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Aung San Suu Kyi

Role
Myanmar state counsellor
Lived
1945–
Country of activity
Myanmar Myanmar
Strongest axis
Federal 68%

Aung San Suu Kyi led Myanmar's National League for Democracy and served as state counsellor from 2016 until the 2021 military coup. She received the 1991 Nobel Peace Prize, and her sentence was commuted to house arrest in 2026.

In the 12 Axes register, Aung San Suu Kyi leans hardest on Federal – Unitary: Federal 68%; the register median is Unitary 68%.

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The twelve axes

Where Aung San Suu Kyi sits on each of the twelve axes, in four categories. The label is our estimate; the line under it says why.

Government

Federal 68%Unitary

Federal

Convened 2016 Panglong peace talks toward a federal union

Democratic 68%Autocratic

Representative Democracy

Led the NLD to election wins in 1990, 2015, 2020

SecurityFreedom

Centrist

Campaigned for freedoms; Reuters reporters jailed under her government

Diplomacy

InternationalismNationalism

Non-Interventionist

Pursued neutral, balanced foreign relations

MilitaristPacifist 68%

Non-Aggressive

Advocated nonviolent resistance, won 1991 Nobel Peace Prize

Assimilationist 68%Multiculturalist

Assimilationist

Defended the army against genocide claims at the ICJ

Economy

CollectivizePrivatize 68%

Economic Liberal

NLD government backed market-oriented growth

PlannedMarkets 68%

Markets

NLD government encouraged private and foreign investment

IsolationismGlobalism 68%

Free Trade

Welcomed foreign investment and sanctions relief

Society

IrreligiousReligious 68%

Spiritual

Practising Theravada Buddhist

ProgressiveTraditional

Moderate

No distinct social-reform agenda in office

AccelerationBioconservative

Neutral

No distinct position on technology

What stands out

Set against the median of all 124 figures in the register.

Most distinctive axis

Federal – Unitary

On Federal – Unitary, Aung San Suu Kyi is at Federal 68%. The register median is Unitary 68%.

Most ordinary axis

Democratic – Autocratic

On Democratic – Autocratic, Aung San Suu Kyi is at Democratic 68%, almost the register median of Democratic 68%.

Who is closest in the register

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Closeness is 100 minus the root-mean-square distance on all twelve axes.

Sources and image credit

Portrait: César, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons, cropped and resized.

About these positions

The tiers on this page are our estimates from public positions and policies. They are not an official statement by the person or the government concerned. Two independent passes scored every axis and a third settled the differences. How the register works. Found a mistake? Write to [email protected].