Asian Perspective, volume 45, number 2 (Spring 2021) published

IFES is pleased to announce the publication of Asian Perspective vol. 45, no. 2 (Spring 2021). The issue is available online at the PROJECT MUSE database: http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/asian_perspective 

Asian Perspective is published by Johns Hopkins University Press for the Institute for Far Eastern Studies of Kyungnam University.

For more information about the journal, please visit our journal’s homepage at https://www.press.jhu.edu/journals/asian-perspective

Special Issue

Southeast Asian Responses to China’s Belt and Road Initiative

Cheng-Chwee Kuik, guest editor

Dedicated to the memory of Dr. Aileen S. P. Baviera (1959–2020)

Introduction to the Special Issue

Asymmetry and Authority:

Theorizing Southeast Asian Responses to China’s Belt and Road Initiative

Cheng-Chwee Kuik

Southeast Asian Responses to the BRI (Part I)

The Philippines’ Shifting Engagement with China’s Belt and Road Initiative:

The Politics of Duterte’s Legitimation

Aileen S. P. Baviera and Aries A. Arugay

Explaining Myanmar’s Response to China’s Belt and Road Initiative:

From Disengagement to Embrace

Lee Jones and Khin Ma Ma Myo

Explaining Indonesia’s Constrained Engagement with the Belt and Road Initiative:

Balancing Developmentalism against Nationalism and Islamism

Ardhitya Eduard Yeremia

Thailand’s Engagement with China’s Belt and Road Initiative:

Strong Will, Slow Implementation

Pongkwan Sawasdipakdi

Cambodia’s Embrace of China’s Belt and Road Initiative:

Managing Asymmetries, Maximizing Authority

Vannarith Chheang

Brunei’s Response to China’s Belt and Road Initiative:

Embracing Asymmetry, Enhancing Authority

Ithrana Lawrence

Malaysia’s Fluctuating Engagement with China’s Belt and Road Initiative:

Leveraging Asymmetry, Legitimizing Authority

Cheng-Chwee Kuik

Economic Development in Asia

Understanding Success and Failure in Establishing New Multilateral Development Banks:

The SCO Development Bank, the NDB, and the AIIB

Bas Hooijmaaijers

Book Review Essay

Will China Lead Humanity into an “Asian” Future?

Walter C. Clemens, Jr.