Balancing Principle and Pragmatism By Mehmet Enes Beşer Myanmar’s foreign policy, as with so much of its post-colonial foreign relations, exists in the periphery of paradox: bound by core dicta of non-alignment, sovereignty, and non-interference and dictated more and more by necessity, isolation, and flexible allegiances. Following the February 2021 military coup, when the democratically elected Aung San Suu Kyi ...