The 21st Century Panglong Union Peace Conference attests to the most contemporary relevance of the country’s historic planning by exploiting the name Panglong in its title. Yet, what this will entail for the future of ethnic nationalities in contemporary Myanmar is still unclear.
Since the National League for Democracy's landslide November 2015 election victory, discussions on Myanmar's future have taken an interesting turn. Once again, Aung San Suu Kyi is confronted with challenges that could potentially jeopardize her moral and political authority.
In a rapidly changing world, middle powers with no obvious role to play on the global stage have the difficult task to read the international environment in order to formulate and implement a coherent and possibly effective foreign policy. In order to do so, decision makers either reproduce old ideas…
For years, most of Myanmar’s ethnic minorities, including the Kachin, have put their faith in Aung San Suu Kyi to reconcile the country. Her landslide victory in the country’s historic 2015 elections, was not least secured through the support from ethnic minority voters. As armed conflict has continued and even…
“Secondo la costituzione del Myanmar del 2008, che prevede che il 25 per cento dei parlamentari siano scelti dall’esercito, alla giunta basta avere l’8 per cento dei seggi per raggiungere il 33 per cento necessario per formare il parlamento. Se la giunta indice le elezioni anche solo nelle zone che controlla ci riuscirà.
Quindi anche se ci sarà solo il 33 per cento dei parlamentari eletti, l’ASEAN è già pronta a salutare il ritorno di un finto governo civile in Birmania; anche Cina, Russia e India sono pronte a riconoscere la validità delle elezioni, quindi per l’opposizione sarà molto più difficile recuperare e vincere, pur controllando la maggioranza del paese”.
Giuseppe Gabusi is Head of T.wai’s Indo-Pacific Program and an Associate Professor of International Political Economy and Political Economy of East Asia at the University of Turin.
Pietro Masina is a non-resident Research Fellow at T.wai and an Associate Professor of International Political Economy, History and Institutions of East Asia at the University of Naples “L'Orientale”.
Giorgio Prodi is the Vice President of the Torino World Affairs Institute and an Associate Professor of Applied Economics at the University of Ferrara.