Austin Mitchell

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Since the start of 2025 JJPS has been an #OpenAccess title with articles published with a Creative Commons licence and freely available to read online.

This means you can read every article published so far this year without charge by following this link - https://cup.org/3HkyT1y

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02.11.2025 22:25 — 👍 0    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

SEAREG Thematic Sessions | Duke Center for International Development SEAREG Thematic Sessions - Duke Center for International Development

For all Southeast Asianist scholars, please consider submitting a paper proposal for SEAREG at UC-San Diego in December.

dcid.sanford.duke.edu/seareg-thema...

16.08.2025 23:30 — 👍 5    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

👑Can foreign religious threats drive local state-building?

➡Focusing on late 16th-century Japan, M. Wang, @austin-mitchell.bsky.social & W. Yin show that areas with Catholic churches were more likely to be surveyed in response to missionary threats www.cambridge.org/core/journal... #FirstView

17.07.2025 08:11 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Foreign faith and rising state: An examination of state-building dynamics in late 16th-century Japan | Political Science Research and Methods | Cambridge Core Foreign faith and rising state: An examination of state-building dynamics in late 16th-century Japan

Centralized state-building occurs in response to local security threats.

In historical Japan, Catholic churches represented the threat of European empires.

New research at @psrm.bsky.social.

doi.org/10.1017/psrm...

04.07.2025 01:15 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0