IFES is pleased to announce the publication of Asian Perspective vol. 45, no. 3 (Summer 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


Table of Contents

Special Section on Strategic Communications and Regional Dynamics in the Asia-Pacific

Regional Communicative Dynamics and International Relations in the Asia-Pacific
Chiyuki Aoi and Yee-Kuang Heng

No Consensus Across the Strait: Chinese and Taiwanese Strategic Communications in a Contested Regional Order
Aurelio Insisa

Japan-China Strategic Communications Dynamics under the Belt and Road Initiative: The Case of “Third Country Business Cooperation”
Naoko Eto

Russian Strategic Communications toward Japan: A More Benign Model of Influence?
James D. J. Brown

Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand’s Layering of Strategic Communications (2016–2020)
Corey Wallace

Public Diplomacy in East Asia

An “East Asian” Public Diplomacy? Lessons from Japan, South Korea, and China

Nissim Otmazgin

Politics and Democracy in China

The Political Opportunity Structure of Chinese Villages: A Case Study of Rightful Resistance in Northwest China
Guo Pengpeng, René Trappel, and Han Guoming

Book Review Essay