The Far East and Australasia 2021

Europa Publications’ regional publications are compiled by a team of editors and researchers, with introductory and country-specific material provided by specialists in their field: Bryant J. Allen. Former Visiting Fellow, State Society and Governance in Melanesia Program, School of International, Political and Strategic Studies, College of Asia and the Pacific, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia Robert F. Ash. Emeritus Professor, China Institute, SOAS University of London, United Kingdom. Dean Aszkielowicz. Lecturer, College of Arts, Business, Law and Social Sciences, and Fellow of the Asia Research Centre, Murdoch University, Perth, Australia. Frank Bongiorno. Professor, School of History, Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia. Anne Booth. Emerita Professor of Economics, SOAS University of London, United Kingdom. Kerry Brown. Director of the Lau China Institute and Professor of Chinese Studies, King’s College London, United Kingdom. Ian Campbell. Former Professor, School of Social Sciences, University of the South Pacific, Suva, Fiji. Chan Kok Hoe. Lecturer, Department of Economics, National University of Singapore, Singapore. James Chin. Professor of Asian Studies, University of Tasmania, Australia. Paul D’Arcy. Associate Professor, School of Culture, History and Language, College of Asia and the Pacific, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia. Jörn Dosch. Professor of International Relations and Development Co-operation, University of Rostock, Germany. Ronald Duncan AO. Emeritus Professor, Crawford School of Public Policy, College of Asia and the Pacific, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia. Sophal Ear. Cambodianist, Trustee, Center for Khmer Studies, and Associate Professor, Department of Diplomacy and World Affairs, Occidental College, Los Angeles, CA, USA. Nicholas Farrelly. Professor and Head of Social Sciences, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Australia. Dafydd Fell. Reader in Comparative Politics, with special reference to Taiwan, Department of Politics and International Studies, Director, Centre of Taiwan Studies, SOAS University of London, United Kingdom. Stewart Firth. Research Fellow, Coral Bell School of Asia Pacific Affairs, College of Asia and the Pacific, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia. Aidan Foster-Carter. Honorary Senior Research Fellow in Sociology and Modern Korea, University of Leeds, United Kingdom. Volker Grabowsky. Professor of Thai Studies, Head of Southeast Asia Department, Asia-Africa Institute, University of Hamburg, Germany. Jeanine Graham. Former Senior Lecturer in History, University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand. Lok Sang Ho. Professor of Economics, Centre for Public Policy Studies, Lingnan University, Hong Kong. James E. Hoare. Associate Fellow, Asia-Pacific Programme, Royal Institute of International Affairs (Chatham House), London, United Kingdom. Douglas Hunt. Lecturer in Economics, and Research Fellow, Business School, Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia. Kenneth E. Jackson. Former Director, Centre for Development Studies, University of Auckland, and Adjunct Research Professor, Auckland Institute of Studies, Auckland, New Zealand. Trude Jacobsen. Professor in Asian History, Department of History, College of Arts and Liberal Sciences, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, IL, USA. Randall Jones. Former Head of the Japan/Korea Desk at the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, Paris, France, and Visiting Scholar, Columbia University, New York, USA. Walid Jumblatt bin Abdullah. Assistant Professor, Public Policy and Global Affairs Program, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. Wee Chian Koh. Researcher, Centre for Strategic and Policy Studies, Brunei Darussalam, and Adjunct Assistant Professor, Universiti Brunei Darussalam, Brunei Darussalam. Charles Krusekopf. Professor, School of Business, Royal Roads University, Victoria, BC, Canada. Michael Leach. Professor of Politics and International Relations, Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, Australia, and Co-founder of the Timor-Leste Studies Association. Suiwah Leung. Honorary Associate Professor of Economics, Crawford School of Public Policy, College of Asia and the Pacific, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia. S. R. Joey Long. Associate Professor and Head, Department of History, National University of Singapore, Singapore. Robert E. Looney. International Consultant specializing in economic development, and Distinguished Professor, Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, CA, USA. Mats Lundahl. Professor Emeritus of Development Economics, Stockholm School of Economics, Stockholm, Sweden. Anthony Milner. Professorial Fellow, University of Melbourne, Australia, Visiting Professor, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, and Emeritus Professor, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia. N. J. Miners. Former Reader in Political Science, Department of Politics and Public Administration, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong. Gaea Morales. Ph.D. Student, Political Science and International Relations, Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA. Andrew C. Nahm. Former Professor Emeritus of History and Consultant to the Office of International Education and Programs, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI, USA. Li Narangoa. Professor of Asian History, and Director of the Mongolia Institute, College of Asia and the Pacific, Australian National University, Australia. Bhanupong Nidhiprabha. Professor, Faculty of Economics, Thammasat University, Bangkok, Thailand. Michael G. Plummer. Director of the European campus of the School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS Europe) and Eni Professor of International Economics, Johns Hopkins University, Bologna, Italy, and non-resident Senior Fellow, East-West Center, Honalulu, HI, USA. Shyama Ratnasiri. Senior Lecturer in Economics, Griffith Business School, Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia. Christopher B. Roberts. Former Director of the National Asian Studies Centre, Faculty of Business, Government and Law, University of Canberra, Canberra, Australia. James R. Rush. Professor of History, School of Historical, Philosophical and Religious Studies, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA. John T. Sidel. Sir Patrick Gillam Professor of International and Comparative Politics, London School of Economics and Political Science, United Kingdom. Fredrik Sjöholm. Professor and Director, Research Institute of Industrial Economics, Stockholm, Sweden. Ross Steele. Former Principal Demographer, Department of Planning Transport and Infrastructure, Government of South Australia, and Adjunct Academic Staff, College of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences, Flinders University of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia. Robert Sutter. Professor of Practice of International Affairs, The Elliott School of International Affairs, George Washington University, Washington, DC, USA. James Tang. Former Dean of the School of Social Sciences, Singapore Management University, Singapore. Ardeth Thawnghmung. Professor and Chair, Political Science Department, University of Massachusetts Lowell, Lowell, MA, USA. Hiroaki Richard Watanabe. Lecturer, School of East Asian Studies, University of Sheffield, United Kingdom. Michael Meow-Chung Yap. Associate Professor, Business Economics and Quantitative Methods Division, Nottingham University Business School, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, University of Nottingham Malaysia, Selangor Darul Ehsan, Malaysia.