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Myanmar coup: Whats in store for democracy in Southeast Asia? dw.com 2/9/2021 Emmy Sasipornkarn The Myanmar coup, which has cut short a democratic transition after decades of military rule, constitutes a major setback for the country and democracy in Southeast Asia. © REUTERS Demonstrators riot against police as they protest against the military coup in Myanmar The move came after Myanmars generals alleged that the results of the November 8 general election — which the NL...

1 February 2021 Author: Editorial Board, ANU When Pakatan Harapan won the 2018 elections in Malaysia, it revealed what really underpinned the rule of the Barisan Nasional government that led Southeast Asia’s third-largest economy for 61 years since independence from Britain. Certainly, an electoral system engineered to produce victories for the incumbent coalition, and widespread curbs on civil liberties and the press were part of the formula. But just as in non-communist regimes elsewhere in...

28 January 2021 Authors: Nadia Azierah Hamdan and William Case, University of Nottingham Malaysia In regime studies, Brunei Darussalam is typically cast as an absolute monarchy, in some renditions the most coercive form of rule. But in practice the Sultanate’s politics remains relatively benign. In coping effectively with the COVID-19 pandemic, Brunei has taken a ‘whole of government’ approach. This is constitutive of a broader practice of ‘repressive but responsive politics’, disting...

Authors: Nadia Azierah Hamdan and William Case, University of Nottingham Malaysia In regime studies, Brunei Darussalam is typically cast as an absolute monarchy, in some renditions the most coercive form of rule. But in practice the Sultanate’s politics remains relatively benign. In coping effectively with the COVID-19 pandemic, Brunei has taken a ‘whole of government’ approach.