Andrew Selth is adjunct associate professor at the Griffith Asia Institute, Griffith University, and at the Coral Bell School of Asia Pacific Affairs, Australian National University. He has been studying international security issues and Asian affairs for over forty years, as a professional diplomat, strategic intelligence analyst and research scholar. He has published six books and more than fifty peer-reviewed works, most of them about Burma. His latest major work is Burma, Kipling and Western Music: The Riff From Mandalay (Routledge, 2016).