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BEYOND THE GENDER GAP IN JAPAN | Edited by Gill Steel

Akiko Yasuike

ASIA’S REGIONAL ARCHITECTURE: Alliances and Institutions in the Pacific Century | By Andrew Yeo

Thomas Wilkins

THE ABE DOCTRINE: Japan’s Proactive Pacifism and Security Strategy | By Daisuke Akimoto \\ THE ICONOCLAST: Shinzō Abe and the New Japan | By Tobias S. Harris

Andrew Oros

ELUSIVE LIVES: Gender, Autobiography, and the Self in Muslim South Asia | By Siobhan Lambert-Hurley

Barbara Metcalf

PEOPLE AND CHANGE IN INDIGENOUS AUSTRALIA | Edited by Diane Austin-Broos and Francesca Merlan

Siobhan McDonnell

DISTRIBUTIVE POLITICS IN MALAYSIA: Maintaining Authoritarian Party Dominance | By Hidekuni Washida

Hwok Aun Lee

ASIA INSIDE OUT: Itinerant People | Edited by Eric Tagliacozzo, Helen F. Siu, and Peter C. Perdue

Caren Freeman

DEMANDING IMAGES: Democracy, Mediation, and the Image-Event in Indonesia | By Karen Strassler.

Colm Fox

FATEFUL DECISIONS: Choices That Will Shape China’s Future | Edited by Thomas Fingar and Jean C. Oi

Kenneth W. Foster

THE OCEAN IN THE SCHOOL: Pacific Islander Students Transforming Their University | By Rick Bonus

Michelle Ladwig Williams