Adam Simpson

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Dr Adam Simpson is Senior Lecturer, International Studies, in Justice & Society, University of South Australia. He has held a six-month Visiting Research Fellowship at the Centre for Southeast Asian Studies, Kyoto University, and Visiting Scholar positions at SOAS, University of London, Queen Mary, University of London and Keele University. His research adopts a critical perspective and is focused on the politics of the environment, development and new media in Southeast Asia, particularly Myanmar and Thailand. He has published in international journals such as Society & Natural ResourcesThird World QuarterlyEnvironmental Politics and Pacific Review. He is the author of Energy, Governance and Security in Thailand and Myanmar (Burma): A Critical Approach to Environmental Politics in the South (Routledge 2014; Updated Paperback Edition, NIAS Press 2017) and is lead editor of the Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Myanmar (2018) and Myanmar: Politics, Economy and Society (Routledge 2021).

Moldova and Georgia serve as geopolitical bellwethers
Moldova and Georgia serve as geopolitical bellwethers
With the two countries on diverging paths after recent elections, the choice appears to be between Russia and the West.
Ukraine counteroffensive makes gains but dark clouds loom in Washington
Ukraine counteroffensive makes gains but dark clouds loom in Washington
Successful attacks and talk of new missile systems shifts momentum in Kyiv’s favour provided that political support is sustained.
The Baltic response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine
The Baltic response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine
A history of atrocities at the hands of Moscow steels the resolve of its neighbouring states.
Myanmar: a desperate junta trying, and failing, to shore up its legitimacy
Myanmar: a desperate junta trying, and failing, to shore up its legitimacy
Sentencing Sean Turnell to jail won’t help the Myanmar junta’s international isolation or its domestic problems.
It’s a mistake to allow Myanmar’s junta to appear in Rohingya case
It’s a mistake to allow Myanmar’s junta to appear in Rohingya case
Accepting military representatives in the genocide defence serves to lend the coup an undeserved legitimacy.
Myanmar: Calling a coup a coup
Myanmar: Calling a coup a coup
The military argues that it has operated within the country’s constitution. That’s simply not true.
Facebook, the Rohingya, and internet blackouts in Myanmar
Facebook, the Rohingya, and internet blackouts in Myanmar
Online restrictions imposed on the Rohingya in Myanmar and in refugee camps in Bangladesh should be repealed.
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