Issue number 4 of Volume 50 of the journal has gone to print and is available electronically at the publisher’s site. This issue is the fourth of the Journal’s 50th year anniversary and the second of three special issues due out this year.
This special issue is titled Legacies of the Cold War in East and Southeast Asia and edited by JCA editor Kevin Hewison and editorial board members Eva Hansson and Jim Glassman.
The articles in the special issue are:
Legacies of the Cold War in East and Southeast Asia: An Introduction by Eva Hansson , Kevin Hewison & Jim Glassman
Legacies of the Cold War in Malaysia: Anything but Communism by Meredith L. Weiss
The Emergence of Filipino Technocrats as Cold War “Pawns” by Teresa S. Encarnacion Tadem
Black Site: The Cold War and the Shaping of Thailand’s Politics by Kevin Hewison
Lineages of the Authoritarian State in Thailand: Military Dictatorship, Lazy Capitalism and the Cold War Past as Post-Cold War Prologue by Jim Glassman
US Covert Action in Cold War Japan: The Politics of Cultivating Conservative Elites and its Consequences by Brad Williams
More Than Anti-Communism: The Cold War and the Meanings of Democracy in Taiwan by Erik Mobrand
The special issue also includes a review article:
The Legacies of the Indonesian Counter-Revolution: New Insights and Remaining Issues by Olle Törnquist
Outside the special issue, a Commentary is included in the issue:
Old Wine in New Bottles? How Competitive Connectivity Revitalises an Obsolete Development Agenda in Asia by Jürgen Rüland
The issue is filled out with several book reviews:
Strait Rituals: China, Taiwan, and the United States in the Taiwan Strait Crisis, 1954–1958 reviewed by Geoffrey C. Gunn
Stranded Nation: White Australia in an Asian Region reviewed by Kanishka Jayasuriya
After the Coup. The National Council for Peace and Order Era and the Future of Thailand reviewed by Kevin Hewison
Authoritarian Modernism in East Asia reviewed by Michael D. Barr
