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

Badaoui, Nicolas (dir.), La diplomatie culturelle et religieuse: paix et dialogue au Moyen-Orient. (Diplomatie et strategie) 212 p. 2024:2 (L'Harmattan, FR) <721-80>
ISBN 978-2-336-42512-2 paper ¥4,708.- (税込) EUR 20.00

R.Youngs著　民主的岐路－21世紀の政治学における変容
Youngs, Richard, Democratic Crossroads: Transformations in Twenty First-Century Politics. (Carnegie Endowment for International Peace) 216 pp. 2024:7 (Oxford U. Pr., US) <721-580>
ISBN 978-0-19-776241-7 hard ¥20,582.- (税込) US$ 99.00
ISBN 978-0-19-776242-4 paper ¥6,226.- (税込) US$ 29.95 *

After more than a decade of democratic regression, three major crises have acted to reshape global politics in recent years: climate change, the Covid-19 pandemic and its economic legacy, and geopolitical conflict. In Democratic Crossroads, Richard Youngs argues these crises are altering the balance between democratic and authoritarian dynamics around the world. Yet while they add to the strains on democracy, they are also awakening a momentum of democratic resilience and renewal. He argues that to deal with the era's momentous challenges, democratic politics need a major boost and reboot. Without stronger commitments to uphold and improve democratic norms and practices, democracy may not weather these challenges. As Youngs shows, far-reaching democratic innovation that gives citizens effective influence over epoch-defining matters will help ensure that democratic values are more vigorously defended. In a moment of pivotal change, this book explains how democracies can retain their resiliency and highlights the key factors that will determine democracy's fortunes in the future.

右派の世界－ラディカルな保守主義とグローバルな秩序
Abrahamsen, Rita / Drolet, Jean-Francois et al., World of the Right: Radical Conservatism and Global Order. 2024:8 (Cambridge U. Pr., UK) <721-596>
ISBN 978-1-009-51610-5 hard ¥19,789.- (税込) GB￡ 70.00 *
ISBN 978-1-009-51608-2 paper ¥6,498.- (税込) GB￡ 22.99 *

The contemporary radical Right is not merely a series of nationalist projects but a global phenomenon. This book shows how radical conservative thinkers have developed long-term counter-hegemonic strategies that challenge prevailing social and political orders both nationally and internationally. At the heart of this ideological project is a critique of liberal globalisation that seeks to mobilise transversal alliances against a common enemy: the 'New Class' of global managerial elites who are accused of undermining national sovereignty, traditional values, and cultures. 'World of the Right' argues that while the radical Right is far from a unified political movement, its calls for sovereignty, civilisational orders, and multipolarity enable complex, strategic convergences with illiberal states such as China and Russia, as well as states and people in the Global South. The potential consequences for the future of the liberal world order are profound and wide-ranging.

Mitrofanova, Oksana, France-Ukraine: une histoire des relations diplomatiques et militaires: 1991-2023. 358 p. 2024:2 (Maison des sciences de l'homme, FR) <721-626>
ISBN 978-2-7351-2925-6 paper ¥3,295.- (税込) EUR 14.00

Reshetnikov, Anatoly, Chasing Greatness: On Russia's Discursive Interaction with the West over the Past Millennium. (Configurations: Critical Studies of World Politics) 286 pp. 2024:3 (U. Michigan Pr., US) <721-636>
ISBN 978-0-472-07669-7 hard ¥15,592.- (税込) US$ 75.00 *
ISBN 978-0-472-05669-9 paper ¥7,265.- (税込) US$ 34.95 *

Over the last two decades, it has become clear that Russia insists on its great power status, even at considerable cost. Chasing Greatness provides an interpretive explanation of the tacit rules that shape Russia's great power identity today. Anatoly Reshetnikov argues that this never-ending chase for greatness is a result of how Russia and its predecessors-including the USSR, Russian Empire, Muscovy, and Kievan Rus'-historically interacted with its neighbors to the east, the south, and particularly the west. By analyzing an extensive amount of original source material, including primary sources that have not been previously translated into English, he is able to reconstruct a millennial history of the Russian concepts that express political greatness. He also traces numerous encounters between Russia and the West, as well as Russia's troubled integration into the European society of states in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, to show how these concepts have affected Russia's interaction with international society. Despite its substantive historical depth, Chasing Greatness is not a book of history. Rather, it is a synthesizing social science work inspired by the continental tradition of the critical history of modernity. As such, the book is more about the present than about the past. Its main aim is to expose and explain the rich conceptual baggage behind Russia's unceasing great power rhetoric (domestic and international) and how this rhetoric drives the current international crises involving Russia.

S.ベンハビブ他編　移民、庇護、変化する国境
Benhabib, Seyla / Shachar, Ayelet (eds.), Lawless Zones, Rightless Subjects: Migration, Asylum, and Shifting Borders. 330 pp. 2024:8 (Cambridge U. Pr., UK) <721-640>
ISBN 978-1-009-51281-7 hard ¥19,789.- (税込) GB￡ 70.00 *
ISBN 978-1-009-51284-8 paper ¥7,346.- (税込) GB￡ 25.99 *

Responding to ever-increasing pressures of migration, states, supranational, and subnational actors deploy complex moves and maneuvers to reconfigure borders, rights, and territory, giving rise to a changing legal cartography of international relations and international law. The purpose of this volume is to study this new reconfiguration of rights, territoriality, and jurisdiction at the empirical and normative levels and to examine its implications for the future of democratic governance within and across borders. Written by a diverse and accomplished group of scholars, the chapters in this volume employ legal, historical, philosophical, critical, discursive, and postcolonial perspectives to explore how the territoriality of the modern states - ostensibly, the most stable and unquestionable element undergirding the current international system - has been rewritten and dramatically reimagined. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

海洋保護地域の安全保障化
De Santo, Elizabeth M., Securitizing Marine Protected Areas: Geopolitics, Environmental Justice, and Science. (Earthscan Oceans) 192 pp. 2024:7 (Routledge, UK) <721-641>
ISBN 978-1-032-04097-4 hard ¥40,991.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00 *
ISBN 978-1-032-04096-7 paper ¥11,870.- (税込) GB￡ 41.99 *

This book presents a novel examination of Marine Protected Areas within a security context, bridging science, policy, and geopolitics, and addressing the often-under-emphasized aspect of environmental justice.The book argues that Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) are not only a critical tool for protecting marine biodiversity in a changing climate, but they also play an important role at the intersection of geopolitics and environmental justice, and they provide a case study of environmental governance at the science-policy interface. The book takes an interdisciplinary and critical approach and builds on the author's two decades of experience working in this field. Geopolitically, it explores the ways in which MPAs provide footprints for influence and access to resources far from home for nations with overseas territories. MPAs also raise important issues connected to equity, environmental justice, and social justice, including access to resources and participation in environmental decision-making processes, key aspects for achieving long-term conservation goals. The book also demonstrates how MPAs are a critical lens for understanding how policy makers cope with scientific uncertainty, and the necessity of well-designed and precautionary science advisory processes. While the ecological contribution of MPAs is paramount, social issues and geopolitical considerations are often less obvious in the discourse underpinning MPAs, and the resulting tensions can undermine long-term conservation objectives. By applying the three lenses of geopolitics, environmental justice and science, this book provides key insights to help the international community moving past the 2030 biodiversity targets and beyond, towards a future of meaningful, equitable, and effective conservation approaches.This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of biodiversity conservation, marine studies, political geography, environmental governance, and science-policy studies. It will also be of interest to marine conservation governance professionals and policymakers.

大国の競争ハンドブック
Fong, Brian C. H. / Ja Ian, Chong (eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Great Power Competition. (Routledge International Handbooks) 368 pp. 2024:7 (Routledge, UK) <721-642>
ISBN 978-1-032-36791-0 hard ¥65,021.- (税込) GB￡ 230.00 *

The Routledge Handbook of Great Power Competition is a comprehensive, pioneering, and interdisciplinary guide of this re-emerging field.Offering a team of cutting-edge researchers in the field, it advances an analytical framework of great power competition. It surveys the major theories (mainstream and critical), actors (state, quasi-state, and non-state), mechanisms (military, economic, and ideational influence), and domains (territorial and non-territorial) pertaining to contemporary great power competition.This Handbook is an essential text for scholars and students of international relations, security studies, global governance, and comparative politics. It will also appeal to global policy makers and practitioners who need to observe contemporary great power competition.

国際研究における事実と説明
Jackson, Patrick Thaddeus, Facts and Explanations in International Studies: ... and beyond. 208 pp. 2024:8 (Routledge, UK) <721-643>
ISBN 978-1-032-59532-0 hard ¥40,991.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00 *
ISBN 978-1-032-59704-1 paper ¥10,739.- (税込) GB￡ 37.99 *

The politicizing of facts and factual claims has led some to abandon all talk of a meaningful distinction between a fact and a strongly held political commitment. This book argues that what we need, instead, are better accounts of facts and their relationship to explanation-ones that take seriously the dependence of facts on communities of practice and on consensus procedures of measurement, but do not abandon the epistemic distinctiveness of facts.Bringing clarity and order to the discussion by disclosing both key commonalities and significant differences between the ways we talk about facts and explanations, Patrick Thaddeus Jackson argues that although intrinsically more contestable than facts, social-scientific explanations can nonetheless be related to them in ways that allow researchers to evaluate explanations based on whether and to what extent they accord with the relevant facts in each situation. Ardently defending a pragmatist account of knowledge that has no patience with either "alternative facts" or "anything goes" relativism, the author develops a set of concepts that enables tricky philosophical problems to be dissolved. After examining facts, causal explanations, and interpretive explanations, the book culminates in an account of the priority of interpretation in the evaluation of any explanation-and any seemingly factual claim.Defining the terms of the debate and grounding better conversations about the issues, this book will appeal to all scholars interested in the philosophy and methodology of the social sciences, international studies, international relations, security studies, and anyone teaching or studying research methods.

Jacobsen, Marc / Waever, Ole / Gad, Ulrik Pram (eds.), Greenland in Arctic Security: (De)securitization Dynamics under Climatic Thaw and Geopolitical Freeze. 382 pp. 2024:2 (U. Michigan Pr., US) <721-644>
ISBN 978-0-472-07670-3 hard ¥17,671.- (税込) US$ 85.00 *
ISBN 978-0-472-05670-5 paper ¥9,344.- (税込) US$ 44.95 *

Greenland has increasingly captivated imaginations around the globe. Yet, while it is central to the Arctic region, its role has been poorly understood. Greenland in Arctic Security delivers a comprehensive overview of how security dynamics unfold in and in relation to Greenland. Each individual chapter analyzes specific discourses and dynamics pertaining to hard or soft security questions. These span from great power interests in geostrategic infrastructure to domestic debates centered on promoting and protecting Greenland identity when engaging with the outside world. In addition, the book offers perspectives on other security questions that have been catalyzed by the effects of climate change. By combining these different analyses, Greenland in Arctic Security provides new, theoretically informed discussions on how security politics can manifest across different scales and territorial borders. At times, these politics can have consequences beyond their original intent. With Greenland geopolitics and securitization theory of current interest to political and academic debates, this book offers timely insights for readers.

地政学とインド・太平洋地域　第2版
Kapur, Ashok, Geopolitics and the Indo-Pacific Region. 2nd ed. 224 pp. 2024:8 (Routledge, UK) <721-645>
ISBN 978-1-032-70970-3 hard ¥40,991.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00 *
ISBN 978-1-032-70968-0 paper ¥11,022.- (税込) GB￡ 38.99 *

Exploring geopolitics of the Indo-Pacific Region, a major hub of global, economic, commercial, military, diplomatic, and cultural activities in the 21st century, this textbook provides students with an introduction to the existing debates, frameworks, and issues surrounding the Indo-Pacific.The second edition has been revised, updated, and expanded to explain the major build-up of deterrence hubs during 2022-2023 in the Indo-Pacific Region (IPR). The hubs have a clear focus on North Asia (Japan and South Korea), the Taiwan Strait and Taiwan and the South China Sea (the Philippines, Vietnam, and Australia), and India and the Indian Ocean littoral areas (the Persian Gulf and the Bay of Bengal). This edition takes into account the effects of the Ukraine-Russia and Israel-Hamas/Iran proxies' conflicts on the build-up of Russia-China-North Korea-Iran ties and the naval projections by China and Russia in North Pacific, off the Alaska coast, and in relation to Myanmar and Bangladesh and the Gulf/Red Sea areas. Within the purview of maritime security and NATO, the present century is critical with the introduction of missiles and nuclear submarine technology into IPR and by the fragmentation of arms control and nuclear and missile non-proliferation arrangements of the 1960s-2000 period. This volume predicts that China's oft-proclaimed rise to global hegemonic status is not inevitable because of its many economic-social problems and foreign policy dilemmas. Nor is World War III inevitable because no one seeks unlimited warfare, but the regions in conflict will likely remain on a low boil. However, problem-solving and crisis resolution will remain problematic, keeping the 21st century at its toes, due to the inability of regional powers to unite for the common good.Complete with a list of further reading, Geopolitics and the Indo-Pacific Region fills a gap in the market and will be of great interest to upper-year-level undergraduates, postgraduate students, and researchers studying international relations, IPR geopolitics, Asian politics, and Asian security studies.

Pouliot, Vincent / Therien, Jean-Philippe, Comment s'elabore une politique mondiale: dans les coulisses de l'ONU. (Collection academique) 303 p. 2024:2 (Presses de Sciences Po, FR) <721-647>
ISBN 978-2-7246-4200-1 paper ¥5,885.- (税込) EUR 25.00