Changing Hillside Economy: Farmers Turning from Opium to Coffee and Tea
9 Minutes To ReadYaw Bawm Mangshang shares a hopeful story of environmental recovery in Shan State. In today’s world, the daily news is overwhelmingly bleak with both man-made and natural disasters. Uplifting stories […]
The Career Prospects of Sadists: Attrition, Collapse, and Myanmar’s Military (Part 1)
15 Minutes To ReadIn Part 1 of a 2-part series, Bobby Anderson considers the strengths and weaknesses of Myanmar’s military and its chances of collapse.
Opium’s Calculus (Part 3: An Ordinary Place)
11 Minutes To ReadIn the final part of this series, Bobby Anderson elaborates on the realities of opium-growing areas of Chin state, and their divergence from both existing stereotypes and the triage described in Part One and Two.
Opium’s Calculus (Part 2: The Experience of Northern Chin and Tonzang)
13 Minutes To ReadIn Part Two of a three-part series, Bobby Anderson examines the case of Tonzang and its exception to conditions for opium-funded insurgencies in Myanmar, as outlined in Part One.
Opium’s Calculus (Part 1: Abacus Beads)
22 Minutes To ReadBobby Anderson, in Part One of a three-part series on opium and insurgency in Tonzang, examines some elements of traditional understandings of insurgency, statebuilding and opium.