Reviewed title: Egreteau, R. & L. Jagan. 2013. Soldiers and Diplomacy in Burma: Understanding the Foreign Relations of the Burmese Praetorian State, Singapore: National University of Singapore Press, ISBN 9789971696733
In recent decades, few regimes have been as secretive and reclusive as Burma’s. However, this pariah is hardly cut-off from the outside world, as the recent volume by Renaud Egreteau and Larry Jagan make clear.