Moral quandary in Myanmar studies: Looking at the Rohingya crisis as an outsider

5 Minutes To ReadHunter Marston explores the divergent perspectives of international scholars and the people of Myanmar.
Myanmar’s Enemy Within: Buddhist Violence and the Making of a Muslim “Other” by Francis Wade. Zed Books, 2017, 280 pages

5 Minutes To ReadIshrat Hossain reviews Francis Wade’s timely analysis of anti-Muslim sentiments in Myanmar.
Burma and the Rohingya Crisis: We Can Oppose Ethnic Cleansing Without Accepting Simple Answers

5 Minutes To ReadRosalie Metro finds persistent truths in the midst of (everyone’s) biased discussions of the Rohingya crisis.
Myanmar’s Repatriation Plan Offers Little for the Rohingya

5 Minutes To ReadAshley S. Kinseth muses on the recent Myanmar-Bangladesh Rohingya repatriation accord.
The international community must listen to the voices of Burma’s internally and externally displaced people

6 Minutes To ReadPaul Sztumpf argues that the international community needs to change its humanitarian support strategy.
Myanmar’s parliament is missing link in Rakhine crisis

6 Minutes To ReadRenaud Egreteau asks how the legislature could provide more oversight on the recent Rakhine State crisis.
Myanmar’s foreign relations after the Rakhine State crisis (Part 2)

8 Minutes To Read Kim Jolliffe continues looking at impacts of the Rakhine State crisis on Myanmar’s international relations.
Myanmar’s foreign relations after the Rakhine State crisis (Part 1)

6 Minutes To ReadKim Jolliffe highlights impacts of the Rakhine State conflict on Myanmar’s international relations in a two-part post.
On the uses of (neo)liberalism in Myanmar and the promise of radical feminism

11 Minutes To ReadShae A. Frydenlund uses a different lens to analyse the Rakhine State crisis.
A Polemic Against Liberal Analyses of the Rohingya Crisis

14 Minutes To ReadTim Frewer shows the limits of liberal analyses of the Rohingya crisis.