New Answers to Old Questions

<p>Outside Myanmar the 2021 <i>coup d’état</i> has often been portrayed as the end of a hopeful period for the country. In this <i>Adelphi</i> book however Aaron Connelly and Shona Loong argue that the Aung San Suu Kyi government that preceded it was a false dawn unlikely to fulfil the international community's aspirations for a stable peaceful and strong Myanmar. Instead the movement opposing the 2021 coup holds much greater promise – despite the bloody conflict that dominates the news today. </p><p>Connelly and Loong survey three fundamental relationships that have shaped Myanmar before and after the coup – between the military and the state between the majority Burmese and ethnic minorities and between Myanmar and the world – to explain how opposition to the coup has shifted all of them in a more liberal pluralist and cosmopolitan direction.</p>