Kyaw Hsan Hlaing is a PhD student in the department of government at Cornell University and a 2024 recipient of the Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans. He studies comparative politics with a focus on regime change, political violence, authoritarianism, and rebel politics. Before enrolling at Cornell, he resumed his undergraduate studies at the University of Hawai’i at Mānoa in January 2023—following a seven-year hiatus from his studies at Yangon University of Distance Education at Sittwe University—and received his BA in Asian studies in July 2024 with high academic distinction.

Cambridge Core - Comparative Politics - Global Challenges to Democracy

Earthquakes are devastating for those who have lost loved ones, homes and livelihoods, but for military dictators clinging to power, such disasters can also bring opportunity.

The junta has exploited past crises to reinforce its power—and it can do it again.

The junta has exploited past crises to reinforce its power—and it can do it again.

The youth joining Myanmar’s anti-junta uprising.

The junta has exploited past crises to reinforce its power—and it can do it again.

The junta has exploited past crises to reinforce its power—and it can do it again.