Exclusive interview: Myanmar’s shifted geopolitical posture after the coup
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Min Zin is the Executive Director of the Institute for Strategy and Policy (ISP), an independent and non-governmental think tank in Myanmar. He is a PhD candidate in the Travers Department of Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley. Min Zin studies comparative politics with a special focus on civil-military relations, democratization, and contentious politics.
He was a former student activist in Burma’s democracy movement in 1988. Min Zin’s writings appear in the Journal of Democracy, Journal of Current Southeast Asian Affairs, Social Research: An International Quarterly, Contemporary Southeast Asia, Asian Survey, and many edited books. Min Zin writes for The New York Times and other media outlets.
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