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

Noor, Firman / Nuryanti, Sri (eds.), Indonesian Perspectives on Democracy. 241 pp. 2025:5 (Springer, GW) <745-621>
ISBN 978-981-9631-36-0 hard ¥30,169.- (税込) EUR 129.99

?This book discusses the extent to which Indonesia's trajectory to democracy has changed its direction toward democratic consolidation. In the case of democratic decline in Indonesia, there are numerous studies conducted in order to explain the challenges facing democratization. However, not many of them demonstrate the existing precursors and symptoms of democratic decline, which this book confronts. The authors unpack the problems that continue to hinder Indonesia's path to democratic consolidation and show that against this decline, Indonesia has experienced a new phase of its democratic life during, and in the immediate aftermath of, the COVID-19 pandemic, whereby the political ecosystem has seen a strengthening of the role of the state. This has, in fact, further complicated Indonesia's democratic transition. This book explains how these challenges impact Indonesia's trajectory to democracy, drawing from three important approaches of democratic regime studies, encompassing actors, institutions, and norms. These aspects are elaborated upon in relation to various issues facing the country, thus capturing a sweeping picture of the political struggles preventing democratic growth. Relevant to researchers and students studying countries in democratic transition, but particularly the case of Indonesia, this is a novel contribution to understanding the country's developing political landscape.

植民地の悲劇－1740年のバタヴィアの華僑虐殺事件
Blusse, Leonard, A Colonial Tragedy: The Chinese Massacre at Batavia, 1740. 350 pp. 2025:4 (Leiden U. Pr., NE) <745-727>
ISBN 978-90-8728-477-0 paper ¥10,686.- (税込) GB￡ 37.95

Hon, Tze-ki / Chan, Ying-kit (eds.), The Cityscapes of Taipei, Hong Kong, and Singapore during the Cold War. (Asian Cities) 396 pp. 2025:4 (Amsterdam U. Pr., NE) <745-735>
ISBN 978-94-6372-248-3 hard ¥36,044.- (税込) GB￡ 128.00

This volume presents a comparative analysis of three key cities-Hong Kong, Singapore, and Taipei-during the Cold War. Strategically positioned within international trade networks, these cities also served as critical nodes for both regional conflicts and cooperation. The comparison primarily focuses on their urban landscapes, drawing on the memories embedded in their collective memoryscapes, the imagery presented in their filmscapes, and the perceptions of their inhabitants, as reflected in fiction and films that portrayed urban life and the experiences of ordinary people. The Cityscapes of Taipei, Hong Kong, and Singapore during the Cold War explores both the shared characteristics of these cities as frontiers in the bipolar global system (divided between Communism and the Free World) and their distinctive features as unique spaces shaped by their own meanings and opportunities.

Alam, Meredian, The Social Life of Biogas: Biogas Users and Their Innovations in Indonesia. 140 pp. 2025:4 (Springer, GW) <745-748>
ISBN 978-981-9632-99-2 hard ¥11,601.- (税込) EUR 49.99

Ho, Hannah Ming Yit / Chan, Ying-kit (eds.), Transnational Southeast Asia: Communities, Contestations and Cultures. (Asia in Transition 29) 336 pp. 2025:5 (Springer, GW) <745-750>
ISBN 978-981-9636-07-5 hard ¥11,601.- (税込) EUR 49.99

This open access book presents Southeast Asia as an interesting and conceptually meaningful site to interrogate the transnational paradigm. In featuring research from and across different nations in Southeast Asia, it asks in what ways Southeast Asia lends itself to nuanced applications of transnationalism, and what the wider cultural and collective implications of that might be. Instead of viewing the past and the present as oppositional concepts of time, a temporal continuum is applied to a time-space compression that is fundamental to the workings of the transnational paradigm in the region that we call Southeast Asia. The transnational paradigm, a conceptual tool encompassing various configurations of transnationalism across disciplines, becomes relevant for analysing global cultural flows, but not without due consideration of the nuances shaped by spatio-temporal trends. A paradigm shift in transnationalism from historical connections to contemporary connectivity is afforded by increased mobility and accelerated cultural flows, which have given rise to unprecedented economic productivity in the past century and digital connectivity in the new millennium - a shift that the chapters collectively explore. Relevant to advanced students and scholars across disciplines in the humanities and social sciences, focused on Southeast Asia, this book is a timely exploration that unpicks and unpacks this long-discussed aspect within Asian 'area studies'.

Limpach, Remy, Stumbling in the Dark: The Battle for Intelligence in the Indonesian War of Independence, 1945-1949. (Onafhankelijkheid, Dekolonisatie, Geweld en Oorlog in Indonesie 1945-1950) 272 pp. 2025:8 (Amsterdam U. Pr., NE) <745-752>
ISBN 978-94-6372-718-1 paper ¥9,841.- (税込) GB￡ 34.95

In guerrilla warfare such as the Indonesian War of Independence, intelligence is critical for achieving military success. No wonder, then, that the Netherlands and the Republic of Indonesia waged a grim intelligence war from 1945-1949 by means of espionage, infiltration and other - often extremely violent - methods, including the interrogation of prisoners. In addition, both Dutch and Indonesians set up - with varying degrees of success - an extensive alarm system to warn their own troops of attacks in advance. Until recently, little was known about the complex Dutch-Indonesian intelligence struggle and its impact on the population. This book offers an analysis of this aspect of the war, focusing on the actions of the Dutch military intelligence services. An important question is to what extent the Dutch intelligence services used torture and abuse. Stumbling in the Dark thus provides new insights into the nature and extent of the extreme use of force by the Dutch armed forces in the Indonesian War of Independence.

Nawawi / Alami, Athiqah Nur / Bautista, J. et al. (eds.), Managing Disruption and Developing Resilience for a Better Southeast Asia: The 4th SEASIA Biennial Conference 2022. (Springer Proceedings in Humanities and Social Sciences) 870 pp. 2025:3 (Springer, GW) <745-753>
ISBN 978-981-9621-15-6 hard ¥11,601.- (税込) EUR 49.99

Raben, Remco / Romijn, Peter, Tales of Violence: Dutch Management of Information in the Indonesian War of Independence, 1945-1949. Tr. by G. Marini. (Onafhankelijkheid, Dekolonisatie, Geweld en Oorlog in Indonesie 1945-1950) 448 pp. 2025:11 (Amsterdam U. Pr., NE) <745-755>
ISBN 978-94-6372-698-6 paper ¥9,841.- (税込) GB￡ 34.95

Although it has long been known that the Indonesian War of Independence was far more violent than generally assumed by the Dutch public, for a long time the tendency to downplay, ignore, or justify the scale and nature of this violence dominated. Tales of Violence examines how politicians and administrators in both the Netherlands and Indonesia have dealt with this large-scale violence and poses painful questions. How were the violence of war and the numerous excesses between 1945-1949 discussed, concealed, passed on, manipulated, and used politically? What did Dutch, colonial, and Indonesian politicians and administrators know about the nature of the actions of their own and enemy troops? Why did investigations into specific scandals grind to a halt or were their outcomes hidden from the public? What did those in charge do with their knowledge and how did communications influence public support for warfare? The authors argue that the way the war in Indonesia has long been viewed has its origins partly in the language and manipulation of information during the conflict.

ロヒンギャの将来の再形成
Uddin, Nasir (ed.), Reshaping Rohingya Futures: Coping Strategies and Emerging Agencies. 275 pp. 2025:5 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <745-756>
ISBN 978-981-9633-24-1 hard ¥32,490.- (税込) EUR 139.99

This edited book presents many hitherto unaddressed aspects of post-genocide Rohingya lives in refugee camps in Bangladesh. Amid an everyday struggle for daily essentials, violent tensions within and outside the camps, growing anti-Rohingya sentiment in the host community as well as the decreasing international support during the repatriation process, Rohingya adolescents and youths show strategies of coping and agency to alter their present and reshape their future. An upsurge in digital literacy, mounting transnational connectivity, growing engagement with diaspora Rohingya activism and a cumulative presence in social media for sentiment mobilisation on a local and global scale has motivated them to bring about change for themselves and their community within the camps. This book accommodates such fresh and high-quality research on the Rohingya refugees living in the borderland of Bangladesh and Myanmar, conducted by acclaimed academics, professional researchers, and committed activists from across the world, for researchers and students of migration, sociology of race and ethnicity, anthropology, diaspora studies, peace and conflict studies and social work.