Tun Myint

Education & Professional History

Indiana University, BA, MA, PhD

Professor Myint earned his PhD in 2005 from the joint program of the School of Public and Environmental Affairs and the School of Law at Indiana University, Bloomington. He was a postdoctoral research fellow at The Vincent and Elinor Ostrom Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis at IU, teaching and engaging in research on democracy and environmental governance with a regional focus on Southeast Asia. His research examines the role of individuals and groups in the dynamic relationship between social changes and global environmental changes with the focus on democracy, development, globalization, and sustainability.  His publications have appeared in Ecology & Society, Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies, Legal Issues in Burma Journal, and Perspectives on Politics.  He is the author of Governing International Rivers: Polycentric Politics in the Mekong and the Rhine.  Professor Myint served as a member of the Technical Advisory Team of the Federal Constitution Drafting Coordinating Committee of the Union of Burma from 2000 to 2005, and was previously Research Fellow of Asia Policy Program, a joint program of the National Bureau of Research and Woodrow Wilson Center for International Scholars.

Highlights & Recent Activity

• Director of Public Memory of Myanmar Digital archive
• Co-Founder and an Editor of Independent Journal of Myanmar Scholarship
• Co-Founder of Mutual Aid Myanmar
• Director of Political Economy and Ecology of Southeast Asia Carleton Off-Campus Study Program
• Chair of the Department of Political Science, Carleton College

Organizations & Scholarly Affiliations

• Affiliated Faculty in Environmental Studies at Carleton College
• Affiliated Faculty at the Vincent and Elinor Ostrom Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis at Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, U.S.A.

• Director of Public Memory of Myanmar Digital archive
• Co-Founder and an Editor of Independent Journal of Myanmar Scholarship

In addition to regular academic courses taught on campus, Professor Myint is Faculty Director of Political Economy and Ecology of Southeast Asia Off-Campus Study Program.

Books

Governing International Rivers: Polycentric Politics in the Mekong and the Rhine, Edward Elgar Publishing Inc. Cheltenham, UK, 2012.

Strength of Weak Forces in Multilayer Environmental Governance: Cases from the Mekong and the Rhine Basin, CIPEC Dissertation Series No. 16, Center for the Study of Institutions, Population, and Environmental Change, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, U.S.A, 2005.

Selected Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles, Book Chapters and Op-ED:

“Myanmar’s Transition to a New Inclusive Society,” (with James C. Scott, Yale University), Independent Journal of Myanmar Scholarship, vol. 1(2), Yangon, Myanmar, forthcoming.

“The Country I Fled Needs Biden’s Help Now,” New York Times editorial, March 9, 2021.

“From the Anthropocene to Urbanocene: Understanding Asia’s rural out-migration and global climate change” Asia Dialogue, December 14, 2018, Asia Research Institute, University of Nottingham, U.K.

Review of “Buddhism, Politics and Political Thought in Myanmar” by Matthew Walton, Cambridge University Press, 2017. Perspectives on Politics, American Political Science Association.

“Beyond a ‘Two-Level Game’: Local Livelihood Issues and International Development Institutions in the Mekong,” TRaNS: Trans-Regional and -National Studies of Southeast Asia, Vol. 2(1), July 2014. Cambridge University Press, MA.

“Buddhist Political Thought,” in Michael T. Gibbons, Diana Coole, Elisabeth Ellis, Kennan Ferguson (eds), The Encyclopedia of Political Thought, October 2014, Wiley-Blackwell, USA.