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World Affairs
Journal Prestige (SJR): 0.168

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Hybrid journal (It can contain Open Access articles)
ISSN (Print) 0043-8200 - ISSN (Online) 1940-1582
Published by Sage Publications

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  Authors: Dr. Emma R. Norman
  Pages: 524 - 528
  Abstract: World Affairs, Volume 186, Issue 3, Page 524-528, FALL 2023.
  
  Citation: World Affairs
  PubDate: 2023-08-11T10:10:37Z
  DOI: 10.1177/00438200231191254
  Issue No: Vol. 186, No. 3 (2023)
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  Pages: 529 - 529
  Abstract: World Affairs, Volume 186, Issue 3, Page 529-529, FALL 2023.
  
  Citation: World Affairs
  PubDate: 2023-08-11T10:10:36Z
  DOI: 10.1177/00438200231194002
  Issue No: Vol. 186, No. 3 (2023)
COMMENTARY – THE STATE OF HUMAN RIGHTS IN SOUTH AFRICA APPROACHING 30
YEARS OF POST-APARTHEID DEMOCRACY: SUCCESSES, FAILURES, AND PROSPECTS
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  Authors: Noam Schimmel
  Abstract: World Affairs, Ahead of Print.
  As South Africa approaches 30 years of democracy, it is important to pause to reflect and analyze the trajectory of human rights since the fall of the apartheid regime and the advent of multiracial democracy. Although there was a large global movement against apartheid, this movement's vigilance for human rights in South Africa quickly declined and dissolved with the advent of South African democracy. There is little critical engagement with South Africa's contemporary human rights record and policies by global human rights activists, nongovernmental organizations, and civil society and still less active campaigning in defense of the human rights of South Africans, especially South Africa's most vulnerable and disadvantaged black majority. The energy that was summoned to protest apartheid and to boycott it never returned since the advent of democracy. This commentary explores the current state of human rights in South Africa, their prospects, and challenges to their respect, protection, and fulfillment.
  Citation: World Affairs
  PubDate: 2023-09-08T07:18:43Z
  DOI: 10.1177/00438200231187411
HOW COVID-19 AND GOVERNMENT ACTIONS AFFECTED STOCK INDEXES
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  Authors: Tchai Tavor, Sharon Teitler-Regev
  Abstract: World Affairs, Ahead of Print.
  The COVID-19 virus created a health crisis that led to one of the biggest economic crises in the world. This study analyzes the effects of different variables on the stock indexes of 15 different countries grouped into five areas/regions: Europe, the United States, South America, New Zealand, and Asia. The variables include data regarding COVID-19 on infections and death as well as news regarding government actions. The descriptive statistics and the regression analysis expose differences between the areas across all the variables. The variables with the strongest effects are the number of infected people and the number of recoveries, except for South America where only the number of infected people had the strongest effect. In addition, in the United States and New Zealand, infection of famous people and/or people in key positions is the most significant variable, while in Asia and South America it was the behavior of the public and in Europe it was the restrictions on the education system.
  Citation: World Affairs
  PubDate: 2023-07-04T08:38:39Z
  DOI: 10.1177/00438200231178323
BEYOND CONVENTIONAL BOUNDARIES
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  Authors: Alexander Kupatadze
  Abstract: World Affairs, Ahead of Print.
  According to conventional wisdom, organized criminal activity is perpetrated primarily by non-state, private actors who are occasionally [or not] protected by corrupt government officials. From this perspective, a hard distinction is made between those who provide protection to criminals (e.g., politicians or law enforcement officials) and the criminals themselves (e.g., smugglers or producers of counterfeit goods). It further treats the involvement of state-affiliated actors as a by-product of corruption in public office, rather than, in some places, a feature of it. This article builds on emerging evidence that state representatives play a far more direct role in supervising, organizing and sometimes managing crime than assumed in the majority of the literature. It shows that there are inherent theoretical, policy-level biases that misguide the analytical thinking about organized crime in the Global South, and argues that there is a need to reconsider existing approaches to develop more accommodative definitions of organized crime.
  Citation: World Affairs
  PubDate: 2023-06-26T07:59:41Z
  DOI: 10.1177/00438200231178852
PARTISANSHIP, REGULATION, AND VOLATILITY IN SOUTH KOREA'S HOUSING MARKET
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  Authors: Youjin Oh, Changmin Lee, Inhye Heo
  Abstract: World Affairs, Ahead of Print.
  South Korea's mortgage loan policy, which represents a regulatory policy for stabilizing the housing market, has changed significantly in accordance with changes in presidency and partisanship. Which partisan government's housing policy has been most effective in stabilizing the market' To answer this question, we discuss the different partisanships of Korea's conservative and progressive parties, their policy preferences, and the previous governments’ key housing policies. Thereafter, we concretize the research methodology and examine the housing volatility witnessed since 1987, using the Markov-switching regression. The results reveal that the market was highly unstable when the progressive government actively promoted regulation in favor of “governmentalist” partisanship. Moreover, the policy was mostly effective in lowering apartment prices in Seoul, which was the regulation's primary target all along. Based on these findings, we conclude with some policy implications of the study. Given that governmentalist partisanship heightens volatility in the housing market, housing market policies should be designed to hedge the negative externalities of partisanship.
  Citation: World Affairs
  PubDate: 2023-06-22T06:47:01Z
  DOI: 10.1177/00438200231177461
CHINESE STRATEGY IN THE SOUTH CHINA SEA
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  Authors: Nguyen Huu Quyet
  Abstract: World Affairs, Ahead of Print.
  The past decade has seen a notable increase in tensions in the South China Sea. Superficially the new situation has been triggered by Chinese territorial claims centering around the “Nine Dash Line.” While there is a large body of literature digging out China's strategic interests behind its increasing assertiveness in the contested waters, it falls short of an overall investigation of Beijing's maritime grand strategy—in which the South China Sea occupies a critical position. The aim of this article is therefore to examine the geostrategic, geopolitical, and geoeconomic significance of the South China Sea which comes to the fore in China's grand strategy. It argues that these sea waters are critical in Beijing's plans to establish and protect its status as a global maritime power in light of the sea energy reservoir, fisheries, and other vital maritime economic interests to reinforce its economic powerhouse. Beijing's power projection and its increasing assertiveness in the contested waters have also served in the pursuit of controlling vital sea lanes of communication in the Indian Ocean. Significantly, the South China Sea preoccupies Beijing's leadership's strategic pursuit of being a global sea power as a balancing act vis-a-vis the United States in the Indo-Pacific region and intensifying the blockade of Taiwan.
  Citation: World Affairs
  PubDate: 2023-06-21T06:35:44Z
  DOI: 10.1177/00438200231181141
Book Review: Multilateral Sanctions Revisited: Lessons Learned from
Margaret Doxey by Andrea Charron and Clara Portela
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  Authors: Thomas Kruiper
  Abstract: World Affairs, Ahead of Print.
  
  Citation: World Affairs
  PubDate: 2023-06-20T03:50:56Z
  DOI: 10.1177/00438200231181119
Book Review: Can We Unlearn Racism' What South Africa Teaches Us About
Whiteness by Jacob Boersema
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  Authors: Noam Schimmel
  Abstract: World Affairs, Ahead of Print.
  
  Citation: World Affairs
  PubDate: 2023-06-20T03:50:36Z
  DOI: 10.1177/00438200231180260
THE RED FLAG OF EMERGENCY USE AUTHORIZATION (EUA)
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  Authors: HyunJung Kim
  Abstract: World Affairs, Ahead of Print.
  The Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) policy, a representative biodefense policy, was legislated in the United States in 2001 based on lessons learned from Amerithrax, whereas Korea's EUA policy was based on lessons learned from the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome outbreak in 2015. Due to these divergent origins, the U.S. EUA's homeland security objectives were specialized to deal with highly pathogenic biological agents that could be exploited for bioterrorism, whereas the Korean EUA pursues disease containment purposes to strengthen mass-testing practices. During the early phase of the COVID-19 pandemic, the U.S. EUA revealed limitations in its integration with public health surveillance, laboratory partnerships, and insurance systems, which hampered the rapid expansion of testing capacities. Thereafter, once the limitations of the EUA were circumvented, the testing capacity of the United States began to catch up with that of South Korea, and later skyrocketed after solving these issues.
  Citation: World Affairs
  PubDate: 2023-06-05T06:20:52Z
  DOI: 10.1177/00438200231177462
THE REPUBLICAN TRUMP VOTER
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  Authors: Kofi Arhin, Daniel Stockemer, Marie-Soleil Normandin
  Abstract: World Affairs, Ahead of Print.
  With its emphasis on anti-immigration rhetoric and actions, protectionism, as well as populism, Donald Trump has transformed the Republican Party into a party that closely resembles populist radical right-wing parties in Europe. In this article, we first illustrate how the Republican Party has transformed into a radical right-wing party. Second, we examine the degree to which the Trump voter has the same or similar characteristics as the prototypical radical right-wing voter. To do so, we compare some key features of voters for the Alternative for Germany (AfD) and Trump voters. Through original survey research, we find that the two voter types are alike. Both AfD and Trump voters espouse anti-immigrant sentiment, reject globalization, and position themselves on the right on a left-right ideological scale. This implies that, both from a supply and demand side perspective, the Trump Republican Party has become a prototypical radical right-wing party.
  Citation: World Affairs
  PubDate: 2023-05-29T08:51:00Z
  DOI: 10.1177/00438200231176818
IN A SECURITY DILEMMA
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  Authors: Thomas Ameyaw-Brobbey
  Abstract: World Affairs, Ahead of Print.
  China's economic growth and related assertiveness are causing significant changes in the Asia Pacific strategic environment, producing policy responses from the region's major powers, and gaining linkage with 1914 Europe. This article revisits the analogy, made in 2014, between the Asia Pacific today and Europe of 1914 to theoretically explain Asia Pacific's strategic environment vis-à-vis China's rise and the responses of four Asia Pacific powers—the United States, Australia, India, and Japan. Using the notion of “security dilemma,” I argue that a perceived threat of China's newfound confidence expressed in military aggressions creates distrust, fear, and uncertainty in the Asia Pacific, resembling Germany and its ambitions in the first half of twentieth century Europe. However, the similarity does not necessarily mean that the two environments and periods would produce similar outcomes because the strategic conditions are different. Asia Pacific today is more constrained in alliances than twentieth century Europe. I conclude by critiquing the balance of power to propose a power-sharing mechanism in the region to ensure peace.
  Citation: World Affairs
  PubDate: 2023-05-29T08:23:10Z
  DOI: 10.1177/00438200231177711
RETERRITORIALIZING THAILAND'S TRANSNATIONAL SPACE'
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  Authors: Wanaporn Techagaisiyavanit, Srisombat Chokprajakchat, Dhanakorn Mulaphong
  Abstract: World Affairs, Ahead of Print.
  Studies surrounding transnational repression have taken an interest in the relationships between targeted citizens and their countries of origin, such as strategies used against individuals, and the legitimacy of exercising such extraterritorial powers. However, the role of the host state in facilitating this transnational repressive control is yet another area that requires greater academic attention. This article argues that a host state's policy silence and legal loopholes regarding the protection of political exiles against transnational repression practices can allow the country of origin to aggressively exercise control over the diaspora population beyond borders, causing spatial encroachment symbolically and materially in the host state. We use Thailand as a case study by examining certain areas of policy spaces that have potential impacts on the growth of transnational repression practices. The study concludes that the host state's reactions to such practices have strong implications for the expansion of repressive transnational powers.
  Citation: World Affairs
  PubDate: 2023-05-25T08:39:22Z
  DOI: 10.1177/00438200231176821
DOES SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA'S RAPID POPULATION GROWTH HAVE POSITIVE OR
NEGATIVE EFFECTS ON AGGREGATE DOMESTIC INVESTMENT'
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  Authors: Mwoya Byaro, Abel Kinyondo, Deusdedit A. Lemnge
  Abstract: World Affairs, Ahead of Print.
  This study examines the effect of population growth on aggregate domestic investments in 45 Sub-Saharan African (SSA) countries over the period 2000–2020. It applies the Quantile Method of Moments with fixed effects (i.e., MM-QR), which has the ability to identify both negative and positive effects while controlling for trade, HIV/AIDS prevalence, and economic growth. The findings show that SSA’s rapid population growth has a positive and statistically significant effect on aggregate domestic investments. Findings from this study show that an increase in population growth in the 10th to 60th quantiles is associated with an increase of domestic investment in SSA. This suggests that, as the population grows in SSA, it generates demand for domestic investments such as healthcare services, education, and other social services. Our findings also show that trade is positive and significant across all quantiles (10th to 90th). We find evidence that disease risks, such as the prevalence of HIV/AIDS, slowed the increase in domestic investment in the region across all quantiles (10th to 90th). We conclude by arguing that, since SSA's population growth will double in the near future, the region is bound to become world's next investment hub. In order to enable long-term domestic investments in the region, future policy options should take the challenges of population growth into account.
  Citation: World Affairs
  PubDate: 2023-05-05T05:33:53Z
  DOI: 10.1177/00438200231168288
WORDS MATTER
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  Authors: Stephen Collins, Jeff DeWitt
  Abstract: World Affairs, Ahead of Print.
  Twitter is regarded today as an essential communication platform of U.S. diplomacy. Of all diplomatic tweets, those published by U.S. presidents carry the greatest weight and hold great potential to influence perceptions of the country. In this study, we conduct cross-presidential comparative analyses on an original dataset of over 2,000 tweets published by the first two presidents of the Twitter era. In particular, we test the commonly held notion that the substance and tone of Barack Obama's communication reflected positively on America's image abroad, with the potential to expand soft power—a vital foreign policy asset—while Donald Trump's communication reflected negatively on America's image, potentially eroding the nation's image and its soft power. Findings demonstrate that what and how presidents communicate on Twitter may produce profound and disparate impacts on America's image abroad and on U.S. soft power.
  Citation: World Affairs
  PubDate: 2023-04-05T08:01:30Z
  DOI: 10.1177/00438200231161631