Burma’s Quest for Democracy: An Introduction

The military could not bear Aung San Suu Kyi’s enduring popularity and her party’s continued success at the polls. But the generals may have miscalculated how much the people detest…

Although active or retired military officers still hold top government posts, direct rule by the military as an institution is over, at least for now.

India’s Constitution has long seemed stable, but the rise of an ethnic, absolute, and opaque state is changing the constitutional order in momentous and disturbing ways.