Georgetown Journal of Asian Affairs
The Georgetown Journal of Asian Affairs is the flagship annual publication of the Asian Studies Program. Stop by the Asian Studies Suite (ICC, 302-P) to pick up a hard copy or read past issues online.
Volume 11 – Transitions and Transactions: Rethinking Order in Asia
Introduction
- “Transitions and Transactions: Rethinking Order in Asia” by Rory Mencin
I. Order from Above
Great Power and External Pressure, Introduction
- “The United States and Asia: Perpetually Distracted or Long Goodbye?” by Andrew Scobell, Ph.D
- “Buying Down Tariffs, Building up Strategic Depth: Reframing Asia’s $1 trillion in U.S. investment commitments” by Kyle Hutzler
- “Asia’s Oil Crisis and Economic Security Policy” by Takayuki Kunito
- “The Sovereignty Premium: Japan’s Defense Industrial Transaction” by Alexei Hoffman
II. Order from Within
Legitimacy and Contested Authority, Introduction
- “Mongolia’s Third Neighbor Foreign Policy” by Bolor Lkhaajav
- “South Korea After the 2024 Martial Law Crisis” by Christopher Carothers, Ph.D
- “Centering the Island: Taiwan’s Identity Crisis” by Howard Shen
- “Privileged but Powerless: Elite Transactions in North Korea” by Jieun Baek, Ph.D
- “North Korea’s Hostile Two-State Declaration” by Kiseok Lee
III. Order from Below
Corruption, Culture, and Alternative Order, Introduction
- “Corruption, Populism and the Reordering of U.S. Democratic Governance” by Kimberly Kay Hoang, Ph.D & My Nguyen
- “Regenerative Aesthetics and Grassroots Order” by Meiqin Wang, Ph.D
- “The Belitung Shipwreck” by Zhiqiu Ye
Cover Art and Artist
“No Sides, Only Players” by Qiao Xiangwei

