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The "White Settler" State Mentality Destroying the World for Everyone (2025)
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Charney, M. W. (2025). The "White Settler" State Mentality Destroying the World for Everyone. [Blog post]

The idea that the white settler can do anything with what is found on “their” land has today resulted in planetary climatic consequences. There must be a fundamental re-evaluation of core American values to dismantle the systematic grip of white sett... Read More about The "White Settler" State Mentality Destroying the World for Everyone.

Gulf of Mexico to Gulf of America? Why History Should Count (2025)
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Charney, M. W. (2025). Gulf of Mexico to Gulf of America? Why History Should Count. [Blog post]

The Trump Administration changing the Gulf’s indigenous name demonstrates the continuing control over political institutions by the descendants of European settler populations – illegal migrants, in today’s western parlance – who continue to seek to... Read More about Gulf of Mexico to Gulf of America? Why History Should Count.

How Many Burmas Is Enough? Sidelining Western Imaginaries for Understanding Burma is an Important Step, But Competing Indigenous Imaginaries Also Present Problems (2023)
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Charney, M. W. (2023). How Many Burmas Is Enough? Sidelining Western Imaginaries for Understanding Burma is an Important Step, But Competing Indigenous Imaginaries Also Present Problems. [Blog post]

The Western imaginary of Burma has dominated international thinking about Burma for so long partly because of the advantages Western countries have in terms of funding and power and the longevity of the educational institutions. Contemporary Burma al... Read More about How Many Burmas Is Enough? Sidelining Western Imaginaries for Understanding Burma is an Important Step, But Competing Indigenous Imaginaries Also Present Problems.

Perpetual Systematic Violence and Perennial Violence in the Muslim Crescent: Palestinians, Bangladeshis, and Rohingyas (2023)
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Charney, M. W. Perpetual Systematic Violence and Perennial Violence in the Muslim Crescent: Palestinians, Bangladeshis, and Rohingyas

Whether the news media swings one way or the other on focusing mostly on Israel or mostly on Gaza, largely dependent on whether the media is Western and Indian in the first case or based in the Middle East in the latter, audiences are treated with th... Read More about Perpetual Systematic Violence and Perennial Violence in the Muslim Crescent: Palestinians, Bangladeshis, and Rohingyas.

How is the Russian Invasion of the Ukraine Impacting Asia and its Future? (2022)
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Charney, M. W. (2022). How is the Russian Invasion of the Ukraine Impacting Asia and its Future?. [Blog post]

There may also be darker clouds ahead for the US in Asia. The region that has often been suspicious of Chinese expansionism and the underlying motives and impact of the BRI as well as its territorial claims to the South China Sea and it once welcomed... Read More about How is the Russian Invasion of the Ukraine Impacting Asia and its Future?.

The Violent Legacies in Myanmar of Colonial Knowledge and Area Studies (2022)
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Charney, M. W. (2022). The Violent Legacies in Myanmar of Colonial Knowledge and Area Studies

A major problem standing in the way of progress of what should be a joint front is that academics have clung to the myth that academics are observers, not participants, and that they should stand beyond politics. Unfortunately, in the Area Studies of... Read More about The Violent Legacies in Myanmar of Colonial Knowledge and Area Studies.

State-Think and the Problem with University Education in Post-Colonial Societies (2021)
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Charney, M. W. (2021). State-Think and the Problem with University Education in Post-Colonial Societies

in Southeast Asia and other regions today, universities cloak themselves with high profile links with elite institutions elsewhere, by creating nominal centres for critical thought, often bringing in internationally famous academicians. But these app... Read More about State-Think and the Problem with University Education in Post-Colonial Societies.

Aung San Suu Kyi in court: 'All these charges have been trumped up' (2021)
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Charney, M. W. (2021). Aung San Suu Kyi in court: 'All these charges have been trumped up'. [video]

Prosecutors in Myanmar have now laid out their arguments against Aung San Suu Kyi and a number of her allies. Critics and international observers say it's nothing but a show trial to discredit the country's ousted leadership in a bid to consolidate t... Read More about Aung San Suu Kyi in court: 'All these charges have been trumped up'.