Asian Politics & Policy最新文献

{"title":"Three Faces of Populism in Asia: populism as a Multifaceted Political Practice By Shiru Wang (ed.), London: Routledge, 2024. 268 pp. ISBN: 9781032567836","authors":"Chenxi Shen","doi":"10.1111/aspp.70044","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/aspp.70044","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44747,"journal":{"name":"Asian Politics & Policy","volume":"17 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2025-09-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145197291","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":"#IndonesiaGelap: Examining Digital Protests of Indonesian Politics in Social Media","authors":"Kurnia Arofah, Reny Triwardani","doi":"10.1111/aspp.70035","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/aspp.70035","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44747,"journal":{"name":"Asian Politics & Policy","volume":"17 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2025-09-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145197331","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":"Kashmir Through Competing Media Narratives and the International Law","authors":"Arpit Vihan, Manu Singh","doi":"10.1111/aspp.70042","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/aspp.70042","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44747,"journal":{"name":"Asian Politics & Policy","volume":"17 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2025-09-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145197169","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":"Central Pressure and Local Change in China's Water Infrastructure Development: A Comparative Study of Guangdong and Shandong","authors":"Jihye Oh","doi":"10.1111/aspp.70038","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/aspp.70038","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>This study examines the impact of central government pressure on local government in China, focusing on the adoption of sustainability-oriented approach water infrastructure. It also explores how public-private partnerships (PPPs) in the water sector evolve in response to policy shifts toward sustainability. Initially, PPPs were established to address fiscal constraints and meet infrastructure demands, serving as key drivers of economic growth. However, the Chinese government has recently begun to incorporate ecological considerations into these partnerships. This study explores the factors that motivate local governments to adopt a sustainability perspective in urban development, analyzing the economic, social, and environmental dimensions involved. Focusing on Guangdong and Shandong—two provinces that have actively implemented water PPPs—this paper reveals how local officials have responded to changing evaluation criteria and environmental mandates. Through a comparative analysis, the study reveals that local governments interpret and implement central directives in diverse ways.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":44747,"journal":{"name":"Asian Politics & Policy","volume":"17 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2025-09-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145197132","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":"Rising China's Soft Power in Southeast Asia: Impact on Education and Popular Culture By Leo Suryadinata, Singapore: Iseas-Yusof Ishak Institute, 2024. 282 pp. (soft cover). ISBN: 978-9-81-520303-5","authors":"Kai Chen","doi":"10.1111/aspp.70043","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/aspp.70043","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44747,"journal":{"name":"Asian Politics & Policy","volume":"17 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2025-09-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145197131","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":"Addison, T. and \u0000 Roe, A. (2024). \u0000 Resources Matter: Ending Poverty While Protecting Nature. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press. xx + 209 pp. $110.00. ISBN: 978-0-19-287219-7","authors":"Ahmad Harakan","doi":"10.1111/aspp.70046","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/aspp.70046","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44747,"journal":{"name":"Asian Politics & Policy","volume":"17 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2025-09-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145197133","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":"Examining Wildlife Safeguards for Linear Infrastructure Development in India: Bridging Policy and Practice Gaps","authors":"Yanmei Lin,&nbsp;Fizza Zaidi","doi":"10.1111/aspp.70025","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/aspp.70025","url":null,"abstract":"<p>高速公路、铁路和输电线等线性基础设施项目正在亚洲各地迅速扩张, 对生物多样性构成重大威胁。本研究在印度线性基础设施的法律监管框架情境下, 分析了野生动物保护方面的政策与实践差距。本研究运用法律和政策研究, 分析了环境法律、政策和法院案例。研究结果表明, 尽管印度拥有包括强制性环境许可在内的强有力监管框架, 但在实施、监测和执法方面仍然存在差距。巴格万马哈维尔国家公园和查尔达姆高速公路项目等案例研究表明, 司法干预在解决不合规问题和执行野生动物友好型措施方面发挥着关键作用。本文强调, 需要建立一个更加透明和参与性的过程, 加强法律框架, 进行全面的环境影响评估, 并加强当地社区的参与。这些建议为“弥合政策与实践差距以及促进亚洲生物多样性友好型基础设施建设”提供了切实可行的见解。</p>","PeriodicalId":44747,"journal":{"name":"Asian Politics & Policy","volume":"17 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2025-07-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144551123","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 Rules-Based International Order Under Siege","authors":"Aries A. Arugay","doi":"10.1111/aspp.70034","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/aspp.70034","url":null,"abstract":"&lt;p&gt;The rules-based international order (RBIO), a by-product of post-World War II multilateralism and post-Cold War liberal triumphalism, is now experiencing its most severe stress test since its inception. The global normative framework that once fostered free trade, peace, stability, and international cooperation has been steadily eroded by revisionist states and now further weakened by the return of Donald Trump to the White House. Trump 2.0 has already begun to realign US foreign policy away from liberal internationalism and toward a more unilateral, transactional, and sovereignty-centered approach. In Asia, the implications are far-reaching, as regional actors recalibrate their strategic positions in response to both an increasingly contested RBIO and a disruptive United States.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;However, Asian states are not passively observing the RBIO's decay but are actively navigating its transformation—some by defending its core principles, others by subtly revising it, and many by hedging, adapting, or accommodating based on shifting power realities. The result is a contested and pluralized regional order, where liberal norms coexist uneasily with realist calculations and authoritarian tendencies.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The People's Republic of China continues to lead the charge against the universality of the liberal international order. While Beijing remains rhetorically committed to international law and multilateral institutions, its actions reveal a preference for a hierarchical, sovereignty-centered, and Sinocentric order. In the maritime domain, China has ignored the 2016 Arbitral Award in favor of the Philippines and continues aggressive expansionism in the South China Sea. In the technological and economic arenas, it promotes decoupled, state-dominated ecosystems that challenge open markets and regulatory transparency.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Russia, although geographically peripheral to the Indo-Pacific, plays a supportive role in this revisionist axis. The ongoing war in Ukraine and Russia's deepening strategic alignment with China signal a broader ideological defiance of the West-led order. Their growing coordination—including joint military exercises in East Asia—adds to regional anxiety about a possible “authoritarian entente” that undermines democratic norms and international law.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Compounding these challenges is the current posture of the United States under President Donald Trump. Trump's return to power has reintroduced a foreign policy style marked by isolationism, transactionalism, and a deep skepticism toward traditional allies and multilateral institutions. His administration has already begun scaling back commitments to NATO, de-emphasizing democratic promotion abroad, and signaling discomfort with long-standing security arrangements in Asia.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;In the Indo-Pacific, Trump 2.0 has led to renewed uncertainty over US extended deterrence, especially regarding North Korea, Taiwan, and the South China Sea. His administration's growing focus on bilateral dea","PeriodicalId":44747,"journal":{"name":"Asian Politics & Policy","volume":"17 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2025-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/aspp.70034","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144524622","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Subsuming Chinese Business Elites Into the Party's Fold: The Subtle Strategies of the United Front Work Department","authors":"Zhu Zhang","doi":"10.1111/aspp.70022","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/aspp.70022","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>How does an authoritarian regime incorporate economic elites during market transitions while retaining political control? This article analyzes the strategies of China's United Front Work Department (UFWD) in politically integrating private business elites amid the shift to a socialist market economy. Based on 56 in-depth interviews and a biographical data set of the top 500 Chinese billionaires, the study shows how the UFWD acts as an adaptive institutional mechanism—deploying recognition, intermediaries, appointments, and training—to embed entrepreneurs into Party-sanctioned roles. The findings reveal a structured co-optation process rooted in utility, loyalty, and representativeness, enabling the CCP to leverage elite resources while minimizing political risk. By illuminating how the Party incorporates powerful actors without relinquishing control, the paper contributes to broader debates on authoritarian resilience, elite co-optation, and institutional adaptation under nondemocratic regimes.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":44747,"journal":{"name":"Asian Politics & Policy","volume":"17 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2025-06-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144514857","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 Black Hole of Centralization: Subnational Emergency Invocations During the Tenures of Indira Gandhi and Narendra Modi","authors":"Panch Rishi Dev Sharma","doi":"10.1111/aspp.70023","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/aspp.70023","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The constitutional provision of “Subnational Emergency” under Article 356 of the Constitution of India, 1950, extraordinarily empowers the central (union) government to acquire executive and legislative powers of the states (subnational units) on the occurrence of an undefined and largely unrestrained state of “constitutional machinery failure” emergency. Since 1950, central governments have imposed 121 subnational emergency invocations covering almost all Indian states at least once. The oft-abused subnational emergency power has generated a black hole of centralization overpowering the gravity of federalism, constitutionalism, and democracy in India. The frequency of subnational emergency invocations reaches its zenith during the regimes of single-party personality-dominated central governments. The article comparatively explores two of the most prominent tenures of single-party personality-dominated central governments under Indira Gandhi (1967–1977, 1980–1984) and Narendra Modi (2014–2024) regarding the grounds, manner, justifications, and state of restraints on subnational emergency power.</p>","PeriodicalId":44747,"journal":{"name":"Asian Politics & Policy","volume":"17 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2025-06-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/aspp.70023","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144515096","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}