Current 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.
Robert A. Kapp
Franziska Barbara Keller
David M. McCourt
The current issue of the journal can be found at
https://muse.jhu.edu/issue/55960
FORTHCOMING ISSUE
Vol. 50, No. 1 WINTER 2026
50th Anniversary of Asian Perspective: Messages from the Founder and Editors
Special Session on China and the MENA Region – Part 1
Special Session Introduction – China in the MENA Region:
Within and Beyond the Belt and Road Initiative
Burak Gürel
Building Away From a Home Template: China’s Role in Reshaping the Urban-Industrial-Logistical Landscapes Spanning a Djibouti-Ethiopia Corridor
Xiangming Chen
From Policy to Practice: Legal Complexities in Deploying China’s Industrial Park-Port Model in Egypt and Djibouti Under the BRI
Ming Jing, Sujata Ashwarya, and Chuchu Zhang
China’s Green Energy Engagement in the MENA Region:
Mapping the Scale, Modalities and Motivations
Emre Demir, Sırma Altun, and Veysel Tekdal
China’s digital Silk Road in the Middle East:
A Region Trapped in the Maelstrom of Technological Competition between China and the USA
László Csicsmann and Scott N. Romaniuk
China: History and Relations
Historical Development of Chinese International Law Theories: From the Late Qing Dynasty to the Rise of China
Steel Rometius
How Target-State Agency Shapes Geoeconomic Influence: Insights from Sino–North Korean Relations
Pan Binbin and Sang-man Lee
China Studies
“Applied China Studies” in Europe
Ágota Révész
BOOK SYMPOSIUM
Book Symposium on Anthony J. Spires. 2024. Everyday Democracy: Civil Society, Youth, and the Struggle Against Authoritarian Culture in China. New York: Columbia University Press.
Julia Chuang
Timothy Hildebrandt
Anthony J. Spires
Current and back issues of the journal can be found at https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/733
