The executions in Myanmar: What was the Junta thinking?
Tuesday
2nd August
2022
ANDREW SELTH | The world is still in shock over the execution of four pro-democracy activists in Myanmar over…
Category Archive: Commentary
Chinese spy bases on Myanmar’s Great Coco Island? Here we go again
Thursday
4th May
2023
ANDREW SELTH | A little history should help dampen some wild speculation about eavesdropping facilities in the Indian Ocean.
Myanmar’s intelligence war: The battle of wits and wiles against the junta
Thursday
1st June
2023
ANDREW SELTH | In one of the British army’s first primers on “small wars”, Charles Callwell wrote in 1896 that…
A Tale of Two Myanmars
Monday
19th June
2023
ANDREW SELTH | As the civil war in Myanmar drags on, most foreign governments appear to have concluded that…
Andrew Selth: The lady and authoritarianism in Myanmar
Thursday
31st March
2016
ANDREW SELTH | Over the past few years, there has been a significant shift in public perceptions of Myanmar…
Has history left Aung San Suu Kyi behind?
Thursday
20th July
2023
ANDREW SELTH | It has been suggested recently that Myanmar’s imprisoned State Counsellor, Aung San Suu Kyi, has…
Fiji’s government may have changed, but the military is making it clear it will not go quietly
Friday
20th January
2023
JON FRAENKEL | We are starting to see what Fiji politics is likely to look like under the…
Doklam, the diplomacy of anger, and the Sino-Indian standoff
Monday
11th September
2017
IAN HALL | The ten-week standoff between Chinese and Indian troops in Doklam, in territory disputed by the People’s Republic…
Coral Bell and the ‘concert of powers’ problem
Wednesday
22nd November
2017
IAN HALL | The End of the Vasco da Gama Era is vintage Coral Bell: bold and trenchant, with…
Australia-Philippines security cooperation: The maritime dimension
Wednesday
31st July
2019
IAN HALL | Since the start of Battle for Marawi, in late May 2017, attention has tended to…