Pacific Affairs

Volume 96 – No. 2

June 2023

Articles

Globalization of Arms Production and Hierarchical Market Economies: Explaining the Transformation of the South Korean Defense Industry

Chonghyun Choi and Soul Park
The Geographic Scope of Opposition Challenges in Malaysia’s Parliament

Sebastian Dettman

Perspectives

Decline and Fall of Malaysia’s Dominant-party System

Meredith L. Weiss and Ibrahim Suffian
Social Media and Malaysia’s 2022 Election: The Growth and Impact of Video Campaigning

Ross Tapsell
Moderation of Sarawak Regionalism in Malaysia’s 15th General Elections

Ik Tien Ngu

Review Essays

Climate Change and the Production of Knowledge

Anna-Karina Hermkens

Critical Dialogues

Accidental Holy Land: The Communist Revolution in Northwest China | By Joseph Esherick // The Chinese Revolution on the Tibetan Frontier | By Benno Weiner

Benno Weiner and Joseph W. Esherick

Film Reviews

Book Reviews

China & Inner Asia

South Asia & the Himalayas

Australasia & the Pacific Islands

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DELIBERATIVE DEMOCRACY IN ASIA | Edited by Baogang He, Michael Breen, and James Fishkin

Kanishka Jayasuriya
OPPOSING POWER: Building Opposition Alliances in Electoral Autocracies | By Elvin Ong

Yoonkyung Lee
MOBILIZING FOR DEVELOPMENT: The Modernization of Rural East Asia | By Kristen E. Looney

René Trappel
PRECARIOUS ASIA: Global Capitalism and Work in Japan, South Korea, and Indonesia | By Arne L. Kalleberg, Kevin Hewison, and Kwang-Yeong Shin

Teresita Cruz del Rosario
ASIA-PACIFIC FISHING LIVELIHOODS | By Michael Fabinyi and Kate Barclay

Robert Winstanley-Chesters
JAPAN IN AUSTRALIA: Culture, Context and Connection | Edited by David Chapman and Carol Hayes

Chris Burgess
SKATEBOARDING AND URBAN LANDSCAPES IN ASIA: Endless Spots | By Duncan McDuie-Ra

Stephanie Geertman

China & Inner Asia Back to Tags ^

Northeast Asia Back to Tags ^

South Asia & the Himalayas Back to Tags ^

Southeast Asia Back to Tags ^

SHARIA TRANSFORMATIONS: Cultural Politics and the Rebranding of an Islamic Judiciary | By Michael G. Peletz

Arskal Salim
ALLURING MONSTERS: The Pontianak and Cinemas of Decolonization | By Rosalind Galt

Adam Knee
STRIKE PATTERNS: Notes from Postwar Laos | By Leah Zani

Erin Lin
CHRISTIAN CIRCULATIONS: Global Christianity and the Local Church in Penang and Singapore, 1819–2000 | By Jean DeBernardi

Daniel P. S. Goh
THE FILIPINO MIGRATION EXPERIENCE: Global Agents of Change | By Mina Roces

Pauline Gardiner Barber
MOUNTAINS OF BLAME: Climate and Culpability in the Philippine Uplands | By Will Smith; foreword by K. Sivaramakrishnan

Maria F. Mangahas
TOWARDS A NEW MALAYSIA? The 2018 Election and Its Aftermath | Edited by Meredith L. Weiss and Faisal S. Hazis

Chan Xin Ying
PERFORMING POWER: Cultural Hegemony, Identity, and Resistance in Colonial Indonesia | By Arnout van der Meer

Muhammad Yuanda Zara
RELIGIOUS PLURALISM IN INDONESIA: Threats and Opportunities for Democracy | Edited by Chiara Formichi

Saskia Schäfer

Australasia & the Pacific Islands Back to Tags ^

WAYFINDING AND CRITICAL AUTOETHNOGRAPHY | Edited by Fetaui Iosefo, Stacy Holman Jones, and Anne Harris

Emily C. Donaldson
BECOMING A GARAMUT PLAYER IN BALUAN, PAPUA NEW GUINEA: Musical Analysis as a Pathway to Learning | By Tony Lewis

Michelle Ladwig Williams
COCONUT COLONIALISM: Workers and the Globalization of Samoa | By Holger Droessler

Paul Shankman
MUSIC WORLDING IN PALAU: Chanting, Atmospheres, and Meaningfulness | By Birgit Abels

Donald H. Rubinstein
TEARS OF RANGI: Experiments Across Worlds | By Anne Salmond

Doug Dalton