...Paul Vrieze This article examines Myanmar ethnic minorities’ diverse responses to the 2021 military coup. The coup prompted widespread mobilization for a national alliance that aims to replace the junta with a federal democracy. For minority actors this resistance could offer a unique opportunity...

...David Brenner In 2023, revolutionary forces made significant gains in an escalating war against an increasingly embattled military dictatorship. Since General Min Aung Hlaing ousted the democratically elected government in a military coup on February 1, 2021, his junta has failed to subdue...

...Yoshifumi Tamada While Thailand’s military government has attempted to postpone a general election, it is inevitable. In preparation for elections, the junta founded a pro-junta party and propped it up vigorously while continuing to impose restrictions on anti-junta parties. © 2019 by The Regents...

...Yun Zhang; Yimeng Jia Why and how did the International Labor Organization and the military junta of Myanmar transform their relationship so dramatically, from confrontation to cooperation, between 2007 and 2010? What insights can be drawn from this case regarding the successful operation...

...Duncan Mccargo Following the epochal funeral of the late King Bhumibol Adulyadej in October 2017, Thailand stands at a difficult crossroads. A new constitution was ratified in April, and the military junta is running out of reasons to stick around. Yet Thailand remains deeply polarized politically...

...Neil A. Englehart Burma’s recent election was clearly not free and fair. However, it can also be seen as improving a uniquely unrepresentative government, creating greater pluralism, and institutionalizing differences within the ruling junta. Even the rigged election may have created opportunities...

...Sean Turnell The dominant issue in Myanmar throughout 2010 was the elections finally held on November 7. These were the culmination of the ruling junta's roadmap toward "disciplined democracy" but were neither free nor fair. A major development the same month was the release from house arrest...

...Ian Holliday Democratization studies now highlight potentially derailing problems such as warlike nationalism and violent ethnic conflict. In Myanmar, where ethnic tension runs deep, the risks are especially great. Political reformers should work within the framework of the military junta's planned...

...Ian Holliday In common with many Asian governments, Myanmar's military junta makes frequent appeals to harmony. However, incessant demands that the nation cultivate a narrowly conceived and centrally imposed unity make this a degenerate case of governance for harmony in which militaristic calls...

...Ian Holliday U.S. sanctions against Myanmar, intensified in July 2003, are not working. The military junta remains firmly in power. Opposition to it is still repressed. Washington should adopt a more nuanced carrot-and-stick approach aimed at strengthening constructive engagement efforts led...

... and the democratic legitimacy lost after the coup of 2014. Progress was marred by missteps and irregularities, leaving both stability and legitimacy in doubt. © 2020 by The Regents of the University of California 2020 Thai election coronation monarchy ASEAN Summit Thai junta JAMES OCKEY Thailand...

... of the University of California 2024 China and the junta supported ASEAN’s Five-Point Consensus on Myanmar, released in April 2021. The proposal called for “immediate cessation of violence,” “constructive dialogue,” mediation through a special envoy of the ASEAN chair, ASEAN provision of humanitarian...

... to be extremely fearful about the future. At the end of 2016, Thailand lay in metaphorical darkness. POLITICS The National Council for Peace and Order (NCPO), the military junta that seized power in the May 2, 2014 coup, remained firmly in control of the country during 2016, although the original justifications...

.... Meanwhile, a bomb blast in downtown Bangkok that killed about 20 people revealed not only the risk of international terrorism but also the dilemma of Thai foreign policy. © 2016 by The Regents of the University of California 2016 constitution military junta Ratchaprasong bomb pracharat policy...

..., the ruling junta ignored NLD leaders requests to resume the national reconciliation dialogue. The U.N. special envoy, Razali Ismail, also failed to convince the junta to resume the dialogue. While the junta continues to be criticized for Myanmar s human rights conditions, it has since allowed...

... of the minorities. Thai forces were mobilized to guard the border every time a battle erupted. Third, the military sweeps and political suppression in Burma spawned an in ux of refugees into Thailand. The junta s crackdown on minorities displaced thousands of persons, many of whom ed across the mountainous border...

... in a landslide. With the approach of summer and the 10th anniver- sary of the "8.8.88" (August 8, 1988) general strike, the junta braced for a new outbreak of popular unrest, bringing riot police units into Rangoon and briefly closing down the Shwe Dagon Pagoda for a "clean-up" in late August. Few doubted...

... relations ploy, and therefore subject to reversal once the military junta attains its objectives in the form of resumed foreign assistance and a better international image. On the other hand, Ardeth Maung Thawnghmung is Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Pacific and Asian Studies, University...

... Criticized," Financial Times, June 3, 1999 Bardacke June 3 Financial Times 1999 Burmanet News online information service, no. 1286, June 4, 1999, on the World Wide Web at <http://www.burma.net/>. 5 "Cancer Claim a 'Political Ploy'—Junta," Agence France-Presse, in ibid., no. 1235, March...

...Chong-Sik Lee KOREA: IN SEARCH OF STABILITY CHONG-SIK LEE General Pak Chung-hi, head of the military junta that seized control of the Korean government in May 1961, entered 1963 with his plans for a "great human revolution" somewhat tarnished. Inflation, eco- nomic stagnation, mixed results...