Domestic politics, regional integration, and human rights: interactions among Myanmar, ASEAN, and EU

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• 作者：Wooyeal Paik
• 刊名：Asia Europe Journal
• 出版年：2016
• 出版时间：December 2016
• 年：2016
• 卷：14
• 期：4
• 页码：417-434
• 全文大小：397 KB
• 刊物类别：Humanities, Social Sciences and Law
• 刊物主题：Social Sciences
  Social Sciences
  International Economics
  
• 出版者：Springer Berlin / Heidelberg
• ISSN：1612-1031
• 卷排序：14

文摘

This paper tries to explain the evolving relations between the recent domestic political changes in Myanmar and the role of regional integration as they affect human rights in Myanmar. I posit that the two most important causes of the humanitarian crisis in Myanmar are the survival of the authoritarian regime and ethnic-religious conflicts. Those causes differ in nature and their political interactions with the ASEAN regional integration. This paper first examines the relationship between authoritarian regime survival and the humanitarian crisis/efforts during the 2008 natural disaster of cyclone Nargis and the resultant flooding. Second, I investigate the political dynamics of the human rights violations of ethnic and religious minorities, especially the Rohingya Muslim minority in the Rakhine State, during Myanmar’s recent democratic transition. This study approaches the aforementioned questions from both the EU and ASEAN perspectives and also deals with these two regional organizations’ interactions regarding Myanmar’s human rights.