TTLV: Reforms in Myanmar and their impact on Myanmar's international relations.

INFORMATION ABOUT THE MASTER'S THESIS

1. Student's full name: LE VAN QUYNH TRANG; 2. Gender: Female

3. Date of birth: May 29, 1988

4. Place of birth: Hung Yen

5. Decision on student admission No. 1936/2011/QD/XHNV-KH&SDH dated October 10, 2011, by the Rector of the University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Vietnam National University, Hanoi.

6. Changes in the training process:

Are not

7. Thesis title: “Reforms in Myanmar and their impact on Myanmar’s international relations”

8. Major: International Relations; Code: 06310206

9. Scientific supervisor: Prof. Dr. Dang Xuan Khang

Head of the Personnel Department, Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities - Vietnam National University, Hanoi

10. Summary of the thesis results:

The thesis researched and clarified three main contents: the context of the reforms in Myanmar; the progress of the reforms in the fields of politics, economics, and foreign relations; and the impact of these reforms on Myanmar's international relations with several major countries such as the US, China, India, Japan, Russia, organizations such as ASEAN, the EU, and Vietnam.

The research findings of this thesis have clarified the overall picture of the current reforms taking place in Myanmar: the reasons why Myanmar is undertaking reforms, how the reforms are unfolding, the achievements made, as well as the difficulties and advantages of the reforms; and how the attitudes, views, and policies of major powers have changed after the Myanmar government implemented these reforms.

Many works and studies have been written about Myanmar in general, and articles both domestically and internationally have focused on the reforms in this country in particular. However, this thesis is a specific and comprehensive study of these reforms.

Reforms in Myanmar are still ongoing, so the research findings in this thesis are timely and relevant.

1. Practical applications:

The research findings of this thesis provide readers with useful, timely, and up-to-date information, along with a multifaceted and comprehensive view of the reforms in particular and information about the country and people of Myanmar in general, which is still largely unfamiliar to many.

12. Future research directions:

The reform is still ongoing, and no one can be certain about its outcome. Therefore, predicting the trends and results of the reform under different scenarios will be an interesting direction for further research on this topic.

13. Published works related to the thesis:

(List the works in chronological order if available)

As mentioned above, the thesis topic is topical and relevant, so the relevant works are mainly articles in journals and specific studies on each issue at each point in time. The following are some relevant works:

• Vu Quang Thien (1997),Myanmar's development processSocial Sciences Publishing House, Hanoi
• Vu Quang Thien (2005),History of MyanmarSocial Sciences Publishing House, Hanoi
• Chu Cong Phung (editor) (2011),Myanmarhistory and presentNational Political Publishing House.
• Embassy of Vietnam in the Republic of the Union of Myanmar (2011),Doing business in Vietnam and MyanmarNational Political Publishing House.
• Van Trung Hieu (2013), Reform and Opening Up in Myanmar,Journal of Southeast Asian Studies, number 5 (158)
• Le Van Anh, Tran Huu Trung (2012), ASEAN and the democratic reform process in Myanmar, Journal of Southeast Asian Studies, No. 10 (151/2012)
• Myanmar begins to reap the results of democratic reforms (2012), Special Reference Document No. 012-TTX dated January 16, 2012
• Political Changes in Myanmar (2012), Special Reference Document No. 034-TTX dated February 8, 2012
• International Studies (2013), Myanmar Opens Up: Opportunities for Investors, No. 74, published October 25, 2013

INFORMATION ON MASTER'S THESIS

1. Full name: LE VAN QUANNH TRANG.......... 2. Sex: Female

3. Date of birth: May 29, 1988................................... 4. Place of birth: Hung Yen, Vietnam.

5. Admission decision number: 1936/2011/QD/XHNV-KH&SĐH, Dated 10^thOctober 2011

6. Changes in academic process: None

(List the forms of change and corresponding times)

7. Official thesis title: Myanmar's reform and its affection on Myanmar's international relations.

8. Major: International Relations .......................... 9. Code: 06310206................................

10. Supervisors: Prf.Dr. Dang Xuan Khang ................................................................................

PersonnelDirector- University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Vietnam National University, Hanoi.

1. Summary of the findings of the thesis:

This thesis has studied and clarified three key issues: Background reforms in Myanmar; The process of reform in the fields of politics, economics and foreign affairs; The impact of this reform on Myanmar's international relations with a number of major countries such as USA, China, India, Japan, Russia, organizations such as ASEAN, the EU, and Vietnam.

The results of the thesis was to clarify the whole picture of the current reform in Myanmar: reasons for change, how it is taking place, what the achievements have achieved, as well as the difficulties and advantages of the reform; how the major powers have changed their opinions, attitudes, opinions and policies towards Myanmar after a series of reform.

There have been many works and researches on Myanmar in general, and foreign written about reform in this country in particular, but this thesis specifically focuses on the reform.

As the reform in Myanmar is still ongoing, so the results of the thesis is a topical updated research.

12. Practical applicability, if any: The results of the thesis provide readers with useful and updated information, multiple and comprehensive perspectives regarding the reform in particular and the Myanmar country and people in general, which are inherently new to others.

13. Further research directions, if any:

The reform is going on, however, its result is hard to be sure. Therefore, forecasts on trends and as well as the results of the reforms with different scenarios will be interesting further research directions.

14. Thesis-related publications:

(List them in chronological order)

As mentioned above, the thesis is a topical and updated research, so that related works are mainly articles in magazines, and some researchs focused on specific issue at concret period. Here are some related works:

- Vu Quang Thien (1997), The development of Myanmar, Publishing House of Social Sciences, Hanoi

- Vu Quang Thien (2005), History of Burma, Publishing House of Social Sciences, Hanoi

- Chu Cong Phung (eds) (2011), Myanmar's history and present, The National Political Publishing.

- Vietnam Embassy in the Republic of the Union of Myanmar (2011), Doing Business in Vietnam and Myanmar, The National Political Publishing.

- Van Trung Hieu (2013), reform and opening up in Myanmar, Journal of Southeast Asian Studies, No. 5 (158)

- Le Van Anh, Tran Huu Trung (2012), ASEAN and the process of democratic reform in Myanmar, Journal of Southeast Asian Studies, No. 10 (151/2012)

- Myanmar began to reap results from the democratic reform (2012), Reference No. 012-TTX special day January 16, 2012

- The political change in Myanmar (2012), Reference No. 034-TTX special day February 8, 2012

- International Studies (2013), Myanmar Open: opportunities for investors, No. 74, published on 10.25.2013.