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

Nandy, Debasish / Das, Monojit (eds.), Decoding the Chessboard of Asian Geopolitics: Asian Powerplay in South Asia, Central Asia, and West Asia. 496 pp. 2025:6 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <747-941>
ISBN 978-981-9633-67-8 hard ¥28,244.- (税込) EUR 119.99 *

The edited volume titled "Decoding the Chessboard of Asian Geopolitics: Asian Powerplay in South Asia, Central Asia, and West Asia" offers a distinctive examination of the power rivalries within the Asian region. It highlights the significant influence of extra-regional powers on South Asia's political, economic, foreign policy, and security landscapes. This volume also delves into the intricate power dynamics in Central Asia and West Asia. In light of recent global transformations, Asia emerges as a formidable entity that not only confronts the challenges of uncertainty but also plays a pivotal role in shaping contemporary geopolitics. Comprising 22 chapters, this volume provides a critical analysis of both internal and external factors influencing Asian Powerplay. It emphasizes the significance of the Indo-Pacific region, the Non-Alignment Movement, and the concept of multipolarity. Furthermore, it addresses various issues from traditional security to human security across four distinct sectors.The scholars of International Relations, Defence Studies, Political Science, Strategic Studies, Journalism, Peace and conflict Studies,etc., will be benifited by this volume across the globe. This book is part of a two-volume set and the other volume in this set delves into the geopolitical dynamics and power relations in East and Southeast Asia and the Global North.

Bonialian, Mariano, Transpacific Peru, 1570-1613: Connections with Mexico, the Philippines, and China. (Crossroads - History of Interactions across the Silk Routes 10) 250 pp. 2025:9 (Brill, NE) <747-980>
ISBN 978-90-04-73957-4 hard ¥25,658.- (税込) EUR 109.00

Classic studies have highlighted the significance of colonial Peru from a transatlantic and European perspective. Transpacific Peru, 1570-1613 expands this view by exploring its pivotal role in transpacific trade. It examines the agency and networks of peruleros-silver-rich merchants-connecting China, the Philippines, and Mexico. The book exposes the tensions between their expeditions and the prohibitive laws of the Spanish Crown, revealing colonial Peru as a dynamic hub for the expansion of the Spanish Empire and the early globalization of the 16th century.

Hodgson, Dennis, Women's Empowerment, Population Dynamics, and Development: Changing Interactions and Policy Responses in Developing Countries, 1950-2022. (SpringerBriefs in Population Studies) 52 pp. 2025:3 (Springer, GW) <747-982>
ISBN 978-3-031-87736-0 paper ¥10,589.- (税込) EUR 44.99 *

This book assumes that "women's empowerment" is a social movement aimed at producing political, economic and social change. It traces the changing relationship among three unprecedented trends experienced in the "developing world" since 1950: declining levels of mortality and fertility, socioeconomic development, and women's empowerment. It offers two policy analyses of the contemporary relationship of these three trends. One for the 30 countries that in 2021 still have TFRs above 4, and another for the 34 countries that currently have below replacement level fertility. This analysis highlights a new 21st century fact: over-ardent neo-Malthusian population controllers are no longer the greatest threat to women's reproductive rights. That place has been assumed by over-ardent pronatalist population controllers in low fertility countries.

いかに性、人種、労働が初期のフランス帝国を形成したか
Lamotte, Melanie, By Flesh and Toil: How Sex, Race, and Labor Shaped the Early French Empire. 352 pp. 2026:1 (Harvard U. Pr., US) <747-984>
ISBN 978-0-674-27283-5 hard ¥10,384.- (税込) US$ 49.95

A richly detailed transoceanic history of the early French Empire, illuminating how it became bound by a common legal culture of race-as well as how enslaved and free people critically shaped the development of the colonies.From the beginning of the seventeenth century, French colonies and trading posts sprawled across the Atlantic and Indian Oceans. In the first pan-imperial history of the early French Empire in the English language, Melanie Lamotte shows how an increasingly cohesive legal culture came to govern the lives of enslaved and free people of African, Malagasy, South Asian, and Native American descent. She also illuminates the important role played by these populations in the development of the empire, from Louisiana to Guadeloupe, Senegambia, Madagascar, Isle Bourbon, and India.The early French Empire has often been portrayed as a fragmented conglomerate of isolated colonies or regions. Yet Lamotte shows that racial policies issued by the metropole, as well as by officials in the Atlantic and Indian Oceans, significantly influenced one another. Rather than focusing on the actions of administrators, however, Lamotte also reveals the extensive influence of people on the ground-especially those of non-European descent. Through their sexuality and their labor, along with their socio-economic and political endeavors, they played a critical role in building the empire and setting its limits. As they sought justice for themselves, strove to protect their kin, and aimed to improve their social conditions, these individuals also pushed against the advancement of white dominion in unexpected ways.Archivally rich and rigorously documented, By Flesh and Toil illuminates the transoceanic connections that united the French colonial world-and recasts people of African, Malagasy, South Asian, and Native American descent as key actors in the story of empire-building.

Vorms, Charlotte / Fischer, Brodwyn (eds.), Informal Cities: Histories of Governance and Inequality in Latin Europe, Latin America, and Colonial North Africa. 376 pp. 2025:9 (U. Chicago Pr., US) <747-988>
ISBN 978-0-226-83599-0 hard ¥23,908.- (税込) US$ 115.00
ISBN 978-0-226-83601-0 paper ¥7,276.- (税込) US$ 35.00

An empirically rich reconstruction of how informality became an intrinsic part of urban life across three continents. Over a quarter of the world's urban population lives in informal settlements. While informality as a concept has been widely debated, we still know very little about the phenomenon's urban history or how that history has shaped the evolution of world cities. Spotlighting the historical processes that have created and sustained urban informality for more than a century, editors Brodwyn Fischer and Charlotte Vorms and their contributors reveal informality as an intrinsic feature of urbanity, shaping not only cities across the globe but also deeper processes of state formation, socioeconomic stratification, and political struggle. The volume brings together case studies spanning more than a hundred years, drawn from Latin America (Brazil, Chile, Venezuela, and Mexico), Northern Africa (Morocco and Algeria), and Latin Europe (France, Spain, and Italy). Together, they dispel the notion that informality is either a contemporary crisis or a predicament unique to the Global South. Topics range from the origins of informal settlement to their relationship with the law; from grassroots efforts to legitimize shantytown communities to mass social movements to entrench them; from the role that shantytown removal campaigns played in shoring up fascism or colonialism to ways that informality perpetuated racial and ethnic inequalities. Informal Cities is an indispensable guide to the complex and fraught terrain of urban informality in its many historical guises.

Poocharoen, Ora-orn / Boossabong, Piyapong et al. (eds.), Handbook of Public Policy in Asia. (Handbooks of Research on Public Policy) 552 pp. 2025:9 (E. Elgar, UK) <747-863>
ISBN 978-1-0353-1959-6 hard ¥69,261.- (税込) GB￡ 245.00

This expansive Handbook provides a detailed, comprehensive, and current study of Asian public policy and governance. Exploring inequalities across the continent, it outlines policy knowledge production, shedding light on sustainability, innovation, inclusive development, well-being, and climate justice in Asia.Bringing together renowned experts in the field, the Handbook investigates the evolution of public policy in Asia, including the rise and fall of a specifically Asian ethos. It also demonstrates the contextual characteristics of a comprehensive spectrum of Asian countries of differing regional and international significance and size, including Bangladesh, Bhutan, China, India, Indonesia, Japan, the Philippines, South Korea, Singapore, Thailand and beyond. Contributing authors address the institutional and historical embeddedness of policymaking, covering philosophical approaches, technological participation and ideational tensions. They examine Asia's global policy leadership in the 21st century, discussing important developments including the impact of cultural forces in driving narcotics policy and the role of women in Asian policymaking.The Handbook of Public Policy in Asia is an essential tool for students and scholars in Asian politics and public policy, public administration and political science. Its unique insights into Asian policy styles and norms will greatly benefit politicians and practitioners.

一條都子著　ナショナリズムと主観性－東アジアの経験
Ichijo, Atsuko, Nationalism and Subjectivity: East Asian Experiences. 160 pp. 2025:10 (Oxford U. Pr., UK) <747-876>
ISBN 978-0-19-896451-3 hard ¥23,746.- (税込) GB￡ 84.00

Chan, Shuk Ying, Postcolonial Global Justice. 280 pp. 2025:8 (Princeton U. Pr., US) <747-925>
ISBN 978-0-691-26022-8 hard ¥8,305.- (税込) US$ 39.95

A new account of global justice that recovers anticolonial thought for resisting a neocolonial agePoliticians and activists today turn to the language of decolonization to call attention to such issues as cultural and linguistic decline, exploitative foreign investment, and global institutions dominated by superpowers. But does anticolonial thought really provide a model for reimagining world politics? The history of decolonization has not resulted in the liberating transformations that many envisioned. In Postcolonial Global Justice, Shuk Ying Chan proposes a new account of postcolonial global justice centered around the value of social equality. Drawing on the thought of Aime Cesaire, Frantz Fanon, Kwame Nkrumah, and Jawaharlal Nehru, Chan argues that a central theme in anticolonial thought is the rejection of hierarchy and the embrace of equality. These ideas from decolonization, she suggests, give us tools for critiquing contemporary global hierarchies and for rejecting postcolonial nationalism more concerned with policing its citizens than promoting their freedom and equality.Following the wave of postcolonial state-founding in the twentieth century, many in the West saw decolonization as largely accomplished-and yet global politics continue to feature hierarchies that resemble colonial relations. Chan investigates these new and persistent colonial hierarchies across three areas of contemporary world politics: international investment, cultural imperialism, and global governance. Exploring the changes needed to move toward a new, more equal postcolonial world order, Chan offers a vision of global justice rooted in the unrealized egalitarian aspirations of anticolonial thinker-activists, prompting us to rethink what decolonization may mean today.

Ngang, Carol Chi (ed.), International Covenant on the Right to Development: Implications for Developing Countries and the Global Balance of Power. (Studies in Critical Social Sciences 326) 443 pp. 2025:8 (Brill, NE) <747-295>
ISBN 978-90-04-73434-0 hard ¥38,841.- (税込) EUR 165.00

In this pioneer compilation of academic literature on the International Covenant on the Right to Development, including some of the leading experts on the subject, the authors delve at length into the central enquiry on how and to what extent the Covenant will, as a binding instrument of international law, shape the global balance of power. Envisaged to be incorporated in the international bill of human rights, the analysis on the various component elements leads to the conclusive argument that, once in force, the Covenant on the Right to Development will have major implications for how the international order is structured and how development is henceforth pursued.