COVID-19 and Myanmar—A Looming Humanitarian Crisis
Guest post by Shelli Israelsen On March 31, 2020, Myanmar’s Ministry of Health and Sports confirmed its first…
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India’s Citizenship Policies Find Parallels in Neighboring Myanmar
Guest post by Bidisha Biswas and Srobana Bhattacharya Since December 2019, India has been embroiled in protests against…
Children for Hire
Guest post by Christopher Faulkner. Last week marked the 19th anniversary of the Optional Protocol to the Convention…
Rohingya “terrorists” and the hierarchies of legitimate resistance in Myanmar
Guest Post by David Brenner Last week, militants staged a series of attacks in Myanmar’s troubled Rakhine region.…
The Political Motives Behind Bangladesh’s Abuse of Rohingya Refugees
Guest post by Sam Schiffer. Half a million ethnic Rohingya, a Muslim people, have fled their native Myanmar…
Authority and Contestation inside Rebel Groups: Insights from Myanmar
Guest post by David Brenner. Recent scholarship highlights the importance of internal fragmentation for explaining the strategies of…
After Aleppo, Don’t Forget These Conflicts in 2017
By Marie E. Berry and Hollie Nyseth Brehm for Denver Dialogues. In December, as the former stronghold…
Trump’s Cabinet and Bringing Civil-Military Relations Back In
By Lionel Beehner, Peter White, and Michael Kenwick. Trump’s tapping of high-ranking generals for positions traditionally allocated to civilians…
Trump and Ethnicity in Comparative Perspective
By Cullen Hendrix for Denver Dialogues. Whether appeals to white identity and white resentment propelled Donald Trump –…
Rough Patches on the Silk Road? The Geopolitics of the Belt and Road Initiative
By Cullen Hendrix for Denver Dialogues. Note: This post draws on the author’s chapter in a recently released…