The Pros and Cons of Electing Chief Ministers
14 Minutes To ReadMael Raynaud presents new elements in the debates around Article 261 (b) of the 2008 Constitution.
Promising Developments and Daunting Challenges in Using Ethnic Minority Languages in Formal Education (Part 3)
10 Minutes To ReadNicolas Salem-Gervais and Mael Raynaud present two case studies and conclude this three-part post.
Promising Developments and Daunting Challenges in Using Ethnic Minority Languages in Formal Education (Part 2)
19 Minutes To ReadNicolas Salem-Gervais and Mael Raynaud discuss the prospects of ethnic minority languages standardization..
Promising Developments and Daunting Challenges in Using Ethnic Minority Languages in Formal Education (Part 1)
20 Minutes To ReadNicolas Salem-Gervais and Mael Raynaud discuss the teaching of ethnic minority languages in government schools.
Decentralization: Bamars care about governing their own regions, too
9 Minutes To ReadThein Than Win, from the Paññā Institute, and Mael Raynaud suggests that federalism is now an objective shared by the Bamar in Myanmar’s seven regions.
A Conversation with U Pe Aung Lin
8 Minutes To ReadU Pe Aung Lin is the chairman of the Myanmar Center to Empower Regional Parliaments (MCERP). This post is a transcript of a conversation with Mael Raynaud, the Head of […]
Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Myanmar edited by Adam Simpson, Nicholas Farrelly and Ian Holliday, Routledge, 2018, 452 pages.
11 Minutes To ReadMael Raynaud reviews a new resource for scholarship on Myanmar.
Citizenship in Myanmar: Ways of Being in and from Burma, Edited by Ashley South and Marie Lall, Singapore: ISEAS, 2018, 316 pages
9 Minutes To ReadMael Raynaud reviews a new edited volume on the contentious issues surrounding citizenship in Myanmar.
Padoh Mahn Shah: a Funeral in Kawthoolei
8 Minutes To ReadMael Raynaud pays tribute to a bold, bridge-building Karen leader.
Remembering Nay Win Maung, year after year
9 Minutes To ReadMael Raynaud considers the enduring legacy of a key figure in Myanmar’s transition.