Dr Adam Simpson is Senior Lecturer in International Studies within Justice & Society, University of South Australia. His research focuses on environmental politics and democratisation, particularly in Myanmar and Thailand. He is the author of Energy, Governance and Security in Thailand and Myanmar (Burma): A Critical Approach to Environmental Politics in the South (2014; 2017) and is lead editor of the Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Myanmar (2018) and Myanmar: Politics, Economy and Society (Routledge 2021). He tweets at @AdamJSimpson2