This working paper was produced during a month-long visiting fellowship at the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies (ISEAS) in Singapore.

In this Brookings op-ed, on the eve of President Obama’s trip to Myanmar, I argued that the US policy should be more positive than negative.

In this Brookings blog post, co-authored with Joseph Chinyong Liow, we identified three policy challenges for election victor Joko Widodo.

This is the text of my testimony before the Standing Senate Committee on Foreign Affairs and International Trade of Canada’s parliament.

In this piece for East Asia Forum, I cautioned against being too bullish about the transition to democratic rule that started in 2011.

Possibly the most intriguing piece I've written in the past 50 years is the text of a Keynote Address I delivered at a Model UN Conference.

This is the text of my address at a conference in Istanbul hosted by the Minister for EU Affairs on “Rethinking Global Challenges”.

In this Brookings op-ed, I criticized a Washington Post editorial advocating more sanctions on Myanmar; more engagement was a better policy.

In this Letter to the Editor of the Financial Times, I pushed back on an op-ed critical of Europe’s new financial transaction tax.

In this Brookings op-ed, I noted four ways in which foreign aid could do more harm than good, and three ways to make it more effective.

This report of a study I carried out with James W. Fox was the first assessment of foreign aid to Myanmar’s transition government.

Here is the audio file and transcript of the Brookings forum where Jim Fox and I presented our “Too Much Too Soon?” study.

In a Letter to the Editor of the Financial Times, I proposed choosing a Chinese person as the next president of the Asian Development Bank.

This is the transcript of a Brookings panel where I was joined by Priscilla Clapp, Anoop Singh, and Francis Zwenig.

In this Brookings panel discussion with Vanda Felbab Brown and Bill Wise, I focused on lessons from Indonesia for Myanmar.

In this Brookings op-ed, on the eve of Obama’s first visit to Myanmar, I focused on the implications for US relations with China.

In this Brookings op-ed, I highlighted the US policy debate between proponents of sanctions and proponents of engagement.

In this Brookings op-ed, I summarized an academic paper in which I explained why it would be hard to maintain a high economic growth rate.

This Brookings Working Paper is the source from which I drew material for a couple of op-eds and blog posts.

This piece for East Asia Forum is a short version of the paper I co-authored with Khin Maung Nyo for a conference in Kunming, China.