Month: September 2025
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What Burma Teaches Us About the Killings
Recently, I read “Hit or Miss? The Effect of Assassinations on Institutions and War” by Benjamin F. Jones and Benjamin A. Olken (2009). The paper’s main point is that when assassination succeed against autocratic leaders, countries are more likely to move toward democracy. And assassinations tend to intensify conflict. The study compares successful and failed…
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The Party That Never Learned
On 7 Aug 2024, Thailand’s Constitutional Court dissolved the Move Forward Party (MFP) and banned its executives for 10 years, citing the party’s campaign to amend Article 112. Pita, a Harvard Kennedy School alumni was the prime–ministerial candidate in 2023, but the military-appointed Senate blocked his sworn in. While four years earlier, the Future Forward…
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