Trousson, Raymond / Vercruysse, Jeroom (dir.), Dictionnaire general de Voltaire. (Champion classiques, references et dictionnaires 18) 1272 p. 2020:10 (Champion, FR) <670-9>
ISBN 978-2-38096-016-7 paper ¥7,064.- (税込) EUR 38.00

インド太平洋における国際法と安全保障
Siekiera, Joanna (ed.), International Law and Security in Indo-Pacific: Strategic Design for the Region. 280 pp. 2025:8 (Routledge, UK) <746-844>
ISBN 978-1-032-89211-5 hard ¥40,832.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00

This book uses an interdisciplinary approach to discuss international law and conflict in the Indo-Pacific region, covering topics such as maritime security, climate change and international relations.Detailing how international relations and particular state interests govern regional and global partnerships, the book provides suggestions for the future of the Indo-Pacific region. Exploring how conflict within the region has international repercussions, topics covered include the role of South-East Asian countries, and the role of statehood of small islands in Oceania. Detailing harmonization of laws and policies in the context of international security and maritime law, the book focuses on the impact of climate change and other topical issues such as cyber security and the protection of cultural identity.The book will be of interest to researchers in the field of international law, law of the sea, international relations and security.

アジア太平洋地域災害報告　2023年版
Asia-Pacific Disaster Report 2023: Seizing the Moment: Targeting: Transformative Disaster Risk Resilience. 154 pp. 2024:10 (UN, US) <746-936>
ISBN 978-92-1-300051-9 paper ¥17,160.- (税込) US$ 80.00

The Asia-Pacific Disaster Report 2023 presents the latest science-based, evidence-led research on hazard risks and their current and projected economic, social and environmental impacts under a 1.5 and 2oC warming scenario. Based on the latest RiskScape, the report will provide projected investment needs for key adaptation measures under multiple climate scenarios, including for multi-hazard early warning systems to support early actions and mitigate the evolution of climate-related hazards into humanitarian disasters. Further, the report will discuss and analyze the methodological aspects of loss and damage estimates related to the climate impacts and the new loss and damage fund established at COP 27.

国際開発－社会経済理論、遺産、戦略　第2版
Lanoszka, Anna, International Development: Strategies and Legacies of Socio-Economic Development. 2nd ed. 190 pp. 2025:6 (Routledge, UK) <746-229>
ISBN 978-1-032-57255-0 hard ¥40,832.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00
ISBN 978-1-032-57245-1 paper ¥11,260.- (税込) GB￡ 39.99

International Development: Strategies and Legacies of Socio-Economic Development examines the multifaceted challenges and strategies underlying socio-economic progress in a globally interconnected world.Grounded in a thorough historical and theoretical framework, this book explores the evolution of development strategies, from post-colonial challenges and the role of state policies to the impacts of global market integration and environmental sustainability. It scrutinizes the effectiveness of foreign aid, the resilience of local strategies, and the persistent disparities shaped by historical legacies, extractive state institutions, deficit of individual rights, systemic poverty, gender inequality, armed conflicts, environmental hazards, and food insecurity. Through case studies and document driven insights, it highlights the intersection of institutional frameworks, economic imperatives, and human agency in shaping developmental outcomes. By integrating environmental and sustainability considerations with economic strategies, the book underscores the necessity of inclusive policies that address structural barriers and promote human-centred development. This new edition has been thoroughly updated to include material on decolonization; the various effects of the Covid19 pandemic; gender and sexual orientation-based discrimination; climate change; migration; and economic insecurity.With a multi-disciplinary approach taking into account politics, international relations, economics, sociology, cultural studies, and the history of development, this book is an invaluable resource for students and scholars, as well as policymakers and practitioners working and researching in those fields.

アジア太平洋経済社会年報　2024年版
Economic and Social Survey of Asia and the Pacific 2024: Boosting Affordable and Longer-term Financing for Governments. 134 pp. 2024:7 (UN, US) <746-234>
ISBN 978-92-1-003115-8 paper ¥20,377.- (税込) US$ 95.00

Economic and Social Survey of Asia and the Pacific 2024: Boosting Affordable and Longer-term Financing for Governments

Holm, David (ed.), Vernacular Chinese-Character Manuscripts from East and Southeast Asia. (Studies in Manuscript Cultures 40) 300 pp. 2024:7 (de Gruyter, GW) <746-14>
ISBN 978-3-11-138232-6 hard ¥23,197.- (税込) EUR 99.95 *

This collection brings together studies on vernacular manuscripts in regional Chinese dialects such as Cantonese and Hokkien (South Fujian dialect), those of non-Han peoples in China and Southeast Asia such as the Zhuang and Yao, and a vernacular character manuscript in Vietnamese. Across this wide range, the focus is on manuscripts written in regional and vernacular adaptations of the Chinese script. Three chapters on Yao manuscripts each focus on a different aspect of their use in local society or on collections of Yao manuscripts in overseas collections; there are three chapters on Zhuang and related Tai languages; two studies on Hokkien; one on the Cantonese script in contemporary Hong Kong; and one on a Buddhist manuscript with Vietnamese ch? nom commentary from a temple in Bangkok. Detailed descriptions of traditional paper manufacture in the villages are given for both the Yao and the Zhuang, as well as paper analysis used to date a Vietnamese manuscript. Coverage includes information about the physicality of the manuscripts investigated and the vernacular Chinese scripts in which they are written, but also a wealth of information about their use and significance in local society. This collection will be of interest to scholars and students interested in the philological analysis of East and Southeast Asian character scripts and manuscript traditions, but also the broader social contexts of manuscript use in traditional and modern society.

Gnisci, Jacopo / Dege-Mueller, Sophia et al. (eds.), Manuscript Treasures from Afro-Eurasia: Scribes, Patrons, Collectors, and Readers. (Studies in Manuscript Cultures 46) 479 pp. 2025:4 (de Gruyter, GW) <746-12>
ISBN 978-3-11-163626-9 hard ¥26,679.- (税込) EUR 114.95 *

Throughout the Middle Ages manuscripts were routinely commissioned, copied, illustrated, displayed, read, and transferred across both sides of the Mediterranean. Their significance as vehicles for the transmission of visual and textual knowledge is well known. Less understood, particularly when it comes to non-Latin manuscripts, is the complex web of spiritual, material, intellectual, and emotional interactions that influenced their production and reception. The twelve essays presented here seek to address this gap by exploring the very direct relationships that existed between manuscripts and those individuals or communities that were involved in their making. The volume is broad in scope, covering written artefacts produced between Late Antiquity and the fifteenth century and presenting case studies that range from the British Isles to East Africa and from Spain and the Maghreb to Armenia. The visual and textual evidence preserved in these manuscripts is interpreted by drawing from disciplines such as palaeography, art history, codicology, and textual criticism. The result is a book that details the impact of makers, patrons, collectors, and readers on the making and circulation of manuscripts across Afro-Eurasia.

Social Outlook for Asia and the Pacific 2024: Protecting our Future Today: Social Protection in Asia and the Pacific. 150 pp. 2024:11 (UN, US) <746-1028>
ISBN 978-92-1-003159-2 paper ¥10,725.- (税込) US$ 50.00

The Social Outlook is a flagship ESCAP publication produced every two years with a dedicated focus on social development issues in Asia and the Pacific. In 2024, the Social Outlook focuses on future proofing social protection in Asia and the Pacific in the presence of three global megatrends, namely climate change, demographic shifts including population ageing and the emergence of digital technologies. the analysis contained in the report aims to strengthen the evidence base and build capacity of policy makers on how to future proof and finance their respective social protection systems. The Report is structured around 5 chapters. Chapter 1 reviews poverty and inequality amidst complex crises in Asia and the Pacific. Chapter 2 assesses the status of social protection system while Chapter 3 explores how social protection systems need to adapt to global megatrends. Chapter 4 adopts a forward-looking methodology and develops four alternative future scenarios for social protection systems by 2040. Using strategic foresight tools, it provides policy recommendations at national and reginal levels to meet the preferred future consistent with inclusive and sustainable development. Chapter 5 estimates the cost of inaction and action and elaborates on sources of financing for long-term investments in social protection systems.

Schneider, Florian, Studying Political Communication and Media in East Asia: A Playful Textbook. 452 pp. 2025:4 (Amsterdam U. Pr., NE) <745-628>
ISBN 978-90-485-6445-3 paper ¥21,105.- (税込) GB￡ 74.95

Communication is at the heart of politics, and certainly in East Asia, where vibrant media systems and cultural industries connect with political processes that range from the democratic to autocratic. If we are to understand East Asian societies, and 21st-century politics more broadly, we need to take media and communication seriously. This textbook provides a flexible toolbox of methods and theories for studying political communication. Taking its examples and exercises from Japan, Korea, and the Chinese-speaking world, it walks readers through core issues, media contents, and communicative modes. Readers will learn how to systematically analyse the politics of media environments, written and spoken words, images and visual designs, moving image, space and spatial interactions, (video)games, and more. The chapters can be used individually or, optionally, as a playful 'gamified' course that offers learners a first-hand experience of how complex 'information societies' incentivise behaviour.

非同盟の世界
Heine, Jorge / Fortin, Carlos / Ominami, Carlos, The Non-Aligned World: Striking Out in an Era of Great Power Competition. 220 pp. 2025:4 (Polity Pr., UK) <745-673>
ISBN 978-1-5095-6434-7 hard ¥13,931.- (税込) US$ 64.95
ISBN 978-1-5095-6435-4 paper ¥4,922.- (税込) US$ 22.95

Non-Alignment is back with a vengeance. In recent years, the number of countries embracing this venerable approach to foreign policy has increased exponentially, making it a force to be reckoned with in world affairs. The war in Ukraine, the expansion of the BRICS group, and the conflict in Gaza have given a special impetus to its rise in a new form: Active Non-Alignment (ANA). This has gone hand-in-hand with the growing power and influence of the Global South in world politics. In this agenda-setting book, Jorge Heine, Carlos Fortin and Carlos Ominami, explain the origins, dynamics and significance of ANA, for the future of world order. Far from a transitory expression of the current state of affairs, they argue that ANA is here to stay. It provides a powerful guide to action and a fine-tuned compass for the Global Majority, that is, the countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America, to strike out and prioritize their national interests, whilst navigating the perilous waters of a troubled world in the throes of change.

アジアの地政学の局面を解読する
Nandy, Debasish / Das, Monojit (eds.), Decoding the Chessboard of Asian Geopolitics: Asian Powerplay in East and Southeast Asia, The Global North, and Other Emerging Issues. 418 pp. 2025:5 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <745-677>
ISBN 978-981-9630-72-1 hard ¥27,848.- (税込) EUR 119.99

This book is part of a two-volumes exploration comprising 18 chapters organized into four distinct thematic sections. This volume delves into the geopolitical dynamics and power relations in East and Southeast Asia and the Global North. It examines the interactions of regional and extra-regional powers from both military and soft power perspectives. It highlights China's influence in the Indo-Pacific region, Russia's involvement in Myanmar's political economy, and Taiwan's situation. It also examines the dynamics of India-Taiwan relations and North Korea's foreign policy. This book presents interconnected discussions on various themes, offering valuable insights for readers. It provides useful insights into the role of the Global North from multiple perspectives. This will benefit students, scholars, and academicians from diverse disciplines such as International Relations, Foreign Policy, Defence and Strategic Studies, Political Science, Peace and Conflict Studies, and Journalism. The other volume provides an in-depth analysis of the intricate power struggles within this Asian region, with a particular focus on India, and delves into the power dynamics of Central Asia, and West Asia offering a comprehensive examination of the geopolitical and power-related issues that shape these regions.

気候変動－グローバル・サウスにおける介入戦略と持続可能な開発
Joseph, Debra D. / Mthembu, Maud / Huggins, Camille (eds.), Climate Change: Intervention Strategies and Sustainable Development in the Global South. 356 pp. 2025:5 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <745-715>
ISBN 978-3-031-83036-5 hard ¥37,132.- (税込) EUR 159.99

This book highlights the challenges with respect to climate change in the Global South. It demonstrates what has been happening in varying countries in this geographic location and how sustainable adaptation interventions could be used to alleviate these challenges. Most countries in the Global South are extremely vulnerable and unprepared for the present and future impact of climate change. Some climate change events that are presently plaguing these locations are extreme weather events such as flooding, food insecurity, disasters and droughts. The book provides case studies and interventions that can be a source to others who are seeking to find solutions to these adverse climate change events.

アジアにおける脱植民地性ハンドブック
Sanchez, Phoebe Zoe Maria U. et al. (eds.), The Palgrave Handbook on Decoloniality in Asia. 523 pp. 2025:5 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <745-717>
ISBN 978-981-9623-35-8 hard ¥53,379.- (税込) EUR 229.99

This Handbook brings together a plethora of decolonial perspectives from and about Asian countries beyond Southeast Asia. Complementing existing scholarship on decolonisation in Latin America and Africa, emerging and established scholars from the Global North and the Global South cover politically urgent, vital and underexplored topics from the social sciences and humanities. An important compendium, more than 25 original contributions bring debates happening in various parts of the world strongly into conversation with similar debates in the West where there has been little reciprocal exchange. Bringing to the fore the importance of a paradigm shift within academia, this first-of-its-kind Handbook is useful for policy-makers, scholars and students of postcolonial and decolonial studies, sociology, development studies and social movements.

前近代ユーラシアにおける嘆願と権力関係
Zaret, David, Petitioning and Power Relations in Pre-Modern Eurasia. (The Past and Present Book Series) 176 pp. 2025:8 (Oxford U. Pr., UK) <745-719>
ISBN 978-0-19-895573-3 hard ¥23,654.- (税込) GB￡ 84.00

Petitioning was the main route by which the agency of subjects engaged the authority of rulers. Most studies explore it as a practice for sending requests to central and local representatives of state power in empires, kingdoms, and city-states. Yet the practice occurs in other fields of power, for example, in medieval papal governance, seigneurial regimes and other types of lordship, e.g., queenship. Petition-and-response was the inverse twin to command-and-obey, and just as inherent and indispensable for managing pre-modern power relations. Requests by petitioners were endlessly diverse. Petitions were the universal request form for subjects who sought assistance with every conceivable problem or opportunity. In addition to resolving conflicts with other subjects or officials, there were requests for appointments, promotions to higher positions or social ranks, exemptions, pardons, privileges, pensions, salary increases, charitable relief, and more. Some petitioners were docile and ingenuous; others were ingenious, even predatory petitioners whose initiatives reveal high levels of agency. This is the first truly comparative analysis of pre-modern petitioning across Eurasia. Across a wide range of historical case studies and cutting against the grain of the dominant, one-dimensional social science perspective on pre-modern power relations, David Zaret shows petitioning in pre-modern Eurasia to have been a dynamic tool of state, and not (as is often assumed) merely an instrument of protest or imitation of religious prayer. Comparative study shows the practice to have been remarkably uniform, and one whose ubiquity and prominence are astounding for its diverse socio-cultural contexts: there are Sumerian, Akkadian, and Aramaic petitions in ancient Mesopotamia, demotic petitions in Egypt when Pharaohs ruled, then Greek ones after imposition of Ptolemaic rule. Other contexts for the practice include Zoroastrian Persia, Hellenic and Roman cultures of benefaction, Christianity, Islam, Daoism, Confucianism, and the syncretic mix of Shinto and Buddhism in Japan. In so doing, Zaret bridges literatures of two fields and makes important contributions to both - historical research on petitioning, which is often confined to case studies, and theories of power relations, arguably the most heavily plowed field in social theory - to offer revisionist perspectives on the fluid nature of power and politics in the pre-modern world.

Gaitanidis, Ioannis et al. (eds.), Therapy, Spirituality, and East Asian Imaginaries. (Health, Medicine, and Science in Asia) 302 pp. 2025:2 (Amsterdam U. Pr., NE) <745-102>
ISBN 978-90-485-5901-5 hard ¥34,355.- (税込) GB￡ 122.00

In the context of modern global exchanges, an imagined and essentialised notion of 'East Asia' has served as both a source of inspiration and a catalyst for new connections, extending beyond the geographic boundaries of China, Japan, and Korea. This volume explores the global circulation of practices, technologies, and ideas identified as 'East Asian' in alternative therapies and spiritual practices since the 1970s. Case studies range from the incorporation of traditional Chinese medicine into Brazilian naturopathy to self-development seminars promoting Korean national identity. Rather than focusing on questions of authenticity, the book uniquely interrogates how and why the cultures of China, Japan, and Korea have been invoked over the last fifty years to promote specific therapeutic, spiritual, and political agendas worldwide.

Bussell, Jennifer, Shocks and Politics: Understanding Disaster Preparedness. (Elements in the Politics of Development) 100 pp. 2025:2 (Cambridge U. Pr., UK) <744-749>
ISBN 978-1-009-63528-8 hard ¥14,076.- (税込) GB￡ 49.99
ISBN 978-1-009-63531-8 paper ¥4,787.- (税込) GB￡ 17.00

When will government elites prepare for natural hazards? Existing research posits that governments will respond to disasters, but rarely have incentives to prepare for them. This Element argues that disaster preparedness can, and does, occur in the context of both motivated ruling elites and a capable state. Ruling elites can be mobilized to lead preparedness efforts when there is a risk that past exposure to hazards will lead to political instability in the face of a future hazard. Where elites anticipate a threat to their rule in the face of a future hazard, due to substantial past exposure and significant opposition strength, they will be motivated to engage in disaster preparedness. The quality and character of these efforts subsequently depend on the government's capacity to coordinate the design and implementation of preparedness plans. The Element tests this argument using a medium-N, country case study approach, drawing on evidence from ten countries in Africa and three in South Asia, as well as subnational analysis in India.

Liu, Amy H. / Hlatky, Roman / Chew, Keith Padraic et al., Gender, Ethnicity, and Intersectionality in Cabinets: Asia and Europe in Comparative Perspective. (Elements in Gender and Politics) 102 pp. 2025:1 (Cambridge U. Pr., UK) <744-755>
ISBN 978-1-009-57047-3 hard ¥14,076.- (税込) GB￡ 49.99 *
ISBN 978-1-009-57043-5 paper ¥4,787.- (税込) GB￡ 17.00 *

What explains patterns of representation - of women and ethnic minorities - in government cabinets? The authors argue governments diversify their cabinets when (1) a minority group - and it need not be ethnic - is sizable and can mobilize (political competition); and/or (2) the general population believes in and expects the inclusion of minorities (popular norms). The authors test their argument using original cabinet data from Asia and Europe (N=93) 1960-2015 and a most-similar design of four case studies. They identify the gender and ethnicity of 91,000 country-year-minister observations - with consideration of the rank of their ministerial portfolio. They find evidence that in countries where there is political competition and/or popular norms, cabinets have fewer double-hegemons. However, this does not necessarily suggest minorities are holding portfolios of substantive prestige. This project offers a way to study intersectionality in democratic representation and political institutions.

Verma, Raj (ed.), The Russia-Ukraine War and the Global South's Sovereignty Paradox. 153 pp. 2025:6 (Routledge, UK) <744-784>
ISBN 978-1-041-04324-9 hard ¥38,016.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00

This book examines the sovereignty paradox in the Global South within the context of the Russia-Ukraine war. It illustrates the contradiction that countries which helped establish the post-World War II norm of "equal sovereignty"-entitling all nations to the same respect for sovereignty and territorial integrity as the West-are reluctant to publicly condemn Russia's infringement on Ukraine's sovereignty.The chapters in this volume further highlight the Global South's duplicity because the Global South has been extremely critical of the US led West for violating the United Nations Charter, international law and compromising on the sovereignty and territorial integrity of countries in the Global South. Through the analysis of nine countries, the contributions discuss each nation's foreign policy tenets and how they have been violated in their stance on the Russia-Ukraine war, and the justifications for such deviations. It also illustrates that "cherry picking" is the norm that states have adopted in employing the concept of sovereignty and this is likely to continue in the future.This book will be of interest to students, scholars, analysts and policymakers in the fields of international relations, political science, geopolitics, and Global South studies.The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of Contemporary Security Policy.

G.カラーキー、中村桂子、徐載晶、鈴木達治郎編　北東アジアにおける核ゼロへの到達
Kulacki, Gregory / Nakamura, Keiko / Suh, Jae-Jung / Suzuki, Tatsujiro (eds.), Getting to Nuclear Zero in Northeast Asia: The Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zone as a Vehicle for Change. (Asian Security Studies) 264 pp. 2025:6 (Routledge, UK) <744-793>
ISBN 978-1-032-97767-6 hard ¥40,832.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00

This book presents realistic alternatives to security policies based on nuclear weapons for the Northeast Asian region. Northeast Asian governments and populations feel less secure than ever, and the governments of the USA, Russia, China and North Korea are all expending considerable resources on increasing their nuclear arsenals. This book presents realistic alternatives to security policies dependent on threats to use nuclear weapons and demonstrations of the resolve to use them in a war. Those alternatives are grounded in the well-established concept of common security. The long-term goal of these alternatives is the establishment of a nuclear-weapon-free zone in Northeast Asia. This book demonstrates that lessons learned during the creation of existing nuclear-weapon-free zones can be successfully adapted, using the proposed alternatives to nuclear threats, to the considerably more challenging circumstances that exist in contemporary Northeast Asia. More importantly, it makes the case that the mere process of pursuing this objective, even if the goal is not realized for many decades, would help facilitate regional risk-reduction measures and global nuclear arms control measures that could lead, in the long term, to the general and complete disarmament promised by the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT) and the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) of 2021.This book will be of interest to students of nuclear proliferation, Asian security, foreign policy and International Relations.

Lee, David S. / Glosserman, Brad, Tech-Gemony: Understanding the New National Security Economy. 352 pp. 2025:10 (Hurst, UK) <744-821>
ISBN 978-1-80526-430-9 hard ¥9,856.- (税込) GB￡ 35.00

Argues for a reconceptualisation of global--particularly East Asian--security, to recognise its new forms and dimensions as global power is itself being redefined. The world is at an inflection point. In an era marked by intense geopolitical competition and rapid technological advancements, understanding and navigating the complex interplay of business, politics, security and technology has never been more essential. Global in scope and evidence-based, Tech-Gemony illuminates how national security has been redefined in the digital age. Unique in approach, the authors combine deep policy expertise with extensive business experience to introduce a transformative concept: the 'new national security economy'. Within this framework, the economic battlefield is the central arena of competition, in which mastery of emerging technologies will shape the future of world diplomacy and power dynamics--and, ultimately, our collective future. Companies are unprepared for this new world, despite being increasingly vital participants in geopolitics. There is a need to recognise and adapt to new risks; to develop expertise, and rethink traditional approaches to risk management. This book provides practical, actionable strategies for leaders and organisations struggling with this emerging reality. The new national security economy is a defining feature of our evolving world. Tech-Gemony provides essential guidance for individuals, businesses and governments to help them navigate this perilous moment.

Adebajo, Adekeye (ed.), The Black Atlantic's Triple Burden: Slavery, Colonialism, and Reparations. 576 pp. 2025:6 (Manchester U. Pr., UK) <744-829>
ISBN 978-1-5261-9302-5 hard ¥28,160.- (税込) GB￡ 100.00
ISBN 978-1-5261-9303-2 paper ¥8,448.- (税込) GB￡ 30.00

Arefi, Mahyar, Demystifying Informal Urban Design and Planning: Insights from Asia. 304 pp. 2025:6 (Manchester U. Pr., UK) <744-830>
ISBN 978-1-5261-7476-5 hard ¥23,936.- (税込) GB￡ 85.00

With more than half of the world's population living in cities, informal settlements, or slums, continue to expand. This book explores the informality-urban design nexus, and asks why formal urban designers and planners have remained largely reluctant to address these challenges facing our cities. What distinguishes the formal vs. informal urban design paradigm? While urban designers are able to identify and address specific problems like walkability, gentrification, or sense of place, informal settlement problems prove inexorably complex, and harder to fathom to begin with. Therefore, seeking to demystify these epistemological ambiguities - while difficult - makes sense. The use of abductive reasoning, regulations, aesthetics, and design epitomise the formal, while informal urban planning and design is characterized by information, assets and adaptation. In support of these thematic differentiations, this book uses case studies to better contextualize and unpack the metaphorical distinctions of the two theoretical entities. Conceptualizing these two schools of thought this way, the book engages urban designers with these debates, and explores how informal settlement residents see themselves, act collectively, care about their settlements, and leverage opportunities.

Bennett, E. Andrew / Liu, Yichen / Fu, Qiaomei, Reconstructing the Human Population History of East Asia through Ancient Genomics. (Elements in Ancient East Asia) 90 pp. 2025:1 (Cambridge U. Pr., UK) <744-831>
ISBN 978-1-009-51705-8 hard ¥14,076.- (税込) GB￡ 49.99 *
ISBN 978-1-009-24664-4 paper ¥4,787.- (税込) GB￡ 17.00 *

East Asian population history has only recently been the focus of intense investigations using ancient genomics techniques, yet these studies have already contributed much to our growing understanding of past East Asian populations, and cultural and linguistic dispersals. This Element aims to provide a comprehensive overview of our current understanding of the population history of East Asia through ancient genomics. It begins with an introduction to ancient DNA and recent insights into archaic populations of East Asia. It then presents an in-depth summary of current knowledge by region, covering the whole of East Asia from the first appearance of modern humans, through large-scale population studies of the Neolithic and Metal Ages, and into historical times. These recent results reflect past population movements and admixtures, as well as linguistic origins and prehistoric cultural networks that have shaped the region's history. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

Flowers, Petrice R., Refugee Policies in East Asia. (Elements in Politics and Society in East Asia) 88 pp. 2025:1 (Cambridge U. Pr., UK) <744-833>
ISBN 978-1-009-50728-8 hard ¥14,076.- (税込) GB￡ 49.99 *
ISBN 978-1-108-99553-5 paper ¥4,787.- (税込) GB￡ 17.00 *

East Asia stands apart from the rest of Asia in the prevalence of the institutionalization of the 1951 Refugee Convention. Despite this widespread adoption of the Convention in East Asia, the record on implementation into domestic law and policy is uneven. This Element offers a comparative analysis of the gap between the institutionalization of the Refugee Convention and the implementation of refugee policy in China, Japan, South Korea, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Macau, and Mongolia. Specific attention is given to two key policy issues: refugee status determination-deciding who is granted government recognition as a refugee-and complementary forms of protection-protection based on statutes other than the Refugee Convention. This Element demonstrates that implementation of the Refugee Convention in East Asia depends on a vibrant civil society with the space and opportunity to engage with local UNHCR offices, local branches of international nongovernmental organizations (INGOs), and other stake holders.

Kim, Hyun Jin / Ferruh Adali, Selim, The Origins of Complex Political Organisation in Ancient Inner Asia: East Eurasia, Cimmerians and Scythians. 152 pp. 2025:6 (Routledge, UK) <744-834>
ISBN 978-1-032-00449-5 hard ¥36,608.- (税込) GB￡ 130.00

This book explores the origins of complex political organisation in Inner Asia which enabled mighty empires, proto-state entities and confederacies such as the Cimmerians, Scythians and the Xiongnu Huns to emerge and dominate large swathes of the Eurasian continent during antiquity.The volume provides readers with an in-depth understanding of the origins and development of the quasi-feudal system of political organisation which prevailed in Inner Asia during antiquity, how this supported the formation of imperial polities in the steppe zone, and the impact the expansion of these polities had on the politics, history and culture of both ancient Inner Asia and also China, the Middle East and Europe. It examines the historical and archaeological evidence for the Cimmerians and Scythians and their geopolitical impact on western Eurasia, exploring whether complex political organisation in Inner Asia - which we see later among the Xiongnu and the Huns - originated with them or had even earlier antecedents.The Origins of Complex Political Organisation in Ancient Inner Asia is suitable for students and scholars of Near Eastern history and archaeology, the history and archaeology of Central and Inner Asia, and classical antiquity.

Lenette, Caroline (ed.), Anti-Colonial Research Praxis: Methods for Knowledge Justice. 246 pp. 2025:4 (Manchester U. Pr., UK) <744-837>
ISBN 978-1-5261-7700-1 hard ¥25,344.- (税込) GB￡ 90.00

How can anti-colonial research methodologies be transformative and achieve knowledge justice? This book brings together leading scholars from around the world to share methodological knowledge grounded in First Nations and majority-world expertise and wisdom. The authors challenge western-centric and colonial approaches to knowledge production, redefining the possibilities of what we can achieve through social research. The First Nations and majority-world perspectives highlighted here share a common aim of disrupting established beliefs about research methodologies and unquestioned norms in the academy. Authors in this edited collection describe how they draw on Indigenous knowledge systems, feminist frameworks and creative methodologies as forms of anti-colonial research praxis. Spanning development studies, geography, education, sexual and reproductive health, humanitarian studies and social work, the authors reflexively discuss the specific factors shaping how they engage in research ethically. The book reimagines social research through an anti-colonial lens, concluding with a set of provocations for anti-colonial research praxis that situate this important work in the context of ongoing colonial violence and institutional constraints. This book is an essential guide for researchers and scholars within and beyond the academy on how anti-colonial research praxis can produce meaningful outcomes, especially in violent and troubled times.Cover art courtesy of Tawny Chatmon

Rajendran, Lakshmi Priya / Odeleye, N. / Can, A. (eds.), Resilient Cities in the Global South: Rethinking Informality in Urban Planning and Design. (Regions and Cities) 238 pp. 2025:6 (Routledge, UK) <744-840>
ISBN 978-1-032-37377-5 hard ¥40,832.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00

Post-pandemic cities face new challenges in adapting to global changes, while also addressing the needs, practices, and capabilities of diverse populations. Resilience, as a key factor, enables cities to adapt and transform in response to these challenges. Development driven by resilience is crucial for urban society's ability to adapt and evolve on multiple levels. However, in developed countries, increasingly standardised planning and development practices often hinder citizen engagement and participation, which are essential for building resilient cities.This book adopts an interdisciplinary approach to examine how diverse social and spatial behaviours within informal urban environments, particularly in developing countries, can provide fresh insights for robust urban planning and development.The book is structured in three parts: 1. North-South Relations - This section explores the global discourse on informality, highlighting its presence in both the Global North and South.2. Grassroots - This part focuses on grassroots initiatives and community-driven resilience within urban informality.3. Institutional Strategies & Professional Alliances - The final section delves into the role of institutions and professional collaborations in shaping urban informality.By presenting a range of perspectives and experiences, the book contributes to a unique Southern framework that positions informality as a dialogue for enabling resilience. It will appeal to a multidisciplinary audience, including professionals from fields such as sociology, history, environmental psychology, cultural studies, human geography, urban design and planning, architecture, and anthropology.

Withers, Matt, Emigration States: Migration-Development Policymaking in the Asia-Pacific. (Elements in Global Development Studies) 92 pp. 2025:1 (Cambridge U. Pr., UK) <744-842>
ISBN 978-1-009-56519-6 hard ¥14,076.- (税込) GB￡ 49.99 *
ISBN 978-1-009-31874-7 paper ¥4,787.- (税込) GB￡ 17.00 *

Guestworker migration has become an increasingly prominent feature within the economic landscape of the Asia-Pacific. Longstanding regional disparities have underscored the emergence of fragile remittance economies where a structural reliance on labour-export has offered an unsustainable 'fix' for stubborn developmental challenges. Combining political-economic and Foucauldian frames of analysis, this Element reconciles the macroeconomic contradictions of remittance economies with the political logics bound up in emigration policymaking, contending that new modalities of governance have emerged in the transition from developmental to emigration states. Comparing the policy histories of four diverse remittance economies in the region - Myanmar, the Philippines, Samoa, and Sri Lanka - it frames emigration policies as complex, inward-facing interventions that simultaneously promote and constrain mobility to address counterpoised economic and political pressures. Important variations are explored though the example of gendered migration bans, whereby emigration states have situated women's bodies as sites for resolving contextually specific social tensions accompanying labour-export.

Wu, Mandy Jui-man / Linduff, Katheryn M., Archaeological Studies on Gender in Early East Asia. (Elements in Ancient East Asia) 86 pp. 2025:1 (Cambridge U. Pr., UK) <744-843>
ISBN 978-1-009-53354-6 hard ¥14,076.- (税込) GB￡ 49.99
ISBN 978-1-108-98739-4 paper ¥4,787.- (税込) GB￡ 17.00

Gendered archaeology in Asia has been studied by archaeologists since the 1990s and scholars have posed questions such as the role and construction of gendered identities in ancient societies. In this Element, the authors review secondary literature, report on to what stage the research has evolved, evaluate methodologies, and use the concept of networking to examine the issues across East Asia, including China, Mongolia, Korea, Japan, and Taiwan. Interestingly, those literatures are not entirely parallel with each other - the authors found, for example, that archaeological investigation was largely bound by national guidelines, by local intellectual traditions, and by changing historiographic interpretations of past events, as well as funding. The complexion of recent studies on gender and archaeology in Asia has often been focused on providing a framework for a grand narrative of each national 'civilization' as the emergence of institutional political structures, including traditional values placed on men and women.

ブラジル、インド、中国、南アフリカにおけるヘゲモニーの再形成
Nilsen, Alf Gunvald / Holdt, Karl von / Braga, Ruy et al., Southern Interregnum: Remaking Hegemony in Brazil, India, China, and South Africa. (Progress in Political Economy) 224 pp. 2025:6 (Manchester U. Pr., UK) <744-273>
ISBN 978-1-5261-7979-1 hard ¥23,936.- (税込) GB￡ 85.00

How do governing elites in the global South attempt to remake hegemony in a conjuncture of durable crisis? This is the question at the core of Southern interregnum, a comparative conjunctural analysis of hegemonic projects in Brazil, India, China, and South Africa. Working with a Gramscian notion of crisis, centred on the interregnum as an enduring period of instability and uncertainty, in which hegemonic authority erodes and competing projects for crisis resolution emerge, the book proposes a novel critical reading of the convulsions that are currently reshaping the political economy of the global South and the world-system.Mapping the variegated trajectories of elite projects to reconcile accumulation and legitimation - and probing the limits of these projects - the book breaks new ground in the study of the contemporary global South.

ヨーロッパとインド太平洋地域における地政学的リスク－国家安全保障の視点
Park, Sang-Chul / Lai, Yun-Chen (eds.), Geopolitical Risks in Europe and the Indo-Pacific Region: Perspectives of National Security. 206 pp. 2025:4 (Springer, GW) <743-883>
ISBN 978-981-9618-39-2 hard ¥32,490.- (税込) EUR 139.99

This book explores the geo-political risks in Europe and the Indo-Pacific region and interaction between the two regions in the rapidly changing global political landscape. The book explores the reasons for Europe extending its reach and engagement in the Indo-Pacific region, and the Indo-Pacific region increasing its ties with Europe. The book goes on to consider the impact and implications of these engagements on the global order, analyzing cases of potential geopolitical risks brought on by EU-India relations, EU-China relations, EU-Peru-China relations, EU in the Sino-Philippine territorial disputes, and EU's role in North Korean Nuclear matters. The book would be a valuable read for scholars of international relations and politics, policymakers, and those interested in the interactions between the two regions.

Lan, Shanshan / Debnar, Milos (eds.), Migration, Transnational Flows, and the Contested Meanings of Race in Asia. (IMISCOE Research Series) 212 pp. 2025:4 (Springer, GW) <743-943>
ISBN 978-3-031-81544-7 hard ¥11,601.- (税込) EUR 49.99

This open access edited volume addresses the multi-layered relations between migration, transnational flows, and the contested meanings of race in Asia. It tries to answer the following questions: how do migration and transnational flows from the Western world impact racial knowledge formation in Asian societies? To what extent do they challenge, perpetuate, and reshape unequal power relations based on the intersection of race, gender, class, nationality, citizenship, and migration status in Asia? How are dominant Western racial categories such as race, whiteness, and blackness redefined and reconstructed in the context of the Covid-19 pandemic, when transnational mobility became both heavily restricted and stigmatized ? The book is divided into three parts: Race, Language and Migration status, Covid-19 and the Dynamics of Racialization, Gender and Interracial Encounters. This book positions itself in the nexus of race, migration and pandemic research and will make a significant contribution to critical race studies, whiteness studies, globalization, multiculturalism, and social transformation in Asia. This book is aimed at students and scholars in race and migration studies in Asia and beyond. This is an open access book.

コロンボ・プラン－冷戦期アジアにおける開発国際主義
Lowe, David, The Colombo Plan: Development Internationalism in Cold War Asia. (Global and International History) 271 pp. 2025:8 (Cambridge U. Pr., UK) <743-944>
ISBN 978-1-009-60073-6 hard ¥25,344.- (税込) GB￡ 90.00

Conceived in 1950, the Colombo Plan for Co-operative Development in South and Southeast Asia was a unique experiment in foreign relations. Meeting annually across what we now know as the 'Indo-Pacific', talented administrators facilitated foreign aid provision, and promoted development fuelled state-making, internationalism and experimental regionalism across postwar Asia. David Lowe argues that this new setting and dynamic international cast created an unusually productive diplomatic environment of development internationalism. The Colombo Plan did not escape power politics or Cold War divisions. However, it did run according to its own rhythm, and, unlike other experiments, it endured, continuing today in much reduced form.

Quah, Ee Ling, Fire Dragon Feminism: Asian Migrant Women's Tales of Migration, Coloniality and Racial Capitalism. 216 pp. 2025:5 (Bloomsbury Academic, UK) <743-947>
ISBN 978-1-350-44781-3 hard ¥18,304.- (税込) GB￡ 65.00
ISBN 978-1-350-44782-0 paper ¥6,191.- (税込) GB￡ 21.99

Featuring stories of early settler and contemporary Asian migrant women in Asia-Pacific region, Fire Dragon Feminism discusses Asian migrant women's encounters with coloniality and racial capitalism at their workplace and in their everyday life.Centring anti-colonial, anti-racist feminist philosophies and strategies, this open access book introduces 'fire dragon feminism' - a migrant feminist strand that aims to blow flames at colonial, racial capitalist and neoliberal structures and build solidarities for more just and sustainable futures. Based on in-depth interviews with 40 Asian migrant employees in Australian universities, the book examines how Asian migrant women are implicated and complicit in white race-making projects while being subjected to racialisation and marginalisation simultaneously. Fire Dragon Feminism presents a historicised and sociological discussion of the contradictions, trade-offs, complicities and refusals in the Asian migrant women's tales of migration, coloniality and racial capitalism. The author ends the book with a celebration of anti-colonial, anti-racist grassroots feminist activisms.The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by the Bloomsbury Open Collections Library Collective.

Ortolland, Didier, Les mers de Chine: geopolitique, confrontation et droit international. (Inter-national) 274 p. 2024:12 (L'Harmattan, FR) <743-765>
ISBN 978-2-336-49009-0 paper ¥6,963.- (税込) EUR 30.00

Sanin-Restrepo, Ricardo / Machado-Araujo, M. et al. (eds.), Decrypting Justice: From Epistemic Violence to Immanent Democracy. (Decrypting Power and Coloniality: Philosophical Perspectives from and Through the Global South) 244 pp. 2025:2 (Lexington Books, US) <743-806>
ISBN 978-1-6669-6115-7 hard ¥23,595.- (税込) US$ 110.00 *

This book deploys the theory of encryption of to decrypt justice, setting in opposition Justice, written with the hegemonic capital letters of Western ideas, and justice, in its everyday workings within disparate communal forms and the exercise of multiplicity. As it decrypts justice, the book argues that late-coloniality, through its construction of the "hidden people," shattered the possibility of true communities in the service of a transcendent model, consisting ofthe market, the constitution, the nation, and the economy. The first three chapters serve as the theoretical backbone of the book, engaging sovereignty, posthumanism, Artificial Intelligence, and epistemic injustice. Chapters 4 and 5 describe the emancipation of the people through alternate communal practices: "Quilombismo" in Brazil and "Corazonar" of Tseltal women in Mexico. Chapter 7 examines the Tosepan's practices in Mexico to decrypt hegemonic territorial forms, and chapters 6 and 8 explore how Western judicial systems disempower the people, focusing on Central American migrants and critiques from the Colombian peace process.Edited by Ricardo Sanin-Restrepo, Marinella Machado-Araujo, and Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni, Decrypting Justice: From Epistemic Violence to Immanent Democracy is a transforming force, not only in the way which we understand reality but also in the tools with which we build it.

グローバル・サウスにおける公共政策ハンドブック
Onyango, Gedion / Jamil, Ishtiaq (eds.), Routledge Handbook of Public Policy in the Global South. (Routledge International Handbooks) 724 pp. 2025:6 (Routledge, UK) <742-402>
ISBN 978-1-032-90148-0 hard ¥60,544.- (税込) GB￡ 215.00

This important new handbook provides a comprehensive assessment of contemporary public policy and administration in the global south. Offering incisive comparative analyses and policy-specific case studies from across Asia, Latin America, and Africa, the book aims to inform future governance research, policy, and practice.In recent years governments in the global south have faced a complex series of challenges and crises, from the pressures of a global pandemic, to the impacts of climate change, democratic backsliding, the rise of China, and deteriorating public services. This book reflects on the transformations, convergences, and underlying trajectories that have taken place, focusing on:* Democratic governance and institutional trust* Public service delivery, motivation, and governance outcomes* Non-state actors * Policy successes and failures* The policy implications of global governance and regionalismThe authors in this book bring together varied perspectives and experiences which will be important for researchers and policy makers wishing to understand contemporary governance models, innovations, and challenges within the Global South.

インド太平洋における気候変動
Ahmed, Faisal / Faheem, Mohammed (eds.), Climate Change in the Indo-Pacific: Developmental and Geopolitical Dimensions. (Indo-Pacific in Context) 248 pp. 2025:5 (Routledge, UK) <742-431>
ISBN 978-1-032-52188-6 hard ¥40,832.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00

This book explores multifarious policy dimensions relevant to climate change and its associated vulnerabilities in the Indo-Pacific region.The essays in the volume focus on:* Climate resilience in terms of policy implementation at the local, national, and regional levels in Asia-Pacific;* Understanding climate change through the lens of non-traditional security;* Assesses geo-economic and geopolitical impacts and adaptation strategies;* Examines issues of climate refugees and migration.The volume will be of great interest to scholars and researchers of politics, public policy, environment and sustainability studies, climate action and Indo-Pacific studies.

実力者としてのアジア太平洋の二次国家－米中の戦略的競争における連携の役割
Cook, Richard J. / Ohle, Maximilian / Han, Zhaoying, Asia Pacific Secondary States as Kingmakers: Alignment Roles in the China-US Strategic Competition. (Routledge Studies on the Asia-Pacific Region) 216 pp. 2025:5 (Routledge, UK) <742-435>
ISBN 978-1-032-84305-6 hard ¥40,832.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00

Focusing on the Asia-Pacific region, Cook, Ohle and Han investigate the escalating strategic competition between China and the US. They explore the dynamics of key regional secondary states caught in the middle, namely Japan, South Korea, the Philippines and Vietnam, emphasizing their crucial role as potential kingmakers in the shifting balance of power. China and the US are competing to win influence over these regional linchpins to advance their geopolitical ambitions and ultimately win the strategic competition. Elucidating a "power of the weak paradox", this contribution examines the challenging choices faced by these secondary states as they navigate alignment pressures, which influences the trajectory of the great power strategic competition. Drawing upon a range of first-hand government sources and regional perspectives, the authors take the temperature of the China-US strategic competition, revealing the intricate influencing dynamics and perilous choices linchpins are being pushed to make that will determine the fate of the Asia-Pacific.This is a timely resource for researchers, students, scholars and politicians navigating the complex realm of international relations by providing a profound exploration of power struggles, strategic choices, and the often-overlooked role of secondary states.

南シナ海におけるヘッジングと紛争
Short, John Rennie, Hedging and Conflict in the South China Sea. 168 pp. 2025:5 (Routledge, UK) <742-443>
ISBN 978-1-032-88340-3 hard ¥42,240.- (税込) GB￡ 150.00
ISBN 978-1-032-88342-7 paper ¥11,260.- (税込) GB￡ 39.99

The South China Sea is a geopolitical hotspot where China and the US compete for dominance and the adjacent countries try to improve their position by hedging between these two superpowers.The book unpacks the conflicting and competing interpretations of what is going on in the South China Sea. It will allow readers to understand the depth and complexity of the issues. It expands our understanding by looking not only at the competing imaginaries of China and the US but also the hedging strategies of ASEAN members including Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines and Vietnam, and the role of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea.The book will appeal to all of those interested in international relations, Southeast Asia, US-China relations and all these seeking to understand one of the world's geopolitical hotspots.

Demaria, Federico / Vico, Daniele / Gabard, L. F. (eds.), Contested Waste: Environmental Conflicts and Waste Picker Resistance in the Global South. (Routledge Studies in Political Ecology) 380 pp. 2025:6 (Routledge, UK) <742-476>
ISBN 978-1-032-74280-9 hard ¥40,832.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00

Contested Waste' examines socio-environmental conflicts involving waste pickers in the Global South, uncovering the systemic injustices that underpin contemporary waste policies. Driven by the privatisation of waste management, these conflicts expose the "recycling paradox": while waste pickers make critical, uncompensated contributions to sustainability, they are further excluded by new policies. This book analyses how modern waste policies marginalise waste pickers, triggering conflicts in cities across Africa, Latin America, and Asia. Drawing on over 70 conflicts documented in the Global Environmental Justice Atlas, the book explores how privatisation, incineration, and waste enclosures displace informal recyclers and worsen the sustainability crisis. These processes exemplify "capital accumulation by dispossession," as waste streams are enclosed and privatised, excluding waste pickers, and "capital accumulation by contamination," as environmental burdens are shifted onto marginalised communities. The book also showcases waste pickers' resilience as they organise to fight for justice and equitable waste systems. Essential for scholars, policymakers, and activists in environmental justice, development, and urban studies, this book reveals the structural drivers of waste conflicts and the transformative power of grassroots resistance in shaping sustainable and inclusive urban futures.

グローバル・サウスにおける感情、意識向上、フェミニズム
Loureiro, Gabriela Silva, Emotions, Consciousness-Raising and Feminisms in the Global South: On Building Solidarity. (Routledge Studies in the Sociology of Emotions) 176 pp. 2025:5 (Routledge, UK) <742-479>
ISBN 978-1-032-49917-8 hard ¥40,832.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00

This book is about the role of emotions in the creation and dissipation of feminist collectives and grapples with difficult questions that have been circulating for a while in activist circles but are far from answered. What are the emotions involved in building and sustaining solidarity? What can we learn from previous "waves" of feminist activism and what is worth saving in social media activism today?These questions are tackled via the discourse analysis of hashtagged posts of two popular feminist hashtags in Brazil (#PrimeiroAssedio and #MeuAmigoSecreto) and interviews with Brazilian feminist actors. But instead of merely analysing the content of the hashtags or over celebrating aesthetics, I interpret them as empirical evidence of the emotional life of varied feminisms and therefore useful to reflect upon historical build-ups and dissipation of solidarity.The unique feature of the book is making a bridge between sociology of emotions, feminist theory and decolonial, Black and Global South literature and praxis that articulate solidarity based on principles of difference instead of sameness. This book will be of interest to students, scholars, teachers, activists and community members interested in the emotions involved in building and sustaining feminist solidarity from a non-Western perspective.

国際政治経済とグローバル・サウス－アフリカ、アジア、ラテンアメリカ、中東からの視点
El Bernoussi, Zaynab / Garriga-Lopez, Adriana Maria et al., International Political Economy and the Global South: Perspectives from Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Middle East. 162 pp. 2025:6 (Routledge, UK) <742-132>
ISBN 978-1-032-20581-6 hard ¥40,832.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00
ISBN 978-1-032-20574-8 paper ¥11,260.- (税込) GB￡ 39.99

International Political Economy and the Global South provides students from both the global South and the global North a textbook that speaks to distinct concepts, categories, and issues of International Political Economy, from a Southern and Northern perspective, while identifying how they differ.The primary goal is to provide an alternative or complementary reading of IPE derived from the experiences of the periphery. The textbook asks: how has the global South responded to the demands of a global economy? What is the meaning of sovereignty to those who have experienced colonialism and imperialism? How can the global South claim the "international" when the global North sets its norms, institutions, and practices? It opens with a standard introduction, offering an intellectual history of key IPE concepts, including state, firm, capital, power, labor, globalization, and finance. Each subsequent chapter follows a similar structure: exploration of the problem; discussion of what may be missing from dominant understandings of the problem and/or how orthodox IPE may tell us something different about the problem compared to what is experienced in the global South; identification of alternative frameworks and perspectives.Aiming to de-Westernize and decentralize the production of knowledge, the textbook introduces students to the discipline and phenomenon of IPE with a genuinely global perspective.

Mesa-Lago, Carmelo, Comparing Socialist Approaches: Economics and Social Security in Cuba, China, and Vietnam. (Pitt Latin American Series) 360 pp. 2025:4 (U. Pittsburgh Pr., US) <742-133>
ISBN 978-0-8229-4847-6 hard ¥13,942.- (税込) US$ 65.00

A new volume in the award winning University of Pittsburgh Press Latin American Studies Series

Felipe, Jesus / Foster-McGregor, Neil / Nomaler, Oe. et al., Innovation and Structural Transformation in Asia. 110 pp. 2025:4 (Routledge, UK) <742-134>
ISBN 978-1-032-96662-5 hard ¥14,921.- (税込) GB￡ 52.99

This book explores recent drivers of Asia' growth and economic development. The analysis is based on a database created by the authors. It covers a large number of economies, including 39 from Asia for the period 1990-2020.The database and the analysis in the book use novel indicators of development. It is structured along four areas: productivity and structural change, global value chains (GVCs), economic complexity, and the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR). The book offers insights into current economic performance and future prospects. It shows great heterogeneity across the region, highlighting a range of development experiences. Each chapter contains an accessible methodological section of the concepts used, explaining the construction of indicators and how they should be interpreted. The book will interest scholars of Asian economics, structural transformation, productivity, GVCs, complexity, and 4IR studies. The publicly available database will also appeal to policymakers and researchers interested in data analysis.

グローバル・サウスにおける公共政策評価ハンドブック
Brik, Anis Ben (ed.), Handbook of Public Policy Evaluation in the Global South: Politics, Praxes and Futures. (Handbooks of Research on Public Policy) 464 pp. 2025:5 (E. Elgar, UK) <741-810>
ISBN 978-1-0353-5119-0 hard ¥66,176.- (税込) GB￡ 235.00

This insightful Handbook delves into public policy evaluation in the Global South. Drawing on in-depth case studies, it analyzes the complex interplay of historical, political, economic, and social factors that shape evaluation practices in Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Middle East.Expert authors explore how colonial legacies, institutional frameworks, and international influences have molded public policy evaluation across diverse contexts. Chapters critically assess current challenges facing evaluators, including capacity constraints, political interference, and the tension between global standards and local realities. Integrating both political and technocratic perspectives, they consider emerging practices in the field, proposing innovative strategies for developing more effective and culturally responsive approaches to evaluation. Timely and perceptive, the Handbook ultimately emphasizes the need for more inclusive global discussions surrounding public policy evaluation.This Handbook is an important resource for students and academics in public policy, public administration, political science, international development, and sociology. Policymakers, government officials, and professionals will also benefit from the book's theoretical and practical insights.

ラテンアメリカにおける公共政策ハンドブック
Secchi, Leonardo / Cruz-Rubio, Cesar N. (eds.), Handbook on Public Policy in Latin America. (Handbooks of Research on Public Policy) 672 pp. 2025:6 (E. Elgar, UK) <741-821>
ISBN 978-1-0353-1018-0 hard ¥73,216.- (税込) GB￡ 260.00

Bringing together an array of recognized scholars and practitioners from the region and beyond, this Handbook provides a comprehensive overview of public policy research in Latin America. It showcases diverse perspectives on the policymaking process, from historical, descriptive and prescriptive approaches to critical and feminist analyses.The Handbook is divided into three core thematic sections, covering analytical models and frameworks, cross-country comparisons, and in-depth case studies. Chapters explore the current use of mainstream theories and investigate topics such as transparency, innovation, regulation, communication, and public policy teaching, identifying key challenges as well as opportunities for development. They conduct detailed examinations of countries across Latin America, highlighting the heterogeneity of the region and revealing how policies are shaped by local political regimes, socio-economic conditions, and cultural factors. Ultimately, the Handbook encourages a rethinking of public policy processes in Latin America, underscoring the need to promote South-South connections and to develop analytical models that are sensitive to the regional context.Presenting original practical and theoretical innovations from Latin America to a wider international audience, this Handbook will benefit students and academics in public policy, public administration, policy analysis and evaluation, regulation and governance, and development studies. It is also an important read for policymakers and professionals looking to improve public policies in Latin America.

一帯一路イニシアチブを超えて－インド、中国、アメリカは接続性の代替モデルを提供できるか？
Borah, Rupakjyoti, Beyond The BRI: Can India, Japan and the US Provide an Alternative Model of Connectivity? 140 pp. 2024:12 (World Scientific, SI) <741-857>
ISBN 978-981-9805-56-3 hard ¥16,731.- (税込) US$ 78.00

The Indo-Pacific has now emerged as a major area of collaboration between India, Japan and the United States (US). It was in 2018 that the US renamed its Pacific Command as the Indo-Pacific Command. The US and Japan have already been working together on the Build Back Better World (B3W) initiative 'led by major democracies to help narrow the $40+ trillion infrastructure need in the developing world'. In addition, the United States and Japan share a vision of a Free and Open Indo-Pacific while India has an 'Act-East Policy,' and all these meet in the Indo-Pacific. This book will analyse whether India, US and Japan can provide an alternate model of connectivity and infrastructure development in the Indo-Pacific since all the three countries have not joined the China-led BRI.

インド太平洋における中国の二国間関係と秩序の移行
He, Kai / Liu, Feng (eds.), China's Bilateral Relations and Order Transition in the Indo-Pacific. 350 pp. 2025:3 (World Scientific, SI) <741-862>
ISBN 978-1-80061-627-1 hard ¥27,456.- (税込) US$ 128.00

The strategic rivalry between the United States and China has emerged as a defining feature of international politics in the Indo-Pacific region. How China engages with the US and other significant stakeholders in the region will intricately shape the trajectory and character of an impending transition in the international order, either through peaceful or confrontational means in the future.This edited volume undertakes a systematic exploration of China's multifaceted interactions with five pivotal players situated in the Indo-Pacific: the United States, Japan, India, Australia, and ASEAN. By delving into both the theoretical underpinnings of state-to-state relationships and the empirical nuances of China's strategic engagements with these five critical actors, this book casts a clarifying light on the complexity of China's bilateral ties within the region. Each of these bilateral relationships is examined from a dual perspective, capturing insights from scholars hailing from both within China and beyond its borders. This comprehensive initiative delves into the different viewpoints held by Chinese academics and their international counterparts regarding the very same bilateral relationship, thereby forging a pairwise comprehension. This book will captivate the attention of scholars and policy analysts alike, fascinated by the dynamics of the US-China competition and the broader realm of geopolitics.

S.M.Ali著　アジア・太平洋の安全保障のダイナミクス－米中日の三者間の軌跡
Ali, S. Mahmud, Asia-Pacific Security Dynamics: US-China-Japan Triadic Trajectories. (Global Power Shift) 359 pp. 2025:1 (Springer, GW) <741-883>
ISBN 978-3-031-78006-6 hard ¥32,490.- (税込) EUR 139.99

This book examines the causes and consequences of the dramatic shift in Japanese national security perspectives and mutually exclusive policies toward China and the USA. It sheds new light on the changing trajectories of triadic dynamics shaping U.S.-China-Japan strategic insecurity, their historical roots, its implications for trans-Pacific peace and stability, and their potential influence on emerging regional and systemic security architectures. Against the backdrop of U.S.-proclaimed "great power competition" with China as the defining feature and organizing principle of the U.S.-led coalition's strategic and geopolitical responses to China's "national rejuvenation," with primacy's "displacement anxiety" triggering a "systemic transitional fluidity," the book examines the origins and outcomes of Sino-Japanese insecurity, its polarizing effects on U.S.-China and U.S.-Japan relations, and the wider systemic resonances and dissonances as the post-Cold War unipolar systemic structure gives way to an uncertain, ambiguous, and imprecise successor regime. Finally, historical lessons drawn from primary documents are used to illuminate the prospects for triangular relations in shaping the Asia-Pacific security ecology over the medium term.

Deepak, B. R., Rising India and China: Strategic Rivalry in the Himalayas and the Indo-Pacific. Volume 1. 316 pp. 2025:3 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <741-890>
ISBN 978-981-9791-89-7 hard ¥30,169.- (税込) EUR 129.99

This book, part of a two-volume exploration, examines the trajectory of India-China relations, spanning from the making of a common border to the events leading to the 1962 war. Relying on vast Chinese, Indian, as well as western sources, the study provides a detailed exegesis of the nature of conflict covering over a century of political contours in the British India, Manchu China, Republican China and finally the Republic of India and Peoples Republic of China. This includes the British as well as Manchu aggression in Tibet and the ensuing diplomatic manoeuvrability between various stakeholders, resulting in conclusion of various conventions and boundaries including the contentious McMahon Line and shifting line alignments of the Chinese in the Western Sector of India-China border. The domestic socio-political and economic climate as well as the equations that resulted from the Cold War between India and China have been looked into and analysed reflecting the Chinese and well as Indian perspectives. The special case of Sino-Pak entente and India-China rivalry in Asia as a whole has been analysed vis-a-vis their security concerns.