@ReviewPacific

Journal covering international politics of the Asia-Pacific. Est 1988. Impact Factor 2.4. Editors: Shaun Breslin, Chris W. Hughes. pacificreview@warwick.ac.uk

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In this new article, @IdomotoYuji argues that the domestic legal definition of the Self-Defense Forces hinders crisis response, coordination with allies, and the credibility of Japan’s defense posture. tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…
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In this new paper, Haonan Hua (@KaKouNan0) argues that though minilateral cooperation, Japan seeks to strengthen strategic autonomy both within and beyond the US-Japan alliance while responding to uncertainty over the future of the regional security order. tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…

Supplementary and diversified: the functional logic of Japan’s participation in Indo-Pacific...

Since the return of Shinzo Abe to office, Japan has systematically engaged in institution-building within subregional security architectures situated between formal military alliances and broader m...

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In this new article, Yuhang Wei and Zhiqiang Sun argue that US-China strategic competition and spillovers of the Myanmar crisis shaped ASEAN’s policy evolution after the 2021 military coup, resulting in junta leaders’ exclusion from ASEAN summits. ⤵️ tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…

Beyond non-interference? Understanding the transformation of ASEAN’s Myanmar policy since 2021

ASEAN has long adhered to the non-interference doctrine in members’ domestic political crises. What explains its unusually assertive response to Myanmar’s 2021 coup and subsequent civil war, includ...

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In this new article, Chia-yi Lee develops the concept of ‘two-way energy diplomacy’ to explain how China simultaneously addresses its traditional energy vulnerabilities while expanding its role in emerging green energy markets. ⤵️ tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…

Clean and dirty: China’s two-way energy diplomacy

This article develops the concept of ‘two-way energy diplomacy’ to explain how China simultaneously addresses its traditional energy vulnerabilities and expands its role in emerging green energy ma...

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In this new paper, Charlie Pearson argues that China’s zonation strategy in the South China Sea combines maritime patrols, seasonal fishing bans, protected-area designations, and extraterritorial enforcement of national law to produce strategic effects. ⤵️ tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…

China’s zonation strategy in the South China Sea: repurposing maritime zones for security interests

This article conceptualises zonation strategy as a state practice that repurposes maritime zones, including EEZs, straight baselines, internal waters and other administrative or quasi-legal demarca...

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In this new article, Morgan Thomas Rees argues that amidst growing uncertainty over the reliability of the US alliance, Australian foreign policy has been shaped by a recurring pattern of anxiety management. ⤵️ tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…
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New article in @ReviewPacific “Fear of Abandonment and the US Alliance: The Paranoid Logic in Australian Foreign Policy.” Available open access! doi.org/10.1080/09512748.202…

Fear of abandonment and the US alliance – the paranoid logic in Australian foreign policy

For more than seven decades, the US alliance has been a central pillar of Australian security policy. Yet the last decade has seen US commitments become increasingly conditional and uncertain. Why ...

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Our fifth issue of 2026 (Vol. 39, Issue 5) is out! 📖 Take a first look at the line-up here: tandfonline.com/toc/rpre20/3…
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In this new paper (open access 🔓), Sang Hun Seok traces the changing political meaning of nuclear weapons in North Korea, from representation as practical military instruments, to conditions for development and as a component of state identity. ⤵️ tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…

The changing political meaning of nuclear weapons in North Korea

This article examines how political meanings of nuclear weapons in North Korean official language changed and accumulated from the first nuclear crisis of the early 1990s to Pyongyang’s declaration...

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In this new article, @HiroOgi5 explains why the Japan Self-Defense Forces prioritised procurement efficiency and rapid capability acquisition over the domestic development of drone systems. ⤵️ tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…

Military innovation and procurement trade-offs: explaining Japan’s drone adoption

Why do some states develop indigenous drones while others rely on foreign suppliers? Japan presents a useful case for addressing this question. Although Japan initially pursued indigenous drone dev...

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How do secondary powers develop anti-access/area denial (A2/AD) capabilities when facing asymmetric threats? In this new article, @soulpark21, Inwook Kim, and Seung Joon Paik compare Vietnam, the Philippines, Malaysia and Indonesia. tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…
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In this new article, Long Zhou argues Australia has enacted ‘emotional diplomacy’ toward Pacific Island states through constructing a discourse of the ‘Pacific family’, cultivating people-to-people ties and easing migration access. ⤵️ tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…

The turn toward “emotional diplomacy”: new developments in Australia’s diplomatic strategy toward...

Australia’s foreign policy toward the Pacific Island countries has undergone a discernible shift toward a more explicit form of ‘emotional diplomacy’. By constructing the discourse of the ‘Pacific ...

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In this new paper, Seunghyun Kim compares policy processes behind Japan’s Basic Act on Ocean Policy and Basic Space Act, explaining why security-related claims acquired different statutory forms. tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…
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‘Residual dependency after diversification: Japan, China, and the midstream power of rare earths.’ Read this new open access (🔓) article by Vlado Vivoda ⤵️ tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…

Residual dependency after diversification: Japan, China and the midstream power of rare earths

From December 2025 through June 2026, China sharply curtailed exports to Japan of dysprosium, terbium, yttrium and the non-rare-earth strategic metal gallium, while substantial flows of finished ra...

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In this new open access (🔓) article, @GuangyiPan explains how middle powers function not as passive recipients of great-power regionalism but as active agents, recalibrating the spatial dimensions of regional cooperation to mitigate structural imbalances. tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…
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In this paper from our special issue on small European states’ relations with China, @DiegoTelias and @RQTurcsanyi explain how the Viktor Orbán government in Hungary approached ties with China, in the context of his worldview and domestic political agenda. tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…

How Viktor Orbán plays China: the hidden agency of ‘China’s best friend in the EU’

China’s increasing international presence has led many observers to discuss how it has allegedly influenced other countries to take positions beneficial to China’s interest. Hungary has earned a re...

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In this article from our special issue on small European states’ relations with China, @VictorDeDecker and Astrid Pepermans explain how in the case of Belgium, internal state structures complicate operationalisation of the EU’s economic security agenda. ⤵️ tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…

Fragmented sovereignty: how Belgium’s policy paralysis undermines Europe’s China ‘de-risking’...

Belgium’s internal federal structure impedes the implementation of European Union (EU) foreign policy, with consequences for the Union’s current approach to economic de-risking from China. Situatin...

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‘A small state in big power politics: the securitisation or riskification of Sino-Irish relations.’ Read this paper by Niall Duggan, in our special issue on small European states’ relations with China. ⤵️ tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…

A small state in big power politics: the securitisation or riskification of Sino-Irish relations

Ireland, as a small state, has limited capacity to exercise agency in redefining its relationship with China amid shifting geopolitical dynamics. Since the launch of the 1999 Asia Strategy, Sino-Ir...

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In this special issue paper, Juris Jurans and Una Aleksandra Berzina-Cerenkova explain how non-establishment actors in Latvia have sought to leverage China’s presence and interests to create political opportunities and enhance their bargaining power. ⤵️ tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…

Small states, big stage: Latvia’s non-establishment actors and China’s evolving strategy

Over the past decade, Baltic-China relations have undergone a dramatic reversal. Initially enthusiastic participants in China’s ‘16 + 1’ platform, Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia engaged with the Pe...

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In this new article, Benjamin Bartlett examines the adoption of cyber-security into the US-Japan alliance between 2000 and 2015. ⤵️ tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…

A more useful ally: the adoption of cybersecurity into the U.S.–Japan alliance

This study examines the adoption of cybersecurity into the U.S.–Japan alliance between 2000 and 2015. The current literature finds that adoption occurs when alliance members come to conceive of cyb...

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