The Pacific Review

In this new paper, So Yeon Ahn and Kangsuk Kim argue that defense cooperation between #SouthKorea and the #UAE is driven by converging strategic interests, complementary industrial capabilities, and shared incentives to mitigate external vulnerabilities. ⤵️tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

In this new paper, Rubul Patgiri and Deep Gogoi examine how #India and the #Philippines are shaping their relations in response to the conflicting imperatives of balancing and accommodating China. ⤵️ tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

In this new article, Hidetaka Yoshimatsu examines #Japan’s domestic and diplomatic policies on critical minerals through the theoretical lens of state activism in economic policy, with a focus on economic statecraft. ⤵️ tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

In this open access (🔓) paper, Andrew Chubb (@zhubochubo), Ronan Tse-min Fu and Elaine Lee assess Taiwanese public opinion on outlying islands and archipelagos—finding a similar level of approval for defending offshore islands and #Taiwan itself. ⤵️ #abstract" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

In this new article, @BiyonSony examines the Indo-Pacific Partnership for Maritime Domain Awareness, launched by the #Quad in 2022, as a case of informal, networked governance in maritime intelligence cooperation. tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

‘#Japan’s continental turn in a multipolar #Eurasia: connectivity and engagement with the Turkic world.’ Read this new article by Sinan Levent ⤵️ tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

In this new article, Reinhard Biedermann explains how #Taiwan engages with global sustainability frameworks via selective participation, outside UN-based institutions. tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

In this new article, Shin-ae Lee interprets #Japan’s integration of defence measures into communication practices as a key instrument for advancing its national strategic objectives and values in the Indo-Pacific. ⤵️ tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

In this new article, Brad Williams argues that the Japanese discourse on land insecurity, and ensuing policies and practices, conform to a logic of riskification on foreign land purchases in Japan. Read it (open access 🔓) here ⤵️ #abstract" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

In this new article, Yang Jiang analyses how the China Development Bank and Export-Import Bank of China handle often-conflictual goals of national strategy, financial sustainability, and host-country development. ⤵️ #abstract" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

In this new article, Xue Wang and Shuqi Wang compare the responses to China of the Philippines, Vietnam, Malaysia and Brunei on the South China Sea dispute, arguing that differing strategies are shaped by risk tolerance and domestic nationalism. tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

In this new article, Barbora Valockova and Mae Chow introduce the concept of multidirectional altercasting to analyse evolving maritime security cooperation among Japan, ASEAN, the European Union, and South Korea in the Western Pacific. ⤵️ tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Our first issue of 2026 (Vol. 39, Issue 1) is out! 📖 Take a first look at the line-up here: tandfonline.com/toc/rpre20/39/…

In this new (open access 🔓) paper, Sebastian Biba examines the impact of minilateralism on the regional security architecture in the Indo-Pacific. ⤵️ #abstract" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

In this new article, @DStroikos asks if #China is a great power in space and whether it is able to convert its material capabilities into influence. ⤵️ tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

‘Translating global norms: the localisation of women, peace and security (WPS) in #Japan.’ Read this new (open access 🔓) article by Annika Clasen ⤵️ #abstract" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

In a comparative case study of Okinawa Prefecture in Japan and Fujian Province in China, Rena Sasaki (@rena_in_dc) employs the concept of weaponized paradiplomacy to explain how subnational governments are mobilized to advance national security objectives. tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

In this new article, Tiago Botelho dos Santos, Diogo Borges, and Paulo Afonso B. Duarte examine Timor-Leste’s engagement with the Belt and Road Initiative as a small state. ⤵️ tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

In this new article, Kurt Benjamin M. Abalos examines the #Philippines’ policy toward #Taiwan under the Duterte administration. ⤵️ bit.ly/TPR_AbalosK_12…

In this new article, Wen Zha examines how Southeast Asian states respond to United States and Chinese strategic narratives that aim to shape regional understandings of their identities, order, and the South China Sea issue. tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…