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100			_aMEEHAN Patrick
245			_aBrokered rule: _bmilitias, drugs, and borderland governance in the Myanmar-China borderlands/ _cPatrick Meehan and Seng Lawn Dan
260			_c2023
520			_aThis article develops the concept of brokerage to analyse the systems of borderland governance that have underpinned processes of state formation and capitalist development in the conflict-affected Myanmar-China borderland region of northern Shan State since the late 1980s. It focuses on the brokerage arrangements that have developed between the Myanmar Army and local militias, and how the illegal drug trade has become integral to these systems of brokered rule. This article draws particular attention to the inherent tensions and contradictions surrounding brokerage. In the short term, deploying militias as borderland brokers has provided an expedient mechanism through which the Myanmar Army has sought to extend and embed state authority, and has also provided the stability and coercive muscle needed to attract capital, expand trade, and intensify resource extraction.
650			_aBROKERAGE _xTERRITORY _xFRONTIERS
700			_aDAN Seng Lawn
773			_gJournal of Contemporary Asia, Volume 53, Number 4, September 2023, page: 561-583
856			_uhttps://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00472336.2022.2064327 _zClick here for full text
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