Burma after forty years
ANDREW SELTH | Burma’s recent history, of turmoil and change (including the 1989 renaming to Myanmar), makes it a telling case study for the… Read More
Region | Indonesia and Southeast Asia
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Kipling’s Burma and Myanmar’s Kipling
ANDREW SELTH | He knew little about the country, but colonised the West’s imagination about it. The Indian Institute of Advanced Study and the… Read More
The forgiveness dilemma: Emotions and justice at the Khmer Rouge Tribunal
RENÉE JEFFERY | In post-conflict politics, the practice of forgiveness is marked by a serious dilemma. For its proponents, forgiveness is the panacea for… Read More
Perspectives:Asia seminar – ‘Insights Indonesia’
A video recording of the Perspectives:Asia seminar ‘Insights Indonesia’ seminar is now available on our Perspectives:Asia event website. George Roberts, Journalist, ABC News Queensland spoke at… Read More
Democracy in Myanmar: Who can claim victory?
ANDREW SELTH | Paraphrasing the Roman historian Tacitus, US President John F Kennedy said in 1961 that ‘victory has a thousand fathers but defeat… Read More
Andrew Selth: The lady and authoritarianism in Myanmar
ANDREW SELTH | Over the past few years, there has been a significant shift in public perceptions of Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu… Read More
The rats of Rangoon
ANDREW SELTH | From plague, to meals, to piles and piles of poo — Andrew Selth on the former capital’s resident rodents. When I… Read More
Myanmar foreign policy under Aung San Suu Kyi
ANDREW SELTH | Last November, the National League for Democracy won a landslide electoral victory in Myanmar. It formed a new government this month. Read More
Trading amnesty for impunity in Timor-Leste
RENÉE JEFFERY | 1999 marked a turning point in international public policy concerning the inclusion of amnesties for perpetrators of human rights violations in… Read More
Who benefits the most? Indonesia’s self-sufficiency versus food security
Ever since campaigning for the presidency, Joko Widodo or Jokowi has consistently pointed to nine priorities which he has touted as key to a better… Read More
