ASIAN PERSPECTIVE

Current Issue

Vol. 49, No. 3 SUMMER 2025

Special Issue on Southeast Asia–Middle East Relations – Part 1

Introduction: The Influence of New Bilateralism on Southeast Asia-Middle East Relations and the Path to Deeper Transregionalism

Gürol Baba and Lai Yew Meng


Arab-Turko-Persianate and Malay World Relations:
Past, Present, and Future

Khairudin Aljunied


The Novelty of Complementarity between Transregionalism and New Bilateralism:
Southeast Asia-Middle East Affairs

Gürol Baba and Lai Yew Meng


Russia and China

The Impact of the Russian Invasion of Ukraine on Russian and
Chinese Foreign Policy in Central Asia

Jeanne L. Wilson


A Study on China-Myanmar Complex Interdependence Based on Night-time Light

Xiongguan Zhu, Lili Tan, and Wanshu Li


Politics in Taiwan and South Korea

Retrospection and Vote Choice:
Evidence from Cross-Sectional Studies in South Korea

Sanghoon Park, Hyun-Hee Heo, Deok Hyun Jang, Won Mo Jang, and Jaeyoung Hur


Socialism in Heart, Capitalism in Mind:
Class Cleavage in Taiwan’s Party Politics

John Fuh-sheng Hsieh


BOOK SYMPOSIUM

Book Symposium on TJ Cheng, Uradyn E. Bulag, and Mark Selden. 2023.
A Chinese Rebel beyond the Great Wall: The Cultural Revolution and Ethnic Pogrom in Inner Mongolia. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 410 pp.
Peter C. Perdue
Christopher Atwood
TJ Cheng, Uradyn E. Bulag, and Mark Selden

The current issue of the journal can be found at
https://muse.jhu.edu/issue/55481

FORTHCOMING ISSUE

Vol. 49, No. 4 FALL 2025

Special Issue on Southeast Asia–Middle East Relations – Part 2

Türkiye and Southeast Asia Relations:
Quasi-Transregionalism Through Humanitarian Aid and Education

Hatice Çelik and Yusuf Avcı


Reclaiming Peace: Malaysia’s Global Strategy to Combat Islamophobia

Abdul Razak Ahmad and Zikri Rosli


Malaysia’s Foreign Policy Towards Palestine in the Post-Independence Era:
An Assessment of Evolving Positions in the Barisan Nasional Government

Muslim Imran


Vietnam and Climate Change

Understanding the Politics of Vietnamese Climate Adaptation:
The Case of Dyke Policies in Ca Mau Province

Nguyen Minh Quang, James Borton, and Wil Hout


Territorial Disputes

The Territorial Disputes in the SCS and Taiwan’s Democracy Dividends

Serafettin Yilmaz and Fu-Kuo Liu


North Korea

Whose Economic Pain for What Security Gain?
The Strategic and Normative Concerns Surrounding the UN Sanctions on North Korea

Dong Jin Kim, Luca Coscieme, and Eunsuk Hong

From Coercive Distribution to Material Co-optation:
Changing Mechanisms of Political Control in North Korea’s Labor Market

Peter Ward, Andrei Lankov, and Jiyoung Kim

BOOK SYMPOSIUM

Book Symposium on David M. McCourt. 2024.
The End of Engagement: America’s China and Russia Experts and US Strategy Since 1989. New York: Oxford University Press, 297 pp.
Robert A. Kapp
Franziska Barbara Keller
David M. McCourt



Current and back issues of the journal can be found at https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/733