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ID:
113772
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ID:
087703
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2009.
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On August 6, 2008, a military coup in
Mauritania ousted the 15-month-old administration
of President Sidi Mohamed
Ould Cheikh Abdallahi. Soldiers seized Abdallahi
(known popularly as Sidi) and his prime minister,
Yahya Ould Ahmed Waghf, and also took control
of the state television and radio stations. They announced
that Mauritania would be ruled by a 12-
man military junta, the High State Council (Haute
conseil d'état, or HCE).
Since Mauritania won its independence from
France in 1960, it has endured nine coup d'états,
though most barely made Western headlines. This
coup was different, however. It occurred exactly
three years after a coup that had been expected to
end all coups-a seizure of power that had prepared
the way for the nation's first democratically
elected government. Mauritania is a desperately
poor country of over 3 million, straddling Arab
and black West Africa and the Sahara and Sahel
regions, and its short-lived democratic experiment
had inspired optimism among those interested in
democratization in the Arab world and Africa.
The 2008 coup was therefore a symbolic defeat.
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ID:
133123
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2014.
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Myanmar's rolling political and economic transition is being shaped by profound generational change. Little attention has been paid to the priorities and politics of the new generation of youth. This article seeks to explore the construction of Myanmar's elites as a homogenized, unitary, uncontested group through a close examination of elite youth. The article challenges some basic preconceptions about Myanmar's elites. Three primary youth cohorts are appraised and situated in the transition: the entitled business elite, the cultural forgers and the resistant forces. All three groups are privileged in Myanmar society, where their power struggles see efforts to assert degrees of cultural supremacy. Drawing on ethnographic research in Myanmar, the article offers insights into the role of elite youth in Myanmar's future and their perceptions of the present shift of national political and economic policies.
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