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Issue 32

Review– Unmarked Graves: Death and Survival in the Anti-Communist Violence in East Java, Indonesia

Title: Unmarked Graves: Death and Survival in the Anti-Communist Violence in East Java, Indonesia Author: Vannessa Hearman Publisher: University of Hawaii Press, 2018, 288 pages The political violence that stormed Indonesia in 1965 left deep […]

Issue 32

Review– Traces of Trauma: Cambodian Visual Culture and National Identity in the Aftermath of Genocide

Title: Traces of Trauma: Cambodian Visual Culture and National Identity in the Aftermath of Genocide  Author: Boreth Ly Publisher: University of Hawai’i Press, 2019 Boreth Ly’s Traces of Trauma: Cambodian Visual Culture and National Identity […]

Issue 32

Review– Passionate Revolutions: The Media and The Rise And Fall Of The Marcos Regime

Title: Passionate Revolutions: The Media and The Rise And Fall Of The Marcos Regime  Author: Talitha Espiritu Publisher: Ohio University Press,  2017, 276 pages A retrospect of the Marcos regime has become inevitable, if not […]

Issue 32

Review– 90 Years in Singapore: History, Politics, and Identity

Title: 90 Years in Singapore: History, Politics, and Identity Author: Irene Lim Publisher: Pagesetters Services Pte Ltd  I must confess: as a (relatively) young Singaporean, Irene Lim’s 90 years in Singapore was an absolutely fascinating […]

Issue 32

Review– The Future of Thai-U.S. Relations: Views of Thai and American Leaders on the Bilateral Relationship and Ways Forward

Title: The Future of Thai-U.S. Relations: Views of Thai and American Leaders on the Bilateral Relationship and Ways Forward Author: The Asia Foundation Publisher: The Asia Foundation (2018), 45 pages Are Thailand and the United […]

Special Issue (Issue 34)

Recognizing the instrumental role of former Japanese Prime Minster Shinzo Abe for both the establishment of the Indo-Pacific as a geopolitical concept and the development of Japanese-Southeast Asian relations, the essays in this special issue investigate the legacy of his government for the future of the region.

– Indonesia
Shinzo Abe’s Military Legacy for Indonesia: The Seed Planted for the Future
Bima Prawira Utama, PhD candidate, Universitas Padjadjaran, Indonesia

– Philippines
Philippine-Japan Relations: Friends with Benefits
Karl Ian Cheng Chua, Visiting Professor, Hitotsubashi University, Japan

– Singapore
Japan-Singapore Relations and Shinzo Abe
Kei Koga, Associate Professor, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

– Thailand
Japanese-Thai Relations through Two Coups: Back to Business
David M. Malitz, Senior Research Fellow, DIJ, Japan

– Vietnam
Vietnam-Japan Relations under the Abe Administration
Hoang Minh Hang, Senior Researcher, Institute of Northeast Asian Studies, Vietnam Academy of Social Sciences, Vietnam

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From the editor: The spectre of digital authoritarianism for Southeast Asia

A new form of authoritarianism has emerged in Southeast Asia since the mid-2010s. Although varying in scope and intensity across the region’s defective democracies and military or one-party dominated regimes, significant and worrying developments related to surveillance, data collection, censorship, misinformation, and harassment can be [...]

From the Editor: Southeast Asia’s Artful Diplomacy?

This issue of Kyoto Review of Southeast Asia presents five case studies looking at foreign policy of five Southeast Asian nations: Cambodia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Indonesia and Thailand. Five contributors examine foreign policy of their chosen country, analysing its past and future trend, as well as the linkage between domestic politics and foreign relations. At the heart of the debate however lies [...]

From the Editor– Myanmar’s Transition Stalled: From Opening to Coup

The year 2020, when this project was initiated, provided a unique opportunity for reflection on critical milestones in Myanmar’s recent history: it marked a decade since the initiation of political, economic, and peace transitions, as well as five years since the National League for Democracy (NLD) took control of the civilian government in an ad hoc [...]
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