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JIPA Book Review Program

Dr. Jared McKinney manages our book review program. The journal publishes book reviews to inform our readers and enhance the content of its articles. Reviewers are asked to analyze the book and provide an exclusive, original, unpublished, concise evaluation. The first section of the analysis should normally be the shortest and indicate the type of book (biography, anthology, history, monograph, etc.). Include a very short author biographic citation and then describe the context of the book in the literature of the field. Next, thoroughly analyze the thesis and arguments in the work. What are the strong points of the argument? What are the limitations in the work, including author biases? Is the thesis supported? What are the implications of the argument? Are there any profound aspects of the book? This section will be the longest part of the analysis. Finally, the analysis should finish with recommendations for improvement. Clearly state whether this book is worth reading, who may find this book most interesting, and why.

All books are digital copies and free to reviewers. Each analysis must be submitted electronically within 45 days of book receipt. Limit your text to approximately 1,000 words, carefully edited.

Submit reviews or questions via e-mail to: jared.mckinney@au.af.edu or JIPA@au.af.edu. If you are interested in reviewing a book other than those listed below, please discuss the matter with Dr. McKinney.

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Current Books for Review

Atanassova-Cornelis, Elena, Yoichiro Sato, and Tom Sauer, eds. Alliances in Asia and Europe: The Evolving Indo-Pacific Strategic Context and Inter-Regional Alignments. London: Routledge, 2023.

Chan, Steve, and Weixing Hu. Geography and International Conflict: Ukraine, Taiwan, Indo-Pacific, and Sino-American Relations. London: Routledge, 2024.

Christoffersen, Gaye. Russia in the Indo-Pacific: New Approaches to Russian Foreign Policy. New York: Routledge, 2022.

Dunst, Charles. Defeating the Dictators: How Democracy Can Prevail in the Age of the Strongman. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 2023. 

Gill, Bates, Adam Lockyer, Yves-Heng Lim, and Andrew T. H. Tan. Geopolitics, Military Modernisation and the Future of the Indo-Pacific. London: Routledge, 2024.

Harmsen, Peter. Bernhard Sindberg: The Schindler of Nanjing. Philadelphia: Casemate, 2024.

Hensel, Howard M., ed. Air Power in the Indian Ocean and the Western Pacific: Understanding Regional Security Dynamics. New York: Routledge, 2021.

Kirchberger, Sarah, Svenja Sinjen, and Nils Wörmer, eds. Russia-China Relations: Emerging Alliance or Eternal Rivals. Cham: Springer, 2022. 

Kolakowski, Christopher L., ed. Tenth Army Commander: The World War II diary of Simon Bolivar Buckner Jr. Philadelphia: Casemate, 2024.

Rolfe, Jim. Prudence, Pragmatism and Principle: New Zealand's Security in the 21st Century. Hackensack, NJ: World Scientific, 2025.

Schulze, Kirsten E. Contesting Indonesia: Islamist, Separatist, and Communal Violence since 1945. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2024.

Setzekorn, Eric. Arming East Asia: Deterring China in the Early Cold War. Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 2023.

Siekiera, Joanna, ed. 21st Century as the Pacific Century: Culture and Society of Oceania States in Great Power Competition. Warsaw: University of Warsaw Press, 2023.

Sun, Taiyi. Disruptions as Opportunities: Governing Chinese Society with Interactive Authoritarianism. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2023. 

Ward, Jonathan D.T. The Decisive Decade: American Grand Strategy for Triumph over China. New York: Diversion Books, 2023.

Wyatt, Austin. The Disruptive Impact of Lethal Autonomous Weapons Systems Diffusion: Modern Melians and the Dawn of Robotic Warriors. New York: Routledge, 2022.

Xiang Biao and Wu Qi. Self as Method: Thinking Through China and the World, trans. David Ownby. Palgrave Macmillan, 2023.