Acknowledgments The authors would like to thank the editors of Policy Studies, Tatsushi Arai, RC Bitting, Charles Carstens, Priscilla Clapp, Nicholas Farrelly, Michael Jerryson, Melissa Nozell, Morton Pedersen, Peter Phan, and Francis Wade for their constructive feedback on this piece. Early drafts were presented at the Oxford Centre for Buddhist Studies Seminar Series in November 2013, the Asia Pacific Peace Research Association Conference in Bangkok in November 2013, and the Stimson Center in Washington, DC, in April 2014. The authors are appreciative of comments received from those audiences. They would also like to thank their colleagues at the US Institute of Peace, the University of Oxford, Georgetown University, and in Myanmar, as well as the many people who gave interviews that contributed to this piece. Any errors of fact or interpretation are the authors’ own.