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

Aydin, Mustafa / Ifantis, Kostas (eds.), Greek-Turkish Relations: Theoretical Reflections. 148 pp. 2025:7 (Routledge, UK) <746-962>
ISBN 978-1-032-95040-2 hard ¥40,991.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00

This book provides an overview of the complex and turbulent relations between Greece and Turkey, focusing on recent developments and the challenges in their bilateral relationship. It draws on a comprehensive array of international relations theories to suggest that sources of instability in the Aegean are found in security relations, identity and cultural discourses, and patriarchal and class societal structures. The chapters reflect on several questions about the role and significance of constitutive and non-constitutive elements in the Greek-Turkish policy and social arenas. They offer a better understanding of the bilateral interaction and why the Greek-Turkish relationship continue to hold the potential for traditional geopolitical antagonism and conflict, as well as why it is so hard to escape a security culture of hopelessly unresolved problems, enduring security dilemmas, crisis-prone geopolitics.The chapters in this book discuss the historical context, including attempts at reconciliation, and examine the role of perceptions, geopolitics, and historical grievances in shaping the current situation. It emphasizes the cyclical nature of relations, with periods of calm followed by tensions and crises. It highlights the need for a comprehensive approach to resolve the existing disputes, including the importance of confidence-building measures and a political settlement. Overall, the book underlines the complexity of Greek-Turkish relations and the challenges in achieving lasting peace and stability in the region.This book is aimed at scholars, policymakers, and students in the fields of international relations, political science, and security studies.The chapters in this book, except for Chapter 8, were published as a special issue of Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies. Chapter 8 was originally published in Southeast European and Black Sea Studies.

Survey of Economic and Social Developments in the Arab Region 2022-2023. 89 pp. 2024:5 (UN, US) <746-240>
ISBN 978-92-1-003133-2 paper ¥10,395.- (税込) US$ 50.00 *

The 2022-2023 edition of the Survey of Economic and Social Developments in the Arab Region presents the economic recovery path at the global and regional levels following the COVID-19 pandemic and the war in Ukraine. A lot of uncertainties cloud the outlook as developed countries face increasing risks of falling in a recession and are resorting to increase interest rates to mitigate rising inflation, while developing countries are suffering from increasing borrowing costs, high inflation and uncertainties about energy and food prices. In addition to that, some Arab countries are facing depreciation of local currencies, repercussions of natural disasters, war and occupation, political instability and structural economic challenges. In terms of social developments, the Arab region continues to face significant challenges including widespread poverty, high unemployment and large gender gap. The thematic chapter of this year's survey focuses on inflation in Arab countries and examines the sources of inflation in six countries that have recorded high inflation rates in the past few years, namely Egypt, Lebanon, the Sudan, the Syrian Arab Republic, Tunisia and Yemen. It also presents the different disinflation policies available and provides some recommendations on the way forward.

Qadam Shah, Mohammad, The Failure of Public Finance Management in Afghanistan: Lessons for Other Conflict-Affected States. (Routledge Explorations in Development Studies) 204 pp. 2025:7 (Routledge, UK) <746-241>
ISBN 978-1-032-65852-0 hard ¥40,991.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00

In rebuilding conflict-affected states, a major portion of foreign aid focuses on reforming public finance management systems and supporting annual budgets. But how budgets are allocated and how reforms take shape in practice remain critical questions.This book analyses the politics of reform and budget allocation in the most expensive liberal state building effort in history: Afghanistan. Through a detailed political economy analysis, it explores the origin, continuity, and evolution of Afghanistan's centralized public finance management system. Such centralization, readopted in the 2004 Constitution, constrained local participation, perpetuated inequities, and undermined predictability and transparency. Key reforms including the "Provincial Development Planning Guideline" and "Provincial Budgeting Policy" aimed to address these shortcomings but failed due to political resistance, elite capture, and structural inefficiencies. The analysis reveals informal dynamics behind the allocation of discretionary development budget consisting of the Afghan central government's political considerations (political relationship, political importance, and strength and weakness of local administrations) and lobbying strategies of local actors. This dynamic enabled the central government to continue to use public funds for purchasing political legitimacy to remain in power.Afghanistan's case highlights the limits of externally driven state-building that prioritizes centralization over local dynamics. The book offers key lessons on inclusive governance, structural barriers, and sustainable public finance reforms in conflict-affected states. It appeals to donors, development experts, and researchers in public finance, foreign aid, security, and development studies.

Nadar, Sarojini, Gender, Genocide, Gaza and the Book of Esther: Engaging Texts of Terror(ism). (Rape Culture, Religion and the Bible) 150 pp. 2025:5 (Routledge, UK) <746-147>
ISBN 978-1-032-89549-9 hard ¥14,979.- (税込) GB￡ 52.99 *

Gender, Genocide, Gaza and the Book of Esther bridges the gap between gendered and geopolitical analyses by interrogating both the sexual and ethnic violence embedded in the Book of Esther. While much scholarship has examined the potential genocide of the Jews in the narrative, far less attention has been paid to the Persian "retaliation genocide." Framed within decolonial feminist perspectives, this book shifts between the harem-the royal institution where women were sequestered for the king's use-and herem, the practice of divinely sanctioned warfare that justifies the extermination of an enemy. Rather than operating as discrete forms of violence, the book argues that the harem and the herem are co-constitutive, revealing how gendered and ethnic domination function in tandem. Through a combination of narrative inquiry, inter-textual readings, critical discourse analysis, and theological assessments of both the biblical text and its contemporary reception, Gender, Genocide, Gaza and the Book of Esther invites interpreters to consider the larger frameworks of ethnicity and racialization within which hermeneutics of sexual violence take place. A close literary reading of Esther is paired with an analysis of its contemporary geopolitical appropriations, particularly its use in Christian Zionist rhetoric. The explicit invocation of the Amalekite extermination trope by Israel's prime minister in October 2023 to justify attacks on Gaza, underscores the enduring political afterlives of texts of terror. This book contends that a feminist reading of Esther cannot limit itself to an analysis of sexual violence but must extend its critique intersectionally, engaging with the broader necropolitical economies that structure both ancient and modern deployments of biblical violence.

Azkia, Mostafa, Rural Development in Iran, 1960-2020. (Routledge Explorations in Development Studies) 354 pp. 2025:7 (Routledge, UK) <746-1089>
ISBN 978-1-032-98626-5 hard ¥40,991.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00

This book is an authoritative account of rural development in Iran, spanning 60 years and 2 distinct political regimes.Professor Mostafa Azkia has spent many decades demonstrating the importance of participatory rural development, not only in addressing rural problems but also in reducing urban concerns, such as unemployment and overpopulation. This book is the culmination of this work, bringing together a detailed analysis of the theories, history, and strategies of rural and state development in Iran both before and after the Islamic Revolution. Putting rural communities at the fore, the book demonstrates that there has been significant progress in reducing the rural- urban gap, both in terms of income and standards of living, resulting in a more equal path of socioeconomic development for Iran.This comprehensive assessment from Iran's foremost rural sociologist will be an important read for researchers and professionals working on rural development and sociology in the Middle East.

Ball, Warwick, Ancient Civilizations of Afghanistan: From the Earliest Times to the Mongol Conquest. 336 pp. 2025:8 (Reaktion Books, UK) <746-1090>
ISBN 978-1-83639-092-3 hard ¥8,198.- (税込) GB￡ 29.00

ガザ－ジェノサイドの物語
Bhutto, Fatima / Faleiro, Sonia (eds.), Gaza: The Story of a Genocide. 320 pp. 2025:10 (Verso, UK) <746-1091>
ISBN 978-1-83674-224-1 paper ¥3,671.- (税込) GB￡ 12.99

"Genocide destroys cities and claims lives, but it also remakes the psyches of those it spares." This collection tells the story of the Gaza genocide through Palestinians' eyes. Through personal testimonies, expert insights, poetry, and war reportage, leading Palestinian writers powerfully narrate their fight for survival since October 7. From Ahmed Al Naouq's harrowing account of losing 21 family members to Israel's indiscriminate bombing campaign and Noor O. Alyacoubi's personal testimony on starving in Gaza to Mariam Barghouti's exploration of Israeli settler violence in the West Bank and Lina Mounzer's reporting on the destabilizing effects of Israel's simultaneous bombing of Lebanon, Gaza: The Story of a Genocide reveals the physical and emotional devastation that Israel's pulverization has wrought on Palestinians in Gaza. The book includes illustrations from Joe Sacco and Mona Chalabi, as well as contributions from Mosab Abu Toha, Yara Hawari, Tareq Baconi, Hiba Abu Nada, Ariel Koren, Laila Al-Arian, Mona Chalabi, Mary Turfah, Mariam Barghouti, Nina Lakhani, Noor Alyacoubi, Dr Tanya Haj-Hassan, Shareef Sarhan, Susan Abulhawa, Huda J. Fakhreddine, Eman Basher, Malaka Shweikh, Ahmed Alnaouq, Lina Mounzer, Omar Barghouti, Joe Sacco, Maryam Iqbal, Ahmed Masoud, and Yara Eid.

Borgen Gjerde, Asmund, The Meaning of Israel: Anti-Zionism and Philo-Zionism in the Postwar Left. (Routledge Studies in Modern History) 280 pp. 2025:8 (Routledge, UK) <746-1092>
ISBN 978-1-032-89433-1 hard ¥40,991.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00

Why did social democrats in the 1940s and 50s idealize Zionism and Israel? And why did 'the New Left' of the 1960s denounce Israel as an apartheid state and a 'bridgehead of imperialism'? The Meaning of Israel: Anti-Zionism and Philo-Zionism in the Postwar Left, a case study of Norway, offers new and intriguing answers to both questions. Previous national case studies of left ideas about Israel have tended to explain with reference to national peculiarities of the country in question (E.g. guilt over the Holocaust in the case of Germany). This book, by contrast, considers its findings about Norway in the context of what we know from other national case studies and uses this approach to suggest explanations that may be valid across national boundaries.The Meaning of Israel argues that left ideas about Zionism and Israel have been inextricably intertwined with ideas about civilization. Post-war social democrats used ideas about Zionism and Israel to assuage their anxiety about the future of civilization, and to reaffirm the viability of this very concept. The anti-Zionism of the New Left, on the other hand, grew out of a broader rejection of 'civilization'. The book will appeal to academics and general readers interested in the history of the Left, Israel, and antisemitism.

Borghi, Beatrice, African Landings: Egypt and Sinai as Seen by Medieval European and Arab Travellers (4th-15th Centuries). 302 pp. 2025:7 (Routledge, UK) <746-1093>
ISBN 978-1-032-67392-9 hard ¥40,991.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00
ISBN 978-1-032-67393-6 paper ¥11,304.- (税込) GB￡ 39.99

This book seeks to break free from Eurocentric historical perspectives of medieval-era travel through Egypt and Sinai by focusing on the testimonies of 4th to 15th-century travellers from the African continent, especially pilgrim diaries from the Arab Muslim Egyptian world.Humanity's past is the story of movements by peoples who reshaped and redefined their identity and reported their impressions to a gradually diversified public - migratory currents that transported not just goods but ideas, intellect, culture and inventions. Focusing on Egypt in the Middle Ages - its cities, its suburbs and hinterland, and the many faces of its landscape - can provide us with answers to topical issues, as well as a new and better understanding of Levantine Mediterranean history. These diaries tell of objects, calendars, written works and art works, sculptures, frescoes, monuments, musical instruments, animals, foodstuffs, and finally, of material and immaterial heritages: all valuable sources for understanding world history and posing questions about their, and our own, preconceptions.This volume will be of interest to students, scholars, and general readers of medieval history, Mediterranean history, travel history, and religious history.

トルコにおける議会主義の形成
Has, Oezlem / Isik, Ayhan (eds.), The Making of Paramilitarism in Turkey. 192 pp. 2025:8 (Routledge, UK) <746-1094>
ISBN 978-1-032-43581-7 hard ¥40,991.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00

This edited volume explores the history and evolution of Turkish paramilitarism from the late Ottoman period to the 2010s. Aimed at undergraduates, postgraduates, scholars, and non-specialists, it offers an interdisciplinary analysis of paramilitary forces' influence on Turkey's historical, political, social, legal and visual landscapes. The book examines key events like the Armenian Genocide, the Cold War, and the Kurdish conflict, and delves into how state-sponsored paramilitary groups have shaped the nation's modern history. Through case studies, examining key paramilitary groups such as Grey Wolves, Village Guards, and JITEM, contributors reveal the deep-seated connections between paramilitarism and statecraft in Turkey.With a unique focus on the suppression of marginalized groups, including Armenians, Kurds, and Alevis, the book presents groundbreaking research on how paramilitarism has been instrumental in state violence, both domestically and internationally. By incorporating political, economic, and social dimensions, this volume offers a fresh perspective on the enduring role of paramilitary actors in shaping Turkish state policies and provides readers with a comprehensive understanding of the complex dynamics behind informal violence in Turkey's history.

Hitzel, Frederic / Muhidine, Timour (dir.), Constantinople occupee: 1918-1923: une histoire culturelle. (Histoire) 560 p. 2025:2 (CNRS, FR) <746-1095>
ISBN 978-2-271-12910-9 paper ¥6,591.- (税込) EUR 28.00

Kubicek, Paul (ed.), Paths of De-democratization in Turkey. (Culture, Society and Political Economy in Turkey 3) 226 pp. 2025:2 (P. Lang, SZ) <746-1097>
ISBN 978-3-0343-4868-3 hard ¥24,578.- (税込) SFR 98.00

This volume offers a variety of perspectives on Turkey's democratic backsliding since 2010 as the ruling Justice and Development Party and President Recep T. Erdogan have consolidated their rule. It highlights numerous historical, ideological, and structural forces that have contributed to this process, explores the weaknesses of the opposition and civil society actors, examines how the changing political economy has contributed to growing authoritarianism, and notes how growing authoritarianism has impacted different political and social actors. It also suggests some factors that might help reverse the current processes of de-democratization.

アルジェリアの歴史－起源から今日まで
Lugan, Bernard, Histoire des Algeries: des origines a nos jours. 298 p. 2025:2 (Ellipses, FR) <746-1098>
ISBN 978-2-340-09958-6 paper ¥6,120.- (税込) EUR 26.00

トルコにおけるイスラーム主義運動の文化的基礎
Ozgen, Zeynep, Pious Politics: Cultural Foundations of the Islamist Movement in Turkey. (Cambridge Studies in Historical Sociology) 284 pp. 2025:10 (Cambridge U. Pr., UK) <746-1101>
ISBN 978-1-009-65326-8 hard ¥25,443.- (税込) GB￡ 90.00

Pappe, Ilan, The Idea of Israel: A History of Power and Knowledge. New ed. 352 pp. 2025:10 (Verso, UK) <746-1102>
ISBN 978-1-83674-040-7 paper ¥4,237.- (税込) GB￡ 14.99

Since its foundation in 1948, Israel has drawn on Zionism, the movement behind its creation, to provide a sense of self and political direction. In this groundbreaking new work, Ilan Pappe looks at the continued role of Zionist ideology. The Idea of Israel considers the way Zionism operates outside of the government and military in areas such as the country's education system, media, and cinema, and the uses that are made of the Holocaust in supporting the state's ideological structure.In particular, Pappe examines the way successive generations of historians have framed the 1948 conflict as a liberation campaign, creating a foundation myth that went unquestioned in Israeli society until the 1990s. Pappe himself was part of the post-Zionist movement that arose then. He was attacked and received death threats as he exposed the truth about how Palestinians have been treated and the gruesome structure that links the production of knowledge to the exercise of power. The Idea of Israel is a powerful and urgent intervention in the war of ideas concerning the past, and the future, of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict.

Pir, Hadi T., Reimagining Education in the Middle East: Insights from Iraq. 136 pp. 2025:7 (Routledge, UK) <746-1103>
ISBN 978-1-041-02043-1 hard ¥40,991.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00

This book critically examines significant educational challenges in the broader Middle East, using insights from Iraq to explore historical, political, social, racial, religious, linguistic, and sectarian influences on education. It introduces new theoretical perspectives to explain why ineffective educational policies have persisted for the past century and proposes alternative approaches for research and policymaking in the region.Utilizing grounded theory methodology, the book includes interviews with 20 prominent Iraqi educational policymakers to reveal a shared worldview-termed the Traditional Paradigm-that continues to influence education and policy. It critiques dominant Western paradigms of critical theory and postmodernism for their inability to capture the complexities of the Middle East. Additionally, it introduces the Established Reality Theory, which draws on cognitive psychology and sociology to explain why ineffective policies persist despite shifts in regime. The book provides new insights, policy recommendations, and avenues for research to assist scholars and policymakers in tackling significant educational challenges.The book is relevant to scholars, researchers, and students in education, Middle Eastern studies, sociology, and political science. It is also valuable for policymakers, educators, and institutions seeking a deeper understanding of educational structures and reform in the Middle East.

Silverman, Reuben, The Rise and Fall of Turkey's Democrat Party: The Cold War and Illiberalism, 1945-60. (Cambridge Middle East Studies) 320 pp. 2025:10 (Cambridge U. Pr., UK) <746-1105>
ISBN 978-1-009-60445-1 hard ¥25,443.- (税込) GB￡ 90.00

More than sixty years after Turkey's Democrat Party was removed from office by a military coup and three of its leaders hanged, it remains controversial. For some, it was the defender of a more democratic political order and founder of a dominant center-right political coalition; for others, it ushered in an era of corruption, religious reaction, and subordination to American influence. This study moves beyond such stark binaries. Reuben Silverman details the party's establishment, development, rule, and removal from power, showing how its leaders transformed themselves from champions of democracy and liberal economics to advocates of illiberal policies. To understand this change, Silverman draws on periodicals and archival documents to detail the Democrat Party's continuity with Turkey's late Ottoman and early republican past as well as the changing nature of the American-led Cold War order in which it actively participated.

Tillier, Mathieu / Vanthieghem, Naim, Mariages et separations en Egypte au Moyen Age: Actes inedits sur papyrus, papier, parchemin et tissu. (Archiv fuer Papyrusforschung und verwandte Gebiete, Beihefte 54) 650 pp. 2024:10 (de Gruyter, GW) <746-1106>
ISBN 978-3-11-145033-9 hard ¥28,235.- (税込) EUR 119.95 *

One day of December 875, the weaver ?Umar b. M?s?, married ?al?ma bint Naf?s before illustrious witnesses from Fus???. Some six centuries later, in the spring of 1411, Lady F??ima bint Fat? al-D?n celebrated a second wedding with ????n, a promising Mamluk officer, and hosted him with her retinue in her Cairene palace. Present-day historians would know nothing of them had their marriage contract not withstood the ravages of time, as have the hundred or so documents that Mathieu Tillier and Naim Vanthieghem are publishing, translating and studying for the first time in this volume. Rich or poor, free or enslaved, the men and women of Medieval Egypt adopted the habit, from at least the eighth century CE onwards, of having their unions recorded in order to lay down the terms and conditions of their marriage. Dissolution by repudiation (?al?q) or amicable divorce (?ul?) were also entrusted to the care of notaries. The hitherto unpublished documents collected here, which span across the Abbasid, Fatimid, Ayyubid and Mamluk periods, provide a unique insight into matrimonial strategies among commoners as well as elite members, and into marital relationships and legal practices, both in the capital and in the Egyptian countryside. After a first part devoted to the editing of marriage contracts and divorces deed as well as a few related documents, the authors offer a detailed study of matrimonial practices in medieval Egypt based on Arabic documents.

ガザ以降の世界－歴史
Mishra, Pankaj, The World after Gaza: A History. 2025 (Penguin, US) <251-55799>
ISBN 979-82-17-05889-1 hard ¥5,821.- (税込) US$ 28.00 *

MENAにおける地域の競争と紛争－アラブの春からガザ戦争まで
Khatib, Dania Koleilat, Regional Competition and Conflicts in MENA: From Arab Spring to the Gaza War. (UCLA Center for Middle East Development (CMED) Series) 264 pp. 2025:8 (Routledge, UK) <746-1010>
ISBN 978-1-041-04154-2 hard ¥40,991.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00

This book studies four cases where competing regional players greatly shaped the ongoing conflicts in Syria, Yemen, Somalia and the Horn of Africa, and Libya.Based on John Mearsheimer's theory of great power competition detailed in his book The Tragedy of Great Power Politics, this publication examines an important period in the modern history of the MENA region, starting from the Arab Spring until the beginning of the Gaza war. The Arab Spring and the demands for democratisation created a disruption leading to the fall of several dictatorships, creating both a threat and an opportunity for regional dominant powers. Those cases are studied in an instrumental manner. Regional Competition and Conflicts in MENA helps readers interested in the MENA region understand the nature of the competition among regional powers and its effect on the course of those conflicts.This book will be of particular use to students with an interest in Middle East studies, Middle East politics, conflict studies and international relations.