We are pleased to announce the publication of Asian Perspective, volume 49, number 1 (Winter 2025), published by Johns Hopkins University Press for the Institute for Far Eastern Studies of Kyungnam University and made available online at Project Muse (https://muse.jhu.edu/issue/54346).

This issue contains the Special Issue on Great Power Competition in the Indo-Pacific and Eurasia – Part 1. With the focal point of the research being the Indo-Pacific and Eurasia, articles in this special issue transcend the “great power-small state” framework in international relations, reorienting both states and quasi-states as critical actors of contemporary great power competition. The articles open up a new agenda of investigating the interaction of states and quasi-states in international relations scholarship. Part 1 includes an introduction to the comparative typology, as well as four case studies centered on the Indo-Pacific: Singapore; Micronesia, Marshall Islands, and Palau; Taiwan; and Guam and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands.

In addition to the special issue articles, the publication includes studies on environmental norms in Japan; labor unrest in Chinese-invested enterprises in Turkey and commentary on the dynamics of the US-China-Russia relations as a ‘geopolitical Three-Body Problem’. Our book symposium section features discussion of David M. Lampton’s book, Living U.S.-China Relations: From Cold War to Cold War (Rowman & Littlefield, 2024).

All back issues of the journal (from 1977 to 2024), including past special issues, are also available at Project Muse (https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/733).

ASIAN PERSPECTIVE
Vol. 49, No. 1  WINTER 2025

Special Issue on Great Power Competition in the Indo-Pacific and Eurasia – Part 1

Guest Editor: Brian C. H. Fong

Great Power Competition Across States and Quasi-States:

Toward a Comparative Typology

Brian C. H. Fong

Great Power Competition in Small States:

The Case of Singapore

Chong Ja Ian

Great Power Competition in Associated States:

The Cases of Micronesia, Marshall Islands, and Palau

Denghua Zhang

Great Power Competition in Contested States:

The Case of Taiwan

Wu Jieh-min

Great Power Competition in Territorial Autonomies:

The Case Study of Guam and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI)

Grace C. Donaldson and Kevin K. W. Ho

Environmental Norms and Japan

Contested Environmental Norms:

Cultural Narratives and Animal Protection in Modern Japan

Michal Kolmaš

Chinese Investment in Europe

Labor Unrest in Chinese-Invested Enterprises in Turkey:

Local Dynamics and Global Implications

Burak Gürel, Baran ?ahinli, and Deniz Tuzcu

COMMENTARY

The Geopolitical Three-Body Problem:

US-China-Russia Dynamics and the New Reverse Kissinger Strategy Involving Russia and North Korea

Kyung-tae Min

BOOK SYMPOSIUM

Book Symposium on David M. Lampton. 2024. Living U.S.-China Relations: From Cold War to Cold War. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield.

Deborah Brautigam

Thomas Fingar

Zha Daojiong

David M. Lampton