‘Politicide’ and the Myanmar coup

Time and the après-coup.

The author explores the different temporalities of developmental time, après-coup and what she calls 'reverberation time'. She considers the paradoxical temporality of the 'here and now', showing that it is not pure present, and describes at the micro-level of sessional material how progressive and retrospective time go inherently together, one being a requisite for the other.

Cues to Coup Plotters: Elections as Coup Triggers in Dictatorships

A large proportion of coup attempts in autocracies occur in the aftermath of elections, yet little systematic research exists on the topic. Drawing on recent literature on elections in autocracies, we present an argument to explain postelection coups. While we recognize that electoral institutions have the potential to stabilize autocracies, we illustrate that the election event can spark insta...

Children, the Main Victims of Ethnic Violence in Myanmar

Human rights are the basic standards that people need to live in dignity. In addition to the rights that are available to all people, there are rights that apply only to children. Children need special rights because of their unique needs; they need additional protection that adults don’t. The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child is an international document that sets out all of...

the relationship between learners critical thinking ability and their performance in the reading sections of the tofel and ielts test

the study reflected in this thesis aims at finding out relationships between critical thinking (ct), and the reading sections of tofel and ielts tests. the study tries to find any relationships between the ct ability of students and their performance on reading tests of tofel and academic ielts. however, no research has ever been conducted to investigate the relationship between ct and the read...

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