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

Bracken, Gregory / Rabe, Paul / Azlan, Nurul Azreen (eds.), Future Practices of Citizenship in Asia and the West: Care of the Self (Volume III). (Asian Cities) 302 pp. 2024:11 (Amsterdam U. Pr., NE) <733-853>
ISBN 978-90-485-6207-7 hard ¥32,432.- (税込) GB￡ 117.00

This book investigates some of the biggest challenges facing society in the twenty-first century. Research conducted in Asia and the West highlights the struggle for rights and recognition by indigenous peoples, women, migrants, and the young, as well as the dampening effects some government responses to Covid-19 have had on artistic freedoms and citizen participation. Digitisation is shown to be a double-edged sword, with ill effects on citizenship being countered by positive ones from grass-roots activities. The biggest challenge facing the world today is climate change. Issues of sustainability can also be a double-edged sword depending on how they are addressed by governments and those they govern. What unites all of the papers in this book is their people-centred approach, with Michel Foucault's concept of the 'Care of the Self' as a connecting theme uniting their different research endeavours.

河崎信樹、坂出健他編　米国のヘゲモニー、在外米軍、負担の分担－冷戦中・後の西欧と東アジア
Kawasaki, Nobuki / Sakade, Takeshi / Zimmermann, H. (eds.), US Hegemony, American Troops Abroad and Burden-Sharing: West Europe and East Asia during and after the Cold War. (Routledge Advances in International Relations and Global Politics) 208 pp. 2024:12 (Routledge, UK) <733-914>
ISBN 978-1-03-256703-7 hard ¥37,422.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00

Kawasaki, Sakade, Zimmerman, and their contributors examine the historical development of burden-sharing among the US and its allies after the Second World War, looking at examples from Western Europe and East Asia. Through a series of case studies, the contributors to this volume identify the characteristics and historical transformations in the burden sharing relationships between the US and its allies. In addition to diplomatic and security concerns, they also look at the economic and financial dimensions of burden sharing and how all these elements are intertwined. They also address the different dynamics of burden sharing between the US and Western Europe - notably Germany and the UK - on the one hand, and between the US and East Asia - particularly Japan and Korea - on the other. In particular, they argue that while Western European countries provided most of the economic and political support for American policies until the 1960s, the economic support from East Asian countries became much more important from the 1970s onwards. A valuable contribution to the literature on burden sharing and strategic alliance for scholars of international relations and the diplomatic history of the Cold War.

Young, Oran / Kim, Jong-Deog (eds.), North Pacific Perspectives on the Arctic: Looking Far North in Turbulent Times. 192 pp. 2024:12 (E. Elgar, UK) <733-923>
ISBN 978-1-03-534494-9 hard ¥23,562.- (税込) GB￡ 85.00

This timely book supplements well-established Euro-Atlantic perspectives on the Arctic by offering fresh insights into emerging issues and opportunities in the region through the application of a North Pacific lens. The book brings together an array of perspectives, including voices from China, Russia, and the United States along with the voices of Indigenous peoples and other Arctic residents. The result is a multidimensional assessment of the circumstances of the Arctic in increasingly turbulent times and an examination of opportunities for peaceful competition even under conditions of increased tension.To think constructively about the treatment of Arctic issues during the 2020s and beyond, the authors argue that we must pay increased attention to the coupling of the Arctic with a range of processes playing out on a global scale. With chapters covering key topics such as the geopolitical situation, economic development, environmental challenges, science-governance engagement and community wellbeing, this book sets out a distinctive perspective on the changing role of the Arctic in the "new" global order. The book is a valuable resource for environmental specialists, those concerned with the role of regions in global affairs, academics and students looking for an alternative Arctic narrative. Offering new insights on global institutionalized cooperation, this book will also interest policymakers and practitioners specializing in environmental politics and international relations.

東シナ海・南シナ海における海洋ガバナンス及び紛争
Schultheiss, Christian, Ocean Governance and Conflict in the East and South China Sea: Negotiating Natural Resources, Institutions and Power. (Politics and International Relations in Asia) 382 pp. 2024:8 (Amsterdam U. Pr., NE) <733-965>
ISBN 978-94-6372-899-7 hard ¥35,481.- (税込) GB￡ 128.00

This book tells the story of the negotiations between China, Japan, Taiwan, the Philippines, Vietnam and other Southeast Asian countries about the East and South China Sea disputes. Tapping into formerly classified and newly available primary sources, the book meticulously tracks these negotiations and their sudden U-turns. It is a story about the promises and perils of cooperation - as much about pragmatic, gradual and surprisingly resilient approaches to conflict resolution and ocean governance as it is about the expansion of states' bargaining power through institutions. The book hinges on the question of when and why disputing parties reach agreement on joint oil and gas development, fisheries and codes of conduct, and when and why negotiations end in impasse. It is the first comprehensive and theoretically informed study of decades-long dispute settlement efforts in a central region of the Indo-Pacific where the expansion of China challenges the law of the sea and regional security.

Bae, Christopher J., The Paleoanthropology of Eastern Asia. 277 pp. 2024:9 (U. Hawai'i Pr., US) <733-971>
ISBN 978-0-8248-9765-9 paper ¥16,544.- (税込) US$ 80.00

In Asia, research in human evolution has long been considered to have lagged far behind what was going on in places like Africa and Europe. Oftentimes this is due to the limited dissemination of research findings rather than the lack of actual research. The Paleoanthropology of Eastern Asia is an attempt to rectify this discrepancy by providing rich evidence rooted in deep research traditions from East and Southeast Asia. It covers fossils from the earliest arrival of hominins more than two million years ago to the end of the last Ice Age 15,000 years ago. During this wide span of time, many exciting and important events happened in eastern Asia. The earliest hominins arrived in the region; various hominin species evolved and interacted with one another, including Homo erectus, Homo sapiens, and a few more in between. While fossils can reveal what these hominins may have looked like, the rich Paleolithic archaeological record yields clues to their behavior. Handaxes have been found in eastern Asia where they were previously believed to have been absent. Watercraft was used by foragers as early as 40,000 years ago to reach regions like the Japanese archipelago, showing that deep-sea voyaging has a long and deep history. In Indonesia, captivating cave art older than the famous Lascaux paintings from France have been reported. The story continues with a tremendous amount of new and important discoveries from the region being reported almost daily. Providing comprehensive coverage of paleoanthropological research in eastern Asia-from the groundbreaking finds in a cave near Beijing in the early twentieth century to the discovery and identification of new human species during the twenty-first century-this book will interest anyone wishing to learn about the human evolutionary record.

Chen, Tina / Eubanks, Charlotte et al., Global Asias: Tactics & Theories. (Global Asias: Method, Architecture, Praxis) 277 pp. 2024:12 (U. Hawai'i Pr., US) <733-974>
ISBN 978-0-8248-9406-1 hard ¥15,510.- (税込) US$ 75.00

Global Asias: Tactics & Theories is the inaugural volume in an exciting new series that explores critical concerns animating Global Asias scholarship. It challenges the silos of academic knowledge formation that currently make legible and organize the study of Asia and its multiple diasporas. Transits, Indigeneity, Epistemology, Language, and A/Geography: These keywords highlight potential overlaps and points of disagreement between area studies, ethnic studies, and diaspora studies. Through an inventive approach and structure, the book exemplifies how the collaborative ethos of Global Asias praxis can catalyze new methods of scholarship and pedagogy-and create innovative models of academic knowledge-production. Editors offer a substantive overview of the emergent multidisciplinary field of Global Asias followed by a set of collaboratively authored research forums and pedagogical materials by a varied group of scholars working across ranks, disciplines, fields, geographies, and languages. Global Asias: Tactics & Theories will be an indispensable guide for anyone interested in learning more about this emerging field. It is crafted to provide resources for a wide range of readers: researchers, teachers, students, and administrators. The diversity and originality of the materials and approaches reflect a broad understanding of scholarly work that resists mastery by building structures of intellectual experimentation that embrace disagreement and differences. Readers will discover provocative conversations that redefine what it means to work in, at, for, and around Global Asias-not as a settled object of knowledge but a dynamic praxis of engagement.

グローバル・サウスにおける社会正義ハンドブック
Deb, Nikhil / Nair, Manjusha / Muschert, Glenn W. (eds.), Handbook of Social Justice in the Global South. 576 pp. 2025:3 (E. Elgar, UK) <733-975>
ISBN 978-1-80392-114-3 hard ¥66,528.- (税込) GB￡ 240.00

This timely Handbook explores social justice in the Global South in an era of planetary crisis and shifting global dynamics. Presenting the Global South as a space of belonging and resistance to the hegemony of global capitalism, it identifies how to reimagine transformative futures for a just world.Adopting an interdisciplinary perspective, expert contributors examine the many dimensions of justice. They investigate the disparate impacts of injustices on marginalized groups across the Global South, highlighting the major shortcomings of conventional development models based around global mass consumption. The Handbook also covers the role of ecological considerations, localized struggles, resistance movements and the broader geopolitical landscape in shaping narratives of social justice. Drawing on inclusionary practices to create a balanced relationship in global knowledge production, it gives voice to scholars based in the Global South as well as those who have created a third space in the Global North.The Handbook of Social Justice in the Global South is an essential resource for students and scholars of development studies, social justice, and inequality. Policymakers will also find it invaluable for enhancing their understanding of the conditions needed for global justice.

Herzfeld, Michael / Padawangi, Rita (eds.), Resilience as Heritage in Asia. (Asian Heritages) 218 pp. 2024:10 (Amsterdam U. Pr., NE) <733-977>
ISBN 978-94-6372-856-0 hard ¥29,660.- (税込) GB￡ 107.00

This volume analyzes forms of collective resilience through manifestations of strength-in-fragility in selected communities in Asia (Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, Singapore, and Thailand). Persistent resistance to communal erasure taking place through repressive policies and commercialized, multinational urban development insensitive to local communities and values often presents an uphill battle. Some of these collective efforts to survive through everyday actions, encounters, and constant struggles have successful outcomes, while others are ephemeral at best. The authors argue that persisting vernacular spaces located between resistance and co-optation are themselves a form of local cultural heritage in the rapidly urbanizing region. Recognizing these nonconformist forms of resilience as heritage acknowledges the creativity involved in challenging social and political inequalities. Supporting the cultural autonomy of local communities by acknowledging resilience as heritage contributes to social justice in the region.

Hutson, Nathan Mark, The Silk Road After Ukraine: A New Vision for Eurasian Integration. (Contemporary Central Asia: Societies, Politics, and Cultures) 238 pp. 2024:11 (Lexington Books, US) <733-978>
ISBN 978-1-66694-430-3 hard ¥22,748.- (税込) US$ 110.00

The Silk Road After Ukraine: A New Vision for Eurasian Integration illustrates the long-term implications of Russia's invasion of Ukraine on Eurasian supply chains and Eurasia's development trajectory. Through an in-depth examination of China's original motivations for launching the New Silk Road, contextualized with the potential impacts on other players along the trade corridor, this book assesses how states that were largely left out of the pre-invasion may capitalize on the new opportunities brought about by divestment in supply chains that traverse Russian and Belarusian territory. Rather than focusing exclusively on state actors, Nathan Mark Hutson also illustrates the role of regional and private sector players in creating coalitions for corridor prioritization. Nathan Mark Hutson argues that the Caucasus and Ukraine, both of which had been sidelined by earlier iterations of the New Silk Road, will find themselves in prime position to overcome post-Soviet path dependence and capitalize on its post-invasion development if the requisite investments in freight infrastructure are made. This volume further illustrates why the liberation and restoration of Ukraine's ports, along with a guarantee of freedom of commerce in the Black and Caspian Seas, are essential factors for the successful development of Eurasia as a dynamic trade space.

Imy, Kate / Segura-Garcia, T. / Valdameri, E. et al. (eds.), Bodies beyond Binaries: in Colonial and Postcolonial Asia. (Global Connections: Routes and Roots) 300 pp 2024:10 (Leiden U. Pr., NE) <733-979>
ISBN 978-90-8728-455-8 hard ¥29,660.- (税込) GB￡ 107.00

Krutak, Lars, Tattoo Traditions of Asia: Ancient and Contemporary Expressions of Identity. 277 pp. 2024:10 (U. Hawai'i Pr., US) <733-981>
ISBN 978-0-8248-9570-9 hard ¥18,612.- (税込) US$ 90.00

For millennia, tattoos have documented the history of humanity one painful mark at a time. They form a visual language on the skin, expressing an individual's desires and fears as well as cultural values, family ties, and spiritual beliefs on the surfaces of the body. The Indigenous peoples of Asia have created some of the world's oldest and most distinctive tattoos, but their many contributions to body art and practice have been largely overlooked. Tattoo Traditions of Asia is the first single volume dedicated to the anthropological study of an ancient cultural practice and artform that spans many countries and societies, ancestral lands, and contemporary communities across the continent and its islands. This richly illustrated survey combines the author's twenty years of fieldwork, interviewing hundreds of Indigenous tattoo bearers and contemporary tattoo practitioners, with painstaking research conducted in obscure archives throughout the region and elsewhere to break new ground on one of the least-understood mediums of Indigenous Asian expressive culture-a vital tradition to be celebrated, an inspirational story told in skin and ink.

Lau, Dorothy, Celebrity Activism and Philanthropy in Asia: Toward a Cosmopolitical Imaginary. (Asian Visual Cultures) 160 pp. 2024:7 (Amsterdam U. Pr., NE) <733-982>
ISBN 978-94-6372-009-0 hard ¥26,611.- (税込) GB￡ 96.00

Recent years have witnessed the increasing visibility of Asian celebrities in activism, advocacy, diplomacy, philanthropy, and ambassadorship but this phenomenon is under-explored. This volume provides a critical intervention in celebrity activism and philanthropy by examining the civic imaginaries and mobilisations of Asian celebrities-turned-activists or philanthropists, alongside an array of significations and tensions involved. The analysis anchors on a roster of high-profile Asian icons including Bollywood star Aamir Khan, K-pop sensation BTS, Cantopop singer Denise Ho, and Chinese live-streamer Weiya, who exhibit universal morals while underscoring local or regional affiliations as propelled by expansive media networks. Adopting cosmopolitics as the methodological frame, this volume suggests "muliversal consciousness," a staple to code the star-powered goodwill in times of disjuncture and rupture. To its critical ends, this book attempts to disrupt the Eurocentric tendency in the discursive construction of celebrity-cause dynamics, disentangling the complexities of Asian power, global citizenship, and techno-capitalist logics.

Onodera, Henri / Kaskinen, Martta / Ranta, Eija (eds.), Citizenship Utopias in the Global South: The Emergent Forms of Activism in an Era of Disillusionment. (Routledge Studies in Political Sociology) 248 pp. 2025:1 (Routledge, UK) <733-984>
ISBN 978-1-03-245831-1 hard ¥37,422.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00

Citizenship Utopias in the Global South is an edited collection of empirical research that explores emergent forms of activism in Africa, Asia, and Latin America in times of multiple crises. At the intersection of hope and disillusionment, the diverse and thought-provoking chapters investigate emerging forms of activism in the Global South - including youth activisms, anti-racism struggles, feminist initiatives, online dissent, and Indigenous movements.In the 2020s, many parts of the world are witnessing contradictory processes of popular claims to rights, livelihoods, and social justice, and subsequent forms of populist authoritarianism and the securitization of civil society. Previously hopeful calls for dignity, democracy, and social justice - through protesting, strikes, civil society campaigns, legal reforms, and elections, for example - have been met with disdain and civic disengagement. This book investigates the re-imagination and pursuit of citizen activism in such times of popular disillusionment. It explores citizenship utopias as social imaginaries that are enacted and that articulate an ideal social order or democratic polity with ideal forms of experiencing citizenship. Its chapters interrogate conventional approaches to citizenship by introducing a nuanced and empirically grounded exploration of the complex ways in which people experience, negotiate, and engage in the societal changes that they aspire towards. The examination of citizenship utopias outlines contemporary signals for transformative futures and their possibilities.The book undertakes a fresh effort at contributing to the shifting terrain of critical development studies, political anthropology, political sociology, and decolonising scholarship by engaging in discussions about citizenship, activism, disillusionment, and future societal alternatives in times of multiple global challenges.

グローバル・サウスにおける農村と都市のつながりハンドブック
Tacoli, Cecilia / Agergaard, Jytte et al. (eds.), Handbook on Rural-Urban Linkages in the Global South. 400 pp. 2025:2 (E. Elgar, UK) <733-986>
ISBN 978-1-80220-770-5 hard ¥45,738.- (税込) GB￡ 165.00

This Handbook offers a comprehensive review of how, in rapidly urbanizing low- and middle-income countries, the links between rural and urban areas, people and enterprises are becoming increasingly intense and complex. With a focus on how rural-urban linkages are being shaped by the intersection of the local and the global, this Handbook illustrates how and where locally specific geographic, socio-economic and political contexts interact with global dynamics.Focussing on how planning for socially and environmentally just urban transitions requires a better understanding of changing rural livelihoods, the Handbook explores: what drives migration and mobility; how emerging small towns and peri-urban areas develop, and how demand for food and natural resources evolves with urbanization. With chapters written by a diverse array of researchers, as well as practitioners in the field, this Handbook offers a wide range of perspectives on the topic.The Handbook on Rural-Urban Linkages in the Global South will be of particular interest to academics specializing in human geography, development economics, development studies and sociology. Development practitioners will also benefit from a better understanding of how different contexts shape diverse trajectories.

Varriale, Gennaro, News from the Epicentre: The Flow of Information about Earthquakes in the Hispanic Monarchy (XVI-XVII Centuries). (Studies in Early Modern and Contemporary European History 7) 250 S. 2024:10 (de Gruyter Oldenbourg, GW) <733-987>
ISBN 978-3-11-145260-9 hard ¥22,977.- (税込) EUR 99.95

For decades historians argued for the downfall of communication, when early modern societies were hit by a natural disaster. After all, earthquakes caused the destruction of infrastructure, which hindered the spread of news. Instead, the last investigations opened a new point of view about the political communication: every crisis was a catalyst for news. The book widens this reading through a comparative analysis of several earthquakes in the Hispanic Monarchy territories, from Asia to America. However, the examination of communications provided in this volume is not an end in itself but is offered as a basis for reflection and to propose the notion that earthquakes trigger change in social and political dynamics. Earthquake-related crises exposed the underlying contradictions that the court of Madrid needed to address in the most effective way, and, if possible, swiftly. Earthquakes not only destroyed buildings and infrastructure but also social norms. Urgency reduced the distance between interlocutors, to some extent blurring the boundaries of self-censorship. Tremors therefore offer a rare opportunity to observe the political and military crises faced by the Hispanic Monarchy, the global empire of the time.

グローバル・サウスにおけるパンデミックのガバナンス
Gisselquist, Rachel M. / Vaccaro, Andrea (eds.), How States Respond to Crisis: Pandemic Governance Across the Global South. (UNU-WIDER Studies in Development Economics) 224 pp. 2025:2 (Oxford U. Pr., UK) <733-377>
ISBN 978-0-19-890720-6 hard ¥23,284.- (税込) GB￡ 84.00

This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO licence. It is free to read at Oxford Academic and is offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations. We expect the state to matter in times of crisis, for more 'capable' or 'stronger' states to better provide for and protect their populations. But how is it, precisely, that the quality of the state matters? This volume speaks to this question through comparative study of how diverse states in the Global South responded to the COVID-19 pandemic, the largest global crisis in recent memory. Bringing together insights from quantitative cross-country analysis and detailed country case studies, How States Respond to Crisis analyses the ways in which the quality of the state - in terms of its capacity, authority, and legitimacy - affected pandemic governance and health outcomes. Overall, while the significance of state capacity to deliver public services in effective pandemic response is clear, so too is striking variation among states lacking 'strong' capacity. State legitimacy and authority shed light on this variation, linked in particular to the degree to which governments' responses were evidence-based versus politically driven, and the tenor of citizen compliance with and government enforcement of public health regulations. Seven case study chapters authored by leading scholars of each country provide deep and specific insight into these relationships in Bolivia, Ghana, Nicaragua, Peru, the Philippines, Tanzania, and Vietnam. Extending beyond a literature on the state based heavily on study of Global North contexts, this volume sheds new light on the nature of the state and its role in crisis response and development.

Leigland, James, The Rise and Fall of Public-Private Partnerships: Finance, Infrastructure and Developing Countries. 310 pp. 2024:11 (E. Elgar, UK) <733-263>
ISBN 978-1-03-534504-5 hard ¥29,106.- (税込) GB￡ 105.00

This book explores how the private sector has long been expected to mobilize finance into much needed infrastructure investment in developing countries. This insightful book is a detailed exploration of the World Bank's initial promotion of public-private partnerships (PPPs) as a solution, and evaluates their insufficient performance over the past decades.James Leigland expertly delves into the past 30 years of PPP advocacy to argue that blind faith in PPPs has led to a failure to deal with the main obstacles to infrastructure investment in the developing world. Investigating the successes and inadequacies of PPPs over the years, Leigland demonstrates that over-reliance on, and unreserved promotion of, these projects will not close the infrastructure gap in developing countries. Leigland goes on to suggest alternatives to PPPs that would allow for cost-effective financing and management of infrastructure, that would help achieve the UN's Sustainable Development Goals.The Rise and Fall of Public-Private Partnerships is essential reading for practitioners, policy makers and those who are actively funding campaigns to promote PPPs in developing countries. It will also be of substantial interest to organisations and scholars, questioning and exploring the use of PPPs in this under researched area.

Chakraborty, Shamik / Chatterjee, Amit / Kumar, P. (eds.), Urban Water Ecosystems in Africa and Asia: Challenges and Opportunities for Conservation and Restoration. (Earthscan Studies in Water Resource Management) 264 pp. 2024:12 (Routledge, UK) <733-305>
ISBN 978-1-03-256535-4 hard ¥37,422.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00

This book examines urban water ecosystem management and restoration through selected case studies in Asia and Africa. Employing a socioecological approach, this volume presents insights on the inter-linkages between water, humans and environmental conservation in an urban context.Topics include human health risks, population displacement and migration, water pollution, water scarcity, flood management, water infrastructure, afforestation and the effects of climate change. Case studies are drawn from a variety of countries in Africa and Asia, including China, Japan, India, Kenya and Tunisia, which demonstrate a wide range of different challenges, and opportunities. Overall, this book argues that to better manage urban water resources there needs to be a shift from urban water management to urban water ecosystem management. This shift needs to acknowledge the complex bio-physical and socio-political dimensions of water ecosystems.This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of water resource management, ecosystem services, urban studies, environmental conservation and sustainable development.

ユーラシアの世紀
Brands, Hal, The Eurasian Century: Hot Wars, Cold Wars, and the Making of the Modern World. 336 pp. 2025:2 (Norton, US) <732-840>
ISBN 978-1-324-03694-4 hard ¥6,201.- (税込) US$ 29.99

Eurasia is a strategic prize without equal-which is why the world has been roiled, reshaped, and nearly destroyed by clashes over that supercontinent and the oceans around it. Since the early twentieth century, autocratic land powers, from Germany under Kaiser Wilhelm II to the Soviet Union, have sought to seize commanding positions in the world's strategic heartland. And offshore sea powers, namely the United Kingdom and America, have sought to make the world safe for democracy by keeping Eurasia in balance. Now China and Russia lead a new axis of authoritarians that aims to create a radically revised international order. If they succeed, America and other democracies will be vulnerable and insecure. The Eurasian Century explains the revolutions in technology and warfare, and the rise of toxic ideologies of conquest, that made Eurasia the center of twentieth-century geopolitics-with pressing implications for the struggles that will define the twenty-first.

圧力下の統合－北東アジア及び欧州におけるグローバル化の地域化
Ko, Sangtu / Leisse, Olaf (eds.), Integration Under Pressure - Regionalisation of Globalisation in Northeast Asia and Europe. (Schriften zur internationalen Politik 61) 232 S. 2024:8 (Kovac, GW) <732-849>
ISBN 978-3-339-14092-0 paper ¥20,185.- (税込) EUR 87.80 *

G.レークヴィッグ著　北欧的平和均衡と北東アジア－紛争構造の変換のためのアプローチ、解決手法とその原理－
Rekvig, Gunnar, The Nordic Peace and Northeast Asia: Approaches, Solutions, and Principles of Conflict Transformation. (Palgrave Studies in Comparative Global History) 242 pp. 2024 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <732-888>
ISBN 978-981-9727-48-3 hard ¥22,986.- (税込) EUR 99.99

This book offers a new analysis of the Nordic Peace after its onset in 1814, the year that marks the end to centuries of warfare between the Nordic countries, and the applicability of the Nordic solutions and principles for North East Asian conflicts. Through an analysis of three key post-1814 conflicts that the Nordic region resolved peacefully - the Union of Norway and Sweden (1814-1905), the issue on the duchies of Schleswig-Holstein between Denmark and Germany (1864-1920 & 1955), and the Aaland Islands problem between Finland and Sweden (1809-1922), the book examines how the solutions that underlie the Nordic Peace transcended causes for conflict, and if there is universal potential in the Nordic solutions for similar conflicts in North East Asia

佐橋亮、松田康博、青山和佳編　アジアの台頭－東・南・東南アジアにおける歴史と国際関係ハンドブック－
Sahashi, Ryo / Matsuda, Yasuhiro / Aoyama, Waka (eds.), Asia Rising: A Handbook of History and International Relations in East, South and Southeast Asia. (The University of Tokyo Studies on Asia) 304 pp. 2024:10 (Springer, GW) <732-889>
ISBN 978-981-9743-74-2 hard ¥11,491.- (税込) EUR 49.99

This open-access book offers a clear and thorough exploration of Asia's history from an international relations perspective. The book investigates key political, economic, and cultural forces defining Asia. It highlights the historical and current significance of the Indo-Pacific region, particularly shedding light on its strategic role in global geopolitics. Through detailed historical analyses, the authors guide readers toward a comprehensive understanding of Asia's complex international relations, from colonization and imperialism, through the Cold War, into decolonization and the wave of democratization in the region, to the rise of China, unpacking the various dimensions of regionalism in Asia. This book serves as a practical scholarly resource for advanced students, researchers, and lecturers interested in understanding the region's past and its implications for future geopolitical dynamics. It is relevant to historians focused on Asia and to international relations and political science scholars interested in the shift to an Asian world order, from past to present.

民主的国民国家におけるイスラーム政党と権力－6つのイスラーム主流国の比較分析
Yilmaz, Ihsan / Shukri, Syaza, Islamist Parties and Power in Democratic Nation-States: A Comparative Analysis of Six Muslim-Majority Countries. 302 pp. 2024:8 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <732-143>
ISBN 978-981-9743-42-1 hard ¥29,883.- (税込) EUR 129.99

By exploring the trajectories of Islamist parties in six diverse countries (Turkey, Morocco, Tunisia, Pakistan, Indonesia, and Malaysia), this book provides a comparative analysis of the strategies employed by Islamist groups to confront established political structures through electoral processes and their subsequent governance practices if and when they assume power. The latter aspect is less explored than the predominant focus on Islamist opposition movements. The book analyses how these Islamist political parties navigate and negotiate with oppositional forces and establishments, concisely discussing the complex dynamics at play within each country. The book also bridges the gap between North Africa, South Asia, Southeast Asia, and Asia Minor, providing a comparative analysis across regions. Primarily serving as an introductory text to the subject of Islamist parties, the book functions as a comprehensive reader and handbook. Each chapter covers a range of key issues and themes relevant to the governance and political activities of the Islamist party of the country studied in the chapter, offering a general overview of Islamist party experiences across various themes and different historical periods.

極東とオーストラレーシア　2025年版
The Far East & Australasia 2025. 56th ed. (Europa Regional Surveys of the World) 1300 pp. 2024:11 (Routledge, UK) <731-805>
ISBN 978-1-03-276120-6 hard ¥360,360.- (税込) GB￡ 1,300.00

This comprehensive survey of the countries of East and South-East Asia, Australia and New Zealand, along with 22 Pacific islands, fully revised to reflect current economic and political developments, is an essential resource for the Asia-Pacific region.Calendar of Political EventsA calendar of events provides a convenient reference guide to the year's main political developments.General SurveyWritten by leading experts, this collection of essays provides incisive analysis of regional issues.Country SurveysIndividual chapters on each country containing:? essays on geography, history and the economy? an economic and demographic survey of the latest available statistics on population, health and welfare, agriculture, forestry, fishing, mining, industry, finance, trade, transport, tourism, communications and education? a comprehensive directory of names and contact details covering the most significant political, financial and commercial institutions? a country-specific bibliography.An entire section is dedicated to the Pacific islands, including specially commissioned essays examining the contemporary politics of the islands, their economies, security concerns and the environmental issues confronting them.Regional Information? includes all major international organizations active in the region, their aims, activities, publications and principal personnel? a detailed survey of major commodities in Asia and the Pacific? a directory of research institutes specializing in the region? select bibliographies of books and periodicals covering the Asia-Pacific region? an index of regional organizations

Bahl, Christopher D., Mobile Manuscripts: Arabic Learning Across the Early Modern Western Indian Ocean. (Cambridge Oceanic Histories) 350 pp. 2024:11 (Cambridge U. Pr., UK) <731-806>
ISBN 978-1-00-935972-6 hard ¥29,106.- (税込) GB￡ 105.00

In this essential new work, Christopher D. Bahl departs from the established historiography on trade, shipping and pilgrimage to argue for the emergence of Arabic learning as a crucial form of transoceanic mobility from the fifteenth to the seventeenth centuries. From Egypt to the Hijaz, Yemen and further on to Gujarat and the Deccan, networks of manuscript circulation created shared social and cultural spaces across the early modern western Indian Ocean, in which South Asia was a key node of connection. Largely unstudied Arabic manuscripts from collections in ten different archives offer a new source-base to explore the region as a hub of Arabic scholarly culture, while marginalia and notes provide an empirical treasure trove for the study of social spaces and cultural practices. This is the first book to trace these truly transoceanic encounters between scholars, sultans, scribes, readers, and librarians.

インド太平洋とASEAN
Tran, Thi Lien Claire / Chirathivat, S./ De, P. (eds.), Indo-Pacific and ASEAN: New Balances and New Challenges for Asian Integration and Stability. (Indo-Pacific in Context) 260 pp. 2024:11 (Routledge, UK) <731-810>
ISBN 978-1-03-290632-4 hard ¥49,896.- (税込) GB￡ 180.00
ISBN 978-1-03-290688-1 paper ¥10,253.- (税込) GB￡ 36.99

This book examines Indo-Pacific issues from a Southeast Asian perspective and goes beyond discourses such as ASEAN-China or ASEAN-US-China. It analyses the new regional balances in the ASEAN and Indo-Pacific region at the diplomatic, strategic and economic levels while taking into account the ongoing uncertainty of the international order, reshaped by the post Covid-19 crisis and characterized by the increasingly adversarial China-US relations, the sensitive context of South China Sea and Taiwan crisis and the impact of the war between Russia and Ukraine. It highlights Indo-Pacific not only from a geostrategic angle but an economic one, considering ASEAN amidst competing connectivity strategies and integration challenges.The volume offers an inclusive outlook capturing diversity and convergence of strategies in a key region where the stage of tomorrow's global order will be decided. It will be of great interest to scholars and researchers of politics and international relations and Area Studies, especially Southeast Asian Studies and Indo-Pacific Studies.

Chander Vir, Sheila (ed.), Public Health Nutrition in Developing Countries. Volume 1. 848 pp. 2024:12 (Routledge, UK) <731-252>
ISBN 978-1-03-284072-7 hard ¥59,598.- (税込) GB￡ 215.00

This book explores the intersection of nutrition and public health to analyze the impact of dietary choices on communities and individuals. It details evidence-based strategies, global health challenges, and nutrition-sensitive issues to cover the important aspects of nutrition, which are essential for developing an understanding of public health. The subject matter of this book includes: Nutrition epidemiology for developing countriesNutrition care of adolescentsDual nutrition burden in womenSevere Acute Malnutrition (SAM)Nutrition for the elderlyPrint edition not for sale in South Asia (India, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bangladesh, Pakistan or Bhutan)

Chander Vir, Sheila (ed.), Public Health Nutrition in Developing Countries. Volume 2. 850 pp. 2024:12 (Routledge, UK) <731-253>
ISBN 978-1-03-284074-1 hard ¥59,598.- (税込) GB￡ 215.00

The last decade has witnessed continuous development in the field of public health nutrition, especially in terms of a shift from 'what' to "how". This book explores the intersection of nutrition and public health to analyze the impact of dietary choices on communities and individuals. It includes chapters detailing important concepts such as food-agriculture, food systems, dietary diversity, food fortification, water-sanitation, and conditional and non-conditional cash, which are essential in keeping the readers updated with the recent information and critical for developing an understanding of public health. The subject matter of this book includes:Universal Salt Iodization (USI) and Double Fortified SaltIron deficiency and iron deficiency anaemia in young childrenLeveraging agriculture for nutritionNutrition-sensitive food systemsWater, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH)Print edition not for sale in South Asia (India, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bangladesh, Pakistan or Bhutan)

Chander Vir, Sheila (ed.), Public Health Nutrition in Developing Countries. 2 vols. 1770 pp. 2024:10 (Routledge, UK) <100-6466>
ISBN 978-1-03-291003-1 hard ¥103,950.- (税込) GB￡ 375.00

The last decade has witnessed continuous development in the field of public health nutrition - especially in terms of a shift from 'what' to "how".The two volumes of this book explore the intersection of nutrition and public health to analyze the impact of dietary choices on communities and individuals. Volume I details the evidence-based strategies, global health challenges, and nutrition-sensitive issues to cover the important aspects of nutrition, which are essential for developing an understanding of public health. Volume II covers other allied concepts such as food-agriculture, food systems, dietary diversity, food fortification, water-sanitation, and conditional and non-conditional cash.The subject matter of this book includes:Nutrition epidemiology for developing countriesDual nutrition burden in womenSevere Acute Malnutrition (SAM)Iron deficiency and iron deficiency anaemia in young childrenWater, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH)Print edition not for sale in South Asia (India, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bangladesh, Pakistan or Bhutan)

南シナ海の持続可能な平和のための協力－「南シナ海における関係各国の行動宣言」調印20周年
Guo, Yanjun / Sothirak, Pou (eds.), Together for a Sustainable Peace of the South China Sea: The 20th Anniversary of Signing the Declaration on The Conduct of Parties in the South China Sea. (Series On Asian Regional Cooperation Studies) 260 pp. 2024:10 (World Scientific, SI) <730-620>
ISBN 978-981-12-9602-4 hard ¥18,198.- (税込) US$ 88.00

The year 2022 marked the 20th Anniversary of Declaration on the Conduct of Parties in the South China Sea (DOC). China and the ASEAN Member States issued a Joint Statement on this occasion. As another milestone consensus between ASEAN and China on the South China Sea, the Joint Statement recognises the benefits of having the South China Sea as a sea of peace, friendship and cooperation, appreciates the progress in the negotiations of the Code of Conduct in the South China Sea (COC), and reaffirms that the future adoption of the COC would further promote peace and stability in the region.In a collaboration between the Cambodian Institute for Cooperation & Peace (CICP) and China Foreign Affairs University (CFAU), this book discusses respective and joint DOC- and COC-related experiences and practices for a sustainable peace of the South China Sea, from the perspective of both Chinese as well as ASEAN scholars.

Arceneaux, Craig / Leithner, Anika / Lopus, Sara et al., The Other World: Issues and Politics in the Developing World. 11th ed. 512 pp. 2024:11 (Routledge, UK) <729-960>
ISBN 978-1-03-249530-9 hard ¥44,352.- (税込) GB￡ 160.00
ISBN 978-1-03-249527-9 paper ¥20,786.- (税込) GB￡ 74.99

Now in its 11th edition, The Other World combines thematic and area studies approaches to explore contemporary global issues. Accessible and interdisciplinary, this textbook offers political, economic, social, and historical analyses of Latin America, Sub-Saharan Africa, North Africa and the Middle East, and Asia. The Other World highlights similarities and differences as it recognizes the challenges and opportunities offered by globalization.New to the 11th Edition:A new co-author, Sara Lopus, whose academic training at the intersection of social, agricultural, and environmental problems enhances the interdisciplinary appeal of the book. A new concluding chapter on Other World features in western countries and postcolonialism.Revamped sections on "Perspectives on Globalization," with cases on creative responses to sustainability, sovereignty, and cultural change issues.Discussion of new topics including cybersecurity and cyberwarfare; the impact of supply chain bottlenecks; food politics and issues of global obesity; the rise of zoonotic diseases and pandemics such as Covid-19; new regional diplomacy in Middle East; protest and political change in Latin America; refugee flows; the emergence of ageing populations and many more.The Other World is the perfect introductory text to the world's developing regions and their political challenges - a must buy for courses in Comparative Politics, Politics of the Developing World; and Introduction to International Studies.

Imoh, Afua Twum-Danso / de Castro, L. R. et al. (eds.), Studies of Childhoods in the Global South: Towards an Epistemic Turn in Transnational Childhood Research? (ThirdWorlds) 198 pp. 2024:10 (Routledge, UK) <729-961>
ISBN 978-1-03-274636-4 hard ¥37,422.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00

What would a body of literature, focusing on Southern childhoods, look like when epistemologically driven by the demands (social, cultural, economic, political) of the localities in which they are shaped and produced? To answer this question, this book explores locally driven perspectives of childhoods in diverse contexts in the Global South to produce knowledge of Southern childhoods determined, not by Northern priorities and frameworks, but by local needs and contexts.Given the intensification of global processes and the extent to which the local and the global intersect in the everyday lives of children and their families, this edited volume demonstrates that a focus on the epistemological demands of localities necessarily grapples with global as well as local processes and concepts. Chapters in this collection include empirical research on child participation and activism, schooling/educational experiences, child work and street children. They use methodologies ranging from arts-based methods to participant observation, and engage with theories relating to child participation, agency and vulnerability to produce a key resource on Southern childhoods.The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of Third World Thematics.

グローバル・サウスにおける政党と国家
Schoeman, Albertus, Political Parties and the State in the Global South: State-Building, Corruption and Party System Change. (Routledge Studies on Political Parties and Party Systems) 232 pp. 2024:10 (Routledge, UK) <729-963>
ISBN 978-1-03-243050-8 hard ¥37,422.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00 *

This book introduces a new framework for understanding how the relationship between political parties and the state shapes the development of political parties, party systems and democratic consolidation.Drawing on comparative case studies spanning the Indian subcontinent, Africa, and East and Southeast Asia, the book shows how the sequencing of state-building and the development of political institutions can blur distinctions between political parties and the state with long-term consequences for their respective development. This includes understanding the effects of authoritarian and colonial legacies on shaping this relationship and the nature of interparty competition with significant consequences for public sector corruption, political stability, and the formation and institutionalisation of party systems.This book will be of key interest to scholars and students of democratic development, comparative politics, party politics and institutional development in the Global South.

Sriramesh, Krishnamurthy / Yeo, Su Lin (eds.), Crisis Communication Cases from Asia: A Cultural Approach. 204 pp. 2024:10 (Routledge, UK) <729-964>
ISBN 978-1-03-253389-6 hard ¥37,422.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00 *
ISBN 978-1-03-253388-9 paper ¥10,253.- (税込) GB￡ 36.99 *

This book analyzes crisis communication in Asia, focusing on how culture (broadly defined) plays a central role in the way a crisis develops and is resolved.Using the case study method, this book offers the reader glimpses of the variety of cultures in the continent, displaying the complexity of the cross-cultural process of conducting crisis communication in this diverse environment. Each of these cases addresses the onset, evolution, and resolution of the crisis. The contributors are seasoned practitioners who have done crisis communication work in this continent and have used the same framework of five environmental variables that define culture in this book: political culture, economic systems, societal culture, media systems, and activist environments.This edited volume is ideal for scholars and advanced students in public relations and strategic communication generally and crisis communication specifically.

Stanley, Ben Jamieson, Precarious Eating: Narrating Environmental Harm in the Global South. 272 pp. 2024:12 (U. Minnesota Pr., US) <729-965>
ISBN 978-1-5179-1579-7 hard ¥23,161.- (税込) US$ 112.00
ISBN 978-1-5179-1580-3 paper ¥5,790.- (税込) US$ 28.00

The role of food and hunger in contemporary South African and Indian environmental writing From GMOs to vegetarianism and veganism, questions of what we should (and shouldn't) eat can be frequent sources of debate and disagreement. In Precarious Eating, Ben Jamieson Stanley asks how recentering global South representations of food might shift understandings of environmental precarity. Precarious Eating follows the lead of writers and thinkers in South Africa and India who are tracing the production and consumption of food, exploring ways to reconnect our narratives about climate change, global capitalism, and social justice. Taking up a diverse range of novels, films, scholar/activist writings, intellectual histories, and cookbooks, Stanley connects the ethics of eating to histories of empire and apartheid, uneven globalization, gender and sexuality, and global South experiences of climate change. They shift the lens of environmental humanities from climate-focused paradigms developed in the global North to food-focused environmental culture and activism in the South, addressing topics that range from foraging and farmer suicides to disordered eating and queer intimacy. By highlighting authors, activists, and environments of the global South, Precarious Eating joins with scholarship from postcolonial, decolonial, Indigenous, and Black studies to underscore how capitalism and empire shape our planetary environmental crisis. Retail e-book files for this title are screen-reader friendly with images accompanied by short alt text and/or extended descriptions.

Scham, Sandra, An Archaeology of Persecuted Peoples: Religion and Hate in the Mountains of Asia. 312 pp. 2024:10 (Routledge, UK) <729-211>
ISBN 978-1-03-257359-5 hard ¥37,422.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00

This book examines the pasts and presents of some of the world's most persecuted peoples, in search of answers to the question of why minorities living in Asia's Highlands, with ancient roots in their homelands, have been continually oppressed by both historical and modern governments. The role of religious beliefs and practices is crucial to their story of isolation, tenacity and resistance in the mountains of Asia. The Rohingya, Uyghurs, Hazara, Yazidis, Armenians and Samaritans were among the earliest adopters of monotheist religions in their respective regions. The chapters devoted to each of these ethno-religious minorities explore the archaeological evidence for their millennia-old presence in South, East and West Asia, their historical trajectories and the more recent events that have decimated their populations and destroyed their ways of living. Examining both the parochial and universalist roots of their beliefs and practices as they evolved from the Axial Age teachings of Zoroaster, the Israelite prophets and Ancient Greek philosophers, the book explains how the people of the Arakan, Tienshan, Hazarajat, Sinjar, Taurus and Gerizim mountains came to be regarded as perennial enemies of empires and nations.

Santos, Phillip / Muneri, Cleophas T. (eds.), Reading Justice Claims on Social Media: Perspectives from the Global South. 326 pp. 2024:8 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <728-826>
ISBN 978-3-031-53849-0 hard ¥29,883.- (税込) EUR 129.99

This book explores how unresolved questions of social justice shape the character of the political terrain and political actors, through the lens of social media. It treats communication as the medium through which social issues and processes are made visible. Given the rise and spread of populist politics, the views of ordinary people on social issues have never mattered more. One platform through which these voices can be studied extensively is social media. Platforms such as Facebook, Twitter now X, YouTube, and Instagram, among others, afford ordinary citizens-often marginalized by traditional mainstream media-space to vent their opinions, engage in discussions of whatever topic, share information and ideas, and explore various kinds of information as well as data, links to which are often provided through various macro and micro discursive spaces therein. Arguably, therefore, social media have become a quintessential platform for studying contemporary sociality. Social media mustbe studied not just as a communication platform, but one through which the social world, social processes and social issues are made visible and, in some cases, enacted. With rich case studies from the Global South, and a particular focus on Africa, this collection does just that.

Paragi, Beata, Screening by International Aid Organizations Operating in the Global South: Mitigating Risks of Generosity. (Palgrave Pivot) 200 pp. 2024 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <728-908>
ISBN 978-3-031-54164-3 hard ¥8,043.- (税込) EUR 34.99 *

Aid organizations usually embrace the idea of digitalization, both in terms of using diverse technologies and processing data digitally for improving their services, making their operations more efficient and even mitigating various risks. While digital fundraising, the use of biometric ID systems or digitalized cash and voucher assistance enjoys widespread attention both in academic and practitioner circles, it is less known how aid organizations navigate between counterterrorism legislations and data protection laws in technical terms. Limiting the discussion to the EU General Data Protection Regulation and by conceptualizing screening - commonly used to prevent the use of donor money for illicit purposes, money-laundering, terrorism finance or corruption - as a data processing operation conducted by larger international aid organizations operating in the Global South, this book focuses on the matter of 'transparency' and 'right to information' being at the nexus ofsurveillance studies and privacy studies. By means of legal and social science methods, it simultaneously explores screening in light of classic surveillance and analyses whether opacity around screening by NGOs (data controllers) is in line with the spirit of European Union data protection regime from the perspective of individuals (data subjects). In so doing, Paragi also contributes to the discussion on the politics of transparency and highlights the dilemmas and challenges aid organizations operating in authoritarian regimes or conflict settings may face.

〔瀧井一博の序文付〕環太平洋における新しい国家形成　1850～1974年－金、銀、石油、強欲、政府
Aschenbrenner, Peter J., New State-Making in the Pacific Rim, 1850-1974: Gold, Silver, Oil, Greed, and Government. Forward by Takii Kazuhiro. 242 pp. 2024:8 (Lexington Books, US) <728-964>
ISBN 978-1-66692-189-2 hard ¥22,748.- (税込) US$ 110.00 *

European colonial empires were built on private wealth-seeking (gold, silver and oil). These extractive activities required massive public subsidies. Drawing on the experience of three Pacific Rim nations - Australia, Japan and Canada and two territories in the US (Hawaii and Alaska) - New State-Making in the Pacific Rim, 1850-1974: Gold, Silver, Oil, Greed and Government demonstrates how 19th century colonialism contained the seeds of its own destruction. Peter J. Aschenbrenner identifies three factors that marked the turning point in the history of colonialism. First, governments demanded a greater return to the public treasury from private extractive activities and a reduced footprint (measured in environmental devastation and obliteration of local cultures. Second, first residents acquired considerable skill in 'adaptation for survival,' that is, fighting back against oppression (manifested in programs of extermination, forced population movement and hostility to language, religion and traditional subsistence practices). Third, colonial nations' participation in World War I required their armed forces to fill manpower needs by calling on minorities to perform military service. This gave minorities significant leverage in their struggle to achieve equal political rights and access to their fair share of government benefits. Rethinking colonial practices became a realistic option, once national survival was at risk.

アジアにおける漢字
Handel, Zev, Chinese Characters across Asia: How the Chinese Script Came to Write Japanese, Korean, and Vietnamese. 240 pp. 2025:1 (U. Washington Pr., US) <728-966>
ISBN 978-0-295-75301-0 hard ¥22,748.- (税込) US$ 110.00
ISBN 978-0-295-75302-7 paper ¥7,238.- (税込) US$ 35.00

A fascinating story of writing across cultures and timeWhile other ancient nonalphabetic scripts-Sumerian cuneiform, Egyptian hieroglyphs, and Mayan hieroglyphs-are long extinct, Chinese characters, invented over three thousand years ago, are today used by well over a billion people to write Chinese and Japanese. In medieval East Asia, the written Classical Chinese language knit the region together in a common intellectual enterprise that encompassed religion, philosophy, historiography, political theory, art, and literature. Literacy in Classical Chinese set the stage for the adaptation of Chinese characters into ways of writing non-Chinese languages like Vietnamese and Korean, which differ dramatically from Chinese in vocabularies and grammatical structures.Because of its unique status in the modern world, myths and misunderstandings about Chinese characters abound. Where does this writing system, so different in form and function from alphabetic writing, come from? How does it really work? How did it come to be used to write non-Chinese languages? And why has it proven so resilient? By exploring the spread and adaptation of the script across two millennia and thousands of miles, Chinese Characters across Asia addresses these questions and provides insights into human cognition and culture. Written in an approachable style and meant for readers with no prior knowledge of Chinese script or Asian languages, it presents a fascinating story that challenges assumptions about speech and writing.

デジタル時代における国民主権－グローバル・サウスと労働者階級の教訓
Schneider, Aaron (ed.), Popular Sovereignty in a Digital Age: Lessons for the Global South and Working Classes. 342 pp. 2024:8 (State U. New York Pr., US) <728-971>
ISBN 978-1-4384-9885-0 hard ¥20,473.- (税込) US$ 99.00 *

Wilson, Bernard / Osman, Sharifah Aishah (eds.), The Asian Family in Literature and Film: Challenges and Contestations - South Asia, Southeast Asia and Asian Diaspora. Volume II. (Asia-Pacific and Literature in English) 495 pp. 2024 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <728-972>
ISBN 978-981-9722-26-6 hard ¥41,378.- (税込) EUR 179.99

This book investigates the ways in which the family unit is now perceived in South and Southeast Asia and the Asian diaspora: its numerous conceptions and the changes it has undergone over the last century and into the new one. The prevailing threads that run through a significant part of the literature and cinema emerging from these societies are the challenges that confront those negotiating changing forms of family, changes which are expressed historically, politically, and socio-culturally, and often in relation to gender, ethnic, or economic imbalances. Though regional and localized in many ways, they are also very much universal in the questions they ask, the lessons they teach, and the connections they make. Theoretically, and in terms of focus, the collection offers a broad range, embracing representation and analysis from scholars across the globe and across disciplines. It assembles written and visual texts from and about India, Indonesia, Malaysia, The Philippines, Singapore, and the Asian diaspora. How have more fluid concepts of family in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries affected the understanding of family in Asia? How have families in Asia resisted or embraced change? How have they responded to trauma? What do other readings-gendered, feminist, queer, and diasporic-bring to modern debates surrounding family? To what extent are notions of family, community, society, and nation represented as interchangeable concepts in Asian societies? This book questions the power dynamics, ethical considerations, and moral imperatives that underpin families and societies within, and beyond, Asian borders.

Wilson, Bernard / Osman, Sharifah Aishah (eds.), The Asian Family in Literature and Film: Changing Perceptions in a New Age-East Asia. Volume I. 1. (Asia-Pacific and Literature in English) 591 pp. 2024:7 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <728-973>
ISBN 978-981-9724-99-4 hard ¥41,378.- (税込) EUR 179.99

This book offers a key analysis of the changing perceptions of family in East Asian societies and the dynamic metamorphosis of "traditional" family units through the twentieth century and into the new millennium. The book focuses on investigations of the Asian family as it is represented in literature, film, and other visual media emerging from within China, Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan, and on contestations of the power hegemonies and moral codes that underpin such representations, while also assessing Western and global influences on the Asian family. Individually and collectively, these essays examine traditions and transformations in the evolving conception of family itself and bring together a range of scholars from within and beyond the region to reflect upon the social and cultural mores represented in these texts, the issues that concern Asian families, and projections for future families in their own societies and in a globalized world. Through the written text and the lens of the camera, what directions has the understanding of family in an Asian context taken in the twenty-first century? How have the multiple platforms of media represented, encouraged, or resisted transitions during this time? Amid broader and mutating referential frameworks and cross-cultural influences, is the traditional concept of the "nuclear family" still relevant in the twenty-first century? This book lends further prominence to the diverse literary and cinematic production within East Asia and the eclectic range of media used to represent these ideas. It will be essential reading for scholars of literature, film studies, and Asian studies, and for those with an interest in the cultural and sociological implications of the changing definitions and parameters of the family unit.

銃と台帳－初期の経済的グローバル化の時代における中国と東アジア世界
Li, Bozhong, Guns and Ledgers: China and the East Asian World in the Age of Early Economic Globalization. 367 pp. 2024 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <728-359>
ISBN 978-981-9963-22-5 hard ¥29,883.- (税込) EUR 129.99

This book seeks to reconcile the dual forces of war and economic globalization in tracing China's early modernity. For late imperial China, there were two forms of encounter with the West; the guns of invading Europeans, and the ledgers by which trade between China and the West was measured and regulated. Even today, China's reactions to the West oscillate between business-driven openness and military paranoia. In this intellectual tour de force, Bozhong Li, one of China's preeminent intellectual and economic historians, traces the unprecedented transition that led China into the modern world; the book will be of value for economists, historians, and sinophiles alike.

Mcloughlin, Claire / Ali, S. / Xie, Kailing et al. (eds.), The Politics of Development. 392 pp. 2024:3 (Sage, UK) <728-235>
ISBN 978-1-5296-6770-7 hard ¥30,492.- (税込) GB￡ 110.00 *
ISBN 978-1-5296-6769-1 paper ¥9,975.- (税込) GB￡ 35.99 *

A pathbreaking introduction to the controversial, contested and deeply political topic of development. Written in an engaging and eminently readable style, leading authors invite readers to examine the political dynamics behind some of today's most complex global issues, from rising inequality and social exclusion to the climate crisis. By confronting false assumptions and dispelling myths, the book challenges readers to see politics as not only the obstacle to development, but also the means to achieve it. The Politics of Development is grounded in the everyday challenges facing people around the world in accessing the vital resources they need to survive and thrive. It illustrates the unavoidable reality that politics shapes who gets what, when, how; whether in family settings, local communities, national stages or global arenas. It provides readers with a clear roadmap for action centred on institutions, interests, and ideas, to better navigate competing demands and push forward profound change. There are no easy answers to the politics of development - instead, this book provides the analytical tools to understand why getting development right can be so hard and how you can positively respond to some of the critical challenges facing governments, societies and citizens around the world today. This text is essential reading for any student of the politics of development or Development Studies, at undergraduate and postgraduate levels. Claire Mcloughlin is Associate Professor of Politics and Development, University of Birmingham, UK Sameen Ali is Assistant Professor of International Development, University of Birmingham, UK Kailing Xie is Assistant Professor of International Development, University of Birmingham, UK Nicholas Cheeseman is Professor of Democracy and International Development, University of Birmingham, UK David Hudson is Professor of Politics and Development, University of Birmingham, UK

Erskine, Noel Leo, Black Missionary in an Age of Enslavement: The Life and Times of George Liele. 184 pp. 2024:8 (Rowman & Littlefield, US) <728-147>
ISBN 978-1-5381-8005-1 hard ¥18,612.- (税込) US$ 90.00 *
ISBN 978-1-5381-8006-8 paper ¥5,997.- (税込) US$ 29.00 *

Much discussion of Protestant Christianity and its missions in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries is focused on the work of English missionary William Carey and American Missionaries Adoniram and Ann Judson, who travelled to India in 1793 and 1813. This book reframes this conventional understanding of mission studies and outreach by exploring the legacy and life of the enslaved American Baptist George Liele (1750-1825)-the first African American ordained to the Christian ministry. Black Missionary in an Age of Enslavement looks at Christianity and mission through the life and times of Liele, highlighting his travels as an itinerant preacher in South Carolina, Georgia, Jamaica (and through his protege there, David George), Nova Scotia, Sierra Leone and, toward the end of his life, England. Liele knew what it meant to be both slave and free. In Jamaica, as in Savannah, he was imprisoned for his faith and saw the survival of the church as pivotal. Liele was a man of firsts: the first African American ordained to the Christian ministry (May 20, 1775), and the first missionary to take the Christian gospel outside the United States. It was Liele, more than any other missionary, who initiated the practice of offering education to native people both enslaved and free. With the hymnal in one hand and the Bible in the other, Liele taught the enslaved and free that they were destined for liberation.

Carroll, Alison, Soviet Socialist Realism and Art in the Asia-Pacific. (Routledge Research in Art and Politics) 288 pp. 2024:10 (Routledge, UK) <727-705>
ISBN 978-1-03-266130-8 hard ¥37,422.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00 *

This study evaluates how the ideology of Socialist Realism, developed by the Soviets in policies and the practices of art, has been influential in the Asia-Pacific region from 1917 until today.Focusing primarily on Russia, then China, Vietnam, Korea, Singapore, Indonesia, the Philippines and Australia, this book demonstrates how each society adopted and adapted the Soviet example to make some of the most important imagery of recent history. Included is an examination of how the practice of Western art history, the nature of art history in Asia and the forces of the Cold War have led to this influence being inadequately acknowledged across Asia and more widely.The book will be relevant to those interested in art history, Asian studies, political history and cultural history.

Melber, Takuma / von Lingen, Kerstin (Hrsg.), Kriegsschauplatz Asien: Historische und globale Perspektiven. (Krieg in der Geschichte 125) 320 S. 2024:10 (Schoeningh, GW) <727-783>
ISBN 978-3-506-79134-4 hard ¥18,162.- (税込) EUR 79.00

Asien als Kriegsschauplatz ist in der deutschsprachigen Geschichtswissenschaft bislang nur am Rande behandelt worden. Um das Forschungsfeld auch bei uns zu etablieren, eroeffnet dieser Band historische und globale Perspektiven auf den Kriegsschauplatz Asien. Im historischen Langsschnitt durch alle Epochen werden militarische Konflikte in Asien thematisiert und liefern Impulse fur die globale Forschung zur Kulturgeschichte der Gewalt. Die facettenreichen Beitrage beinhalten verschiedene militargeschichtliche Themenkomplexe im geografischen und historischen Langsschnitt und reichen dabei von der Vormoderne uber das Zeitalter der Kolonialkriege, den Russisch-Japanischen Krieg (1904/05) und die beiden Weltkriege bis an das Ende der in Asien gefuhrten ?heissen Kriege“ des Kalten Krieges.

権力の移行を超えて－東アジア史の教訓と米中関係の将来
Ma, Xinru / Kang, David, Beyond Power Transitions: The Lessons of East Asian History and the Future of U.S.-China Relations. (Columbia Studies in International Order and Politics) 280 pp. 2024:9 (Columbia U. Pr., US) <727-684>
ISBN 978-0-231-20536-8 hard ¥28,952.- (税込) US$ 140.00 *
ISBN 978-0-231-20537-5 paper ¥7,238.- (税込) US$ 35.00 *

Questions about the likelihood of conflict between the United States and China have dominated international policy discussion for years. But the leading theory of power transitions between a declining hegemon and a rising rival is based exclusively on European examples, such as the Peloponnesian War, as chronicled by Thucydides, as well as the rise of Germany under Bismarck and the Anglo-German rivalry of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. What lessons does East Asian history offer, for both the power transitions debate and the future of U.S.-China relations?Examining the rise and fall of East Asian powers over 1,500 years, Beyond Power Transitions offers a new perspective on the forces that shape war and peace. Xinru Ma and David C. Kang argue that focusing on the East Asian experience underscores domestic risks and constraints on great powers, not relative rise and decline in international competition. They find that almost every regime transition before the twentieth century was instigated by internal challenges and even the exceptions deviated markedly from the predictions of power transition theory. Instead, East Asia was stable for a remarkably long time despite massive power differences because of common understandings about countries' relative status. Provocative and incisive, this book challenges prevailing assumptions about the universality of power transition theory and shows why East Asian history has profound implications for international affairs today.

A.J.H.レイサム著　1945年以降のアジアにおける米の貿易
Latham, A. J. H., The Rice Trade in Asia. (Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia) 258 pp. 2024:8 (Routledge, UK) <727-307>
ISBN 978-1-03-279596-6 hard ¥37,422.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00

This book analyses the development of the rice trade in Asia since 1945.This book focuses on the three historically important exporters Myanmar, Thailand, and Vietnam and the two key importers Indonesia and the Philippines. The book addresses the impacts of several major transitions during this period on the rice trade in these nations, namely their initial recovery post-war, the political turbulence during and following the independence struggles of these nations, and the impact of the Vietnam war. It also tracks the fluctuating impact of the various El Nino/ Southern Oscillation (ENSO) climatic events across the period on harvest and exports, for example in events such as the rice crisis of 1973-75.Using data from the London Rice Brokers' Association Circular to create a detailed narrative of the rice trade, this book will be of interest to students and scholars of Asian history, economic history and economic development in post-war Asia.