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In the December 2017 issue of the journal Contemporaty Southeast Asia Jim Rolfe reviews Stein Tønnesson's monograph Explaining the East Asian Peace (NIAS Press 2017): "Overall, this is an excellent tour d'horizon of the East Asian security environment, the factors that shape it and the scholarly arguments on how to improve it," Rolfe concludes: "I recommend this book not only for scholars of the region, but also for regional policymakers involved in security decisions."