This week’s New Pubs features Cole’s book on conservation and sovereignty in southeast Myanmar; Davies and Htoon Oung on the ULA/AA’s “decentralization by force” policies in Western Myanmar; and Sullivan on the role of intermediaries in southeast Myanmar’s humanitarian response.

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Cole, Tomas. Possessed Landscapes: Experiments in Conservation and Sovereignty in Southeast Myanmar. University of Washington Press, 2026.

Davies, James T and Htoon Oung, Decentralisation by Force: The United League of Arakan/ Arakan Army’s Expansion in Western Myanmar, ANU Myanmar Research Centre. 

Sullivan, Meghan. “Considering Intermediaries as Relational Localizers: A Case Study of Localization in the Thai–Southeast Myanmar Border Humanitarian Response.” Public Administration and Development. 2026