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Pacific Affairs is a peer-reviewed, independent, and interdisciplinary scholarly journal focusing on important current political, economic and social issues throughout Asia and the Pacific. Each issue contains approximately five new articles and 40-50 book reviews. Published continuously as a quarterly since 1928 under the same name, it is the oldest English-language journal with a focus on Asia and the Pacific. It enjoys an international reputation based on the high quality of articles, and its extensive book reviews section.

Publisher: Pacific Affairs, a division of the University of British Columbia

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Volume 89, Number 1, March 2016

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Professionals and Soldiers: Measuring Professionalism in the Thai Military
pp. 7-30(24)
Authors: Sirivunnabood, Punchada; Ricks, Jacob Isaac

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Review Essay

Free Content Anarchist Discourse in Asian Studies
pp. 103-109(7)
Author: Shipper, Apichai W.

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Book Reviews: Asia General

Free Content Makers of Modern Asia
pp. 113-115(3)
Author: Jeffrey, Robin

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Free Content The Nature of Asian Politics
pp. 115-116(2)
Author: Inoguchi, Takashi

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Free Content The Politics Of Marketising Asia
pp. 117-119(3)
Author: Li, Wei

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Free Content Corporate Social Responsibility and Human Rights in Asia
pp. 119-121(3)
Author: Grayson, David

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Book Reviews: China and Inner Asia

Free Content China from Empire to Nation-state
pp. 125-127(3)
Author: Ownby, David

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Free Content China's Foreign Policy
pp. 127-129(3)
Author: Wang, Dong

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Free Content Religion and Ecological Sustainability in China
pp. 134-136(3)
Author: Jiun, Peter Wong Yih

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Free Content Class in Contemporary China
pp. 138-140(3)
Author: Whyte, Martin King

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Free Content Visions of Dystopia in China's New Historical Novels
pp. 142-144(3)
Author: King, Richard

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Free Content A Landscape of Travel: The Work of Tourism in Rural Ethnic China
pp. 144-146(3)
Author: Klingberg, Travis

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Free Content La France En Chine De Sun Yat-sen à Mao Zedong 1918–1953
pp. 154-156(3)
Author: Granger, Serge

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Book Reviews: Northeast Asia

Free Content Energy Security in Japan: Challenges After Fukushima
pp. 156-158(3)
Author: Woodall, Brian

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Free Content Lost and Found: Recovering Regional Identity in Imperial Japan
pp. 165-166(2)
Author: Van Sant, John E.

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Free Content Japan's Relations with North Korea and the Recalibration of Risk
pp. 178-180(3)
Author: Maslow, Sebastian

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Book Reviews: South Asia

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Free Content Pakistan's Nuclear Policy: A Minimum Credible Deterrence
pp. 215-217(3)
Author: Anderson, Robert S.

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Book Reviews: Southeast Asia

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Free Content Exploration and Irony in Studies of Siam Over Forty Years
pp. 226-228(3)
Author: Kusno, Abidin

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Free Content Liem Sioe Liong's Salim Group: The Indonesia
pp. 233-235(3)
Author: Robison, Richard

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Free Content Regional Dynamics in a Decentralized Indonesia
pp. 235-237(3)
Author: Thufail, Fadjar I.

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Book Reviews: Australasia and the Pacific Islands

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Free Content Australians in Papua New Guinea 1960–1975
pp. 241-243(3)
Author: Scaglion, Richard

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Free Content Ancestral Places: Understanding Kanaka Geographies
pp. 243-245(3)
Author: Gugganig, Mascha

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Free Content How to Read Oceanic Art
pp. 246-247(2)
Author: Garnier, Nicolas

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Free Content Making Micronesia: A Political Biography of Tosiwo Nakayama
pp. 248-249(2)
Author: Rubinstein, Donald

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Documentary Films Review

Free Content The Missing Picture = L'image Manquante
pp. 250-251(2)
Author: Sion, Brigitte

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