Journal of Current Southeast Asian Affairs

Papers
(The median citation count of Journal of Current Southeast Asian Affairs is 1. 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)
ArticleCitations
Vietnam's Emergence as a Middle Power in Asia: Unfolding the Power–Knowledge Nexus22
Regime Consolidation Through Deinstitutionalisation: A Case Study of the 2019 Elections in Thailand17
ASEAN and Great Power Rivalry in Regionalism: From East Asia to the Indo-Pacific16
Book Review: Singapore and Multilateral Governance. Securing our Future15
Caught Between Appeasement and Limited Hard Balancing: The Philippines’ Changing Relations With the Eagle and the Dragon15
Kleptocracy and Foreign Loan Decision-Making Process: Insights From Malaysia's Deals and Renegotiations With China13
Civil Society and Democratic Decline in Southeast Asia13
Historical Ambiguity as Political Resource: Duterte's Appropriation of Lapulapu in Post-Colonial Memory Politics12
Book Review: Populism, Nationalism and the South China Sea Dispute: Chinese and Southeast Asian Perspectives11
The COVID-19 Pandemic and the Emergence of Vietnam as a Middle Power8
Book Review: Boats in a Storm7
Uncivil Society and Democracy's Fate in Southeast Asia: Democratic Breakdown in Thailand, Increasing Illiberalism and Ethnic Cleansing in Myanmar6
Exploring the Philippines’ Evolving Grand Strategy in the Face of China's Maritime Expansion: From the Aquino Administration to the Marcos Administration6
Gender Policies of the new Developmental State: The Case of Indonesian new Participatory Village Governance6
Evaluating Interdependence: The Impacts of the February 2021 Coup on Myanmar–China Relations6
Foreign Investment, State Capitalism, and National Development in Borneo: Rethinking Brunei–China Economic Relations6
Business and Politics in Urban Indonesia: Patrimonialism, Oligarchy and the State in Two Towns5
Autocratic Electoral Management: Lessons From Thailand5
Challenges to Democratization from the Perspective of Political Inaction: Insights into Political Disempowerment and Citizenship in the Philippines5
Flirting with Autocracy in Indonesia: Jokowi's Majoritarianism and its Democratic Legacy5
Civil Society Between Repression and Cooptation: Adjusting to Shrinking Space in Cambodia4
The Business of Governing Penang: Workarounds as Remedy?4
What’s Really Going On in the South China Sea?4
The Limits of Local Power: Business, Political Conflict, and Coastal Reclamation Projects in Makassar, Indonesia4
Pathways of Persuasion: Unravelling Narrative Dynamics in Thailand's 2023 General Election4
Explaining Thailand's Politicised COVID-19 Containment Strategies: Securitisation, Counter-Securitisation, and Re-Securitisation3
Elite Perceptions of a China-Led Regional Order in Southeast Asia3
Enduring Hypocrisy as ASEAN's Organisational Problem?3
Book Review: Indonesians and Their Arab World: Guided Mobility among Labor Migrants and Mecca Pilgrims3
The Contestation of National Adaptation Policies in Indonesia3
The Thai–Cambodian Border in International Relations: Constructing a Third Space in Geopolitics2
Vietnam's Response to the US Indo-Pacific Strategy in the Context of a Rising China2
Indonesia's Relations With China in the Age of COVID-192
What Drives Voting Behavior in Southeast Asia? Evidence from Candidate Choice Experiments in Five Countries2
CSO Networks and Resistance to Forced Displacement in Cambodia2
A Philippine Strongman's Legislative and Constitutional Reforms Legacy2
Voting for Winners and Losers in a Hybrid Regime: How Thailand's 2023 Election Shaped Voter Opinion2
How Do National Laws Filter Down to the Local? Tobacco Control Regulations and Smoke Free Areas in a Decentralised Indonesia2
Persisting Patronage: Challenges to Breaking Gender Barriers in Thai Elections2
Authoritarian Nostalgia and Democratic Decline in Contemporary Indonesia1
The Politics of Government–Business Relations in Urban Southeast Asia: Introduction and Overview1
Kingdom of Fear: Royal Governance under Thailand's King Vajiralongkorn1
Thailand's 2023 Election: A Liberal Moment in a Competitive Authoritarian System1
Book Review: Communal Intimacy and the Violence of Politics: Understanding the War on Drugs in Bagong Silang1
Challenges and Prospects for Urban Peacebuilding in Post-Siege Marawi City, Philippines: People, Places, and Practices1
Myanmar’s Post-Coup Foreign Policy and Alignment Behavior: Assessing the Agency of a “Pariah State”1
Navigating Investment in Risky Market: Comparative Analysis of Chinese State-Owned Enterprises and Private Firms Operating in Indonesia1
Biopolitics in Rebel-Controlled Myanmar: Exploring Why the United League of Arakan Supports the Kyaukphyu Special Economic Zone1
The Evolution and Institutionalisation of Business–Government Relations: Public–Private Partnerships in Khon Kaen, Thailand1
Revisiting the May 1998 Riots in Indonesia: Civilians and Their Untold Memories1
The Indo-Pacific and the Next Phase of ASEAN Centrality1
Protesting in the Time of Pandemic: Diagonal Accountability, #KerajaanGagal, and Democratic Regression in Malaysia1
Book Review: Order, Contestation and Ontological Security-Seeking in the South China Sea1
Dissent from a Distance: Rising Political Activism of Young Thai Diasporas1
Book Review: The criminalisation of people smuggling in Indonesia and Australia: asylum out of reach1
Moro Women's Participation and Legitimation in the Bangsamoro Peace Process1
From “Social Evils” to “Human Beings”: Vietnam's LGBT Movement and the Politics of Recognition1
The Fizzling of “Ceboom”: How Jurisdictional Battles and Warring Factions Undermined Cebu's Development Coalition1
Constitutional Change and Oligarchic Politics in the Philippines, 1987–20241
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