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

アフリカの角におけるIGADと多国間安全保障－ソマリア紛争のレンズを通じて
Farah Hersi, Mohamed / Akinola, Adeoye O., IGAD and Multilateral Security in the Horn of Africa: Through the Lens of the Somali Conflict. 233 pp. 2024:3 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <724-666>
ISBN 978-3-031-51547-7 hard ¥32,171.- (税込) EUR 129.99 *

This book offers an insightful and comprehensive exploration of the Inter-Governmental Authority for Development (IGAD) and its endeavours to foster economic and security regionalism in the dynamic landscape of the Horn of Africa. Established in 1986 as a drought-focused inter-governmental organization, IGAD has transformed into a sub-regional institution with an ambitious vision of promoting regional integration. However, amidst optimism, it grapples with historical, strategic, and geographical complexities that impede progress towards a more unified Horn of Africa. Adopting a political economy approach, the book critically dissects IGAD's role in shaping the zone's security and development. Employing multidisciplinary case studies, it unveils the reality of IGAD's efforts, providing a comprehensive understanding of its strengths and limitations. The book further applies neorealist and regional security complex theories, delving into the roles of states and non-actors, meticulously assessing IGAD's security agenda with Somalia as a focal point. This thought-provoking analysis brings to light the challenges and opportunities for sustainable regional integration. Beyond its academic significance, this book serves as a practical resource, offering sustainable policy templates to bolster regionalism and quell armed insurrections and inter-state conflicts within the Horn. Furthermore, it interrogates the geopolitics of the region, scrutinizing the involvement of foreign powers like the US and China, alongside regional giants like Ethiopia, in IGAD's security and economic aspirations. For researchers, policymakers, and stakeholders devoted to the Horn of Africa's development and reconstruction, this book proves to be an invaluable asset. It fills a significant void in existing literature, providing vital insights into African political development, peace, security, and security sector reforms.

ソマリア紛争再考
Nyadera, Israel Nyaburi / Islam, Nazmul / Agwanda, Billy, The Somalia Conflict Revisited: Trends and Complexities of Spatial Governance on National and Regional Security. 192 pp. 2024:4 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <724-671>
ISBN 978-3-031-55731-6 hard ¥29,696.- (税込) EUR 119.99 *

This book aims to examine how informality of spatial governance has influenced the evolution of the conflict in Somalia and the region. It not only reopens the debate over how the irregular conflicts can transcend national boundaries, but also presents the complexities of spatial governance on national and regional security. The book examines how socio-political and identity bonds play out in spatial governance sometimes resulting to informal control of vast national territories. The book argues that such informally governed spaces increase the level of security threat vulnerability at the national and regional levels. The book therefore adds to the existing literature which has not only to be dominated by discourses on the impact of identity on the conflict but also fall short of connecting the impact of informal spatial governance on security. Examining how informality in governance in one country can impact on the security of an entire region is a key consideration in emerging peacebuilding strategies.

Abderrahim, Kader A., Geopolitique de la Libye. (Geopolitique) 160 p. 2024:3 (Bibliomonde, FR) <724-731>
ISBN 978-2-36802-028-9 paper ¥4,153.- (税込) EUR 12.80

Al-Bulushi, Yousuf, Ruptures in the Afterlife of the Apartheid City. (Contemporary African Political Economy) 216 pp. 2024:3 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <724-732>
ISBN 978-3-031-42432-8 hard ¥32,171.- (税込) EUR 129.99 *

How are poor people in South Africa confronting the persistent legacy of apartheid spatial segregation and anti-blackness? And what can movements across the world engaged in a global struggle against racial capitalism learn from the South African experience? This book explores the relationship between shack dwellers and the municipal government in South Africa. Grounded in the local realities of the struggle for housing and basic survival, the project makes broader interventions in national, continental and global debates about urban geography, African studies, social movements and race. The author argues that the shack settlement is emblematic of a democratic South Africa still profoundly shaped by apartheid's afterlife.

Audoin-Rouzeau, Stephane / Becker, Annette et al. (dir.), Le choc: Rwanda 1994: le genocide des Tutsi. (Connaissance) 429 p. 2024:3 (Gallimard, FR) <724-733>
ISBN 978-2-07-305676-4 paper ¥5,445.- (税込) EUR 22.00

Ayee, Joseph R. A. / Amoah, L. G. A. / Alidu, S. M. (eds.), Political Institutions, Party Politics and Communication in Ghana: Three Decades of the Fourth Republic. 287 pp. 2024:6 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <724-734>
ISBN 978-3-031-54743-0 hard ¥34,646.- (税込) EUR 139.99 *

This book is one of two volumes that examines the successes and failures of the Ghanaian Fourth Republic from a political, public administration and public policy viewpoint. Published to coincide with the thirtieth anniversary of the founding of the Fourth Republic, these volumes bring together leading scholars to consider the political achievements and failures that have taken place in the country since the early 1990s, and what these tell us about the state of politics and democracy in twenty-first century Ghana and beyond. This volume focuses on party politics, political communication and public policy. It assesses themes such as interest groups, electoral politics, democratization, constitutionalism, the role of the media, and gender and politics. The volume also places Ghana in a global context, demonstrating how lessons learnt from the country can be applied elsewhere around the world, and what is unique about the Ghanaian political experience. It will appeal to all those interested in public policy, public administration and African politics.

アフリカにおける豊かな市民と貧しい市民の社会的地位と政治参加
Bisong Tambe, Elvis, Social Status and Political Participation of Rich and Poor Citizens in Africa: When the Resource-Poor are the Most Likely Voters. 264 pp. 2024:4 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <724-735>
ISBN 978-3-031-52398-4 hard ¥32,171.- (税込) EUR 129.99 *

This book seeks to explore a fundamental obscurity in electoral behavior literature: while socioeconomic status is typically robustly and positively associated with a higher propensity for voting worldwide, the relationship in Africa is either negative or non-existent. Building upon the author's previous works relating to political participation, behavior and electoral processes, this work focuses specifically on 35 sub-Saharan African political system case studies and analyzes why resource-poor Africans tend to display greater electoral participation than their more comparatively affluent counterparts. Drawing from a methodological-theoretical framework utilizing Afrobarometer data and group mobilization theories such as the civic voluntarism model, electoral clientelism, democratic quality, preference theory and institutional perspectives, this book makes an original contribution to analyzing African regions less well-examined in existing comparative participatory political science literatures.

Blanc, Guillaume, La nature des hommes: une mission ecologique pour sauver l'Afrique. (Histoire-monde) 327 p. 2024:3 (La Decouverte, FR) <724-736>
ISBN 978-2-348-08174-3 paper ¥5,445.- (税込) EUR 22.00

Blouin, Andree, My Country, Africa: Autobiography of the Black Pasionaria. (Southern Questions) 336 pp. 2025:1 (Verso, UK) <724-737>
ISBN 978-1-83976-871-2 paper ¥5,493.- (税込) GB￡ 18.99 *

Andree Blouin-once called the most dangerous woman in Africa-played a leading role in the struggles for decolonization that shook the continent in the 1950s and '60s, advising the postcolonial leaders of Algeria, both Congos, Ivory Coast, Mali, Guinea, and Ghana.In this autobiography, Blouin retraces her remarkable journey as an African revolutionary. Born in French Equatorial Africa and abandoned at the age of three, she endured years of neglect and abuse in a colonial orphanage, which she escaped after being forced by nuns into an arranged marriage at fifteen. She later became radicalized by the death of her two-year-old son, who was denied malaria medication by French officials because he was one-quarter African.In Guinea, where Blouin was active in Sekou Toure's campaign for independence, she came into contact with leaders of the liberation movement in the Belgian Congo. Blouin witnessed the Congolese tragedy up close as an adviser to Patrice Lumumba, whose arrest and assassination she narrates in unforgettable detail.Blouin offers a sweeping survey of pan-African nationalism, capturing the intricacies of revolutionary diplomacy, comradeship, and betrayal. Alongside intimate portraits of the movement's leaders, Blouin provides insights into the often-overlooked contribution of African women in the struggle for independence.

Bossaert, Marie / Jomier, Augustin / Szurek, E. (dir.), L'orientalisme en train de se faire: une enquete collective sur les etudes orientales dans l'Algerie coloniale. (En temps & lieux) 492 p. 2024:3 (Editions de l'Ecole des hautes etudes en sciences sociales, FR) <724-738>
ISBN 978-2-7132-3374-6 paper ¥6,138.- (税込) EUR 24.80

Chakrabarti, Anjan / Chakraborty, Gorky et al. (eds.), Indigeneity, Development and Sustainability: Perspectives from Northeast India. (Demographic Transformation and Socio-Economic Development 18) 426 pp. 2024:6 (Springer, GW) <724-739>
ISBN 978-981-9714-35-3 hard ¥32,171.- (税込) EUR 129.99 *

This volume presents cutting-edge research on India's Northeast region relating to borders, material mobilities, contested identities, and economic and political dynamics. It offers a comprehensive understanding of the developmental challenges currently faced by Northeast India, including the complexities of the labor market and the neoliberal economy. The book highlights the lived experiences of individuals in varied geographies and perspectives. It is organized into five sections, each addressing the region's old and vexed questions of 'development', and its complicated relationship with indigeneity and sustainability. Contributions from scholars of various disciplines provide an all-inclusive picture of the region, ranging from a macro to a micro level. Interdisciplinary in nature, the book interests a cross-section of academics and graduate students from different disciplines, including sociology, social anthropology, economics, political science, human geography, history, public policy, and development studies.

Maja-Pearce, Adewale, This Fiction Called Nigeria: The Struggle for Democracy. (Southern Questions) 208 pp. 2024:10 (Verso, UK) <724-741>
ISBN 978-1-80429-180-1 paper ¥4,914.- (税込) GB￡ 16.99 *

In this groundbreaking work, the essayist and critic Adewale Maja-Pearce delivers a mordant verdict on Nigeria's crisis of democracy. A mosaic of ethnic and religious groups, the most populous country in Africa was fabricated by British colonizers at the turn of the twentieth century. In the years since its independence in 1960, Nigeria spent an unbroken quarter century as a military dictatorship. Yet the blessings of today's democracy are unclear to many, especially among the more than half of the population living in extreme poverty. Buffeted by unemployment, saddled with debt, menaced by bandits and Islamic fundamentalists, Nigeria faces the threat of disintegration.Maja-Pearce shows that recent mobilizations against police brutality, sexism, and homophobia reveal a powerful undercurrent of discontent, especially among the country's youth. If Nigeria has a future, he shows here, it is in the hands of young people unwilling to go on as before.

Ndaw, Abdoulaye Aziz, Sahel: terre des conflits. (Points de vue) 151 p. 2024:3 (L'Harmattan, FR) <724-743>
ISBN 978-2-336-44380-5 paper ¥4,207.- (税込) EUR 17.00

Nsanzuwera, Francois-Xavier, Briseurs de destins: les cerveaux du genocide des Tutsis. (Travaux et recherches) 252 p. 2024:3 (Pr. de l'U. Saint-Louis, BE) <724-744>
ISBN 978-2-8028-0283-9 paper ¥8,043.- (税込) EUR 32.50

Opi, Bosco, Refugee Coloniality: An Afrocentric analysis of prolonged encampment in Kenya. 227 pp. 2024:6 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <724-746>
ISBN 978-3-031-54500-9 hard ¥29,696.- (税込) EUR 119.99 *

This book presents a decolonial and Afrocentric critique of prolonged encampment of refugees, centred on the case study of refugee camps in Kenya, introduced through the author's decades-long experience of forced displacement. His positionality as a former refugee contributes to a wider discussion on representation, voice, and power within the refugee studies literature. Likewise, the revisiting of the refugee camp as site and tool of power from a colonial perspective, is an important and timely contribution to the literature. This book examines the camp as a colonial innovation and the enduring colonial logics of supposedly 'humanitarian' extended encampment. Drawing on the anti-colonial theorists such as Fanon, Mbembe, and Nyerere, etc, it argues for an Africa without borders or encampment. The study is interdisciplinary, encompassing forced migration/refugee studies, camp studies, decolonial studies, and African studies. More broadly, it seeks to contribute to the literature on the politics of asylum in Africa through a critical examination of the colonial origins and the practice of encampment in Kenya.

Rwodzi, Aaron, Multiparty Democracy in Zimbabwe: Opposition Politics and the Zimbabwe African National Union Patriotic Front (ZANU-PF) (1980-2017). 257 pp. 2024:3 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <724-747>
ISBN 978-3-031-51283-4 hard ¥32,171.- (税込) EUR 129.99 *

This book provides a comprehensive account of the tumultuous political landscape of Zimbabwe. Delving into historical and contemporary perspectives, the author analyses the relationship between the ruling ZANU-PF party and the opposition, exposing the pervasive influence of foreign powers and their 'regime change' agendas. Amidst western-imposed economic sanctions, the book examines how political opposition has struggled to maintain its footing in the face of ZANU-PF's rhetoric on preserving the nation's sovereignty. Drawing on the powerful theoretical frameworks of Gramsci's hegemony theory and instrumentalism, the book dissects the constraints on multiparty democracy under ZANU-PF's rule. From the party's manipulation of liberation narratives to the subtle intricacies of 'Mugabeism', a violent and ideological stronghold, the author unveils the tactics employed to maintain power. The chapters uncover the pivotal role played by the military throughout Zimbabwe's history: from the days of the liberation struggle to the shocking events of 2017, when Mugabe's grip on power was diminished by the very force that had propped him up for decades, the author reveals how the military's involvement has thwarted opposition players' attempts to claim power. Boldly challenging the notion that constraints solely rest on ZANU-PF, this book calls attention to the shortcomings of opposition parties in navigating Zimbabwe's treacherous political landscape. Using compelling evidence and unparalleled analysis, the book is an essential read for those seeking to understand the intricate web of power, manipulation, and struggle that has defined Zimbabwe's political journey.

Some, Magloire / Banhoro, Yacouba (dir.), Histoire de la Haute-Volta de 1897 a 1947: creation, dislocation et reconstitution. 592 p. 2024:3 (Hemispheres Ed., FR) <724-748>
ISBN 978-2-37701-186-5 paper ¥6,930.- (税込) EUR 28.00

Mukaddam, Fatima, Muslim Women between Community and Individual Rights: Legal Pluralism and Marriage in South Africa. (Gender, Justice and Legal Feminism 4) 195 pp. 2024:7 (Springer, GW) <724-423>
ISBN 978-3-031-54613-6 hard ¥27,221.- (税込) EUR 109.99 *