Democracy in Myanmar: Who can claim victory?
Thursday
31st March
2016
ANDREW SELTH | Paraphrasing the Roman historian Tacitus, US President John F Kennedy said in 1961 that ‘victory has…
Andrew Selth
Andrew Selth: The lady and authoritarianism in Myanmar
Thursday
31st March
2016
ANDREW SELTH | Over the past few years, there has been a significant shift in public perceptions of Myanmar…
The rats of Rangoon
Wednesday
30th March
2016
ANDREW SELTH | From plague, to meals, to piles and piles of poo — Andrew Selth on the former…
Myanmar foreign policy under Aung San Suu Kyi
Wednesday
30th March
2016
ANDREW SELTH | Last November, the National League for Democracy won a landslide electoral victory in Myanmar. It formed…
Why Myanmar’s rumor mill is always spinning
Friday
26th February
2016
ANDREW SELTH | There is something about Myanmar that encourages conspiracy theories and wild rumors. Not only does the…
The potential for Army-Police rivalry in Myanmar
Wednesday
3rd February
2016
ANDREW SELTH | Since December 2015, a rumour has been circulating in Yangon that the Commander-in-Chief of Myanmar’s armed…
Myanmar’s armed forces: obstacle or ally for reform?
Thursday
21st January
2016
ANDREW SELTH | It has long been the mantra of Myanmar’s leader-in-waiting Aung San Suu Kyi and her National…
Order versus chaos in Myanmar
Thursday
7th January
2016
ANDREW SELTH | In his 1968 book “Political Order in Changing Societies”, American political scientist Samuel P. Huntington wrote…
Burma (Myanmar) since the 1988 uprising: A select bibliography, 2nd Edition
Thursday
26th November
2015
By Andrew Selth, Griffith Asia Institute, Griffith University PUBLISHED BY: Griffith University ISBN: 9781922216717 PUBLICATION DATE: 2015 Read…
The realities of power in Myanmar
Monday
16th November
2015
Over the past few months, articles and op-eds by experts and others on Myanmar’s general elections have covered almost every…