Asia Watch

[JCA] The Rise of Authoritarian Statism in Indonesia and the Crisis of Crisis Management

09 May 2026

Volume 56, Issue 3, July 2026, Page 349-377 .

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[JCA] What has Happened to the Poster Child: is South Korean Democracy Backsliding?

30 Apr 2026

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[JCA] What Has Happened to the Poster Child: Is South Korean Democracy Backsliding?

27 Apr 2026

Soo Hyun Lee and Timo Fleckenstein challenge the 'democratic backsliding' framing for South Korea, proposing instead the concept of a 'democratic rollercoaster' — significant advances under progressive administrations followed by sharp regression under right-wing governments. The root cause, they ar

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[JCA] China's Climate Policy: Transition, Governance, and the Limits of Authoritarian Environmentalism

27 Apr 2026

A book review by Geoffrey C. Chen (Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University) of Alex Y. Lo and Chen Xiang's Edward Elgar monograph on China's climate governance. The review highlights the book's framework — deploying authoritarian environmentalism, the centralised developmental state, and ecological civi

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[FOCUS_GLOBAL] Against the Tides: Uprisings and Protests in Troubled Waters

27 Apr 2026

This article analyses the global wave of uprisings and social protests between 2019 and 2025 as a conjunctural phenomenon reflecting converging structural crises, examining why mass mobilization has produced disruption without durable political transformation.

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[FOCUS_GLOBAL] Resisting the Weaponization of Interdependence

27 Apr 2026

This article examines strategies available to states and non-state actors for resisting weaponized interdependence — the use of asymmetric economic dependencies as coercive instruments — identifying diversification, coalition-building, and norm entrepreneurship as complementary resistance strategies

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