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

良き国際的市民権と非西洋の国際関係
Efstathopoulos, Charalampos / Mehmetcik, Hakan (eds.), Good International Citizenship and Non-Western International Relations: Perspectives and Cases from the Global South. 254 pp. 2025:8 (Springer, GW) <749-832>
ISBN 978-3-031-90814-9 hard ¥32,952.- (税込) EUR 139.99

This is the first book to apply the concept of good international citizenship to the international relations of the Global South. The edited book introduces good international citizenship as a theoretical framework for analysing a diversity of agencies across the Global South. It covers different cases of non-Western states, global governance, foreign policy, and international law, and examines how non-Western actors enact ideas of good international citizenship to engage and shape the global order. The book shows how good international citizenship is not limited to Western notions of liberal internationalism but also encompasses the efforts of non-Western actors to promote distinct approaches to ethics, morality, responsibility, and leadership. The book contributes theoretically and empirically to the field of non-Western International Relations. It allows for rethinking established International Relations concepts so that these become more inclusive to the histories and experiences of different actors across the globe.

インド太平洋の戦略的混乱－課題と国家の対応
Mahapatra, Chintamani (ed.), Indo-Pacific Strategic Churn: Challenges & State Responses. (Palgrave Series in Indo-Pacific Studies) 371 pp. 2025:7 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <749-838>
ISBN 978-981-9652-44-0 hard ¥30,598.- (税込) EUR 129.99

This book offers a thorough examination and analysis of key developments in the Indo-Pacific region, providing valuable insights for foreign policy professionals, academics, and researchers in geopolitics and international relations. The editor, a long-time observer of Indo-Pacific affairs, has curated contributions from leading Indian scholars, each writing within their area of expertise. This volume is a carefully coordinated effort to present an Indian perspective on the rapid and complex changes in the Indo-Pacific. It offers a comprehensive look at major regional stakeholders, critical strategic challenges to peace and stability, and ongoing non-traditional security issues impacting the area.

レトリックの力－いかに台頭する国家が国際秩序を形成するか
Sundaram, Sasikumar, Rhetorical Powers: How Rising States Shape International Order. (Columbia Studies in International Order and Politics) 304 pp. 2025:12 (Columbia U. Pr., US) <749-842>
ISBN 978-0-231-20782-9 hard ¥29,106.- (税込) US$ 140.00
ISBN 978-0-231-20783-6 paper ¥7,484.- (税込) US$ 36.00

Recent years have seen a striking resurgence of anti-imperial and anticolonial rhetoric on the international stage, from Global South to Global North and from the Left to the Right. Why do states deploy these forms of rhetoric in global politics? How do practitioners from the so-called non-Western world differ in their use and performance of rhetoric, and in what ways do they shape international order?Sasikumar Sundaram provides a bold new theory of rhetoric as power politics, demonstrating how non-Western states challenge their silencing within the Western-led international order. He argues that, in the deeply hierarchical international system, states in the lower rungs resort to rhetorical performances in order to be heard. Through anti-imperial and anticolonial rhetorical statecraft, states such as India, Brazil, and China seek to expose and exploit the contradictions in the legitimating principles, norms, and rules of the international system-and, in so doing, pursue and exercise power. Today, as Russia, Europe, and even the United States engage in anti-imperial and anticolonial rhetoric, Sundaram shows why lessons from the non-Western world are crucial to recognizing the dynamics of power politics and global disorder. A bracing challenge to established theories of power in international relations, Rhetorical Powers underscores the need to address enduring forms of silencing within the international order.

戦略的少数国間主義とインド太平洋の地域安全保障アーキテクチャ－QUAD、AUKUS、日米豪戦略対話－
Wilkins, Thomas S., Strategic Minilateralism and the Regional Security Architecture of the Indo-Pacific: The Quad, AUKUS, and the Trilateral Strategic Dialogue. 250 pp. 2025:5 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <749-889>
ISBN 978-981-9647-90-3 hard ¥9,412.- (税込) EUR 39.99

This book presents research on minilateralism; a major new trend within the security architecture of the Indo-Pacific region that commands attention. It specifically focuses on the predominant sub-category of "strategic minilaterals" - exclusive small-group configurations of major powers driven by the imperatives of strategic competition in a bid to reshape the regional order. In a deteriorating Indo-Pacific security environment, a greater understanding of this phenomenon across its conceptual and applied dimensions is a priority for scholars and practitioners. The book first accounts for the rise of strategic minilateralism as a response to strategic competition in the Indo-Pacific theatre. It then positions the resurgent phenomenon of minilateralism alongside multilateral organisations, military alliances, and strategic partnerships within a three-layer taxonomical model that captures the changing nature of the security architecture in the Indo-Pacific. Following this, it generates a dedicated analytical framework for addressing the focal questions appertaining to "strategic minilaterals", patterned around their design, functionality, and future solvency. The framework is then applied to probe the inner workings of the Quad, AUKUS, and US-Japan Australia Trilateral Strategic Dialogue (TSD) to evaluate their relative strengths and weaknesses as instruments of strategic competition. The book's distinctive contribution is to codify and conceptually substantiate strategic minilaterals as a significant new form of security alignment and situate them within their multiple external and internal operating contexts.

植民地化以前－19世紀における非西洋国家とシステム
Butcher, Charles R. / Griffiths, Ryan D., Before Colonization: Non-Western States and Systems in the Nineteenth Century. (Columbia Studies in International Order and Politics) 344 pp. 2025:7 (Columbia U. Pr., US) <749-895>
ISBN 978-0-231-21935-8 hard ¥33,264.- (税込) US$ 160.00 *
ISBN 978-0-231-21936-5 paper ¥8,316.- (税込) US$ 40.00 *

Prior to European colonization, the world was thickly populated with hundreds of independent states and vibrant regional state systems. Yet these states are typically excluded from traditional international relations scholarship, which has mostly focused on the European experience.This book provides a groundbreaking comparative analysis of non-Western states and state systems in the nineteenth century. Using an original data set on independent states during this period, Charles R. Butcher and Ryan D. Griffiths answer fundamental questions such as how many states there were, when they arose, and when they died, documenting the large number of states that were extinguished as a consequence of European colonialism. They explore the structure of nineteenth-century state systems in East Asia, South Asia, maritime Southeast Asia, and West Africa, examining the effects of war, trade, and interaction capacity. Through these case studies, Butcher and Griffiths provide novel perspectives on longstanding debates over state centralization and the choice between indirect and direct forms of rule. Shedding new light on the dynamics of non-Western interstate relations during the nineteenth century, Before Colonization reveals striking similarities between state systems across diverse historical settings.

サバルタンの地理学
Jazeel, Tariq / Legg, Stephen (eds.), Subaltern Geographies. 304 pp. 2025:3 (Oxford U. Pr., UK) <749-897>
ISBN 978-0-19-890827-2 hard ¥25,443.- (税込) GB￡ 90.00 *

Subaltern Geographies stands as the inaugural comprehensive exploration into the intersection of subaltern studies' historical breakthroughs and the critical methodologies of cultural, urban, historical, and political geography. Editors Tariq Jazeel and Stephen Legg embark on an intellectual journey to scrutinize the relationship between space and spatial categorizations, posing pivotal questions about the methodological-philosophical potential that a geographically grounded engagement with the concept of subalternity offers in both historical and contemporary contexts. This edited volume seeks to unravel the implications and impact of subaltern studies scholarship on geographical thought, while navigating beyond methodological nationalism and Eurocentrism. The book's contributors, comprising historians, geographers, urban theorists, and a social activist, present diverse studies spanning colonial India, post-colonial Tanzania, Andean Ecuador, Delhi's recycling centres, Bolivian protest sites, the Indian Ocean, and urban fragments. The volume contends that politicointellectual skills are vital for conceiving and representing subaltern geographies. This craft involves grappling with the complexities of translation, mistranslation, and the untranslatability inherent in radically different geographical descriptions. The book further explores the challenges of retrieving notionally subaltern space from archives or through ethnographic and textual research. Lastly, it addresses the representational hurdles posed by ordinariness and everyday spatiality in contrast to conventional geographical descriptions.

Wang, Ya Ping / Kintrea, Keith / Everatt, D. et al. (eds.), New Drivers of Division: Urbanisation and Spatial Inequality in Africa and Asia. (Sustainable Development Goals Series) 295 pp. 2025:8 (Springer, GW) <749-902>
ISBN 978-981-9656-28-8 hard ¥11,766.- (税込) EUR 49.99

Xu, Hong, Bronze Trend in East Asia: Millennial Changes in the Pre-Oracle Age. 167 pp. 2025:7 (Springer, GW) <749-904>
ISBN 978-981-9637-07-2 hard ¥28,244.- (税込) EUR 119.99

This book outlines the preface of bronze civilization in East Asia, and traces back to the beginning of "Bronze China". Dating back from more than 6,000 years ago to 3,000 years ago, this book sorts out the archaeological discoveries in China from primitive copper alloys to red copper and bronze, clarifying the development of bronze techniques 1,000 years before the discovery of oracle bone inscriptions. It examines the archaeological materials from the late Longshan Period to the early Shang Dynasty to explain how bronze was discovered in China and how bronze ritual vessel influenced the ceremony system as the carrier and symbol of Chinese ritual civilization.

A.オロス著　アジアの高齢化の安全保障－いかに人口変動がアメリカの同盟国と敵対国に影響を与えているか－
Oros, Andrew, Asia's Aging Security: How Demographic Change Affects America's Allies and Adversaries. (Contemporary Asia in the World) 328 pp. 2025:9 (Columbia U. Pr., US) <749-310>
ISBN 978-0-231-20560-3 hard ¥30,145.- (税込) US$ 145.00
ISBN 978-0-231-20561-0 paper ¥7,692.- (税込) US$ 37.00

Major demographic transitions are underway in Asia and the Pacific. The populations of China, Japan, Taiwan, South Korea, and Russia are aging and shrinking, while India, the Philippines, Vietnam, and Australia, among others, continue to grow. How will these striking changes affect regional security dynamics and the United States-led alliance structure in the Indo-Pacific?Andrew L. Oros offers an expert analysis of how rapid aging and population shifts are transforming the military strategies and capabilities of regional powers in Asia. Examining sixteen states, he provides a comparative view of the developing landscape and explores ways to address the consequences. Oros demonstrates that, contrary to what many have claimed, states with shrinking populations will continue to be formidable military powers. He develops a novel theoretical and empirical argument for why rapid aging does not necessarily dampen security competition. Nonetheless, demographic shifts in the coming decades will fundamentally alter the security challenges facing the United States and its allies. Oros considers how technological change and health care advances are mitigating the drawbacks of aging populations as well as how factors such as autonomous defense systems and artificial intelligence present new challenges. Rigorous and timely, Asia's Aging Security makes a forceful case that adjustment to demographic change is a necessity for twenty-first-century foreign policy.

Bosah, Genevieve / E. Hinson, Robert / Adae, E. K. (eds.), Strategic Public Relations in Emerging Economies: Public and Private Sector Perspectives. (Palgrave Studies of Marketing in Emerging Economies) 234 pp. 2025:8 (Springer, GW) <749-420>
ISBN 978-3-031-85343-2 hard ¥30,598.- (税込) EUR 129.99

This book examines the nuances of public relations in the developing world. Offering a comprehensive exploration, description, analysis, and explanation of diverse PR strategies, tactics, and challenges, authors draw on insights from both the public and private sectors of developing societies. The chapters explore the unique cultural nuances, socio-political contexts, and emerging trends that continue to shape PR practices in emerging economies. The book examines how to effectively navigate complex regulatory environments, build strong relationships with publics, and leverage innovative communication strategies to achieve impactful results in the public and private sectors. This must-have book provides valuable insights into the challenges and opportunities facing PR professionals in emerging markets.

Bosah, Genevieve / Hinson, Robert E. / Adae, E. K. (eds.), Redefining Public Relations in Emerging Markets: Regional Insights from Africa, South America and Asia. (Palgrave Studies of Marketing in Emerging Economies) 262 pp. 2025:7 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <749-421>
ISBN 978-3-031-85335-7 hard ¥30,598.- (税込) EUR 129.99

This book explores the dynamics of public relations (PR) in emerging economies across Africa, South America, and Asia. Offering an in-depth examination of the cultural, political, and media landscapes that define PR practices in these regions, chapters highlight innovative approaches, challenges, and opportunities for both scholars and practitioners. The authors explore the unique ways organisations address ethical dilemmas, respond to crises, and leverage purpose-driven campaigns to build trust and safeguard reputations. Offering insights into the integration of digital tools and AI in PR, the book explores the evolution of gender dynamics in leadership, the role of PR in addressing socio-environmental crises and stakeholder engagement. A valuable resource for PR practitioners, academics, and students, this book bridges global trends with local adaptations, offering practical guidance and a thought-provoking analysis on the exciting and complex world of public relations in emerging economies.

中東・アジアにおける政府系ファンドの政治経済
Mogielnicki, Robert (ed.), A Political Economy of Sovereign Wealth Funds in the Middle East and Asia. (International Political Economy Series) 169 pp. 2025:7 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <749-187>
ISBN 978-3-031-85259-6 hard ¥32,952.- (税込) EUR 139.99

This book on sovereign wealth funds (SWFs) in the Middle East and Asia brings together leading scholars and practitioners focusing on investment trends in two prominent and influential regions of the globe. The resulting political economy mapping of these investment vehicles breaks new ground in elucidating prominent geographic contours of the global SWF sector. The interregional framing likewise reveals the strategic economic significance of SWF-facilitated linkages between the Middle East and Asia. The work probes three cross-cutting themes. The initial chapters explore the dynamics of competition and collaboration amongst Middle Eastern and Asian SWFs. This book then turns to the energy, environmental, and sustainability issues shaping SWF investment behavior. Finally, country-specific chapters examine how and why SWF investments materialize within key markets. These interregional connections enabled by sovereign wealth represent an expanding economic frontier with long-term implications for the Middle East, Asia, and the global economy.