“Revisiting Burma in 2022”

The East Asia Institute (EAI) has initiated and participated in a project titled “Strengthening Civil Society Organizations in Myanmar (Myanmar Democracy Research Network: MDRN)” since 2015. MDRN is an international education cooperation program that strives to enhance the organizational and research capabilities of Myanmar's nascent think tanks. EAI has hosted workshops and seminars to assist Myanmar in achieving sound democratic development based on civil society development.

However, as executing programs with local partners became substantially difficult after the military coup on February 1, 2021, the purpose of the project changed to international assistance and research for Myanmarese democracy. With the knowledge of Korea’s democratization journey, the EAI MDRN team suggests that Myanmar is currently tasked with internalizing democratic norms just like other democratized countries.

This year, a year after the coup, EAI organized the Myanmar Special Commentary Series, “Revisiting Burma in 2022.” The series examines Myanmar's past, present, and future to explore democracy in Myanmar.

The topics of the commentary series are as follows:

1. Eun Hong Park, Spring Revolution’s March towards a New Myanmar and the Promising Future of Democracy in Asia [Read More]

2. Jun Young Jang, Social and Economic Crisis of the Post-coup in Myanmar: Repeating History or a New History? [Read More]

3. Jaehyon Lee, Myanmar and ASEAN After the 2021 Coup [Read More]

4. Hyun Yoon Lee, The Shared Experiences of Myanmar’s Democratic Movement and Korean Civil Society [Read More]

5. Young-Hwan Shin, The Uninterrupted Struggle of Myanmar’s Civil Society for Democracy: Reflections on EAI’s Myanmar Cooperation Project [Read More]

6. Younghwa Kim, Questions Thrown at Korean Media by Myanmar’s Democratization Protests [Read More]

7. Hun Joon Kim, The Situation in Myanmar and International Human Rights [Read More]