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Roles of civil society in peacebuilding in Southeast Asia: the case studies of Mindanao, Aceh, and Southernmost Thailand 民间社会在东南亚和平建设中的作用:棉兰老岛、亚齐和泰国最南部的案例研究

Asian Affairs: An American Review Pub Date : 2022-04-03 DOI: 10.1080/00927678.2022.2089522

Kayanee Chor Boonpunth, Niwadee Saheem

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Moments of silence: The unforgetting of the October 6, 1976, massacre in Bangkok 默哀时刻:缅怀1976年10月6日发生在曼谷的大屠杀

Asian Affairs: An American Review Pub Date : 2021-11-24 DOI: 10.1080/00927678.2021.2004722

Katsuyuki Takahashi

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Uneasy Military Encounters: The Imperial Politics of Counterinsurgency in Southern Thailand 不安的军事遭遇:泰国南部反叛乱的帝国政治

Asian Affairs: An American Review Pub Date : 2021-11-13 DOI: 10.1080/00927678.2021.2004710

P. Chambers

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Insecurities of the Unimportant: Singapore’s Threat Perception against the Rising China 不重要的不安全感:新加坡对崛起中国的威胁感知

Asian Affairs: An American Review Pub Date : 2021-10-02 DOI: 10.1080/00927678.2022.2029232

Hui-Ying Lee

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Attempting to remain apolitical: Assessing the challenges of Malaysia’s military 试图保持非政治性:评估马来西亚军队面临的挑战

Asian Affairs: An American Review Pub Date : 2021-10-02 DOI: 10.1080/00927678.2022.2068361

Nurliana Kamaruddin, R. Rogers

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Infiltrating society: the Thai military’s internal security affairs 渗透社会:泰国军方的内部安全事务

Asian Affairs: An American Review Pub Date : 2021-08-17 DOI: 10.1080/00927678.2021.1966942

P. Chambers

引用次数: 5

The Blue Dot Network, economic power, and China’s Belt & Road Initiative 蓝点网络、经济实力和中国的“一带一路”倡议

Asian Affairs: An American Review Pub Date : 2021-04-03 DOI: 10.1080/00927678.2021.1964886

Edward Ashbee

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The 2019 District Council election in Hong Kong: A localism perspective 2019年香港区议会选举:地方主义视角

Asian Affairs: An American Review Pub Date : 2021-03-29 DOI: 10.1080/00927678.2021.1903779

Jermain T. M. Lam

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The Crown and the Capitalists: The Ethnic Chinese and the Founding of the Thai Nation, Wasana Wongsurawat, Seattle: University of Washington Press, 216 pp. $80.24 cloth $30.00 paper, ISBN 978-0295746258 cloth ISBN 978-0295746241 paper Publication Date: November 2019 《王冠与资本家:华人与泰国民族的建立》，Wasana Wongsurawat，西雅图:华盛顿大学出版社，216页。$80.24布$30.00纸，ISBN 978-0295746258布ISBN 978-0295746241纸出版日期:2019年11月

Asian Affairs: An American Review Pub Date : 2020-12-11 DOI: 10.1080/00927678.2020.1856488

Katsuyuki Takahashi

引用次数: 1

Challenges in norm-localization at the city level: the case of localizing the human rights city concept in Bandung, Indonesia 城市层面规范本土化的挑战:以印尼万隆人权城市理念本土化为例

Asian Affairs: An American Review Pub Date : 2020-12-09 DOI: 10.1080/00927678.2020.1850222

Mireille Marcia Karman, Rizky Widian, Sylvia Yazid

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引用次数: 3