All Outputs (6)

Difficult Development Trade-Offs Amidst 'Transition': Exploring Power and Politics in Post-2010 Myanmar (2022)
Book Chapter
Meehan, P. (2022). Difficult Development Trade-Offs Amidst 'Transition': Exploring Power and Politics in Post-2010 Myanmar. In C. Yamahata, & B. Anderson (Eds.), Demystifying Myanmar's Transition and Political Crisis (231-253). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-6675-9_12

Development studies have often grappled with how to bridge the ‘theory/policy divide’ that exists within the discipline between an intellectual focus on historical processes of social change, and more practical objectives aimed at designing intervent... Read More about Difficult Development Trade-Offs Amidst 'Transition': Exploring Power and Politics in Post-2010 Myanmar.

Development Zones in Conflict-Affected Borderlands: The Case of Muse, Northern Shan State, Myanmar (2021)
Book Chapter
Meehan, P., Aung Hla, S., & Kham Phu, S. (2021). Development Zones in Conflict-Affected Borderlands: The Case of Muse, Northern Shan State, Myanmar. In M. Chettri, & M. Eilenberg (Eds.), Development Zones in Asian Borderlands. Amsterdam University Press. https://doi.org/10.5117/9789463726238_ch06

How are development zones “made” in conflict-affected borderlands? Addressing this question, this chapter explores the transformation of the Myanmar-China border town of Muse since 1988. Despite ongoing armed conflict in northern Myanmar, Muse has be... Read More about Development Zones in Conflict-Affected Borderlands: The Case of Muse, Northern Shan State, Myanmar.

Myanmar’s Contested Borderlands: Uneven Development and Ongoing Armed Conflict (2020)
Book Chapter
Lertchavalitsakul, B., & Meehan, P. Myanmar’s Contested Borderlands: Uneven Development and Ongoing Armed Conflict. In A. Simpson, & N. Farrelly (Eds.), Myanmar : Politics, Economy and Society. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429024443-17

Attempts to assert control over the country’s borderlands have been a central dynamic of the statebuilding agendas of successive governments in Myanmar, albeit a deeply conflictual one in light of the fact that the power and legitimacy of the state h... Read More about Myanmar’s Contested Borderlands: Uneven Development and Ongoing Armed Conflict.

Borderlands (2017)
Book Chapter
Meehan, P., & Sadan, M. (2017). Borderlands. In A. Simpson, N. Farrelly, & I. Holliday (Eds.), Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Myanmar (83-91). Routledge

The continuation of war by other means: An anatomy of the Palaung ceasefire in northern Shan State (2016)
Book Chapter
Meehan, P. (2016). The continuation of war by other means: An anatomy of the Palaung ceasefire in northern Shan State. In M. Sadan (Ed.), War and Peace in the Borderlands of Myanmar: The Kachin Ceasefire, 1994–2011. NIAS Press

Drugs, local politics and the subversion of global counter-narcotics ideology in Burma’s eastern borderlands, 1988-2012 (2015)
Book Chapter
Meehan, P. (2015). Drugs, local politics and the subversion of global counter-narcotics ideology in Burma’s eastern borderlands, 1988-2012. In O. Charnoz (Ed.), Local Politics, Global Impacts: Steps to a Multi-Disciplinary Analysis of Scales (79-104). Ashgate. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315592862-11

This chapter shows how the emergence of new international poverty reduction strategies at the turn of the 2000s put governance issues and their key principles at the forefront of the development agenda. It analyzes the transposition and customization... Read More about Drugs, local politics and the subversion of global counter-narcotics ideology in Burma’s eastern borderlands, 1988-2012.