctions are not

Avoiding aristocracy

Seven. Nay Win Maung’s funeral

Nay Win Maung: in his own words

A reconciliatory funeral

Nay Win Maung’s legacy

Eight. From human rights rhetoric to 969

969

On the receiving end

From righteous to predatory

Nine. Transitioning to an NLD-led Myanmar

A challenging road to the 2015 elections

Contracting the transition through Naypyidaw

No silver bullet in NLD-led Myanmar

Notes

References

Index

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