Diplomatic intelligence
Friday
21st June
2019
ANDREW SELTH | When I joined the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs in 1973, my fellow trainees and I…
Category Archive: Commentary
With new coastguard, Myanmar looks to improve maritime security
Monday
9th September
2019
ANDREW SELTH | In March this year, Myanmar’s Defence Ministry submitted a proposal to parliament to establish a …
Myanmar: Postage stamps and political signals
Tuesday
1st October
2019
A new set of stamps by Myanmar Post again draws controversy over “national races” labels to…
Aung San Suu Kyi: Why defend the indefensible?
Saturday
14th December
2019
ANDREW SELTH | This week, the world was treated to an extraordinary sight. Aung San Suu Kyi, the Nobel…
Foreigners, fighting and phaleristics: Military medals in British Burma
Monday
23rd December
2019
ANDREW SELTH | It has been said that a country’s culture is a window unto its soul. With this…
The coup in Myanmar
Wednesday
3rd February
2021
ANDREW SELTH | It is always difficult to know what is happening inside Myanmar, and developments relating to…
Myanmar’s personalised politics
Friday
12th March
2021
ANDREW SELTH | Anyone looking at photographs and film footage of events in Myanmar could be forgiven for…
The upward spiral of violence in Myanmar
Thursday
25th March
2021
ANDREW SELTH | The clashes in Myanmar’s streets between largely peaceful protesters and armed members of the security forces…
Aung San Suu Kyi’s uncertain fate
Friday
14th May
2021
ANDREW SELTH | In the flood of articles, op-eds and commentaries that has been published since the February coup…
Myanmar and a new kind of civil war
Thursday
20th May
2021
ANDREW SELTH | In early 1989, I was passing through Bangkok when a friend from a Western embassy invited…