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Asian Affairs, Volume 52, Issue 3 (2021)

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JORDAN: A PALACE COUP?
Peter Millett
Pages: 521-528
Published online: 27 Jul 2021
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BATTLE AT THE BORDER: AN ANALYSIS OF THE 2021 KYRGYZSTAN-TAJIKISTAN CONFLICT
Charles J. Sullivan
Pages: 529-535
Published online: 02 Jul 2021
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THE “AFGHAN FACTOR” IN UZBEKISTAN’S FOREIGN POLICY: EVOLUTION AND THE CONTEMPORARY SITUATION
Akram Umarov
Pages: 536-553
Published online: 09 Aug 2021
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BANGLADESH AT 50: COUPS, ASSASSINATIONS AND DEMOCRATIC STRUGGLE
Syed Badrul Ahsan
Pages: 554-562
Published online: 09 Aug 2021
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THE NORTH KOREAN CARD IN US-CHINA RELATIONS: HOW SHOULD IT BE PLAYED?
Niv Farago & John Merrill
Pages: 563-582
Published online: 20 Aug 2021
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THE SENKAKU/DIAOYU ISLANDS DISPUTE: A DISPUTE FOR DISPUTE’S SAKE
Balazs Szanto
Pages: 583-600
Published online: 26 Jul 2021
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HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES OF THE LIFE OF WOMEN IN THE UNITED ARAB EMIRATES
Frauke Heard-Bey
Pages: 601-637
Published online: 27 Jul 2021
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TOWARDS A SOUTHEAST ASIAN RAIL NETWORK: THE ROLE OF THAILAND AND FOREIGN POWERS
Christopher Ruane
Pages: 638-654
Published online: 06 Aug 2021
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A CRITICAL ASSESSMENT OF HUMAN RIGHTS DIPLOMACY BY WESTERN STATES IN MYANMAR (BURMA) FROM 2007 TO 2020
Anna Tan
Pages: 655-687
Published online: 18 Aug 2021
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THE BRI IN MALAYSIA’S PORT SECTOR: DRIVERS OF SUCCESS AND FAILURE
Francis E. Hutchinson & Tham Siew Yean
Pages: 688-721
Published online: 18 Aug 2021
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BOOK REVIEWS: General

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Turkey and China: Political, Economic, and Strategic Aspects of the Relationship
Selçuk Çolakoğlu. World Scientific Publishing Europe, London, 2021, pp. 192. Illust. Notes. Index. Hb. £70. ISBN 978-1-78634-952-1
Mohammed Alrmizan
Pages: 722-724
Published online: 06 Jul 2021
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Islamonomics: Islamic Finance, Trade and the Global Muslim Market
Akhtar Ismail Mohammed. Garnet Publishing, Reading, 2021. pp. 372. Gloss. Bibliog. Pb. £13.99/$20.99. ISBN 9781902932613.
Sophie Ibbotson
Pages: 725-727
Published online: 06 Jul 2021
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A Coup in Turkey: A Tale of Democracy, Despotism & Vengeance in a Divided Land
Jeremy Seal. Chatto & Windus, London, 2021. pp. 352. Maps. Bibliog. Notes. Index. Hb. £16.99. ISBN 978-1784741754
John Goulden
Pages: 728-730
Published online: 06 Jul 2021
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Graveyard of Clerics: Everyday Activism in Saudi Arabia; The Son King: Reform and Repression in Saudi Arabia
Pascal Ménoret. Stanford University Press, Stanford, 2020. pp. 250. Notes. Bibliog. Index. Pb. £16.96. ISBN 978 1 5036 1246 4; Madawi Al-Rasheed. Hurst and Company, London, 2020. pp. 394. Notes, Bibliog. Index. Hb. £20. ISBN 978 1 78738 379 1
Helen Lackner
Pages: 730-733
Published online: 07 Jul 2021
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Kings and Presidents, Saudi Arabia and the United States since FDR; Saudi Arabia under Ibn Saud, Economic and Financial Foundations of the State
Bruce Riedel. 2nd ed. Brookings Institution Press, Washington DC, 2019. pp. 249. Notes. Bibliog. Index. Pb. £18.95. ISBN 978-0-8157-3715-5; J.E. Peterson. IB Tauris, London and New York, 2018. pp. 288. Notes. Bibliog. Index. Hb. £70.54. ISBN 978-1-784539009
Helen Lackner
Pages: 734-737
Published online: 19 Jul 2021
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Airpower in the War Against ISIS
Benjamin S. Lambeth. Naval Institute Press, Annapolis, Maryland, 2021. pp. 352. Glossary. Bibliog. Index. Hb. £54.95. ISBN 978-1682475577
William J. Layer
Pages: 737-739
Published online: 06 Jul 2021
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No Conquest, No Defeat: Iran’s National Security Strategy
Ariane M. Tabatabai. Hurst and Company, London. 2020. pp. 400. Notes. Index. Hb. £35. ISBN 9781787382091
Tawseef Ahmad Mir
Pages: 739-741
Published online: 06 Jul 2021
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Sectarianism Without Sects
Azmi Bishara (tr. Chris Hitchcock). Hurst & Company, London, 2021. pp. 320. Hb. £40. ISBN 9781787383210
Fitzroy Morrissey
Pages: 742-745
Published online: 06 Jul 2021
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The Trucial Coast Political Reports 1958–1963 – The Slow Progress from Pearls to Oil
David Heard (ed). Gerlach Press. Berlin, 2021. pp xv+279. Map. Illust. Bibliog. Hb. €95. ISBN 978-3-95994-140-2
Hooky Walker
Pages: 745-747
Published online: 19 Jul 2021
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What the West is Getting Wrong about the Middle East
Őmer Taşpinar. IB Tauris, London, 2021. pp. 268 + xii. Notes. Bibliog. Index. Hb. £20. ISBN 978-1-7883-1010-9
Hooky Walker
Pages: 747-749
Published online: 06 Jul 2021
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The Fall of Reza Shah: The Abdication, Exile and Death of Modern Iran’s Founder
Shaul Bakhash. IB Tauris, London, 2021. pp. 178. Bibliog. Index. Hb. £76.50. ISBN 978-0-7556-3440-8
Antony Wynn
Pages: 749-751
Published online: 06 Jul 2021
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BOOK REVIEWS: Central Asia

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Alexandria: The Quest for the Lost City
Edmund Richardson. Bloomsbury Publishing, 2021. pp. 320. Notes. Illust. Bibliog. Maps. Index. Hb. £25. ISBN 978-1-5266-0381-4
Martin Bourke
Pages: 752-753
Published online: 22 Jul 2021
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The Central Asian Economies in the Twenty-First Century
Richard Pomfret. Princeton University Press, New Jersey, 2019. pp. 304. Maps. Fig. Tables. Bibliog. Hb. £38/$45. ISBN 9780691182216
Sophie Ibbotson
Pages: 753-755
Published online: 06 Jul 2021
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Islamic Movements in India: Moderation and its Discontents
Arndt-Walter Emmerich. Routledge, Abingdon and New York, 2020. pp. 228. Figs. Bibliog. Notes. Index. Hb. £36.99. ISBN 978-0-367-34314-9
William Crawley
Pages: 756-758
Published online: 06 Jul 2021
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In Search of Lost Glory: Sindhi Nationalism in Pakistan
Asma Faiz. Hurst & Company. London, 2021. pp. 288. Hb. £30. ISBN 9781787383234
William Crawley
Pages: 758-760
Published online: 06 Jul 2021
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Peace, Poverty and Betrayal: A New History of British India
Roderick Matthews. Hurst & Company. London, 2021. pp. 416. Refs. £25. ISBN 978-1787383852
Rosie Llewellyn-Jones
Pages: 760-762
Published online: 06 Jul 2021
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An Appeal to the Ladies of Hyderabad: Scandal in the Raj
Benjamin B. Cohen. Harvard University Press. Cambridge, Massachusetts, 2019. pp. xv + 347. Notes. Gloss. Illust. Bibliog. Index. Hb. £23.95. ISBN 9780674987654
Michael Neale
Pages: 762-764
Published online: 06 Jul 2021
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The General’s Trousers: A Cautionary Tale of India, Then and Now
John Wallace. Elijah’s Hat, London, 2021. pp. 303. Ebook, £9.99. ISBN 781999 864521
Adrian Steger
Pages: 764-765
Published online: 23 Jul 2021
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BOOK REVIEWS: South East Asia

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Political Violence in Southeast Asia Since 1945: Case Studies from Six Countries
Eve Monique Zucker and Ben Kiernan (eds.). Routledge Press, New York, 2021. pp. 308. index. Pb. $44.95. ISBN 9780367675592
Adam E. Howe
Pages: 766-768
Published online: 29 Jul 2021
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Beyond The Asylum: Mental Illness in French Colonial Vietnam
Claire E. Eddington, Cornell University Press, Ithaca, 2019. pp. 291. Illust. Notes. Bibliog. Index. Hb. £37. ISBN 978-1-5017-3393-2
Michael Kyle
Pages: 768-770
Published online: 06 Jul 2021
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A History of Manners and Civility in Thailand
Patrick Jory. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2021. pp. 269. Illust. Bibliog. Index. Hb. £75. ISBN 978-1-108-49124-2
Barney Smith
Pages: 770-772
Published online: 09 Jul 2021
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BOOK REVIEWS: East Asia

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Taming Sino-American Rivalry
Richard Ned Lebow & Feng Zhang. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2020. pp. 275. Notes. Index. Hb. £64. ISBN 978-0197521953
Siavash Chavoshi
Pages: 773-775
Published online: 06 Aug 2021
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Being in North Korea
Andray Abrahamian. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center, Brookings Institution Press, Stanford, US. pp. 200. Pb. £ 17.50. ISBN 978-1-931368-56-8
Glyn Ford
Pages: 775-778
Published online: 06 Jul 2021
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Becoming Kim Jong Un: Understanding North Korea’s Young Dictator; North Korea: Like Nowhere Else: Two Years of Living in the World’s Most Secretive State
Jung H. Pak. Oneworld Publications. London, 2021. pp xvi + 317. Notes. Bibliog. Index. HB £20. ISBN 9781786077165. Lindsey Miller. September Publishing. Tewkesbury, England, 2021. pp. 224. Illust. HB £13.95. ISBN 0781912836802
J E Hoare
Pages: 778-779
Published online: 06 Aug 2021
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Taiwan: The Development of an Asian Tiger
Hans Stockton and Yao-Yuan Yeh (eds). Lynne Rienner Publishers. Boulder, CO, 2020. pp. 247. Hb. £89.95. ISBN: 978-1-62637-834-6
Marc Marmino
Pages: 780-782
Published online: 19 Jul 2021
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Crime, Justice and Punishment in Colonial Hong Kong: Central Police Station, Central Magistracy, and Victoria Gaol
May Holdsworth & Christopher Munn. The Hong Kong University Press, Hong Kong, 2020. pp. 340. Chronology. Appendix. Bibliog. Illust. Notes. Index. Hb. HKD 380 / USD 49. ISBN 978-988-8528-12-7
Martin Purbrick
Pages: 783-788
Published online: 10 Aug 2021
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Defying the Dragon: Hong Kong and the World’s Largest Dictatorship
Steve Vines. Hurst & Company. London, 2021. pp. ix + 371. Notes. Index. Hb. £17.29. ISBN 9781787384552
Martin Purbrick
Pages: 788-793
Published online: 06 Jul 2021
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Agents of Disorder: Inside China’s Cultural Revolution
Andrew G. Walder. The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA and London, 2019. pp. xi + 271. Appendix. Notes. References. Index. Hb. £36.95. ISBN 978-0-674-23832-9.
Christopher Ruane
Pages: 793-795
Published online: 06 Jul 2021
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Beijing From Below: Stories of Marginal Lives in the Capital’s Center
Harriet Evans. Duke University Press, London. 2020. pp. xvii + 266. Figs. Maps. Notes. Bibliog. Index. Pb. £20.99. ISBN 9 7814 7800 8156
Michael Sheringham
Pages: 795-802
Published online: 06 Jul 2021
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