GENERAL THURA SHWE MAN AS A MARKER OF EVOLUTION MODERNIST ELITE OF INDEPENDENT BURMA/MYANMAR AT THE END OF THE XX – THE BEGINNING OF THE XXI CENTURY
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Abstract
During the last three decades of the existence of an independent Burma/Myanmar, the civilian modernists of the national elite, partly relying on the British colonial tradition, under the brand established in 1988 the National League for Democracy, have gone a long way from a loose political conglomerate bound up with unequal relations with the military modernists of General Ne Wine, prior to the formation of a rigid and patriotically-minded party-political imperious vertical, which became the ruling party according to the results of the November 2015 parliamentary elections. NLD, led by its permanent leader Aung San Suu Kyi, turned out to be able to engage in cooperation an influential general Thura Shwe Man and other modernist militaries. Their considerable political potential in the long run can be used by the leaders of the NLD to strengthen their political positions and will contribute to further consolidation of the country’s national elite.
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Aung San Suu Kyi, conservatives, cooperation, elite, military, modernists, NLD, Thura Shwe Man
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