Monthly Archives: February 2016
Deep State, royalist state in Thailand
JCA is producing a Special Issue titled Military, Monarchy and Repression: Assessing Thailand’s Authoritarian Turn, edited by Veerayooth Kanchoochat and Kevin Hewison. The first article in the Special Issue is now available at the JCA publisher’s website. “Thailand’s Deep State, … Continue reading
Cars in Vietnam
Arve Hansen, a PhD candidate at the University of Oslo’s Centre for Development and Environment, has a new article at JCA’s website. Driving development? The problems and promises of the car in Vietnam (DOI: 10.1080/00472336.2016.1151916). His abstract states: The private … Continue reading
Change in North Korea
Kevin Gray of the Department of International Relations in the School of Global Studies at the University of Sussex has a new review available of Hazel Smith’s North Korea: Markets and Military Rule (DOI: 10.1080/00472336.2016.1151543), published by Cambridge University Press. … Continue reading
Japan’s border issues
Geoffrey C. Gunn has a new book review published at the JCA publisher’s website. In it, he reviews Akihiro Iwashita’s Japan’s Border Issues: Pitfalls and Prospects (DOI: 10.1080/00472336.2016.1148189). Based upon an earlier Japanese-language edition, this book, by an established expert … Continue reading
Issue 2 for 2016 published
Issue 2 of Volume 46 (2016) has gone to print and the issue is available electronically at the publisher’s site (with one article available for free download). The details are: Paul Cammack, World Market Regionalism at the Asian Development Bank … Continue reading
Japan, its past and its present
A new review, by Ignacio J. Miñambres, of Japan and the Shackles of the Past: What Everybody Needs to Know (DOI: 10.1080/00472336.2016.1144779) is available at JCA. Japan and the Shackles of the Past is authored by R. Taggart Murphy and published … Continue reading
Changing Burma
Ashley South has reviewed Richard Cockett’s most recent book for JCA. Blood, Dreams and Gold: the changing face of Burma is published by Yale University Press (DOI: 10.1080/00472336.2016.1145248). South states that this book represents both “a popular introduction to Myanmar history, … Continue reading
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