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Reports (publicly available)

Loong, S. (2024). How conflict dynamics in Myanmar are challenging state-centric humanitarianism. International Institute for Strategic Studies.

Warscapes series - for the IISS Myanmar Conflict Map

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Loong, S. (2022). Post-coup Myanmar in six warscapes. International Institute for Strategic Studies.​​

Loong, S. (2022). Dry Zone: an existential struggle in central Myanmar. International Institute for Strategic Studies.

Loong, S. (2022). Southeast Myanmar: a shared struggle for federal democracy. International Institute for Strategic Studies.

Loong, S. (2022). Northeast Myanmar: three axes of conflict. International Institute for Strategic Studies.

Loong, S. (2022). Northwest Myanmar: a quiet corner transformed by resistance. International Institute for Strategic Studies.

Loong, S. (2022). Rakhine: a precarious ceasefire hangs in the balance. International Institute for Strategic Studies.

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Loong, S. (2022). The Karen National Union in post-coup Myanmar. Stimson Center.

Loong, S. (2021). Centre-periphery relations in Myanmar: leverage and solidarity after the 1 February coup. Trends in Southeast Asia, 9/2021, ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute.

Commentaries

Loong, S., Moeller, A. K., Antalikova, R., Dan Seng Lawn, and Suante, P. (2025). Producing knowledge in/of/for Myanmar's borderlands. Tea Circle: A Forum for New Perspectives on Burma/Myanmar. 21 July 2025.

Loong, S. (2025). After the Myanmar earthquake, crisis fatigue reaches new depths. The Diplomat, 11 April 2025.

Loong, S. (2021) Hope and heartbreak: Karen communities in the wake of the coup. Tea Circle: A Forum for New Perspectives on Burma/Myanmar, 4 February 2021.

Loong, S. (2020) Decolonial worldmaking, Burmese independence, and the Karen struggle. Tea Circle: A Forum for New Perspectives on Burma/Myanmar, 13 August 2020.

Loong, S. (2020) Perspectives on war, peace, and Rebel Politics: peace inheres in social relations formed during war. Tea Circle: A Forum for New Perspectives on Burma/Myanmar, 15 April 2020. 

Loong, S. (2019) Notes from the Salween Peace Park. New Mandala, 27 May 2019.

Loong, S. and Rinehart, G. (2019) Post-secondary Education in Myanmar: Reform from the ground-up. Tea Circle: A Forum for New Perspectives on Burma/Myanmar, 18 February 2019.

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Loong, S. (2018) From battlefield to marketplace on the Thai–Myanmar border. New Mandala, 16 March 2018.

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Hpa-An, 2018

Podcasts and talks

2025 

Featured in the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace podcast, China and the Myanmar civil war (CEIP link)

2023

Featured in the BBC documentary podcast, A new term in Myanmar (BBC link)

Talk for Spring University Myanmar, A country with many histories: Myanmar's diverse geographies of war and everyday life (YouTube link with Burmese subtitles)
 

2022

Panel discussion for the International Institute for Strategic Studies, Conflict in Myanmar: mapping its escalation and expansion (YouTube link)

Talk with discussant for the Stimson Centre, The geography of Myanmar's anti-military resistance movement (YouTube link)

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