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David Brenner is Senior Lecturer in Global Insecurities at the University of Sussex. He has researched ethnonational politics and EAOs in Myanmar since 2012, including for his PhD at the London School of Economics. He has published widely on the matter and is author of « Rebel Politics : A Political Sociology of Armed Struggle in Myanmar’s Borderlands » (Cornell University Press, 2019).
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Ethnonationalism and Myanmar’s future
David Brenner 24/09/24
The crisis in Myanmar is a fundamental struggle over the identity and structure of the nation-state. Underpinning this conflict are ethnonational politics that are driving war but also create avenues for peace. Observers in the West have (...)
Burma : Battlefield to marketplace and back
David Brenner 15/04/15
In the 2008 film Rambo, a well-aged Sylvester Stallone gasped his way up the Salween River and through the thick jungle between Burma and Thailand. With the help of Karen freedom fighters, Stallone’s character, the redoubtable John Rambo, was (...)