Forty-five years of military rule have left Burma in a state of arrested political and economic development, largely without the means to break free of the military’s stranglehold and build the foundations of stable, viable democracy. Drawing from a study and observations of conditions before and during the cataclysmic events this August-September, discussion will center on the impact of the saffron revolution protests on the regime domestically and the effectiveness of different forms of international engagement on bringing about change. Five panelists with different backgrounds focus on the critical question: What is to be done?

Speakers

• Priscilla Clapp
  Former U.S. Charge d’Affaires, Burma, and author of the USIP Working Paper Building Democracy in Burma
• Carla Freeman
  China Studies, Johns Hopkins SAIS
• Keith Luse
  Senate Foreign Relations Committee
• Bo Hla Tint
  NLD MP-Elect, Minister, Office of the Prime Minister (USA), National Coalition Government of the Union of Burma (NCGUB)
• Bridget Welsh
  Southeast Asia Studies, Johns Hopkins SAIS
• Eugene Martin, Moderator
  U.S. Institute of Peace

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