This course will examine the questions of regional strategic concerns and foreign policy responses toward a multi-ethnic state, riven by internal ethnic, political, social, and economic tensions, while pivotal in Chinese, Indian, and ASEAN relations. International and internal conceptions of legitimacy and problems of human rights, often highly polarized, will be considered within the context of contemporary Burmese history. Relations with China and the United States, together with those of India, Japan, and the ASEAN states and ASEAN as an institution will be analyzed.