Myanmar's Digital Coup: How the World Responded

Coppel, Nicholas, Chang, Lennon Y. C.

Myanmar's Digital Coup: How the World Responded
  • 出版商: Palgrave MacMillan
  • 出版日期: 2024-07-24
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  • 語言: 英文
  • 頁數: 229
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  • ISBN: 3031586441
  • ISBN-13: 9783031586446

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商品描述

This book explores the nature, scope, merits and limits of international responses to Myanmar's February 2021 coup. The novelty of this book lies in its analysis of the coup in the digital age. While the literature on Myanmar addresses issues such as earlier periods of reform, Myanmar's political transition, the Saffron revolution, and human rights, there is still limited research that looks into the influence of digitalised Myanmar on the post-coup Civil Disobedience Movement and protestors. Myanmar opened and changed enormously in the past ten years. The use of technology and the Internet increased phenomenally, exposing Myanmar's citizenry to new ideas, experiences and ways of viewing the world. The impact of these developments on responses to the 2021 coup is the focus of this book.
Myanmar's opening to the world and its digitalisation has made this coup different from the three previous coups. The book's starting point is that diplomacy is no longer (if it everwas) the preserve of governments and diplomats. International organisations, not-for-profit organisations, large corporations, academia, civil society, social media, and even individuals have all been engaged and sought to influence developments.
Drawing extensively on primary sources (official statements by UN agencies, foreign governments, international corporations, NGOs and Burma campaign activists) and experiences as a senior diplomat and an academic working with Myanmar's government to build cyber capacity and cyber security awareness, this book takes a fresh look at all forms of international behaviour that seek to bring about change in a rogue or pariah state. The book will be the first to study the part played by Gen Z and their facility with smart phone technology to mobilise, inform and build opposition to the coup. To what extent did the youth of Myanmar learn from Hong Kong, Taiwan, Thailand and the so-called "milk tea alliance"? How has dependenceon the internet affected the operations of the security forces and the Civil Disobedience Movement? How did both sides deploy misinformation and disinformation to achieve their respective goals?
The book thus provides an informative guide for those seeking an understanding of what has happened and what, short of a military intervention, can be done about it. It examines international responses in the first year following the coup, candidly assessing their feasibility, efficacy and utility. Recent developments are situated within the context of Myanmar's modern history and the discourse on the effectiveness of sanctions compared with engagement.
The book also critically examines ASEAN's role - how does ASEAN see its role, how does the National Unity Government regard ASEAN endeavours, and how does the rest of the world view ASEAN's capacity to address Myanmar's problems? We evaluate ASEAN's principle of non-interference in the internalaffairs of member states. Does this principle matter more to it than judgments about its weakness and inability to deal with breaches of the ASEAN Charter?

商品描述(中文翻譯)

本書探討了國際社會對緬甸2021年2月政變的回應的性質、範圍、優點和限制。本書的新奇之處在於分析了數位時代的政變。儘管有關緬甸的文獻涉及早期改革時期、緬甸的政治轉型、藏紅花革命和人權等問題，但對於數位化緬甸對政變後的公民不服從運動和抗議者的影響的研究仍然有限。在過去十年中，緬甸開放並發生了巨大變化。科技和互聯網的使用大幅增加，使緬甸的公民接觸到新的思想、經驗和世界觀。這些發展對於對2021年政變的回應的影響是本書的重點。

緬甸對世界的開放和數位化使得這次政變與之前的三次政變不同。本書的出發點是外交不再僅僅是政府和外交官的專利（如果曾經是的話）。國際組織、非營利組織、大型企業、學術界、公民社會、社交媒體，甚至個人都參與其中，並試圖影響事態發展。

本書廣泛引用了一手資料（聯合國機構、外國政府、國際企業、非政府組織和緬甸運動活動家的官方聲明）以及作為一名高級外交官和與緬甸政府合作建立網絡能力和網絡安全意識的學者的經驗，對所有形式的國際行為進行了新的研究，這些行為旨在改變一個流氓或被孤立的國家。本書將是第一本研究Z世代及其智能手機技術在動員、資訊和反對政變方面所扮演角色的著作。緬甸的年輕人在多大程度上從香港、台灣、泰國和所謂的「奶茶聯盟」中學到了什麼？依賴互聯網如何影響安全部隊和公民不服從運動的運作？雙方如何使用錯誤信息和虛假信息來實現各自的目標？

因此，本書為那些希望了解發生了什麼事情以及除了軍事干預之外還能做些什麼的人提供了一個有價值的指南。它評估了政變後第一年的國際回應，坦率地評估了它們的可行性、效力和實用性。最近的發展被置於緬甸現代史和制裁與接觸有效性的討論背景之中。

本書還對東盟的角色進行了批判性評估 - 東盟如何看待自己的角色，國家團結政府如何看待東盟的努力，世界其他地區如何看待東盟應對緬甸問題的能力？我們評估了東盟不干涉成員國內部事務的原則。對於東盟來說，這一原則是否比對其薄弱和無法應對違反東盟憲章的行為的判斷更重要？

作者簡介

Nicholas Coppel is President of the Australia Myanmar Institute and a former senior career diplomat. He was Australia's Ambassador to Myanmar for four years from 2015 to 2018. Between 2011 and 2013, he headed the 500+ person Regional Assistance Mission to Solomon Islands in restoring law and order and governance in Solomon Islands after a period of ethnic tensions. He oversaw and contributed to the publication of ten books as Executive Director of the Department of foreign Affairs and Trade's Economic Analytical Unit. Overseas, he has also served as Australia's Deputy High Commissioner in Port Moresby and Deputy Head of Mission in Manila, with an earlier posting in Washington DC. Nicholas has a Bachelor of Economics degree from the Australian National University and a Master of Business Administration degree from London Business School. He was awarded the Cross of Solomon Islands in 2017.

Lennon Y.C. Chang is Senior Lecturer in Criminology in the School of Social Sciences at Monash University, Australia. He is the Vice Chairman of the Asia Pacific Association of Technology and Society which he co-founded in 2012. He is also the founder of Cyberbaykin: Myanmar Cyber Security Awareness campaign. Before joining Monash University, he was an Assistant Professor of criminology in the Department of Applied Social Sciences at the City University of Hong Kong (2011-2015). He was awarded his PhD by the Australian National University in 2010. He has a Master in Criminology and Bachelor in Law degrees from National Taipei University. In 2007 he received an Endeavour Asia Award and in 2009 was identified by Peking University and Griffith Asia Institute as an Australia-China Emerging Leader. He was recently selected as a Global Emerging Voices Fellow and an Australia-China Youth Dialogue Fellow.

作者簡介(中文翻譯)

Nicholas Coppel是澳大利亞緬甸學會的主席，也是一位前高級職業外交官。他在2015年至2018年期間擔任澳大利亞駐緬甸大使，任職四年。在2011年至2013年期間，他領導了500多人的區域援助使命團，協助所羅門群島恢復法律秩序和治理，解決了一段種族緊張時期。作為澳大利亞外交貿易部經濟分析部的執行主任，他監督並參與了十本書籍的出版。在海外，他還曾擔任澳大利亞駐莫士比港副高級專員和駐馬尼拉副使，並曾在華盛頓特區擔任過職務。Nicholas擁有澳大利亞國立大學的經濟學學士學位和倫敦商學院的工商管理碩士學位。他於2017年獲得所羅門群島十字勳章。

Lennon Y.C. Chang是澳大利亞蒙納士大學社會科學學院犯罪學高級講師。他是亞太科技與社會協會的副主席，該協會於2012年由他共同創辦。他還是緬甸網絡安全宣傳活動Cyberbaykin的創始人。在加入蒙納士大學之前，他曾在香港城市大學應用社會科學系擔任犯罪學助理教授（2011-2015年）。他於2010年獲得澳大利亞國立大學的博士學位。他擁有國立臺北大學的犯罪學碩士和法學學士學位。2007年，他獲得了一項亞洲獎學金，並於2009年被北京大學和格里菲斯亞洲研究所選為澳中新興領袖。他最近被選為全球新興聲音研究員和澳中青年對話研究員。

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