Dr Renaud EGRETEAU

Associate Professor; Project/Thesis Coordinator Discipline: Comparative Politics, International Relations, and Asian Studies Born and raised in France, Renaud Egreteau has lived, studied, worked and carried out research in India, Thailand, Singapore, Myanmar, the United States and Hong Kong. He received his PhD in Political Science from the Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris (Sciences Po) and now works across the areas of Comparative and International Politics as well as South and Southeast Asian Studies. His research concentrates on parliamentary institutions and legislative affairs, civil-military relations, and the politics of authoritarian rule, with a particular focus on Myanmar.

Before joining City University of Hong Kong, he was a Fellow-in-Residence at the Woodrow Wilson Center for International Scholars in Washington DC (2015-2016) and held visiting fellowships from the Singapore-based Institute of Southeast Asian Studies (ISEAS-Yusof Ishak). He also taught comparative politics at the University of Hong Kong, as a Research Assistant Professor in the Center of Asian Studies/HK Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences (2009-13), and Sciences Po Paris, France (2008-09). He has also written policy guidance on Myanmar and India for international NGOs, think tanks, and various French governmental bodies.


Contact information
Office: YEUNG-Y7618
Phone: 3442-6433
Fax: 3442-0180
Email: r.egreteau@cityu.edu.hk
Website: Personal Homepage

AC1 : Academic 1
MMW : Mong Man Wai Building
TYB : To Yuen Building





Teaching
Research Methods
Comparative Political Institutions
Authoritarianism and Democracy
Asian Studies
Study Tour to France/EU



Research Interests
Civil-Military Relations
Parliament and Legislative Politics
Democracy Studies
Myanmar/Burma, India


Current/Recent Research Projects
Legislative Oversight of Security Forces in Myanmar
Parliamentary Questions in Divided Societies: The Case of Myanmar (2011-2021)




Publications (selected)
Books 2022 (forthcoming). Crafting Parliament in Myanmar's Disciplined Democracy, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
2016. Caretaking Democratization: The Military and Political Change in Myanmar, NY: Oxford University Press & London: Hurst.
2013. [with Larry Jagan] Soldiers and Diplomacy in Burma: Understanding the Foreign Relations of the Burmese Praetorian State, Singapore: NUS Press.
2010. Histoire de la Birmanie contemporaine : le pays des prétoriens, Paris : Fayard.
2003. Wooing the Generals: India’s New Burma Policy, New Delhi: Authorspress
Edited volumes and Special journal issues 2015. [with Fran?ois Robinne], eds., Metamorphosis: Studies in Social and Political Change in Myanmar, Singapore: NUS Press.
2013. [with Julie Baujard], eds., “Burmese Migrants and Global Cities”, Moussons Special Issue No. 22 [November 2013].
Peer-reviewed articles 2021. "Why Veterans Lose: The Decline of Retired Military Officers in Myanmar’s Post-Junta Elections
A Disciplined Dissident: Aung San Suu Kyi as Opposition Backbencher (2012–2016)
Parliamentary Rituals, Institutional Continuity, and the Reinvention of Political Traditions in Myanmar
Fashioning Parliament: The Politics of Dress in Myanmar’s Postcolonial Legislatures
La Birmanie, la France et la 'Question Algérienne'
Foreign Policy and Political Changes in Post-junta Myanmar", in Ganguly, Sumit, Joseph C. Y. Liow and Andrew Scobell, eds., The Routledge Handbook of Asian Security, Abingdon & New York: Routledge, 301-311
2017. “’China is Paradise’: Fortune and Refuge, Brokers and Partners, or the Migration Trajectories of Burmese Muslims toward the Yunnan Borderlands”, in Saxer, Martin & Zhang Juan, eds., The Art of Neighbouring: Making Relations across China’s Borders, Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 187-202.
2016. “Embedding Praetorianism: Soldiers, State and Constitutions in Postcolonial Myanmar”, in Bünte, Marco & Bj?rn Dressel, eds., Politics and Constitutions in Southeast Asia, London: Routledge, 118-139.
2016. “Soldiers as Lawmakers? Assessing the New Legislative Role of the Burmese Armed Forces (2010-15)”, in Egreteau, Renaud & Fran?ois Robinne, eds., Metamorphosis: Studies in Social and Political Change in Myanmar, Singapore: NUS Press, 15-42.
2015. “Myanmar: Transition, Enduring Praetorian Politics and the Prospects for Democratic Change”, in Case, William, ed., Routledge Handbook of Democratization in Southeast Asia, London: Routledge, 410-425.
2015. “Indian and Chinese Communities in Contemporary Burma: A Comparative Analysis of Their Presence and Influence”, Bhattacharya, Jayati & K. Coonoor, eds., Indian and Chinese Immigrant Communities: Comparative Perspectives, London: Anthem Press, 109-136.
2014. “Emerging Patterns of Parliamentary Politics”, in Steinberg, David I., ed., Myanmar: The Dynamics of an Evolving Polity, Boulder CO: Lynne Rienner, 59-88.
2014. “The Continuing Political Salience of the Military in Post-SPDC Myanmar”, in Nick Cheesman, Nicholas Farrelly and Trevor Wilson, eds., Debating Democratization in Myanmar, Singapore: ISEAS Publications, 259-284.
2013. “Separatism, Ethnocracy and the Future of Ethnic Politics in Burma (Myanmar)”, in Cabestan, Jean-Pierre and A. Pavkovic, eds., State Secession and Separatism in Europe and Asia: To Have a State of One’s Own, London: Routledge, 178-195.
2012. “The Burmese Jade Trail: Transnational Networks, China, and the (Relative) Impact of International Sanctions on Myanmar’s Gems”, in Cheesman, Nick, Monique Skidmore and Trevor Wilson, eds., Myanmar’s Transition: Openings, Obstacles and Opportunities, Singapore: ISEAS Publications, 89-116.
2010. (with David Camroux) “Normative Europe meets the Burmese Garrison State: Processes, Policies, Blockages and Future Possibilities”, in Cheesman, Nick, Monique Skidmore and Trevor Wilson, eds., Ruling Myanmar: from Cyclone Nargis to National Elections, Singapore: ISEAS Publications, 267-293.
2010. “India’s Unquenched Ambitions in Burma”, in Dittmer, Lowell, ed., Burma or Myanmar? The Struggle for National Identity, Singapore: World Scientific, 295-325.
2009. “Burma’s Militias: between Insurgency and Maintaining Order”, in Gayer, L. & C. Jaffrelot, eds., Armed Militias of South Asia: Fundamentalists, Maoists, and Separatists, London: Hurst, 112-133
Working papers 2017. Parliamentary Development in Myanmar: An Overview of the Union Parliament, 2011-2016, Washington DC/Yangon: The Asia Foundation
2017. The Emergence of Pork Barrel Politics in Parliamentary Myanmar, Singapore: ISEAS Trends 2017 No. 4.
2015. Retired Military Officers in Myanmar’s Parliament: An Emerging Political Force? Singapore: ISEAS Trends No. 17.
2006. Instability at the Gate: India’s Northeast and its external connections, New Delhi: CSH Occasional Paper No. 16.
Book reviews 2018. Book Review of “Clymer, Kenton, 2015. A Delicate Relationship: The United States and Burma/Myanmar since 2015, Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press”, Journal of Southeast Asian Studies 49(2): 339-341.
2017. Book Review of “Kipgen, N., 2016. Myanmar: A Political History, New Delhi: Oxford University Press”, Economic and Political Weekly 52(39): 27-29.
2012. Book Review of “Hangen, Susan, 2010. The Rise of Ethnic Politics in Nepal: Democracy in the Margins, London: Routledge”, Asian Ethnicity 13(3): 315-317.