Yatana Yamahata

Dr Yatana Yamahata is a Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) Postdoctoral Fellow at the Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Kyoto University. Her research examines how authoritarian norms, practices, and systems of rule are reproduced and contested across borders in Asia, with a particular focus on political development and transformation in Myanmar. She is also Editor-in-Chief of 9DASHLINE, an independent digital platform publishing expert commentary and original analysis on issues affecting the Indo-Pacific.