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Thai politics, 14 October and all that
Remaking Myanmar will be slow and painful
Professor Des Ball AO: the insurgent intellectual
Flags: Old and new
Getting ready for tomorrow’s Myanmar
Where is Burma headed?
Farewell from a founder
UTAS Leadership’s Decline – Call for Fresh Direction
No international-backed end in sight to the misery in Myanmar
Can China help bring peace to Myanmar?
When the dust settles in Myanmar, its people will rightly ask who sustained the military regime, writes Nicholas Farrelly (University of...
Thai politics, 14 October and all that
Over the years New Mandala has published a very wide array of materials on Thai politics. I just did a count: by now there are 1919 items in...
Remaking Myanmar will be slow and painful
With the civil conflict in Myanmar still unresolved four years after the military coup, a new political equilibrium might take the form of...
Professor Des Ball AO: the insurgent intellectual
New Mandala co-founder Nicholas Farrelly pays tribute to one of the world's leading strategic studies scholars and an irreplaceable member...
Flags: Old and new
Anyone who comes to my office will know that I have Myanmar's “new” flag on the wall. It's just a small one, alongside maps, calendars,...
Getting ready for tomorrow’s Myanmar
As Myanmar's military regime loses territory and economic control, ethnic armies strengthen their grip on resources and autonomy,...
Where is Burma headed?
Right now everyone naturally wants to know where Burma is headed. I have just returned from a quick trip to Yangon and in the weeks ahead will be writing a few...
Farewell from a founder
New Mandala started on 16 June 2006 as an experiment. The site was designed, somewhat ambitiously, to explain social and political changes...
UTAS Leadership’s Decline – Call for Fresh Direction
UTAS Vice Chancellor Rufus Black finished his 5 year term in March 2023 but then accepted the invitation of his Council to an indefinite...
No international-backed end in sight to the misery in Myanmar
As the second anniversary of Myanmar's coup looms, the violence, retribution and pain continues. What has tentatively shifted is the range...
Nicholas Farrelly
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An academic and political commentator who frequently critiques Thailand's political landscape, focusing on corruption and the challenges to democracy.