Myanmar’s Earthquake Threatens a Lasting Economic Scar
Jared Bissinger
The recent earthquake in central Myanmar threatens to deepen the country’s economic malaise.

Jared Bissinger
The recent earthquake in central Myanmar threatens to deepen the country’s economic malaise.
Surachanee Sriyai
The repercussions of the US’ funding freeze on foreign assistance resonate deeply in Southeast Asia, including in one of the countries where press freedom and independent reportage are most threatened.
Jared Bissinger
Myanmar’s violations of its international economic obligations contribute to inflation and increasingly impoverish the country’s population. They also threaten to diminish the impact of financial assistance for Myanmar’s recent earthquake.
Surachanee Sriyai|Moe Thuzar
Rendering immediate aid to Myanmar’s earthquake victims should be a straightforward exercise. However, four years of civil conflict and the potential for politicisation by the ruling junta of humanitarian assistance efforts should put all donors and parties on notice.
Duncan McCargo
This commentary memorialises the late political scientist Alfred Stepan (1936-2017), a leading light in comparative politics. In it, the author considers Stepan’s research and thinking on the complicated relationship between Theravāda Buddhism and democracy.
Paul Chambers
Thailand’s efforts to mediate the peace in Myanmar are complicated by the kingdom’s extensive interests in the country.
Surachanee Sriyai
Myanmar resistance groups depend on Starlink to circumvent government controls. But this can also be its Achilles heel.
Jared Bissinger
Myanmar’s economy in 2024 continued to struggle with slow growth, high inflation, increasing poverty, and declining real wages. Its near-term economic prospects are weak, weighed down by conflict, outmigration, uncertainty, and State Administration Council (SAC) policies that extract from the real economy to resource the regime.
Napon Jatusripitak
Anwar Ibrahim, the prime minister of Malaysia, has roped in former Thai premier Thaksin Shinawatra as his informal advisor ahead of Kuala Lumpur assuming the ASEAN chairmanship. This might be ill-advised.
Htet Hlaing Win
Four years of civil strife and conflict, compounded by forced conscription, have led to Myanmar’s dire human resources crunch.