This week’s New Pubs features Rhoads on statutory weakening and bureaucracy hinder the implementation of legal pluralism in Burma; Heiduk on Myanmar’s sham elections and the role of international cooperation; and Collignon on hierarchy as legitimacy in Burmese statecraft and civil war.

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Rhoads, Elizabeth. “Statutory Weakening and Bureaucratic Hurdles in the Implementation of Legal Pluralism in Myanmar.” Equality, Plurality and Personal Status Laws. Routledge (2026): 400-413.

Heiduk, Felix. “Sham elections amid the war in Myanmar: Prospects for national stability and international cooperation.” No. 9/2026. SWP Comment, 2026.

Collignon, Stefan. “Hierarchy as Legitimacy: The Holistic State and the Political Economy of Civil War in Myanmar,” Working Paper.