Myanmar’s Integration with the World
Prabir De, Avijit Raychaudhuri (Eds)
Palgrave Macmillan
220 pages; $99
How does a syncretic region, also a key global rice bowl that is free of devastating cycles of floods and drought, become the centre of the world’s latest refugee crisis?
Myanmar’s Arakan region suffers from none of the factors typically associated with an emerging disaster area. That it has become one shows how a century of poor leadership has reduced to a basket case a country blessed with most of the advantages nature can offer, including a low population density (82 per sq km) and a
