While it may seem bizarre that having won a landslide election victory, Aung San Suu Kyi will not become the country’s new leader, she and her party have manufactured a remedy to this manifestly unjust obstacle.

2015 has been a dramatic year in elections around the world: old leaders were toppled, upstarts and novices seized the helm, and embattled governments somehow managed to cling on. Here, the experts who covered them take stock of what’s happened—and look at what’s in store for 2016.

The very word “Burma” was once shorthand for a brutal military dictatorship, but things have now changed dramatically.