Erin speaks with Oliver Slow, a former Frontier Myanmar journalist, on his new book exploring the history and influence of the Myanmar military. Researched and reported over years spent in Myanmar, Return of the Junta only became more prescient with the coup that felled the democratically elected NLD government in February 2021. Return of the Junta is available now from Bloomsbury https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/return-of-the-junta-9781350289628/

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Host Erin Cook chats with Mysara Aljaru, co-creator of Brown is Haram and co-editor of the Brown is Redacted anthology looking at race in Singapore. Available now through Ethos.

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In this first episode, host Erin Cook chats to Council of Foreign Relations senior fellow Joshua Kurlantzick on his brand new book, Beijing's Global Media Offensive. The book explores the challenges and success China's state media has had throughout the world and, like most things, when it comes to Southeast Asia the answer is: it's complicated.

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