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Moe Thuzar

Ms Moe Thuzar
Senior Fellow
  • 0Coordinator0, 0Myanmar Studies Programme0
Email
:
moe_thuzar@iseas.edu.sg
Tel.
:
68704512
Research Interest
Myanmar’s foreign policy and external relations | Myanmar in ASEAN | ASEAN’s response to the Myanmar crisis post-2021

Researcher’s Profile

Moe joined ISEAS in 2008, as lead researcher in the ASEAN Studies Centre up to August 2019. Prior to joining ISEAS, Moe spent close to ten years at the ASEAN Secretariat, where she headed the Human Development Unit from 2004 to 2007. A former diplomat, she researched Burma’s foreign policy implementation (1948-88), for her PhD at the National University of Singapore. Moe was a Fox International Fellow (2019-2020) at Yale University’s MacMillan Center during her PhD candidacy. Apart from Myanmar’s foreign policy, Moe continues to be interested in ASEAN integration issues (in socio-cultural areas) and ASEAN’s dialogue relations. Moe has co-authored, co-edited, and contributed to several compendia and edited volumes on ASEAN, and on Myanmar.

 

Current Research Projects:

  • Continuity and change in Myanmar’s foreign policy implementation
  • Myanmar and ASEAN: Precedents, Experiences, Lessons

 

Selected Publications

Books:

  • Myanmar: Life After Nargis (ISEAS, 2009), co-authored with Pavin Chachavalpongpun
  • Urbanisation in Southeast Asia: Issues and Impacts (ISEAS, 2012), co-edited with Yap Kioe Sheng
  • Do Young People Know ASEAN? (ISEAS, 2016), co-authored with Eric C. Thompson (lead author) and Chulanee Thianthai
  • ASEAN and India: The Way Forward (World Scientific, 2023), co-edited with Tommy Koh and Hernaikh Singh

 

Book Chapters (most recent):

  • “Myanmar’s Continuing Socio-Economic Challenges Since the Coup” in Southeast Asian Affairs 2024, Daljit Singh and Hoang Thi Ha (eds), ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute, 2024 (co-authored with Sean Turnell)
  • “Myanmar in ASEAN: Dilemmas, Determinants and Capacity” in After the Coup: Myanmar’s Political and Humanitarian Crises, Anthony Ware & Monique Skidmore (eds), Australian National University Press, 2023
  • “Myanmar’s Public Diplomacy Experience and Challenges: Can ASEAN Make a Difference?” in Winning Hearts and Minds, Singapore International Foundation, 2022

 

See more at: https://iseaslib.academia.edu/MoeThuzar and https://fulcrum.sg/contributors/moe-thuzar/