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Tag: transition

  • Letter

Are our expectations of Myanmar realistic? (Part III)

  • by teacircleoxford
  • Posted on November 7, 2018January 2, 2019

Gabrielle Maginness writes about challenges to Myanmar’s transition to federalism. This is part three of a five-part…

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  • Opinion

Burma at 70: why it’s time to end the Myanmar morality play

  • by teacircleoxford
  • Posted on January 8, 2018January 8, 2018

Alex Bescoby argues against staging Myanmar’s transition as a tale of good and evil.

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  • Essay

Remembering Nay Win Maung, year after year

  • by maelraynaud
  • Posted on January 2, 2018January 2, 2018

Mael Raynaud considers the enduring legacy of a key figure in Myanmar’s transition.  

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  • Essay

Pulling Strings Together

  • by teacircleoxford
  • Posted on May 25, 2017June 27, 2017

Kyaw Sit Naing describes the difficulties of entrepreneurship in Myanmar.

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  • Post

Insurance in Myanmar: Spreading the Risk

  • by teacircleoxford
  • Posted on May 23, 2017May 30, 2017

Stephen Weedon discusses the state of Myanmar’s insurance industry.

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  • Post

Yangon University, students and the state of national affairs, once again

  • by Diana Huynh
  • Posted on May 8, 2017June 12, 2017

Diana Huynh examines the historical and contemporary controversy of the Rangoon University Student Union.

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  • Research Report

Transition and its Temporalities

  • by Courtney Wittekind
  • Posted on January 10, 2017January 18, 2017

Courtney Wittekind asks whether land claims might be calls for a re-orientation of time.

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(Photo Credit, Courtney WIttekind)
  • Opinion

An Engineer, a Doctor or a Monk

  • by Alex Aung Khant
  • Posted on December 1, 2016January 30, 2017

Aung Khant reflects on possibilities available to Myanmar youth, and the future openings and lingering limits they represent.

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  • Book Review
  • Aside

Blood, Dreams and Gold – The Changing Face of Burma by Richard Cockett, Yale University Press, New Haven and London, 2015, 254 Pages.

  • by Dr. Reshmi Banerjee
  • Posted on August 31, 2016December 19, 2016

Blood, Dreams and Gold – The Changing Face of Burma by Richard Cockett, Yale University…

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  • Note from the Field

The Plight of Myanmar’s Forgotten Refugees (Part III)

  • by teacircleoxford
  • Posted on August 13, 2016April 20, 2017

Editor’s Note: The following is the third and final installment in a series of three posts written by Paul…

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Series: Year in Review 2018

The Promises of Planning Under the NLD

Stalemate and Suspicion: An Appraisal of the Myanmar Peace Process

Myanmar’s Freedom of Expression as a Broken Promise of the NLD

Law & Constitutionalism in Myanmar: A Year in Review

Justice in Burma: Wounds on the Wall

Year in Review: Public Health in Myanmar

Marginalisation or Consolidation? The Parliamentary Year in Review

Genocide in the Modern Era: Social Media and the Proliferation of Hate Speech in Myanmar

Two steps backward to move forward: The energy sector moves in the right direction

Tea Circle’s Book Reviews

Myanmar Transformed? People, Places and Politics edited by Justine Chambers, Gerard McCarthy, Nicholas Farrelly and Chit Win, ISEAS, Singapore, 2018, 333 Pages.

Myanmar’s ‘Rohingya’ Conflict by Anthony Ware and Costas Laoutides. London: Hurst, 2018, 224pp.

Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Myanmar edited by Adam Simpson, Nicholas Farrelly and Ian Holliday, Routledge, 2018, 452 pages.

Opening up Hidden Burma: Journeys With – And Without – Author Dr Bob Percival, edited by Keith Lyons, et.al, Tenko Press, 2018, 230 pages.

Bagan And The World – Early Myanmar and Its Global Connections edited by Goh Geok Yian, John N. Miksic and Michael Aung-Thwin, ISEAS, Singapore, 2018, 230 Pages.

The Cell, Exile, and the New Burma: A Political Education amid the Unfinished Journey toward Democracy by Kyaw Zwa Moe, Yangon, New Myanmar Publishing House, 2018, 245 Pages

Border Capitalism, Disrupted: Precarity and Struggle in a Southeast Asian Industrial Zone by Stephen Campbell. Cornell University Press, 2018. 206 Pages.

Reporting the Retreat: War Correspondents in Burma by Philip Woods, London, Hurst & Co., 2016, 206 Pages, ISBN: 9781849047173

Recent Posts

  • Challenging the distortion of influential monks?

    December 4, 2019
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    December 2, 2019
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    November 27, 2019

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