Rights and Security in India, Myanmar, and Thailand

1. Front Matter

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2. Crossing Borders in South and Southeast Asia: Assessing Existing Problems through a New Lens

   • Chosein Yamahata, Sueo Sudo, Takashi Matsugi

   Pages 1-14

3. Addressing Urban Poverty through Empowerment and Inclusion in India

   • Binayak Choudhury

   Pages 15-29

4. Development Efforts towards Ecological Sustainability in Calcutta: Transformation of a Metropolis

   • Souvanic Roy

   Pages 31-46

5. De facto State Religion as a Threat to Freedom of Religion and Belief: Case Study of Ethnic Chin Christians in Burma/Myanmar

   • Khen Suan Khai

   Pages 47-59

6. Escalation of Ethno-Cultural Tensions in Southern Thailand in the Midst of Assimilation and Homogenisation

   • Takashi Tsukamoto

   Pages 61-88

7. The Rakhine (Arakan) Buddhists: A Little Known Minority in Myanmar

   • Donald M. Seekins

   Pages 89-104

8. Promotion of Women’s Rights in ASEAN: Myanmar Women’s Organisations for Sustainable Unity in Diversity

   • Makiko Takeda, Chosein Yamahata

   Pages 105-140

9. Online Political Parody in Thailand: Political Communication under the Computer Crime Act (No.2) 2017

   • Pimonpan Chainan

   Pages 141-150

10. Japanese Development Assistance, Geopolitics, and “Connectivity” in the Mekong Region: Implications for Aid to Myanmar

    • David M. Potter

    Pages 151-172

11. Japan’s Mekong Policy and Myanmar: Complementing a Viable Strategic Partnership

    • Sueo Sudo

    Pages 173-192

12. Arch-Royalist Autocracy Unlimited: Civil-Military Relations in Contemporary Thailand

    • Paul Chambers

    Pages 193-217

13. Basics of Human Security, Principles of Democracy and Reality of Transition: Implications for Myanmar

    • Chosein Yamahata

    Pages 219-261

14. Back Matter

    Pages 263-276

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This book is centred on the role of the triangular interactions among communities, educational sectors, and academic diplomacy in facilitating peaceful societal change by evaluating the common challenges in India, Myanmar, and Thailand. It analyses urban poverty, religious freedom, ethnic diversity, women’s rights, development and regional partnership, civil-military relations, and human security in democratic transition and explores in-depth the societal issues from local and international perspectives paying special attention to the protection of ‘rights’ and promotion of ‘security’ in these societies.


The book highlights that the continuous application of knowledge across borders and the promotion of international norms are essential tools in enabling social transformations from the bottom. In addition, the contributors promote further discussion on both the process and the outcome from action research projects that shape the lives of the local people and their communities. The book therefore contributes to the existing literature by offering additional insights into the societies of India, Myanmar and Thailand for policy makers, social innovators, researchers, development analysts and planners and the general public including students.

• Urban Poverty and Empowerment
• Urban Poverty and Inclusion
• Freedom of Religion in Myanmar
• Ethnic Christians in Myanmar
• Ethno-cultural Tensions in Southern Thailand
• Rakhine Buddhists
• Arakan Buddhists
• Women’s Rights in ASEAN
• Myanmar's Women’s Organizations
• Japanese Official Development Assistance in Southeast Asia
• Japan’s Mekong Policy and Myanmar
• Civil-Military Relations in Thailand
• Human Security and Democracy Myanmar
• development policy

• Graduate School of Policy Studies, Aichi Gakuin University, Nisshin, Japan

  Chosein Yamahata

• Faculty of Political Science, Thammasat University, Bangkok, Thailand

  Sueo Sudo

• Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan

  Takashi Matsugi

Chosein Yamahata is a Professor at the Graduate School of Policy Studies, Aichi Gakuin University, Japan. Dr. Yamahata is the coordinator of the Academic Diplomacy Project in bridging the interdisciplinary area studies to reach locals across different sectors through the soft power of academia. He also serves as Visiting Professor at the Faculty of Mass Communication at Chiang Mai University, Thailand.


Sueo Sudo is a Professor at the Faculty of Political Science, Thammasat University, Thailand. Dr. Sudo is foreign policy expert. He also teaches at the Graduate School of Policy Studies at Aichi Gakuin University as an Adjunct Professor. He served as a professor at Nanzan University and Saga University.


Takashi Matsugi is an emeritus professor at Nagoya University. He taught econometrics, urban and agricultural economics, and development. Dr. Matsugi was the Chief Editor of the POSDI working paper series of Aichi Gakuin University. He facilitated the 1st Burma Review and Challenges International Forum (BRACIF 1).

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