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An end-of-year note from the editor.

Thai conservatives have sought to prevent reformists from putting down roots in society—and it’s worked

The Japanese influence on Ne Win’s military intelligence force has been exaggerated

Duterte’s resilient political influence and the institutional shortcomings of the Philippine justice system hamper domestic processes

Among Jokowi’s legacies for Prabowo is a nearly opposition-free elite landscape

Prabowo has been generous to former military and police officers when doling out cabinet positions

“A pre-dawn break-in could lead to an evening KLM flight”

A new archival find suggests that Japanese occupation was more devastating than previously thought

Authorities continue to slow-pedal judicial processes in the face of community demands for accountability

The outgoing president transformed the relationship between government and civil society in his decade in power

Widespread co-optation by the junta sits alongside significant monastic resistance

Framing the war in Myanmar as a ‘fight for democracy’ obscures the crisis of the nation-state at the conflict’s heart