Promoting all Wa Townships in Shan State to Participate in Future Myanmar General Elections

Enchen Lan

mar 2021 · GRIN Verlag

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Essay from the year 2020 in the subject Politics - Political systems in general and in comparison, grade: A, University of Nottingham (School of Politics and International Relations), course: Global Asia, language: English, abstract: This policy brief provides recommendations for the central government to promote all Wa townships to participate in future elections and calls for: helping residents in ‘Wa State’, covert action and seeking international assistance. Myanmar has held three general elections since 2010 at the dismantling of the junta. However, in Shan State, most of the Wa population has not engaged due to the unfinished peace process, backwardness, and insufficient identification with the Union of Myanmar.

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Enchen Lan is a writer and analyst of politics and international relations with a primary focus on East Asia. He has an M.A. and B.A. in political science and history from the University of Nottingham, with a one-year (2018-2019) exchange experience at the University of Deusto, Spain, where he focused on Basque radical nationalism and ETA. His research areas mainly include politics and history of Asia, nationalism, mass-media, cybersecurity, and foreign policy. He is also interested in anthropology and linguistics. In 2019, he worked for the Chinese Institute of Social Science Survey, Peking University, had field research in the China-Myanmar boundary in the northwest of Yunnan province.