 | A Delicate Relationship: The United States and Burma/Myanmar since 1945 Subjects: United States -- Foreign relations -- Burma; Burma -- Foreign relations -- United States; United States -- Foreign relations -- 1945–1989; United States -- Foreign relations -- 1989–; Burma -- History -- 1948–; In 2012, Barack Obama became the first U.S. president ever to visit Myanmar, formerly known as Burma. This official state visit marked a new period in the long and sinuous diplomatic relationship between the United States and Burma/Myanmar, which Kenton Clymer examines in A Delicate Relationship . Kenton Clymer is Distinguished Research Professor of History at Northern Illinois University. He is the author of several books, including Troubled Relations: The United States and Cambodia since 1870 , Protestant Missionaries in the Philippines, 1898-1916: An Inquiry into the American Colonial Mentality , and Quest for Freedom: The United States and India's Independence . |
