This week’s New Pubs features Buchanan on the challenges of moving opium through Shan State; Liljeblad on the prospects for federalism in Myanmar’s current conflict; and McCarthy and Nyana on the role of roadblocks in post-coup Myanmar.

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Buchanan, John. 2026. “Opium Pathways: Mountains, Mules and Extraction in Myanmar’s Shan State.” Development and Change 57(3): 496–521.

Liljeblad, Jonathan. “The Prospects for Future Federalism in Myanmar’s Current Conflict” in Federal Theories and Practices: Dynamics of Federalism and Democracy in South and Southeast Asia: 241.

McCarthy, Gerard, and Kyle Nyana. “Roadblocks, Relationality and Resilient Resistance in Post‐coup Myanmar.” Development and Change 57.3 (2026): 624-646.