''Pacific Affairs'' (''PA'') is a Canadian

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scholarly journal that publishes academic research on contemporary political, economic, and social issues in Asia and the Pacific. The journal was founded in 1926 as the newsletter for the entirety of the

Institute of Pacific Relations The Institute of Pacific Relations (IPR) was an international NGO established in 1925 to provide a forum for discussion of problems and relations between nations of the Pacific Rim. The International Secretariat, the center of most IPR activity ov ...

(IPR). In May 1928, ''PA'' adopted its current name, and has been published continuously since. From 1934 to 1942, the journal was edited by

Owen Lattimore Owen Lattimore (July 29, 1900 – May 31, 1989) was an American Orientalist and writer. He was an influential scholar of China and Central Asia, especially Mongolia. Although he never earned a college degree, in the 1930s he was editor of ''Pacif ...

, then

William L. Holland William Lancelot Holland (28 December 1907 – 8 May 2008) worked with the Institute of Pacific Relations from 1928 until 1960 as Research Secretary; American IPR Executive Secretary and editor of its periodical, ''Far Eastern Survey''; IPR Secret ...

. The journal moved from the IPR headquarters in New York to the

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, Canada, in 1961. Pressure from

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led to the dissolution of the IPR in 1960. It is currently housed in th
Institute of Asian Research
at the University of British Columbia. The journal's executive committee is composed of an editor, associate editors (based on the following geographic regions: Asia General, East Asia (China and Inner Asia, Japan, Korea), South Asia, Southeast Asia, and Australasia and the Pacific Islands) and members representing

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, and the

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. Ingenta is the electronic provider for ''Pacific Affairs''′ online subscriptions. Subscribers also have access to the entire contents of the journal from its inception in 1926 in

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with a four-year moving wall. In addition to scholarly articles based on original research, the journal publishes "perspectives," which are shorter articles, and often groups articles with a common theme into special issues. Some recent themes include renegotiating social risks in China and Japan, seeking agency for change in a hypermobile world, and ocean claims in the South Pacific.

Book reviews

''PA'' publishes 40–50 book reviews in each issue, under the headings of Asia General; China and Inner Asia; Northeast Asia (Japan and Korea); South Asia; Southeast Asia; and Australasia and the Pacific Region. Books from social sciences and humanities disciplines are reviewed by reviewers who are invited by PA's executive committee. ''PA'' also publishes review articles which are also invited by the executive committee members. A review article is more in-depth, longer and compares the conclusions of several different authors on a single topic. The journal does not accept unsolicited book reviews."Book Reviewer Form."
''Pacific Affairs''. pacificaffairs.ubc.ca. Accessed August 1, 2022. In terms of chronological coverage, books that deal with topics before the 1900s are not reviewed unless there are explicit thematic or analytical links to contemporary affairs and/or theory.

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