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CSGS & Skytte Joint Lecture Series - Myanmar Coup: Civil-Military Relations, Conflicts, and Challenges to Democratic Transformation

A crisis is emerging in Southeast Asia. During the past month, Myanmar is struggling with a domestic socio-political crisis that massively impacts the country's life. On February 1st, 2021, the Myanmar military launched a power struggle by arresting and detaining Myanmar's de facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi, President Win Myint, and several key figures of the ruling National League for Democracy (NLD) party. The coup took place just before the new parliament was scheduled to hold its first post-election meeting. After the arrest, the Myanmar military imposed a state of emergency and power was taken by the Commander-in-Chief of Myanmar's Armed Forces, Senior General Min Aung Hlaing.

This condition has created a constitutional crisis in Myanmar since the junta was abolished in 2010. The situation, however, has since attracted the concern of various parties, both at the regional and global level. States' responses (such as China and the US) have differed, with some staying neutral and choosing not to comment. ASEAN and its member states are also in the spotlight. Their responses to the situation is crucial to understand the situation in Myanmar.

What is actually happening in Myanmar, and why such a coup was bound to exist? Were there any underlying conditions leading to the conflict? How do regional and global actors, specifically ASEAN and its member states, respond to the crisis?

Join Karin Dean, PhD (Associate Professor at School of Humanities, Tallinn University, Estonia) and I Gede Wahyu Wicaksana, PhD (Assistant Professor at Department of International Relations, Universitas Airlangga, Indonesia) for the first joint lecture series between Cakra Studi Global Strategis (Universitas Airlangga) and Johan Skytte Institute for Political Studies (University of Tartu) entitled "Myanmar Coup: Civil-Military Relations, Conflicts, and Challenges to Democratic Transformation".
CSGS and Skytte Joint Lecture Series is a series of collaboration events organised by both institutions to introduce contemporary issues in Southeast Asia and Europe to students and experts from both institutions.

The event will take place on Friday, 5 March, 2021, from 14:00-16:00 (UTC+2) on Zoom.

NB! This event is open for public and there is no need for registration. Please note that the event will be recorded, live-streamed online, and later will be accessible at “CSGS FISIP Unair” YouTube channel.

Additional information: Radityo Dharmaputra, radityo.dharmaputra@ut.ee

Evelyn Pihla