Pacific Affairs

Forthcoming Issue

September 2021

Are Economic Sanctions against North Korea Effective?: Assessing Nighttime Light of Various Cities

Are Economic Sanctions against North Korea Effective?: Assessing Nighttime Light of Various Cities
Sung Hyun Son and Joonmo Cho

Understanding Election Violence in the Philippines: Beware the Unknown Assassins of May

Understanding Election Violence in the Philippines: Beware the Unknown Assassins of May
Tom Smith and Joseph Anthony L. Reyes

Economic Policy Uncertainty, Bilateral Investment Treaties (BITs), and Chinese Outward Foreign Direct Investment (COFDI)

Economic Policy Uncertainty, Bilateral Investment Treaties (BITs), and Chinese Outward Foreign Direct Investment (COFDI)
Yue Lu, Linghui Wu and Ka Zeng

Perspectives

Network Monarchy as Euphoric Couplet

Network Monarchy as Euphoric Couplet
Duncan McCargo

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Review Essays

The Politics of Claim-making in India

The Politics of Claim-making in India
Diego Maiorano

The following book and film reviews have been received at Pacific Affairs and will be published in the print edition within the next 12-18 months. Please note that minor textual changes may occur before final publication in our print and official online edition.

Film Reviews

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Book Reviews

Asia General China & Inner Asia Northeast Asia South Asia & the Himalayas Southeast Asia Australasia & the Pacific Islands

Asia General

ISLAMIC SHANGRI-LA: Inter-Asian Relations and Lhasa’s Muslim Communities, 1600 to 1960 | By David G. Atwill ISLAMIC SHANGRI-LA: Inter-Asian Relations and Lhasa’s Muslim Communities, 1600 to 1960 | By David G. Atwill
David R. Stroup | June 28, 2021

IDEAS OF THE CITY IN ASIAN SETTINGS | Edited by Henco Bekkering, Adèle Esposito, and Charles Goldblum IDEAS OF THE CITY IN ASIAN SETTINGS | Edited by Henco Bekkering, Adèle Esposito, and Charles Goldblum
Can-Seng Ooi | June 1, 2021

China & Inner Asia

CHINESE COMMUNIST ESPIONAGE: An Intelligence Primer | By Peter Mattis and Matthew Brazil CHINESE COMMUNIST ESPIONAGE: An Intelligence Primer | By Peter Mattis and Matthew Brazil
Nigel West | June 28, 2021

DISENFRANCHISED: The Rise and Fall of Industrial Citizenship in China | By Joel Andreas DISENFRANCHISED: The Rise and Fall of Industrial Citizenship in China | By Joel Andreas
Christopher Howe | June 28, 2021

FACTORY POLITICS IN THE PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC OF CHINA | Edited by Joel Andreas FACTORY POLITICS IN THE PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC OF CHINA | Edited by Joel Andreas
Manfred Elfstrom | June 28, 2021

DEMOCRACY IN CHINA: The Coming Crisis | By Jiwei Ci DEMOCRACY IN CHINA: The Coming Crisis | By Jiwei Ci
Robert Dayley | June 28, 2021

THE ART OF POLITICAL CONTROL IN CHINA | By Daniel C. Mattingly THE ART OF POLITICAL CONTROL IN CHINA | By Daniel C. Mattingly
Helen Xiaoyan Wu | June 16, 2021

ACROSS THE GREAT DIVIDE: The Sent-Down Youth Movement in Mao’s China, 1968–1980 | By Emily Honig and Xiaojian Zhao ACROSS THE GREAT DIVIDE: The Sent-Down Youth Movement in Mao’s China, 1968–1980 | By Emily Honig and Xiaojian Zhao
Justin Wu | June 16, 2021

THE POLITICS OF PEOPLE: Protest Cultures in China | By Shih-Diing Liu THE POLITICS OF PEOPLE: Protest Cultures in China | By Shih-Diing Liu
Yanhua Deng | June 16, 2021

INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS IN CHINA | By Zhenqing Zhang INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS IN CHINA | By Zhenqing Zhang
Ge Chen | June 16, 2021

Northeast Asia

DIVORCE IN SOUTH KOREA: Doing Gender and the Dynamics of Relationship Breakdown | By Yean-Ju Lee DIVORCE IN SOUTH KOREA: Doing Gender and the Dynamics of Relationship Breakdown | By Yean-Ju Lee
Hyeyoung Woo | June 28, 2021

DECODING THE SINO-NORTH KOREAN BORDERLANDS | Edited by Adam Cathcart, Christopher Green, and Steven Denney DECODING THE SINO-NORTH KOREAN BORDERLANDS | Edited by Adam Cathcart, Christopher Green, and Steven Denney
Joseph A. Seeley | June 28, 2021

SOJU: A Global History | By Hyunhee Park SOJU: A Global History | By Hyunhee Park
Soo-Hyun Mun | June 28, 2021

QUEER KOREA. Perverse Modernities | Edited by Todd A. Henry QUEER KOREA. Perverse Modernities | Edited by Todd A. Henry
Kyungtae Kim | June 28, 2021

FEARING THE WORST: How Korea Transformed the Cold War | By Samuel F. Wells Jr.FEARING THE WORST: How Korea Transformed the Cold War | By Samuel F. Wells Jr.
Robert Jervis | June 28, 2021

PEAK JAPAN: The End of Great Ambitions | By Brad Glosserman PEAK JAPAN: The End of Great Ambitions | By Brad Glosserman
Thomas Wilkins | June 16, 2021

OVERCOMING ISOLATIONISM: Japan’s Leadership in East Asian Security Multilateralism | By Paul Midford OVERCOMING ISOLATIONISM: Japan’s Leadership in East Asian Security Multilateralism | By Paul Midford
Michael J. Green | June 16, 2021

PEACE CORPS VOLUNTEERS AND THE MAKING OF KOREAN STUDIES IN THE UNITED STATES | Edited by Seung-kyung Kim and Michael Robinson PEACE CORPS VOLUNTEERS AND THE MAKING OF KOREAN STUDIES IN THE UNITED STATES | Edited by Seung-kyung Kim and Michael Robinson
Brandon Palmer | June 7, 2021

South Asia & the Himalayas

IMAGINING AFGHANISTAN: The History and Politics of Imperial Knowledge | By Nivi Manchanda IMAGINING AFGHANISTAN: The History and Politics of Imperial Knowledge | By Nivi Manchanda
Georgi Asatryan | June 16, 2021

Southeast Asia

MOMENTS OF SILENCE: The Unforgetting of the October 6, 1976, Massacre in Bangkok | By Thongchai Winichakul MOMENTS OF SILENCE: The Unforgetting of the October 6, 1976, Massacre in Bangkok | By Thongchai Winichakul
Aim Sinpeng | June 28, 2021

INTERPRETING MYANMAR: A Decade of Analysis | By Andrew Selth INTERPRETING MYANMAR: A Decade of Analysis | By Andrew Selth
Darin Sanders Self | June 28, 2021

SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS IN SOUTHEAST ASIA AND ASEAN: National and Regional Approaches | Edited by Ronald Holzhacker and Dafri Agussalim SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS IN SOUTHEAST ASIA AND ASEAN: National and Regional Approaches | Edited by Ronald Holzhacker and Dafri Agussalim
Syed Abdul Rehman Khan | June 28, 2021

THE WAY OF THE CROSS: Suffering Selfhoods in the Roman Catholic Philippines | By Julius Bautista THE WAY OF THE CROSS: Suffering Selfhoods in the Roman Catholic Philippines | By Julius Bautista
Jayeel Cornelio | June 28, 2021

BORDER CAPITALISM, DISRUPTED: Precarity and Struggle in a Southeast Asian Industrial Zone | By Stephen Campbell BORDER CAPITALISM, DISRUPTED: Precarity and Struggle in a Southeast Asian Industrial Zone | By Stephen Campbell
Kevin M. Woods | June 16, 2021

THE REPUBLIC OF VIETNAM, 1955–1975: Vietnamese Perspectives on Nation Building | Edited by Tuong Vu and Sean Fear THE REPUBLIC OF VIETNAM, 1955–1975: Vietnamese Perspectives on Nation Building | Edited by Tuong Vu and Sean Fear
Duy Duc Trinh | June 16, 2021

BEYOND THE ASYLUM: Mental Illness in French Colonial Vietnam | By Claire E. Edington BEYOND THE ASYLUM: Mental Illness in French Colonial Vietnam | By Claire E. Edington
Gerard Sasges | June 16, 2021

FIGHTING FOR VIRTUE: Justice and Politics in Thailand | By Duncan McCargo FIGHTING FOR VIRTUE: Justice and Politics in Thailand | By Duncan McCargo
Jacob I. Ricks | June 16, 2021

TRACES OF TRAUMA: Cambodian Visual Culture and National Identity in the Aftermath of Genocide | By Boreth Ly TRACES OF TRAUMA: Cambodian Visual Culture and National Identity in the Aftermath of Genocide | By Boreth Ly
Rachel Jacobs | June 16, 2021

ASIAN PLACE, FILIPINO NATION: A Global Intellectual History of the Philippine Revolution, 1887–1912 | By Nicole CuUnjieng Aboitiz ASIAN PLACE, FILIPINO NATION: A Global Intellectual History of the Philippine Revolution, 1887–1912 | By Nicole CuUnjieng Aboitiz
Sol Iglesias | June 16, 2021

NO MIDDLE GROUND: Anti-Imperialists and Ethical Witnessing during the Philippine-American War | By Erin L. Murphy NO MIDDLE GROUND: Anti-Imperialists and Ethical Witnessing during the Philippine-American War | By Erin L. Murphy
Jorge Bayona | June 16, 2021

Australasia & the Pacific Islands

UNEQUAL LIVES: Gender, Race and Class in the Western Pacific | Edited by Nicholas Bainton, Debra McDougall, Kalissa Alexeyeff, and John Cox UNEQUAL LIVES: Gender, Race and Class in the Western Pacific | Edited by Nicholas Bainton, Debra McDougall, Kalissa Alexeyeff, and John Cox
Penelope Schoeffel | June 28, 2021

TALKING LIKE CHILDREN: Language and the Production of Age in the Marshall Islands | By Elise Berman TALKING LIKE CHILDREN: Language and the Production of Age in the Marshall Islands | By Elise Berman
Kathleen C. Riley | June 28, 2021

THE CHINA ALTERNATIVE: Changing Regional Order in the Pacific Islands | By Graeme Smith, Terence Wesley-Smith THE CHINA ALTERNATIVE: Changing Regional Order in the Pacific Islands | By Graeme Smith, Terence Wesley-Smith
Rodolfo Maggio | June 28, 2021

HAUNTED PACIFIC: Anthropologists Investigate Spectral Apparitions across Oceania | Edited by Roger Ivar Lohmann HAUNTED PACIFIC: Anthropologists Investigate Spectral Apparitions across Oceania | Edited by Roger Ivar Lohmann
Martha Macintyre | June 28, 2021

PACIFIC SOCIAL WORK: Navigating Practice, Policy and Research | Edited by Jioji Ravulo, Tracie Mafile‘o, and Donald Bruce Yeates PACIFIC SOCIAL WORK: Navigating Practice, Policy and Research | Edited by Jioji Ravulo, Tracie Mafile‘o, and Donald Bruce Yeates
Ashley Meredith | June 1, 2021