Hunter Marston is a doctoral candidate at Australian National University. When Suu Kyi’s party triumphed in 2015, in the first free national elections since 1990, Myanmar was expected to turn a corner ...

Burma is a third-world country with a long history of left-wing politics dating back to the colonial era. Unlike the rest of the world, politics in Burma was totally a battle between left-wing groups.

Burmese writer and historian Dr. Thant Myint-U discussed his new book, “The Hidden History of Burma: Race, Capitalism, and the Crisis of Democracy in the 21st Century” (2019), with an audience of ...

Thant Myint-U has titled his reflective and illuminating new book “The Hidden History of Burma,” even though he gently suggests that the country’s past wasn’t so much obscured as it was hiding in ...

Earlier this month, Myanmar’s leader Aung San Suu Kyi appeared before the International World Court of Justice in The Hague, calling on it to dismiss an accusation of genocide against her country’s ...

The government of old Burma -- Social and economic aspects of old Burma -- A century of British relations, 1784-1886 -- British administration, 1886-1914 -- Economic and social developments, 1870-1914 ...

Just a few years ago, Myanmar (also called Burma) was widely seen as an international success story. In March 2011, after half a century of military rule, a quasi-civilian government led by the former ...

(The Conversation) — This pattern of persecution goes back to 1948 – the year when the country achieved independence from their British colonizers. (The Conversation) — Some 420,000 Rohingya Muslims, ...

The CSIS Banyan Tree Leadership Forum with Thant Myint-U Dr. Thant Myint-U is an award-winning writer, historian, conservationist, and a former advisor to the president of Myanmar. He has served on ...