Critical Hurdles to Myanmar's Opening-up Process

2016 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 25285041
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)
• Allocation Type: Partial Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Politics
• Research Institution: Kyoto University
• Principal Investigator: R Pavin 京都大学, 東南アジア研究所, 准教授 (40646098)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): 三重野 文晴 京都大学, 東南アジア研究所, 教授 (40272786) ; 速水 洋子 京都大学, 東南アジア研究所, 教授 (60283660) ; 藤田 幸一 京都大学, 東南アジア研究所, 教授 (80272441) ; 中西 嘉宏 京都大学, 東南アジア研究所, 准教授 (80452366)
• Project Period (FY): 2013-04-01 – 2017-03-31
• Keywords: ミャンマー / 民主化 / 権威主義体制 / 体制移行

Outline of Final Research Achievements

The main objective is to identify some critical hurdles to Myanmar’s opening up process, in their respective fields. We began with a question of whether Myanmar was democratizing or was it moving towards a new form of authoritarianism, perhaps one more consonant with other contemporary authoritarian regimes in Asia. Thus, the project had its concentration on identifying obstacles to Myanmar’s transformation, which was significant both in practice and in theory. Throughout the project term, research meetings and a workshop ("Critical Hurdles to Myanmar's Opening-up Process") were held periodically and in a timely manner in order to response swiftly to the shifts inside Myanmar. The project leader are editing the edited book manuscript based on the papers that were submitted to the international workshop. The tentative conclusion of the project is that we cannot hold optimistic view on the future of political liberalization and democratization of Myanmar.

Free Research Field

国際関係論