Pacific Affairs

{{Short description|Academic journal devoted to modern Asia}}

{{distinguish|Ministry of Pacific Island Affairs}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=September 2020}}

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| abbreviation = Pac. Aff.

| discipline = Area Studies

| language = English

| editor = [https://sppga.ubc.ca/profile/soo-yeon-kim/ Soo Yeon Kim]]

| publisher = University of British Columbia

| country = Canada

| history = 1928–present

| frequency = Quarterly

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| impact = 1.4

| impact-year = 2023

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| ISSN = 0030-851X

| eISSN = 1715-3379

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| JSTOR = pacificaffairs

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| OCLC = 851140338

| website = https://pacificaffairs.ubc.ca

| link1 = https://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/paaf/paaf

| link1-name = Official archive

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Pacific Affairs (PA) is a Canadian peer-reviewed 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 (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, then William L. Holland.

The journal moved from the IPR headquarters in New York to the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada, in 1961.[https://pacificaffairs.ubc.ca/about-us/our-history/our-secret-history/#sidestory-pacific-affairs-in-n-0 "Pacific Affairs in New York City." Pacific Affairs through War and Peace]. Pacific Affairs. pacificaffairs.ubc.ca. — via University of British Columbia.

:"In 1961, Pacific Affairs would depart the United States entirely for the campus of the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada, where it became a cornerstone of the newly established Department of Asian Studies."[https://www.jstor.org/stable/3024107 "Transfer of International IPR Headquarters and Pacific Affairs to Canada."] Far Eastern Survey, Vol. 29, No. 12, December 1960. p. 192. {{doi|10.2307/3024107}}. Pressure from Senator Joseph McCarthy led to the dissolution of the IPR in 1960. It is currently housed in the [https://www.grad.ubc.ca/unit/institute-asian-research Institute of Asian Research] at the University of British Columbia.Holland, William Lancelot, and Paul F. Hooper, ed. [https://books.google.com/books?id=h44xuLqdoJcC Remembering the Institute of Pacific Relations: The Memoirs of William L. Holland.] Tokyo: Ryukei Shyosha. {{ISBN|978-4844763819}}.

The journal's executive committee is composed of an editor, associate editors (based on the following geographic regions: Asia General, China and Inner Asia, Japan, Korea, South Asia, Southeast Asia, and Australasia and the Pacific Islands) and members representing Simon Fraser University, and the University of Northern British Columbia.

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 JSTOR with a four-year moving wall.[https://pacificaffairs.ubc.ca/subscription/subscription-information/ "Journal Info."] [https://www.jstor.org/journal/pacificaffairs Pacific Affairs.] JSTOR. Accessed October 4, 2020. Archived from [https://www.jstor.org/journal/pacificaffairs?item_view=journal_info the original.]

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.