Monthly Archives: March 2015
How big should reserves be?
According to a paper just out at the JCA website, authored by Youngwon Cho of the Department of Political Science, St. Francis Xavier University in Canada, the answer is, predictably a political one. In “When $262 Billion Is Not Enough: … Continue reading
5000 hits
One of the earliest posts at this blog was to mention Serhat Ünaldi’s 2013 article “Working Towards the Monarchy and its Discontents: Anti-royal Graffiti in Downtown Bangkok” (DOI: 10.1080/00472336.2013.842260). At the time, in late July 2014, this article had been … Continue reading
Advice for potential authors
At JCA we are increasingly asked what our “rejection rate” is. There are all kinds of ways of working this out. Over the past year it was about 92%. In 2015, it looks like it will be higher as the … Continue reading
The North in the South’s View
Seung-Ook Lee of the School of Humanities & Social Sciences, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, has a new article that has just posted at the JCA website. Entitled “A Geo-Economic Object or an Object of Geo-Political Absorption? Competing … Continue reading
China and the Region
Regular reviewer Kosmas Tsokhas has a long review of the new book China’s Regional Relations: Evolving Foreign Policy Dynamics by Mark Beeson and Fujian Li at JCA (DOI: 10.1080/00472336.2015.1025602). Published in 2014 by Lynne Rienner, the book is said to … Continue reading
Lee Kuan Yew
With the passing of Lee Kuan Yew, it is worth recalling some of JCA’s critical scholarship on Singapore and Lee over the years. Here’s just some of it: The Ideology of Pragmatism: Neo-liberal Globalisation and Political Authoritarianism in Singapore, Kenneth … Continue reading
East Asia and Global Finance
Late last year, JCA published a special issue on “The Financial Crises of 1997–98 and 2008–09: How Different Were They for Southeast Asia?” Guest edited by Rajah Rasiah, Kee Cheok Cheong and Richard Doner, their introduction, “Southeast Asia and the … Continue reading
Nitirat: Thailand’s Enlightened Jurists
In a new article at the Journal of Contemporary Asia website, Duncan McCargo and Peeradej Tanruangporn examine Thailand’s remarkable Nitirat, a group of mainly academic lawyers, who have intervened in legal issues resulting from the country’s decade of coups and … Continue reading
Inequality
Routledge has published a page with a very long listing of on free articles broadly on the topic of inequality. Obviously an important issue, and one that JCA has published on quite extensively over 45 years. The blurb for the … Continue reading
Indonesia, education and globalisation
Paul Gellert of the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, has a paper available at the JCA website that has just been made available for free download. Titled “Optimism and Education: The New Ideology of Development in Indonesia,” Gellert’s paper, based on … Continue reading
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