Ceasefire capitalism: Military-private partnerships, resource concessions and military-state building in the Burma-China borderlands

Journal of Peasant Studies

Volumn 38, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 747-770

  Woods, Kevin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Burma; Ceasefires; Counterinsurgency development; Land concessions; Military territorialization

Indexed keywords

BORDER REGION; CAPITALISM; MILITARY GOVERNMENT; MILITARY INTERVENTION; POLITICAL CONFLICT; STATE BUILDING; TERRITORIALITY;

CHINA; MYANMAR;

EID: 80052688869     PISSN: 03066150     EISSN: 17439361     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03066150.2011.607699     Document Type: Article

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