Thailand: Next Door Frenemy to Myanmar?
7 Minutes To ReadMinn Myoh Minn Oo evaluates the political relationship between the Thai government and the Myanmar people.
The Career Prospects of Sadists: Attrition, Collapse, and Myanmar’s Military (Part 2)
15 Minutes To ReadIn Part 2 of a 2-part series, Bobby Anderson considers the strengths and weaknesses of Myanmar’s military and its chances of collapse. Read Part 1
Have Christians become the next religious target of the Myanmar military after Rohingya Muslims?
8 Minutes To ReadCielo (pseudonym) argues that targeting Christians and the re-emergence of Pyu Saw Htee triggered the military’s motivation to commit atrocities.
Internal migration in Myanmar: Security trumps economic incentives
6 Minutes To ReadSai Phyoe Zin Aung reflects on reasons for internal migration out of northern Shan State. Internal migration, the phenomenon of moving from one part of a country to another, is […]
A Preliminary Analysis of the Myanmar Military Junta’s Media Propaganda
13 Minutes To ReadSix students from the University of Yangon analyze key themes in the military-controlled and state-owned media since the February 1st coup. On 1st February 2021, the Myanmar military staged a […]
Perspectives on War, Peace, and Rebel Politics: David’s Response: Taking the Conversation Forward (Part 4)
9 Minutes To ReadDavid Brenner discusses the synergies and productive tensions between different perspectives on Rebel Politics.
Perspectives on War, Peace, and Rebel Politics: Burma’s Civil War Is the Struggle of Political and Social Movements (Part 3)
4 Minutes To ReadKai Htang Lashi comments on Rebel Politics from the perspective of a Kachin activist.
Perspectives on War, Peace, and Rebel Politics: Peace Inheres in Social Relations Formed during War (Part 2)
7 Minutes To ReadShona Loong discusses what Rebel Politics tells us about peacebuilding among Karen communities.
Perspectives on War, Peace, and Rebel Politics: Above All, Rebels Are Political (Part 1)
4 Minutes To ReadLee Jones discusses the merits of Rebel Politics in light of wider trends in the fields of Myanmar Studies and Conflict Studies. This is Part One of a four-part commentary on […]
Perspectives on War, Peace, and Rebel Politics: Introduction
2 Minutes To ReadThis is an introduction to a four-part commentary on David Brenner’s monograph, Rebel Politics: A Political Sociology of Armed Struggle in Myanmar’s Borderlands (Cornell University Press, 2019), in which the authors […]