Volume 98 – No. 2

Articles

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  Populist Appeal or Fearful Support? Examining the War on Drugs in the Philippines under Duterte

  Sol Iglesias

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  China’s Historical Statecraft: The Construction of Lost Territories in Bolshoy Ussuriysky Island, Taiwan, and the South China Sea

  Christina Lai

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  Deterring the Right to Justice: Structural Coercion and the Trafficking of Filipino Female Entertainers in South Korea

  Toshiko Tsujimoto

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  Japan’s FOIP-based Diplomacy Toward the Pacific Islands Region

  Noriyuki Segawa

Perspectives

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  Democratic Resilience and Vulnerability in South Korea: Lessons from South Korea’s 2024-2025 Constitutional Crisis

  Jong Hee Park

Critical Responses

Review Essays

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  Together and Apart: The Evolving Sino-Russian Relationship

  Aleksander Lust

Critical Dialogues

Film Reviews

• SHADOWLANDS | Directed by Dostain Baloch, produced by Nida Kirmani; edited by Husain Qaizar

  Humeira Iqtidar

• THE UNITED NATIONS, INDO-PACIFIC AND KOREAN PENINSULA: An Emerging Security Architecture | Edited by  Shin-Wha Lee and Jagannath Panda

  Marie Kwon

• INSECT HISTORIES OF EAST ASIA | Edited by David A. Bello and Daniel Burton-Rose

  Robert Winstanley-Chesters

• CODES OF MODERNITY: Chinese Scripts in the Global Information Age | By Uluğ Kuzuoğlu

  Elvin Meng

• THE LABOR OF REINVENTION: Entrepreneurship in the New Chinese Digital Economy | By Lin Zhang

  Angela Xiao Wu

• THE PARTY FAMILY: Revolutionary Attachments and the Gendered Origins of State Power in China | By Kimberley Ens Manning

  Man Zhang

• HERITAGE CONSERVATION AND CHINA’S BELT AND ROAD INITIATIVE | Edited by Victor C. M. Chan, Yew-Foong Hui, Desmond Hui, and Kazem Vafadari

  Parama Sinha Palit

• TERMINUS: Westward Expansion, China, and the End of American Empire | By Stuart Rollo

  Warren I. Cohen

• THE CHINESE COMMUNIST PARTY: A 100-Year Trajectory | Edited by Jérôme Doyon and Chloé Froissart

  Yoshihiro Ishikawa

• DEADLY DECISION IN BEIJING: Succession Politics, Protest Repression, and the 1989 Tiananmen Massacre | By Yang Su

  Yang Zhang

• THE FUTURE OF CHINA’S PAST: Reflections on the Meaning of China’s Rise | By Albert Welter

  Dongxian Jiang

• CHEN HANSHENG: China’s Last Romantic Revolutionary | By Stephen R. MacKinnon

  Charles W. Hayford

• CHINESE MARRIAGES IN TRANSITION: From Patriarchy to New Familism | By Xiaoling Shu and Jingjing Chen

  Chigusa Yamaura

• MODIFIED BODIES, MATERIAL SELVES: Beauty Ideals in Post-Reform Shanghai | By Julie E. Starr

  Jinyan Zeng

• PREDICTING DISASTERS: Earthquakes, Scientists, and Uncertainty in Modern Japan | By Kerry Smith

  Daniel P. Aldrich

• ANTINUCLEAR CITIZENS: Sustainability Policy and Grassroots Activism in Post-Fukushima Japan | By Akihiro Ogawa

  Ayaka Löschke

• FUKUSHIMA FUTURES: Survival Stories in a Repeatedly Ruined Seascape | By Satsuki Takahashi with a Foreword by K. Sivaramakrishnan

  Maxime Polleri

• TEXTUAL CACOPHONY: Online Video and Anonymity in Japan | By Daniel Johnson

  Kathryn Hemmann

• THE JAPANESE EMPIRE AND LATIN AMERICA | Edited by Pedro Iacobelli and Sidney Xu Lu

  Carl Young

• ARCHAISM AND ACTUALITY: Japan and the Global Fascist Imaginary | By Harry Harootunian

  Simon Avenell

• GHOSTS IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD: Why Japan Is Haunted by Its Past and Germany Is Not | By Walter F. Hatch

  Daqing Yang

• LATE INDUSTRIALIZATION, TRADITION, AND SOCIAL CHANGE IN SOUTH KOREA | By Yong-Chool Ha

  Sunil Kim

• SOUTH KOREA AND FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT: Policy Dynamics and the Aftercare Ombudsman | By Choong Yong Ahn

  Ji Hye Lim

• NORTH KOREA’S MUNDANE REVOLUTION: Socialist Living and the Rise of Kim Il Sung, 1953–1965 | By Andre Schmid

  Avram Agov

• INDIA IN THE INDO-PACIFIC: Understanding India’s Security Orientation towards Southeast and East Asia | By Aditi Malhotra

  Shailza Singh

• THE POLITICAL OUTSIDER: Indian Democracy and the Lineages of Populism | By Srirupa Roy

  Shashank Chaturvedi

• INSURGENCY IN INDIA’S NORTHEAST: Identity Formation, Postcolonial Nation/State-Building, and Secessionist Resistance | By Jugdep S. Chima and Pahi Saikia

  Kunal Nath Shahdeo

• SEMIOTICS OF RAPE: Sexual Subjectivity and Violation in Rural India | By Rupal Oza

  Simanti Dasgupta

• LIFE BEYOND WASTE: Work and Infrastructure in Urban Pakistan | By Waqas H. Butt

  Ayaz Qureshi

• INSIDE AFGHANISTAN: Political Networks, Informal Order, and State Disruption | By Timor Sharan

  Shanthie Mariet D’Souza

• DAYS OF OPPORTUNITY: The United States and Afghanistan Before the Soviet Invasion | By Robert B. Rakove

  C. Christine Fair

• SHADOWLANDS | Directed by Dostain Baloch, produced by Nida Kirmani; edited by Husain Qaizar

  Humeira Iqtidar

• THE POLITICS OF COERCION: State and Regime Making in Cambodia | By Neil Loughlin

  Soksamphoas Im

• UMMAH YET PROLETARIAT: Islam, Marxism, and the Making of the Indonesian Republic | By Lin Hongxuan

  Matthew Galway

• SUBJECTS AND ALIENS: Histories of Nationality, Law and Belonging in Australia and New Zealand | Edited by Kate Bagnall and Peter Prince

  Michèle D. Dominy

• CHRISTIAN TEMPORALITIES: Living Between the Already Fulfilled and the Not Yet Completed | Edited by Anna-Karina Hermkens, Simon Coleman, and Matt Tomlinson

  John Barker

• THE OCEAN ON FIRE: Pacific Stories from Nuclear Survivors and Climate Activists | By Anaïs Maurer

   Holly M. Barker

• UNEVEN CONNECTIONS: A Partial History of the Mobile Phone in Papua New Guinea | By Robert J. Foster

   Dan Jorgensen