Pacific Affairs

Papers
(The TQCC of Pacific Affairs is 0. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)
ArticleCitations
Social Media and Malaysia’s 2022 Election: The Growth and Impact of Video Campaigning29
Wayfinding and Critical Autoethnography.22
Queer Companions: Religion, Public Intimacy, and Saintly Affects in Pakistan.12
Questioning Borders: Ecoliteratures of China and Taiwan11
Front Matter9
Inglorious, Illegal Bastards: Japan’s Self-Defense Force during the Cold War.9
Internationalist Aesthetics: China and Early Soviet Culture.8
Out of Line and Offline: Queer Mobilizations in ’90s Eastern India.6
Insurgency in India’s Northeast: Identity Formation, Postcolonial Nation/State-Building, and Secessionist Resistance6
Dialogues with a Trickster: On the Margins of Myth and Ethnography in the Marshall Islands5
Populist Appeal or Fearful Support? Examining the War on Drugs in the Philippines under Duterte5
Youth in Fiji and Solomon Islands: Livelihoods, Leadership and Civic Engagement. Pacific Series.5
Handbook of Governance in Small States.4
The Rivalry Peril: How Great-Power Competition Threatens Peace and Weakens Democracy4
Mekong Dreaming: Life and Death along a Changing River.4
Covid in the Islands: A Comparative Perspective on the Caribbean and the Pacific.4
Development Challenges of Pakistan: Constraints and Choices4
Comparing Religious Intolerance in Indonesia by Affiliation to Muslim Organizations4
Eleven Winters of Discontent: The Siberian Internment and the Making of a New Japan.4
Unsung Land, Aspiring Nation: Journeys in BougainviUe.3
The Hard State, Soft City of Singapore.3
The Global Anti Corruption Regime: The Case of Papua New Guinea.3
Iconographies of Occupation: Visual Cultures in Wang Jingwei’s China, 1939-1945.3
Science for Governing Japan’s Population.3
Racial Difference and the Colonial Wars of 19th Century Southeast Asia.3
The Routledge Handbook of Exclusion, Inequality and Stigma in India.3
Migrants and Machine Politics: How India’s Urban Poor Seek Representation and Responsiveness.3
Goldilocks’ Purgatory: The Public Transcript of Performative Governance in Singapore2
Electoral Reform and the Fate of New Democracies: Lessons from the Indonesian Case.2
The Rise of China’s Industrial Policy 1978 to 2020.2
Perspective Democratic Resilience and Vulnerability in South Korea: Lessons from South Korea’s 2024–2025 Constitutional Crisis2
Contemporary Practices of Citizenship in Asia and the West : Care of the Self.2
Sunflowers and Umbrellas: Social Movements, Expressive Practices, and Political Culture in Taiwan and Hong Kong.2
Understanding Mistrust and Instability in East Asia2
From Family to Police Force: Security and Belonging on a South Asian Border.2
Dethroned: The Downfall of India’s Princely States2
Japan’s Prisoners of Conscience: Protest and Law During the Iraq War.2
Chen Hansheng: China’s Last Romantic Revolutionary.2
Climatic Media: Transpacific Experiments in Atmospheric Control.2
South Korea and The Politics of Ethnic Nationalism2
Peace, Poverty, and Betrayal: A New History of British India.1
Post-democratizing Politics in Southeast and Northeast Asia1
Japan in Australia: Culture, Context and Connection.1
The Sino-Indian Rivalry: Implications for Global Order.1
Unthinking Collaboration: American Nisei in Transwar Japan.1
Administering Affect: Pop-Culture Japan and the Politics of Anxiety.1
Mountains of Blame: Climate and Culpability in the Philippine Uplands.1
Oishii: The History of Sushi.1
Oceans Between Us: Pacific Peoples and Racism in Aotearoa1
Past Progress: Time and Politics at the Borders of China, Russia, and Korea1
International Norms and Local Politics in Myanmar.1
Market Maoists: The Communist Origins of China’s Capitalist Ascent.1
Japan’s Ocean Borderlands: Nature and Sovereignty1
The Judicialization of Politics in Pakistan: A Comparative Study of Judicial Restraint and Its Development in India, the Us and Pakistan.1
Remittance as Belonging: Global Migration, Transnationalism, and the Quest for Home1
Commodities of Care: The Business of Hiv Testing in China.1
Knowing Manchuria: Environments, the Senses, and Natural Knowledge on an Asian Borderland.1
From the “Cultural Properties Protection Act” to the “Framework Act on National Heritage”: Legal Paradigm Shifts in South Korea’s Heritage Policy1
Babaylan Sing Back: Philippine Shamans and Voice, Gender, and Place.1
Front Matter1
When the Iron Bird Flies: China’s Secret War in Tibet.1
Postcolonial Hangups in Southeast Asian Cinema: Poetics of Space, Sound, and Stability.1
Poverty, Genderand Health in the Slums Ofbangladesh: Children of Crows0
Making Place for Muslims in Contemporary India.0
China’s Policy Response to Nancy Pelosi’s Visit to Taiwan: The Influence of Nationalism Revisited0
On the Edge: Feeling Precarious in China0
Pathways of Autocratization: The Tumultuous Journey of Bangladeshi Politics0
Protecting China’s Interests Overseas: Securitization and Foreign Policy.0
Remorse, Resentment, & Resilience: The 2025 Midterm Philippine Elections0
Myanmar Diaries. By Myanmar Film Collective. Amsterdam: Zindoc; Nesodden: Ten Thousand Images [co-producer], 2022. 1 online resource (70 min.). In Burmese and English with English subtitles.0
Struggle, Reform, Boom and Bust: An Economic History of Papua New Guinea Since Independence0
Objects as Insights: R. H. Codrington’s Ethnographic Collections from Melanesia.0
The Candidate’s Dilemma: Anticorruptionism and Money Politics in Indonesian Election Campaigns.0
Ginkgo Village: Trauma and Transformation in Rural China0
The Mountain Is Moving, but Where To? Japan's 2025 Upper House Election and the Future of Japanese Politics0
Chinese Asianism, 1894–1945.0
The Apathy of Empire: Cambodia in American Geopolitics0
China’s Political Worldview and Chinese Exceptionalism: International Order and Global Leadership.0
The Forgotten Victims of the Atomic Bomb: North Korean Pipokja and the Politics of Victimhood in Japan-DPRK Relations0
China's Chance to Lead: Acquiring Global Influence via Infrastructure Development and Digitalization0
Robots Won’t Save Japan: An Ethnography of Eldercare Automation.0
Gardens of Gold: Place-Making in Papua New Guinea.0
Days of Opportunity: The United States and Afghanistan Before the Soviet Invasion0
Front Matter0
Reppin’: Pacific Islander Youth and Native Justice.0
Korea: A History.0
Voices of Dissent: An Essay.0
The Regional Assistance Mission to Solomon Islands (ramsi) : Did It Help or Harm a Friend?0
Capturing Institutional Change: The Case of the Right to Information Act in India.0
The Geographic Scope of Opposition Challenges in Malaysia’s Parliament0
The Communist Judicial System in China, 1927-1976: Building on Fear.0
Waiting Town: Life in Transit and Mumbai’s Other World-Class Histories.0
Amorphous Dissent: Post-Fukushima Social Movements in Japan.0
Stalemate: Autonomy and Insurgency on the China-Myanmar Border0
Historical Lessons from Japanese-Russian Trade0
Regional Politics in Oceania: From Colonialism and Cold War to the Pacific Century0
Suharto’s Cold War: Indonesia, Southeast Asia, and the World0
Upland Geopolitics: Postwar Laos and the Global Land Rush.0
Ploughshares and Swords: India’s Nuclear Program in the Global Cold War.0
The Federated States of Micronesia’s Engagement with the Outside World: Control, Self-Preservation and Continuity.0
Moderation of Sarawak Regionalism in Malaysia’s 15th General Election0
Contesting Inequalities: Mediated Labor Activism and Rural Migrant Workers in China0
Silences of the Dam: The Intimate Geographies of Ethnic Lao Well-Being on the Sesan River0
Japanese Foreign Intelligence and Grand Strategy: From the Cold War to the Abe Era.0
On Dangerous Ground: America’s Century in the South China Sea.0
The Everyday Politics of Resources: Lives and Landscapes in Northwest Vietnam0
The Funeral of Mr. Wang: Life, Death, and Ghosts in Urbanizing China.0
One and All: The Logic of Chinese Sovereignty.0
Negotiation Dynamics to Denuclearize North Korea: Cohesion and Disarray.0
India’s Near East: A New History0
Knowledge Production in Cold War Asia: US Hegemony and Local Agency0
Mobilizing for Development: The Modernization of Rural East Asia.0
Resisting Indonesia’s Culture of Impunity: Aceh’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission0
Unearthing Politics: Environment and Contestation in Postsocialist Vietnam.0
Turning Land Into Capital: Development and Dispossession in the Mekong Region.0
The Black Box: Demystifying the Study of Korean Unification and North Korea0
Breaking the Engagement: How China Won and Lost America0
Governing Asymmetric Interdependence Networks: How Network Position and Institutional Power Shape US Hypersecuritization and Japanese Strategic Desecuritization of Submarine Cable Policies0
China’s Gilded Age: The Paradox of Economic Boom and Vast Corruption.0
The Extraordinary in the Mundane: Family and Forms of Community in China0
Deadly Decision in Beijing: Succession Politics, Protest Repression, and the 1989 Tiananmen Massacre0
Clash of Powers: Us-China Rivalry in Global Trade Governance.0
Karma and Punishment: Prison Chaplaincy in Japan.0
The Currency of Truth: Newsmaking and the Late-Socialist Imaginaries of China’s Digital Era.0
Performing Chinatown: Hollywood, Tourism, and the Making of a Chinese American Community0
Taiwan’s Green Parties: Alternative Politics in Taiwan.0
Constitutional Bricolage: Thailand’s Sacred Monarchy vs. the Rule of Law.0
Global Health Security in China, Japan, and India: Assessing Sustainable Development Goals.0
Islam in a Secular State: Muslim Activism in Singapore.0
The Indonesian Presidency; Assessing the 2024 Presidential Elections and Beyond0
Chinas Muslims Japan’s Empire: Centering Islam in World War Ii.0
Push the Button: Interactive Television and Collaborative Journalism in Japan0
The Asian Monetary Fund and De-Dollarization: The Reshaping of the Global Order0
Perspective Gerrymandering and its Effects in Singapore’s 2025 General Elections0
The Gilded Cage: Technology, Development, and State Capitalism in China0
Poverty and Pacification: The Chinese State Abandons the Old Working Class.0
A Team of Five Million? The 2020 ‘COVID-19’ New Zealand General Election0
Like Fire: The Paliau Movement and Millenarianism in Melanesia.0
Interasian Intimacies Across Race, Religion, and Colonialism0
Front Matter0
Reimagining Aid: Foreign Donors, Women's Health, and New Paths for Development in Cambodia0
Becoming a Garamut Player in Baluan, Papua New Guinea: Musical Analysis as a Pathway to Learning.0
The Urbanization of People: The Politics of Development, Labor Markets, and Schooling in the Chinese City.0
Forces of Nature: New Perspectives on Korean Environments0
Violence and Impunity: Democratic Backsliding in the Philippines and the 2022 Elections0
Violence of Democracy: Interparty Conflict in South India0
Wives and Wanderers in a New Guinea Highlands Society: Women’s Lives in the Wahgi Valley.0
The Great Transformation: China’s Road from Revolution to Reform0
The Theory of Recognition and Multicultural Practices in Colombia and New Zealand.0
The Pulse of the Earth: Political Geology in Java0
‘New’ Women: Trans Women, Hijras and the Remaking of Inequality in India0
Nation-Building and Federalism in Nepal: Contentions on Framework0
Global Easts: Remembering, Imagining, Mobilizing.0
China’s Relations with Africa: A New Era of Strategic Engagement0
Mumbai Taximen: Autobiographies and Automobili ties in India.0
Young Soeharto: The Making of a Soldier, 1921–1945.0
Pathways for Irregular Forces in Southeast Asia: Mitigating Violence with Non-State Armed Groups.0
Terminus: Westward Expansion, China, and the End of American Empire0
Japanese Racial Identities Within Us-Japan Relations, 1853-19190
Ghost Citizens: Decolonial Apparitions of Stateless, Foreign and Wayward Figures in Law0
Under the Nuclear Shadow: China’s Information-Age Weapons in International Security0
Front Matter0
Fukushima Futures: Survival Stories in a Repeatedly Ruined Seascape0
The Logic of Compressed Modernity.0
Han Heroes and Yamato Warriors: Competing Masculinities in Chinese and Japanese War Cinema0
Wild Policy: Indigeneity and the Unruly Logics of Intervention.0
Violent Atmospheres: Livelihoods and Landscapes in Crisis in Southeast Asia0
Yasukuni Fundamentalism: Japanese Religions and the Politics of Restoration.0
When the Bones Speak: The Living, the Dead, and the Sacrifice of Contemporary Okinawa0
Experimental Times: Startup Capitalism and Feminist Futures in India0
From Country to Nation: Ethnographic Studies, Kokugaku, and Spirits in Nineteenth-Century Japan.0
Ningwasum.0
Justice and International Order East and West.0
In and Out of Plain Sight: Interrogating Power in the Mekong Riverscape0
Multicultural at the Meso-Level: Governing Diversity within the Family in South Korea0
Necropolitics of the Ordinary: Death and Grieving in Contemporary Singapore0
Innovation and China’s Global Emergence.0
The War for Chinese Talent in America: The Politics of Technology and Knowledge in Sino-U.s. Relations0
The Backstage of Democracy: India’s Election Campaigns and the People Who Manage Them0
Crisis Narratives, Institutional Change, and the Transformation of the Japanese State.0
Atmospheric Violence: Disaster and Repair in Kashmir0
Indonesians and Their Arab World: Guided Mobility among Labor Migrants and Mecca Pilgrims.0
Invisible China: How the Urban-Rural Divide Threatens China’s Rise.0
Localized Bargaining: The Political Economy of China’s High-Speed Railway Program.0
Resource Nationalism in Indonesia: Booms, Big Business, and the State0
Transpacific Reform and Revolution: The Chinese in North America, 1898–19180
The Oxford Handbook of South Korean Politics.0
Food Security or Food Sovereignty? Agricultural Technology Reforms after the Famine in North Korea0
Rioting for Representation: Local Ethnic Mobilization in Democratizing Countries.0
Precarious Asia: Global Capitalism and Work in Japan, South Korea, and Indonesia.0
Brand New Nation: Capitalist Dreams and Nationalist Designs in Twenty-First-Century India.0
A Thousand Steps to Parliament: Constructing Electable Women in Mongolia.0
Manga’s First Century: How Creators and Fans Made Japanese Comics, 1905–19890
Narrow Fairways: Getting By & Falling Behind in the New India.0
Mothers Against War: Gender, Motherhood, and Peace Activism in Cold War Japan0
Accidental Holyland: The Communist Revolution in Northwest China.0
Insecurities of Expulsion: Afro-Asian entanglements in Transcontinental Uganda0
The Making of China’s Post Office: Sovereignty, Modernization, and the Connection of a Nation0
Communism, Cold War, and Revolution: The Indonesian Communist Party in West Java, 1949–19660
Tango in Japan: Cosmopolitanism Beyond the West0
China’s Challenges and International Order Transition: Beyond “Thucydides’s Trap.”0
Towards a New Malaysia? The 2018 Election and Its Aftermath.0
India Is Broken: A People Betrayed, Independence to Today.0
Delhi Reborn: Partition and Nation Building in India’s Capital.0
The Railpolitik: Leadership and Agency in Sino-African Infrastructure Development0
Bargaining between Giants: Reassessing South Korea’s Military Options in a Taiwan War0
Semiotics of Rape: Sexual Subjectivity and Violation in Rural India0
Pursuing Morality: Buddhism and Everyday Ethics in Southeastern Myanmar0
Prelude to Pearl Harbor: Ideology and Culture in Us-Japan Relations, 1919-1941.0
Settler Garrison: Debt Imperialism, Militarism, and Transpacific Imaginaries.0
Opposing Power: Building Opposition Alliances in Electoral Autocracies.0
Experiments with Marxism-Leninism in Cold War Southeast Asia. Asian Studies Series.0
International Impact of Colonial Rule in Korea, 1910-1945.0
Feeling Machines: Japanese Robotics and the Global Entanglements of More-Than-Human Care0
Understanding Korean Webtoon Culture: Transmedia Storytelling, Digital Platforms, and Genres.0
Ghosts in the Neighborhood: Why Japan Is Haunted by Its Past and Germany Is Not0
Southeast Asia Views the United States: Perceptions, Policies, and Prospects0
The Difficult Politics of Peace: Rivalry in Modern South Asia.0
Power and Influence in the Pacific Islands: Understanding Statecraftiness0
Perspective Valence Rules: Explaining Opposition Party Performance in Singapore’s 2025 General Elections0
Diasporic Hallyu: The Korean Wave in Korean Canadian Youth Culture.0
South Korea and Foreign Direct Investment: Policy Dynamics and the Aftercare Ombudsman0
Margaret Mead. Anthropology’s Ancestors.0
The Labor of Reinvention: Entrepreneurship in the New Chinese Digital Economy0
Chequered Past, Uncertain Future: The History of Pakistan0
North Korea’s Foreign Policy: The Kim Jong-Un Regime in a Hostile World.0
The Decline and Fall of Republican Afghanistan0
The Chinese Communist Youth League: Juniority and Responsiveness in a Party Youth Organization.0
The Road to Dien Bien Phu: A History of the First War for Vietnam.0
Transpacific Developments: The Politics of Multiple Chinas in Central America.0
The Sentinel State: Surveillance and the Survival of Dictatorship in China0
Newborn Socialist Things: Materiality in Maoist China.0
Social Media and Ordinary Life: Affect, Ethics, and Aspiration in Contemporary China0
Empire News: The Anglo-Indian Press Writes India. By Priti Joshi.0
China’s Historical Statecraft: The Construction of Lost Territories in Bolshoy Ussuriysky Island, Taiwan, and the South China Sea0
Migrant Ecologies; Environmental Histories of the Pacific World.0
Hegemonic Mimicry: Korean Popular Culture of the Twenty-First Century.0
Subjects and Aliens: Histories of Nationality, Law and Belonging in Australia and New Zealand0
Review Essay Peaks of Policy Analysis: Six National Cases in Asia and the Pacific0
The Chinese Communist Party: A 100-Year Trajectory0
Late Industrialization, Tradition, and Social Change in South Korea0
Bombay Hustle: Making Movies in a Colonial City.0
Dancing on Bones: History and Power in China, Russia, and North Korea.0
Why Was the Pandemic Poorly Managed by the Government of India? a State-in-Society Approach0
Fragmenting Globalization: The Politics of Preferential Trade Liberalization in China and the United States.0
The Dancer’s Voice: Performance and Womanhood in Transnational India.0
The Coalitions Presidents Make: Presidential Power and Its Limits in Democratic Indonesia0
Zhou Enlai: A Life0
Reordering Adivasi Worlds: Representation, Resistance, Memory.0
Social Purpose, Commercialization, and Innovations in Microfinance: A Global Perspective.0
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