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

Sagar, Paul, Basic Equality. 240 pp. 2024:6 (Princeton U. Pr., US) <715-60>
ISBN 978-0-691-25534-7 hard ¥7,276.- (税込) US$ 35.00 *

An innovative argument that vindicates our normative commitment to basic equality, synthesising philosophy, history, and psychologyWhat makes human beings one another's equals? That we are "basic equals" has become a bedrock assumption in Western moral and political philosophy. And yet establishing why we ought to believe this claim has proved fiendishly difficult, floundering in the face of the many inequalities that characterise the human condition. In this provocative work, Paul Sagar offers a novel approach to explaining and justifying basic equality. Rather than attempting to find an independent foundation for basic equality, he argues, we should instead come to see our commitment to this idea as the result of the practice of treating others as equals. Moreover, he continues, it is not enough to grapple with the problem through philosophy alone-by just thinking very hard, in our armchairs; we must draw insights from history and psychology as well.Sagar writes that, as things stand, there appear to be no good arguments for believing in the truth of basic equality. Indeed, for much of Western intellectual history and social practice, basic inequality has been the default position. How is it then, Sagar asks, that in Western societies, in a period of less than a century, basic equality emerged as the dominant view? Sagar approaches this not as a mere philosophical puzzle, but as a dramatic historical development. In so doing, he shows us what is at stake when human beings treat one another as equals just because they are human beings.

Beers, Laura, Orwell's Ghosts: Wisdom and Warnings for the Twenty-First Century. 224 pp. 2024:6 (Norton, US) <715-669>
ISBN 978-1-324-07508-0 hard ¥5,611.- (税込) US$ 26.99 *

George Orwell dedicated his career to exposing social injustice and political duplicity, urging his readers to face hard truths about Western society and politics. Now, the uncanny parallels between the interwar era and our own-rising inequality, censorship, and challenges to traditional social hierarchies-make his writing even more of the moment. Invocations of Orwell and his classic dystopian novel 1984 have reached new heights, with both sides of the political spectrum embracing the rhetoric of Orwellianism. In Orwell's Ghosts, historian Laura Beers considers Orwell's full body of work-his six novels, three nonfiction works, and brilliant essays on politics, language, and the class system-to examine what "Orwellian" truly means and reveal the misconstrued thinker in all his complexity. She explores how Orwell's writing on free speech addresses the proliferation of "fake news" and the emergence of cancel culture, highlights his vivid critiques of capitalism and the oppressive nature of the British Empire, and, in contrast, analyzes his failure to understand feminism. Timely, wide-ranging, and thought-provoking, Orwell's Ghosts investigates how the writings of a lionized champion of truth and freedom can help us face the crises of modernity.

Abensour, Miguel, A Politics of Emancipation: The Miguel Abensour Reader. Ed. by M. Breaugh et al. (SUNY Series in Contemporary French Thought) 304 pp. 2024:6 (State U. New York Pr., US) <715-675>
ISBN 978-1-4384-9825-6 hard ¥20,582.- (税込) US$ 99.00 *

遺産と政治国際ハンドブック
Bozoglu, Goenuel / Campbell, Gary / Smith, L. et al. (eds.), The Routledge International Handbook of Heritage and Politics. (Routledge Handbooks on Museums, Galleries and Heritage) 670 pp. 2024:4 (Routledge, UK) <715-677>
ISBN 978-1-032-29260-1 hard ¥65,021.- (税込) GB￡ 230.00 *

The Routledge International Handbook of Heritage and Politics surveys the intersection of heritage and politics today and helps elucidate the political implications of heritage practices. It explicitly addresses the political and analyses tensions and struggles over the distribution of power. Including contributions from early-career scholars and more established researchers, the Handbook provides global and interdisciplinary perspectives on the political nature, significance and consequence of heritage and the various practices of management and interpretation. Taking a broad view of heritage, which includes not just tangible and intangible phenomena, but the ways in which people and societies live with, embody, experience, value and use the past, the volume provides a critical survey of political tensions over heritage in diverse social and cultural contexts. Chapters within the book consider topics such as: neoliberal dynamics; terror and mobilisations of fear and hatred; old and new nationalisms; public policy; recognition; denials; migration and refugeeism; crises; colonial and decolonial practice; communities; self- and personhood; as well as international relations, geopolitics, soft power and cooperation to address global problems.The Routledge International Handbook of Heritage and Politics makes an intervention into the theoretical debate about the nature and role of heritage as a political resource. It is essential reading for academics and students working in heritage studies, museum studies, politics, memory studies, public history, geography, urban studies and tourism.

Campo, Enrico / Citton, Yves (eds.), The Politics of Curiosity: Alternatives to the Attention Economy. (Critiques and Alternatives to Capitalism) 280 pp. 2024:4 (Routledge, UK) <715-678>
ISBN 978-1-032-51298-3 hard ¥40,991.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00 *

Through a variety of studies in the emerging field of attentional studies, this book examines and seeks alternatives to the current attention economy. Bringing together the work of leading scholars of 'critical attention studies' to reflect on issues such as techno-politics, socio-politics, and the politics of distraction, it offers a new and multi-disciplinary conceptualization of attention that emphasizes the connections between attention and curiosity, distraction, decoloniality and care. Above all, The Politics of Curiosity asks us to consider the nature and ambivalence of the curious forms of politics that might be taking shape in the shadow of our current attention economy.The "attention economy" has become a household name: we all know our attention is being harvested, commodified and packaged to be sold to advertisers by capitalist platforms. We all complain about it; some of us dream of disconnection; others call to fight back. By focusing on attentional deficits, and by reducing attention to being focused, however, the common view may miss wider stakes, and more promising opportunities. This collective volume provides a new frame of analysis based on three displacements. First, it relocates attentional issues within a triangulation that explores a continuum between attention, distraction and curiosity. Second, it invites us to investigate into the mental infrastructures that socially condition our perceptions and understandings of the world. Third, it points towards emancipatory politics of curiosity to provide alternatives to the attention economy. Contributions range from pedagogy to media theory, via digital studies, epistemology, sociology, political philosophy, literary history, aesthetics, film and dance studies. They gather some of the leading scholars who shaped the study of attention, questioned the values of distraction and explored the potentials of curiosity over the recent years. They extend across nine countries, four continents and seven languages, to provide a multicultural approach to these debates. Together, they help us understand how our current mental infrastructures have taken shape, under specific regimes of power and authority, in a world dominated by capital, colonialism and patriarchy. But they also sketch what can be done to redeploy them around imperatives of respect and care - from a better awareness of our mental biases, online behaviors and bodily movements, to our collective capacity to restructure classroom interactions, to launch alternative digital platforms, to build democratic movements.The first platform for discussion of the politics of attention and curiosity - and an essential point of reference for future debate - this book will appeal to scholars of sociology, politics and psychology.

Closs Stephens, Angharad / Tazzioli, Martina (eds.), Collective Movements and Emerging Political Spaces. (Routledge Studies in International Political Sociology) 280 pp. 2024:4 (Routledge, UK) <715-679>
ISBN 978-1-032-20556-4 hard ¥40,991.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00 *

Collective Movements and Emerging Political Spaces addresses the politics of new forms of collective movements, ranging from anti-austerity protests to migrant struggles and anticolonial demonstrations.Drawing on examples from various countries, as well as struggles taking place across borders, this book traces the emergence of new practices of being political, described as 'collective movements'. These represent something looser than a common identity - long held as necessary for a political struggle to cohere. They also suggest a different understanding of emancipation to the promise of transformation in time. By addressing various examples of 'collective movements', the chapters in this book examine other ways of being political together, formed through relations carved in cramped spaces or small movements that rearrange our ideas about what is possible. Drawing on the temporary and fleeting nature of many migrants' struggles, the chapters develop concepts and approaches that acknowledge how such mobilisations trouble many standard political sociological categories - including nation, identity and citizenship. In combining an attentiveness to theories of affect, emotion and atmosphere, they also go beyond a focus on either individuals or collectives, to address the ways bodies are moved by the world and by others. Overall, the chapters propose new questions, methods and starting points for addressing collective movements in emerging political spaces, and for understanding how what counts as politics is being redrawn on the ground.This book will interest students, researchers and scholars of international political sociology, human geography, international relations, critical security studies and migration studies.

Doganova, Liliana, Discounting the Future: The Ascendancy of a Political Technology. 336 pp. 2024:2 (Zone Books, US) <715-680>
ISBN 978-1-942130-91-8 hard ¥5,821.- (税込) US$ 28.00 *

Finchelstein, Federico, The Wannabe Fascists: A Guide to Understanding the Greatest Threat to Democracy. 264 pp. 2024:5 (U. California Pr., US) <715-681>
ISBN 978-0-520-39249-6 hard ¥5,186.- (税込) US$ 24.95 *

Meet today's almost fascists and learn the warning signs to intercept them on the road from populism to dictatorship. With The Wannabe Fascists, historian Federico Finchelstein offers a precise explanation of why Trumpism and similar movements across the world belong to a new political breed, the last outcome of the combined histories of fascism and populism: the wannabe fascists. This new type of populist politician is typically a legally elected leader who, unlike previous populists who were eager to distance themselves from fascism, turns to totalitarian lies, racism, and illegal means to destroy democracy from within. Drawing on almost three decades of research on the histories of fascism and populism around the world, this book lays out in clear language what the author calls the "four pillars of fascism"-xenophobia, propaganda, political violence, and ultimately dictatorship. Finchelstein carefully explains how and why wannabe fascists like Trump, Bolsonaro, and Modi embrace the first three pillars but don't quite succeed in dictatorship and total suppression of the popular vote. The Wannabe Fascists stresses the importance of preventing despots from reaching this tipping point and offers a clear warning for what's at stake.

時代を超えた気候変動と統治の課題
Hale, Thomas, Long Problems: Climate Change and the Challenge of Governing across Time. 256 pp. 2024:4 (Princeton U. Pr., US) <715-683>
ISBN 978-0-691-23812-8 hard ¥6,226.- (税込) US$ 29.95 *

Political strategies for tackling climate change and other "long problems" that span generationsClimate change and its consequences unfold over many generations. Past emissions affect our climate today, just as our actions shape the climate of tomorrow, while the effects of global warming will last thousands of years. Yet the priorities of the present dominate our climate policy and the politics surrounding it. Even the social science that attempts to frame the problem does not theorize time effectively. In this pathbreaking book, Thomas Hale examines the politics of climate change and other "long problems." He shows why we find it hard to act before a problem's effects are felt, why our future interests carry little weight in current debates, and why our institutions struggle to balance durability and adaptability. With long-term goals in mind, he outlines strategies for tilting the politics and policies of climate change toward better outcomes.Globalization "widened" political problems across national boundaries and changed our understanding of politics and governance. Hale argues that we must make a similar shift to understand the "lengthening" of problems across time. He describes tools and strategies that can, under certain conditions, allow policymakers to anticipate future needs and risks, make interventions that get ahead of problems, shift time horizons, adapt to changing circumstances, and set forward-looking goals that endure. As the climate changes, politics must, too. Efforts to solve long-term problems-not only climate change but other issues as well, including technology governance and demographic shifts-can also be a catalyst for a broader institutional transformation oriented toward the long term. With Long Problems, Hale offers an essential guide to governing across time.

Horvath, Agnes, Magic and the Will to Science: A Political Anthropology of Liminal Technicality. (Contemporary Liminality) 248 pp. 2024:3 (Routledge, UK) <715-684>
ISBN 978-1-032-45736-9 hard ¥40,991.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00 *

This book offers a political anthropological perspective on the problematic character of science, combining insights from historical sociology, political theory, and cultural anthropology. Its central idea, departing from the works of Frances Yates and the Gnosticism thesis of Eric Voegelin, is that far from being the radical opposite of magic, modern science effectively grew out of magic, and its varieties, like alchemy, Hermetic philosophy, the occult, Gnosticism, and Neoplatonism. Showing that the desire to use science to solve various - real or presumed - problems of human existence has created a permanent liminal crisis, it contends that the 'will to science' is parasitic, existing as it does in sheer relationality, outside of and in between concrete places and communities. A study of the mutual relationship between magic and science in different historical eras, ranging from the Early Neolithic to recent disease prevention ideas, Magic and the Will to Science will appeal to scholars and students of social and anthropological theory, and the philosophy and sociology of science.

戦争のあとで？－いかにウクライナ戦争が政治理論に挑むか
Leist, Anton / Zimmermann, Rolf (eds.), After the War?: How the Ukraine War Challenges Political Theories. 320 pp. 2024:4 (de Gruyter, GW) <715-686>
ISBN 978-3-11-118213-1 hard ¥15,288.- (税込) EUR 64.95 *

The war by Russia against the Ukraine will be of serious consequences under a number of political categories. This book is devoted to the study of changes brought about by the war. To set out, it starts with a recollection of the development towards the war in the two decades prior to February 2022. It then asks for the renewal of specific political theories, among them political realism especially, on behalf of the war. Also it studies the consequences for the relevance of international war (jus ad bellum and jus ex bellum) and for the international standing of Western democracies.

21世紀におけるナショナリズムとナショナル・アイデンティティ
Mahler, Gregory S. (ed.), Frustrated Nationalism: Nationalism and National Identity in the Twenty-First Century. (SUNY Series in Comparative Politics) 324 pp. 2024:1 (State U. New York Pr., US) <715-687>
ISBN 978-1-4384-9618-4 hard ¥20,582.- (税込) US$ 99.00 *

Mrovlje, Masa / Zamalin, Alex (eds.), Revolutionary Hope in a Time of Crisis: Political Disillusion, Democracy, and Utopia. (Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought) 160 pp. 2024:4 (Routledge, UK) <715-688>
ISBN 978-1-032-41103-3 hard ¥40,991.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00 *

Revolutionary Hope in a Time of Crisis takes up the question of how to theorize and revive revolutionary hope in the present era of political disillusion. The collection consists of new cutting-edge research essays written by an interdisciplinary mix of established and emerging scholars, bringing together a wide range of intellectual traditions and perspectives. The contributors confront the challenge of relearning hope by exploring the politically transformative potential of past disappointments and defeats. They encourage us to acknowledge, come to terms with and learn from the complexities, failures, and losses entailed in resistance, and to consider them as an occasion for rethinking the established patterns of revolutionary thought. Specifically, the essays question how engagement with past disappointments, losses, and defeats can help us creatively respond to the difficulties and failures of resistance-and inspire our imagination of revolutionary possibilities in the present. Written in an accessible tone without theoretical density or academic jargon, Revolutionary Hope in a Time of Crisis provides theoretical and historical contexts to what it means to engage in left activism today. A vital resource for those interested in intellectual history, political history, radical politics, democracy, and contemporary political theory.

Perriam, Jessamy / Kjoer, Katrine Meldgaard (eds.), Digital States in Practice: Intersections Implications, Interventions. (De Gruyter Contemporary Social Sociences 14) 221 pp. 2024:1 (de Gruyter, GW) <715-689>
ISBN 978-3-11-078760-3 hard ¥23,527.- (税込) EUR 99.95 *

Digitalization in Practice: Intersections, Implications and Interventions shows that as welfare is increasingly digitalized, an investigation of the social implications of this digitalization becomes increasingly pertinent. The book offers chapters on how the state operates, from the day-to-day practices of governance to keeping registers of businesses, from overarching and sometimes contradictory policies to considering how to best include citizens in digitalized processes. Moreover, the book takes a citizen perspective on key issues of access, identification and social harm to consider the social implications of digitalization in the everyday. The diversity of topics in Digitalization in Practice reflects how digitalization as an ongoing process and practice fundamentally impacts and often reshapes the relationship between states and citizens.

Reuchamps, Min / Vrydagh, Julien / Welp, Yanina (eds.), De Gruyter Handbook of Citizens' Assemblies. (Citizens' Assemblies and Mini-Publics 1) 500 pp. 2023:6 (de Gruyter, GW) <715-691>
ISBN 978-3-11-075815-3 hard ¥31,531.- (税込) EUR 133.95 *

Citizens’ Assemblies (CAs) are flourishing around the world. Quite often composed of randomly selected citizens, CAs, arguably, come as a possible answer to contemporary democratic challenges. Democracies worldwide are indeed confronted with a series of disruptive phenomena such as a widespread perception of distrust and growing polarization as well as low performance. Many actors seek to reinvigorate democracy with citizen participation and deliberation. CAs are expected to have the potential to meet this twofold objective. But, despite deliberative and inclusive qualities of CAs, many questions remain open. The increasing popularity of CAs call for a holistic reflection and evaluation on their origins, current uses and future directions. The De Gruyter Handbook of Citizens’ Assemblies showcases the state of the art around the study of CAs and opens novel perspectives informed by multidisciplinary research and renewed thinking about deliberative participatory processes. It discusses the latest theoretical, empirical, and methodological scientific developments on CAs and offers a unique resource for scholars, decision-makers, practitioners, and curious citizens to better understand the qualities, purposes, promises but also pitfalls of CAs.

政治学における民間組織の進化と多様性
Ronit, Karsten, Political Species: The Evolution and Diversity of Private Organizations in Politics. (Routledge Advances in International Relations and Global Politics) 232 pp. 2024:4 (Routledge, UK) <715-692>
ISBN 978-1-032-08017-8 hard ¥40,991.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00 *

In Political Species, Karsten Ronit expertly argues that evolutionary biology can provide important sources of inspiration for analyzing the proliferation of private actors/organizations in domestic and global politics. Focusing on the evolution of a diversity of such private actors/organizations in politics, Ronit emphasizes that individuals are affected by and contribute to societal, cultural, and political evolution through a range of formal organizations and that societies, cultures, and politics influence and build upon values and norms transmitted by individuals via these formal organizations. By being mindful of these contextual factors and keeping in mind the important research done in the micro- and macro-perspectives, we can gain a better understanding of the diversity of private actors/organizations and how they evolve and adapt. Evolutionary biology teaches us that over time, different varieties emerge, specialize, and adapt to the ever-changing conditions in complex environments before accumulating into new species. Much change characterizes these processes of political evolution because actors constantly emerge and add to the existing population of private actors that, in one way or another, are engaged in politics.

Saidel, Matias, Neoliberalism Reloaded: Authoritarian Governmentality and the Rise of the Radical Right. (De Gruyter Contemporary Social Sciences 13) 200 pp. 2023:1 (de Gruyter, GW) <715-694>
ISBN 978-3-11-072326-7 hard ¥24,704.- (税込) EUR 104.95 *

Neoliberalism Reloaded: Authoritarian Governmentality and the Rise of the Radical Right analyzes the violent enforcement of neoliberal governmentality and its relationship to the emergence of a new political and cultural Right that combines political authoritarianism, ethnocentric nationalism, racism, misogyny, and antifeminism with neoliberal economic principles. Many critical thinkers have defined this post-2008 crisis phase as a fascist moment of neoliberalism since far-Right movements and parties are not only enhancing their political representation but also setting the agenda of today’s politics. However, such a crucial political moment needs more precise analytical tools. In this framework, Neoliberalism Reloaded: Authoritarian Governmentality and the Rise of the Radical Right seeks to understand the emergence of the New Right and punitive neoliberalism not only as a reaction to a crisis of accumulation but also as an outcome of neoliberal reason and the historical neoliberal alliance with conservative and reactionary political forces. Therefore, far from thinking this moment as exceptional, this book seeks the roots of today’s punitive neoliberalism in its theoretical framework and in the violence inherent to neoliberal capitalism towards those racialized, colonized, genderized and precarized populations that cannot adjust to the norm of competitiveness. Thus, Neoliberalism Reloaded seeks to contribute to understanding the challenges of our present as a necessary step to imagine alternative futures.

Y.スタヴラカキス著　ポピュリストのディスコース
Stavrakakis, Yannis, Populist Discourse: Recasting Populism Research. 168 pp. 2024:4 (Routledge, UK) <715-695>
ISBN 978-1-032-28491-0 hard ¥40,991.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00 *
ISBN 978-1-032-28492-7 paper ¥10,739.- (税込) GB￡ 37.99 *

Populist Discourse: Recasting Populism Research offers a refreshingly innovative discourse theory perspective on populist phenomena. Reading this book will help you familiarize yourself with the historical genealogy of significant populist phenomena from the end of the 19th century onwards and with the main conceptual/theoretical accounts established to analyse them. Mainstream conceptualizations of populism in both academia and public discourse are critically discussed in order to map new, promising avenues for research. Inspired by the works of Ernesto Laclau and Chantal Mouffe, the book addresses current challenges within populism research and highlights the new directions that a conceptually nuanced, theoretically rigorous and historically informed discursive orientation can contribute to the contemporary study of populism. Without sacrificing attention to detail, strong bibliographical support and a focus on the future development of populism research, Populist Discourse is written in accessible language to engage populism scholars, advanced undergraduates and graduate-level students within the field of political science. Due to its interdisciplinary character, it will also appeal to readers associated with various politically informed area studies and the broader field of ideology and discourse analysis.

A.ヴィンセント著『現代の政治イデオロギー』第4版
Vincent, Andrew, Modern Political Ideologies. 4th ed. 400 pp. 2024:1 (Wiley, US) <715-696>
ISBN 978-1-119-98164-0 paper ¥9,968.- (税込) US$ 47.95 *

MODERN POLITICAL IDEOLOGIES Modern Political Ideologies provides a broad overview of the origins, development, and core principles of the major political ideologies of the past two centuries. With an accessible, student-friendly format, this bestselling textbook helps students understand the values, beliefs, and social forces that shape today's political messaging, public discourse, and legislative agendas. Concise and approachable chapters describe ideologies such as liberalism, conservatism, socialism, fascism, fundamentalism, and nationalism. Retaining the student-friendly format of previous editions, the fourth edition of Modern Political Ideologies is fully revised to reflect the social changes that inform today's political views. An entirely new chapter offers insights into the growth of populism and its effects on contemporary political dialogue, while expanded material addresses anarchism, feminism, neoliberalism, environmentalism and "green" ideologies, identity politics, and other topics of current relevance. Containing a useful glossary of key terms and extensive end notes for each chapter, Modern Political Ideologies, Fourth Edition is the ideal textbook for advanced undergraduate courses in political science, political ideology, political theory, comparative politics, and international relations. It is also an excellent supplement for courses in the social sciences and humanities that investigate the history of political ideas.

Wariboko, Nimi, Lifemaking: Political Philosophy for Human Flourishing in African Perspective. 208 pp. 2024:6 (State U. New York Pr., US) <715-697>
ISBN 978-1-4384-9821-8 hard ¥20,582.- (税込) US$ 99.00 *

政治的身体－A.カヴァレロの政治思想に関する著作
Landerreche Cardillo, Paula / Silverbloom, Rachel (eds.), Political Bodies: Writings on Adriana Cavarero's Political Thought. (SUNY Series in Contemporary Italian Philosophy) 288 pp. 2024:3 (State U. New York Pr., US) <715-46>
ISBN 978-1-4384-9708-2 hard ¥20,582.- (税込) US$ 99.00 *

〔英訳〕J.ランシエール著　不確実な時代
Ranciere, Jacques, Uncertain Times. Tr. by A. Brown. 154 pp. 2024:2 (Polity Pr., UK) <715-58>
ISBN 978-1-5095-5867-4 hard ¥13,502.- (税込) US$ 64.95 *
ISBN 978-1-5095-5868-1 paper ¥4,770.- (税込) US$ 22.95 *

The global triumph of democracy was announced thirty years ago, promising an age of consensus in which the dispassionate consideration of objective problems would give birth to a world at peace. Today, these grand hopes lie in ruins, and the era touted as new has turned out to be remarkably similar to the old order. To understand why this might be so, we need to examine the nature of the consensus itself, which is not the peace that it promised but rather the map of a territory on which new forms of warfare are being waged. The objective reality that imposed itself at the end of the 1990s was an absolutized and globalized capitalism which has produced ever more inequality, exclusion and hate. In this book Jacques Ranciere delivers a frank and piercing critique of the globalized capitalist consensus. The invasion of Iraq, the riots on Capitol Hill and the rise of the European far right all attest to the true nature of this consensus, as does the current state-sanctioned racism which exploits the disenchanted progressive tradition and is led by an intelligentsia that claims to be left-wing. At the same time, Ranciere praises the dynamism of social movements which affirm the power of the assembly of equals and its capacity for worldmaking: autonomous protest collectives have proven themselves capable of opening breaches in the consensual order and challenging the post-1989 system of domination.

民主的資本主義の危機
Wolf, Martin, The Crisis of Democratic Capitalism. 496 pp. 2023 (Allen Lane, UK) * paper 2024:2 <251-50046>
ISBN 978-0-241-30341-2 hard ¥8,481.- (税込) GB￡ 30.00
ISBN 978-0-14-198583-1 paper ¥3,671.- (税込) GB￡ 12.99

From the author of The Shifts and the Shocks, and one of the most influential writers on economics, a reckoning with how and why the relationship between democracy and capitalism is coming undone We are living in an age when economic failings have shaken faith in global capitalism. Political failings have undermined trust in liberal democracy and in the very notion of truth. The ties that ought to bind open markets to free and fair elections are being strained and rejected, even in democracy's notional heartlands. Around the world, democratic capitalism, which depends on the determined separation of power from wealth, is in crisis. Some now argue that capitalism is better without democracy; others that democracy is better without capitalism.This book is a forceful rejoinder to both views. It analyses how the marriage between capitalism and democracy has become so fraught and yet insists that a divorce would be an almost unimaginable calamity. Martin Wolf, one of the wisest public voices on global affairs, argues that for all its recent failings - slowing growth, increasing inequality, widespread popular disillusion - democratic capitalism, though inherently fragile, remains the best system we know for human flourishing. Capitalism and democracy are complementary opposites: they need each other if either is to thrive. Wolf's superb exploration of their marriage shows us how citizenship and a shared faith in the common good are not romantic slogans but the essential foundation of our economic and political freedom.

Garcia-Magarino, Sergio, Violence, Politics and Religion: A General Theory of Violent Radicalization. (Political Violence) 216 pp. 2024:4 (Routledge, UK) <715-118>
ISBN 978-1-032-55793-9 hard ¥40,991.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00 *

This book offers a general theory of violent radicalization and uses case studies from a variety of different countries and groups to illustrate this.The first and fundamental objective of the book is to provide an explanatory framework to understand phenomena related to violent radicalization, deradicalization, the prevention of radicalization and to political violence; in particular, that inspired by religion. The second objective follows from the first. Understanding violent radicalization of religious inspiration implies delving into two key concepts: violent radicalization and religion. This second objective is indeed elusive, since, on the one hand, many liberal democracies have undergone processes of secularization or, at least, have lost interest in examining religion in public debates. Therefore, rigorously exploring social problems where religion seems to be involved, in one way or another, is complicated. Moreover, the notion of violent radicalization, in turn, is highly contested and confused with other ideas, such as polarization, extremism, terrorism or nonviolent radicalization. Finally, the book aims to bring theory into dialogue with empirical phenomena, and to test it against concrete cases related to violent radicalization and its prevention, on the one hand, and religion, on the other. The book's originality comes from both its innovative, methodological approach and its breadth, with cases from several countries (Spain, the United States, Ireland, India, Israel, Russia and Colombia) and different ideological groups (revolutionary communists, nationalist movements, Jihadist groups, white and black supremacists).This book will be of much interest to students of terrorism and political violence, radicalization, sociology and international relations in general.