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{"title":"China, the United States, Alliances, and War: Avoiding the Thucydides Trap?","authors":"L. Er","doi":"10.1080/00927678.2016.1150765","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00927678.2016.1150765","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract: Chinese President Xi Jinping emphatically rejects the so-called Thucydides Trap and its analogy that a rising China is destined for war with the United States, the status quo great power. But there is a contradiction between Beijing's peaceable rhetoric about a “New Type of Major Power Relations” with the US, and Beijing's disregard for the US and its allies. concerns about rising Chinese assertiveness in the East and South China Seas. It is not inconceivable that smaller Chinese and American allies in East Asia might well drag the US and China into a conflict rather than a conflict directly caused by the “power transition” between the two great powers per se.","PeriodicalId":392598,"journal":{"name":"Asian Affairs: An American Review","volume":"60 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-04-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125159314","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Rise of Hedging and Regionalism: An Explanation and Evaluation of President Obama's China Policy","authors":"Jean A. Garrison, M. Wall","doi":"10.1080/00927678.2016.1166892","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00927678.2016.1166892","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Since the end of the Cold War, there have been many ups and downs in U.S. relations with China. Each presidential administration—whether Democrat or Republican—has pursued a policy of “engagement.” Although this term, or policy frame, has meant many things, it represents for them a broad umbrella concept that includes a range of policy options mixing cooperative and competitive approaches. The Obama administration has been no exception. This paper explains the Obama administration's engagement policy by evaluating its two central elements: (1) the bilateral relationship with China itself and (2) the rise of a pan-Asian regional policy that undergirds its rebalance to Asia. In this analysis, the Obama administration's approach encompasses both cooperative and hedging strategies, thus demonstrating more continuity than change in its approach to China. It concludes by noting that, despite the growing competition in the U.S.–China relationship, strategic rivalry is not a preordained policy outcome. Rather, the common future for both states rests on leadership and smart policy choices, not fate.","PeriodicalId":392598,"journal":{"name":"Asian Affairs: An American Review","volume":"6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-04-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128387709","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Water Rights in China and India: A Human Security Perspective","authors":"R. Pink","doi":"10.1080/00927678.2016.1145987","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00927678.2016.1145987","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract The article explores the paramount human rights and development crisis facing China and India—water scarcity. Both countries are facing alarming water shortages that are exacerbated by dangerous pollution levels, population growth, and climate change impacts such as drought, elevated water-borne disease episodes, flooding, and salt-water intrusion. Millions of citizens in China and India are deprived of safe, clean water in their environment, which threatens healthy socio-economic development. Through the perspective of the human security paradigm, the article analyzes the water security scenario in each country.","PeriodicalId":392598,"journal":{"name":"Asian Affairs: An American Review","volume":"33 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-04-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128703908","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Pakistan's Constitutionalism in an Age of Terror","authors":"Paula R. Newberg","doi":"10.1080/00927678.2016.1131083","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00927678.2016.1131083","url":null,"abstract":"In the first days of January 2015, Pakistan’s Parliament passed the 21st amendment to the Constitution,1 reversed the government’s stand against capital punishment, and enacted a National Action Plan advertised as a new approach to counter terrorism. In an effort to “eliminate terror from our soil,” in Prime Minister Mian Nawaz Sharif’s words, thousands have been arrested,2 some already in prison found themselves, ex post facto, to be condemned to death,3 and a wide range of longstanding violent political disputes have been wrapped into this new policy.4 In a lengthy and far-reaching judgment upholding Parliament’s prerogative to amend the Constitution, the Supreme Court ruled in August 2015 that the 21st amendment could stand.5 Not for the first time, and no doubt not for the last, the state—including Parliament, the military, and the judiciary—has upheld anti-terror policies that challenge the fundamental rights precepts of the Constitution.","PeriodicalId":392598,"journal":{"name":"Asian Affairs: An American Review","volume":"40 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131515935","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Oh, Arissa H. To Save the Children of Korea: The Cold War Origins of International Adoption Stanford: Stanford University Press 320pp., $85.00 hardcover $24.95 paperback ISBN 978-0-8047-9198-4 hardcover ISBN 978-0-8047-9532-6 paperback Publication Date: June 17, 2015","authors":"Gwynn Gacosta","doi":"10.1080/00927678.2016.1133884","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00927678.2016.1133884","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":392598,"journal":{"name":"Asian Affairs: An American Review","volume":"38 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116340512","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"EOV ed Board","authors":"","doi":"10.1080/00927678.2015.1122446","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00927678.2015.1122446","url":null,"abstract":"ed/indexed in: Alternative Press Index, Thomson Scientific (ISI), MEDLINE/PubMed and PsycINFO. Journal of Homosexuality (ISSN: 0091-8369) is published quarterly in print in March, June, September, and December for a total of 4 print issues per year by Taylor & Francis Group, LLC., 530 Walnut Street, Suite 850, Philadelphia, PA 19106. Journal of Homosexuality (Online ISSN: 1540-3602) is published online monthly for a total of 12 issue per year. US Postmaster: Please send address changes to Journal of Homosexuality, c/o Taylor & Francis Group, LLC, 530 Walnut Street, Suite 850, Philadelphia, PA 19106. Annual Subscription, Volume 62, 2015. Print ISSN – 0091-8369 Online ISSN – 1540-3602 Institutional subscribers: $2,560, £1,960, €2,547. Personal subscribers: $363, £278, €363. Institutional and individual subscriptions include access to the online version of the journal. Production and Advertising Office: 530 Walnut Street, Suite 850, Philadelphia, PA 19106. Tel: 215-625-8900, Fax: 215-207-0047. Production Editor: Cheryl Zubrzycki. Subscription offices: USA/North America: Taylor & Francis Group, LLC, 530 Walnut Street, Suite 850, Philadelphia, PA 19106. Tel: 215-625-8900, Fax: 215-207-0050. UK/Europe: Taylor & Francis Customer Service, Sheepen Place, Colchester, Essex CO3 3LP, United Kingdom. Tel: +44 (0) 20 7017 5544; Fax: +44 (0) 20 7017","PeriodicalId":392598,"journal":{"name":"Asian Affairs: An American Review","volume":"38 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123425689","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Xi Jinping and Ma Ying-jeou's Historic 2015 Meeting in Singapore: An Interpretation","authors":"Winberg Chai","doi":"10.1080/00927678.2015.1124630","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00927678.2015.1124630","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This essay analyzes the interactions between two competing powers, China under the Chinese Communist Party, and Taiwan, a democracy, for the future of Taiwan. It provides background on how Taiwan became a non-resolvable issue since the Communists defeated the Kuomintang government on the Chinese mainland in a civil war from 1945–1949. Then the two sides developed into two different political systems: the People's Republic of China—a one-party state controlled by the Chinese Communist Party; and the Republic of China on Taiwan—a multi-party democracy espousing multiple political ideologies. This essay offers the author's predictions for the future.","PeriodicalId":392598,"journal":{"name":"Asian Affairs: An American Review","volume":"27 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122758657","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Charles KeyesFinding Their Voice: Northeastern Villagers and the Thai State Chiang Mai, Thailand: Silkworm Books 262 pp., $30.00 paperbackISBN: 978-6162150746Publication Date: April 2014","authors":"P. Chambers","doi":"10.1080/00927678.2015.1092060","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00927678.2015.1092060","url":null,"abstract":"Charles KeyesFinding Their Voice: Northeastern Villagers and the Thai State Chiang Mai, Thailand: Silkworm Books 262 pp., $30.00 paperbackISBN: 978-6162150746Publication Date: April 2014 Paul Chambers To cite this article: Paul Chambers (2015) Charles KeyesFinding Their Voice: Northeastern Villagers and the Thai State Chiang Mai, Thailand: Silkworm Books 262 pp., $30.00 paperbackISBN: 978-6162150746Publication Date: April 2014, Asian Affairs: An American Review, 42:4, 203-204, DOI: 10.1080/00927678.2015.1092060 To link to this article: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00927678.2015.1092060","PeriodicalId":392598,"journal":{"name":"Asian Affairs: An American Review","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122276924","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The United States, China, and Geopolitics in the Mekong Region","authors":"H. Yoshimatsu","doi":"10.1080/00927678.2015.1106757","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00927678.2015.1106757","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract The main objective of this study is to elucidate great power politics in the Mekong region by exploring how China and the United States have committed to the development of Mekong countries and what characteristics are found in the commitments. The argument that this study advances is three-fold. First, China's pragmatic policies and close linkages with the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) have contributed to raising economic linkages and political leverage in the Mekong region. Second, the US commitments to Mekong development were characterized by advanced-nation-centered and ideal-oriented, which did not necessarily lead to strengthening political and economic linkages between the United States and Mekong countries. Third, while the US Mekong policies have gradually become more practical by paying attention to infrastructure development with strengthened linkages with ASEAN, the United States needs to advance policy harmonization with Japan and search for dialogue with China in pursuing combined objectives of governance and geopolitics.","PeriodicalId":392598,"journal":{"name":"Asian Affairs: An American Review","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129997711","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Sam Rainsy with David Whitehouse We Didn't Start the Fire: My Struggle for Democracy in Cambodia Chiang Mai, Thailand: Silkworm Books 210 pp., $25.00 paperback ISBN: 978-6162150630 Publication Date: June 2013","authors":"P. Chambers","doi":"10.1080/00927678.2015.1120142","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00927678.2015.1120142","url":null,"abstract":"though Keyes admits that Thai democracy has a “checkered history,” he points out that it allowed elected politicians from Isan to represent constituents (60). Suspicious that they were mostly Communist-leaning, the state repressed many of them. According to Keyes, such repression was perceived by northeasterners as symptomatic of central Thai discrimination. In Chapter 5, Keyes examines the period 1957–1973, during which the military administered Thailand with support from monarchy. For Keyes, Isan people recognized the Thai king as their leader but felt that the then-military regime prevented them from redressing their grievances. Some thus supported Communist revolution. However, as Keyes shows in Chapter 6, insurgency had faltered by 1983 partly due to new state decrees allowing amnesty and assistance for surrendering rebels and permitting the establishment of non-governmental organizations. In Chapter 7, Keyes illustrates how northeasterners, having experienced more upward mobility and interconnectedness with the world, have become increasingly involved in organizations to safeguard the environment, community rights and other regionally based interests. Lastly, in Chapter 8, Keyes argues that northeasterners have, since 2001, finally come to make their voices heard through supporting populist political parties of Thaksin Shinawatra and participating in the Red Shirts protest movement. As for strengths, this book, based upon Keyes’s extensive research, offers an elaborately detailed history of Isan, which elucidates the growing political role of Thai northeasterners. Though the book is meant primarily for academics and policymakers engaged with Asia, Keyes’s straightforward writing makes it accessible to the general audience. Yet the book does have weaknesses. First, Keyes sometimes tends to overgeneralize about Isan from work he has done over the years in Nong Tuan village. Second, there is much more diversity within Isan’s identity and history than Keyes acknowledges. Third, to emphasize northeasterners’ growing political participation, Keyes overemphasizes Red Shirts’ support from Isan, lessening the importance of its backing from northern and central regions. Fourth, Keyes never acknowledges that some northeasterners, including farmers comprising NGO “PMove” and politician Newin Chidchob, are anti-Thaksin. Finally, though this book was written before the 2014 antiShinawatra coup, one wonders why Keyes’ “cosmopolitan peasants” only slightly resisted it. Ultimately, however, as a book revealing crucial sociopolitical transformations in Thailand, this book is one of the better studies available—aside from works on Isan written in Thai by Thai authors.","PeriodicalId":392598,"journal":{"name":"Asian Affairs: An American Review","volume":"50 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127092881","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}