ABSTRACT
In 2017 a new phase of the Rohingya crisis tarnished Suu Kyi's image in the West. This chapter discusses the issue of her changed international image and shows reasons for her fall from grace. It proposes a new approach, based on hybridity, to explain this phenomenon. Suu Kyi's fall from grace was limited to the West (and to the Middle East). In Myanmar, however, she still enjoys popularity, despite lack of successes in governance. The 2020 elections loom large on the horizon, with Suu Kyi hoping to maintain her power and the army wishing to come back to (full) power.
