Andrew Selth

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

Why Myanmar’s rumor mill is always spinning

ANDREW SELTH  | There is something about Myanmar that encourages conspiracy theories and wild rumors. Not only does the country create them in abundance,… Read More

The potential for Army-Police rivalry in Myanmar

ANDREW SELTH  | Since December 2015, a rumour has been circulating in Yangon that the Commander-in-Chief of Myanmar’s armed forces is investigating several police… Read More

Myanmar’s armed forces: obstacle or ally for reform?

ANDREW SELTH  | It has long been the mantra of Myanmar’s leader-in-waiting Aung San Suu Kyi and her National League for Democracy, echoed by… Read More

Order versus chaos in Myanmar

ANDREW SELTH  | In his 1968 book “Political Order in Changing Societies”, American political scientist Samuel P. Huntington wrote that violence and instability were… Read More

Burma (Myanmar) since the 1988 uprising: A select bibliography, 2nd Edition

By Andrew Selth, Griffith Asia Institute, Griffith University PUBLISHED BY: Griffith University ISBN: 9781922216717 PUBLICATION DATE: 2015 Read the digital version of the… Read More

The realities of power in Myanmar

Over the past few months, articles and op-eds by experts and others on Myanmar’s general elections have covered almost every conceivable aspect of the subject. Read More

Burma’s Tatmadaw: A force to be reckoned with

ANDREW SELTH  | Shashank Joshi’s recent post on ‘India’s Incredible Shrinking Air Force’ prompts a closer look at Burma’s armed forces (the Tatmadaw). Since… Read More


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