From Democracy to Dictatorship in Burma

Josef Silverstein earned his Ph.D. at Cornell University. He has visited Burma twice; in 1955–1956 as a Ford Fellow and Fulbright pre-doctoral candidate, and in 1961–1962 as a Fulbright Senior Lecturer at Mandalay University. He is presently completing his revision of the Burma section of Government and Politics in Southeast Asia , edited by George McTuman Kahin, and is writing a full length study on the politics of national unity in Burma.