Britain's Colonial Baggage

Abstract

Thesis for the MA programme ‘International Relations in Historical Perspective’ - Recent political developments have led to increased international attention for Burma. This popularity surge was used to the advantage of this study; as a popular topic in the press, the results of comparative newspaper analysis were used to establish to what degree the colonial past and colonial discourse influence Britain’s stance on its former colony Burma, which, forming the exception, was never part of the Commonwealth.