27 April 2014

Myanmar Moving Forward

Posted on April 15, 2014 by wikistrat
Wikistrat is happy to release today the final report from its recently-concluded strategic simulation “Myanmar Moving Forward.”

Myanmar, also known as Burma, was long considered a pariah state, isolated from the rest of the world with an appalling human rights record. For 41 years, the country was ruled by a military junta that suppressed almost all dissent and wielded absolute power in the face of international condemnation and sanctions. In 2011, a nominally civilian government led by President Thein Sein was installed and a series of reforms in the months since the new government took up office has led to hopes that decades of international isolation could be coming to an end.

Late last year, Wikistrat asked its strategic community to map out Myanmar’s political risk factors and possible futures (positive, negative or mixed) for the new democracy in 2015. The simulation was designed to explore the current social, political, economic and geopolitical threats to stability — i.e. its political risk — and to determine where the country is heading in terms of its social, political, economic and geopolitical future.

The report, written by the simulation’s Lead Analyst, Dr. Maha Hosain Aziz, synthesizes the insights gathered by 65 of Wikistrat’s analysts across more than sixty scenarios.

Click here to download the PDF file of this report.

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