Pacific Affairs is a peer-reviewed scholarly journal focussing on important current political, economic and social issues throughout Asia and the Pacific. Each issue contains approximately four new articles and 40-50 book reviews.

Published since 1927, Pacific Affairs enjoys an international reputation and attracts top scholars. It provides essential information for anyone seeking balanced knowledge of the dynamic Asian scene.

Pacific Affairs is indexed by Public Affairs Information Service, Social Sceinces and Humanities Index, ABC POL SCI, Current Contents/Social & Behavioral Sciences, Social Sciences Citation Index and Canadian Periodical Index. Abstracts of articles in Pacific Affairs appear in Asian-Pacific Economic Literature, Historical Abstracts and/or American History and Life, Sage Public Administration Abstracts and/or Human Resource Abstracts, International Bibliography of the Social Sciences, International Political Science Abstracts, Academic Abstracts, Social Science Source, IBZ, Geo Abstracts and GEOBASE. Excerpts of book reviews appear in Book Review Digest and Review of Reviews, and book reviews are indexed in Book Review Index and IBR. Pacific Affairs is archived in JSTOR with a five year moving wall.