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3 Feb 2025

The Best of 2024: Our Audiences’ Top Picks

ISP-Myanmar publishes this Insight Email as a special edition. We would like to share the favorites of our audiences among our 2024 published research and findings.

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31 Jan 2025

The Political Economy of Myanmar’s Conflict

“The Political Economy of Myanmar’s Conflict: Analyzing the Pros and Cons of De-escalation Through Economic Incentives,” was also one of the most read pieces.

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31 Jan 2025

Future Federal Army

Since the 2021 coup, a proliferation of armed resistance groups has reshaped Myanmar’s conflict landscape. ISP-Myanmar’s research identifies over 500 such groups. Meanwhile, SAC’s military failures are mounting.

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31 Jan 2025

Facing the Tailspin, The Country Shall Fall Upside Down

Through the Research Network Program, ISP-Myanmar conducted studies across more than 110 townships, covering one-third of Myanmar’s total townships.

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31 Jan 2025

Sanctions With Chinese Characteristics: The Case of Myanmar

In October 2024, China shut down more than 14 of its border gates along the Myanmar border. At the same time, the EAOs along the Myanmar-China border were pressured by China’s “Five Cuts.”

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31 Jan 2025

Making Data Speak: Capturing Conflicts and Human Security Agenda in Myanmar

In 2024, ISP-Myanmar launched its talk show series, “30 Minutes with the ISP,” hosting six events. The fourth episode, “Making Data Speak: Capturing Conflicts and Human Security Agenda in Myanmar,” drew the largest audiences.

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31 Jan 2025

The Rise of Princelings

ISP-Myanmar is researching the emerging new generation leaders from EAOs and the resistance movement under the theme “The Rise of Princelings.”

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31 Jan 2025

The Terror Twins of Climate and Conflict

In 2024, Myanmar’s populace of over 5.6 million suffered from floods, and 24 percent of agricultural land was submerged.

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31 Jan 2025

Seeking a Process Strategy for Myanmar: China’s Initiative

The third most-read publication in 2024 was an ISP OnPoint titled “Seeking a Process Strategy for Myanmar: China’s Initiative.”

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31 Jan 2025

Myanmar’s Key Stakeholders and Their Perceptions of Sino-Myanmar Relations

China Studies Program of ISP-Myanmar continues to delve into the nuances of China-Myanmar relations.

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31 Jan 2025

Naypyitawlogy

Naypyitawlogy studies the shifts and climate of Naypyitaw’s generals and the State Administration Council (SAC).

issue:V02N06,

29 Oct 2024

The Terror Twins of Climate and Conflict

In times of conflict and climate change crises, Myanmar’s society urgently needs the emergence of everyday champions.

issue:V02N05,

22 Aug 2024

Naypyitawlogy

Naypyitawlogy-5

Snr. Gen. Min Aung Hlaing’s ongoing strategy of blame-game may bring him closer to his downfall.

issue:V02N04,

21 Mar 2024

The Rise of Princelings

The Rise of Princelings – 2

This week ISP-Myanmar presents another review in our series on emerging new generation leaders from Ethnic Armed Organizations (EAOs) and the Spring Revolution movement, framed under the theme "The Rise of Princelings."

issue:V02N03,

1 Mar 2024

Naypyitawlogy

Naypyitawlogy – 4

This week’s ISP Insight Email revisits "Naypyitawlogy" by examining the administrative restructuring of the State Administration Council (SAC) during its three-year reign. In literature of political science, scholars often study the relationship between an authoritarian regime’s stability and state capacity.