Volume 99 – No. 1

March 2026

The Mountain Is Moving, but Where To? Japan’s 2025 Upper House Election and the Future of Japanese Politics

The Mountain Is Moving, but Where To? Japan’s 2025 Upper House Election and the Future of Japanese Politics

Kyung-Gu Lee

Navigating a Cautious Pivot: Strategic Circumspection and Knowledge Diplomacy in Malaysia’s Engagement with Iran Under Anwar Ibrahim

Navigating a Cautious Pivot: Strategic Circumspection and Knowledge Diplomacy in Malaysia’s Engagement with Iran Under Anwar Ibrahim

Maziar Mozaffari Falarti

Governing Asymmetric Interdependence Networks: How Network Position and Institutional Power Shape US Hypersecuritization and Japanese Strategic Desecuritization of Submarine Cable Policies

Governing Asymmetric Interdependence Networks: How Network Position and Institutional Power Shape US Hypersecuritization and Japanese Strategic Desecuritization of Submarine Cable Policies

One-Sun Cho

Pension Withdrawals and the Paradox of Social Protection in Vietnam

Pension Withdrawals and the Paradox of Social Protection in Vietnam

Tu Phuong Nguyen

Bargaining between Giants: Reassessing South Korea’s Military Options in a Taiwan War

Bargaining between Giants: Reassessing South Korea’s Military Options in a Taiwan War

Ashton H. S. Cho & Inwook Kim

Remorse, Resentment, & Resilience: The 2025 Midterm Philippine Elections

Remorse, Resentment, & Resilience: The 2025 Midterm Philippine Elections

Aries A. Arugay and Maria Elize H. Mendoza

Reframing Growth: Elite Paradigms and Korea’s Green Pivot

Reframing Growth: Elite Paradigms and Korea’s Green Pivot

Sun Ryung Park