Analysis
US Well-Placed to Guide Myanmar’s New Governance
As more and more areas come under ethnic resistance group and PDF rule, the US has a chance to forge nation’s new democratic future In Myanmar,…
Analysis
Understanding Myanmar as Interim ‘Non-State’ State
Myanmar has become a de facto state that is dominated by non-state entities. Contrary to facile claims, Myanmar is not a failed state like some that…
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Facing a Military Crisis, What Will the Myanmar Junta’s Next Step Be?
Notwithstanding the junta propaganda newspapers’ misleading reports about a state of “normality” prevailing, the Myanmar military is in the grip of a deepening crisis. It has…
Analysis
Renewed Conflict in Rakhine State Poses New Threat to Rohingya
Since November, Rakhine State in Myanmar has been marred by renewed violence between the Myanmar military and the Arakan Army, shattering a year-long unofficial ceasefire and…
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Myanmar Junta Press-Gang Drive Certain to Backfire
Myanmar’s auto-destruct military regime has produced another data point of desperation by invoking an unused conscription law, fueling alarm that men aged between 18 and 35…
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Three Years After Myanmar’s Coup, China Emerges the Winner
When a country is strong and united, no one can manipulate and control it. But if, like Myanmar, it is weak and fragmented, this weakness will…
Analysis
Reading Lemkin in The Time of Genocide by Myanmar, Russia & Israel
The world is living through a series of deeply destabilizing genocidal wars. Having returned from The Hague, where I joined the “End Israel’s genocide in Gaza”…
Analysis
By Almost Every Measure, Myanmar Junta Ranks Among World’s Worst Regimes
Since the Feb. 1, 2021 military coup in Myanmar, at least 4,474 civilians have been killed, more than 25,000 people have been arrested and over 78,000…