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

Abidde, Sabella O. / Ayoola, Tokunbo A. (eds.), China in Africa: Between Imperialism and Partnership in Humanitarian Development. 396 pp. 2021 (Lexington Books, US) <664-758>
ISBN 978-1-79361-232-8 hard ¥28,674.- (税込) US$ 133.00 *

This book examines Sino-African relations and their impact on Africa. It argues that Africa's relationship with China has had a profound impact on key sectors in Africa-economic and political development, the media, infrastructural development, foreign direct investments, loans, debt peonage, and international relations. The authors also analyze the imperialist and neo-colonialist implications of this relationship and discuss the degree to which the relationship is beneficial to Africa.

Alden, Chris / Mendez, Alvaro, China and Latin America: Development, Agency and Geopolitics. 240 pp. 2022:2 (Zed Books, UK) <664-697>
ISBN 978-1-78699-253-6 hard ¥19,943.- (税込) GB￡ 70.00
ISBN 978-1-78699-252-9 paper ¥6,549.- (税込) GB￡ 22.99 *

China's role as an economic powerhouse in Latin America is reshaping a region on the cusp of development and change. Since the turn of the century, bilateral trade between China and Latin America has increased massively, going from $12.17 billion in 2000 to $307.94 billion in 2019. From the pampas of Argentina and the vast Brazilian Amazon to Panama's canal and Jamaica's coastal waters, China is financing roads, railways, dams and ports that are transforming regional economies and societies. Beyond China's global search for resources and markets, Bejing's engagement with Latin America is amplified by cutting-edge technologies and a growing assertiveness in regional diplomatic and military affairs. The United States, once complacent in its dominant position over its proverbial 'backyard', is increasingly alarmed by the spectacle of deepening Chinese involvement in this part of the Western hemisphere. What are we to make of these shifting dynamics? In this detailed and up-to-the-minute investigation, Chris Alden, author of the critically acclaimed China in Africa, and Alvaro Mendez, leading expert in the international relations of Latin America, look at the interests, strategies and practices of China's incoming power. The book starts by unpacking the historical links between Imperial China and Colonial Latin America through the 19th century, then turns to the revolutionary role played by Mao's China during the Cold War. Next, it turns to global China's contemporary expansion into Latin America by focusing on the development dimensions of engagement in individual countries, and concurrently, on the exercise of agency by Latin American governments and societies intent on managing Chinese interests to their advantage. Finally, the book addresses these relationships in the context of heightened global competition between China and the United States, which in Latin America manifests as sharpened contestation over everything from investment in lithium mining to the promotion of Covid vaccines.

Raju, Adluri Subramanyam / Basu Ray Chaudhury, A. (eds.), New Futures for BIMSTEC: Connectivity, Commerce and Security. 240 pp. 2021:11 (Routledge, UK) <664-715>
ISBN 978-1-03-212606-7 hard ¥38,461.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00 *
ISBN 978-1-03-213749-0 paper ¥11,392.- (税込) GB￡ 39.99 *

BIMSTEC (Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral Technical and Economic Cooperation) represents one of the most diverse regions of the world. Providing a unique link between South Asia and Southeast Asia, it brings together 1.5 billion people and a combined GDP of $2.7 trillion. This volume focuses on issues related to connectivity, commerce, and security challenges facing BIMSTEC. It studies BIMSTEC's relevance as an inter-governmental organization in the changing international milieu. The volume discusses the necessity of connectivity to enhance Bay solidarity and analyses the political, strategic and security concerns that restrain commercial connectivity. It also looks at the Bay of Bengal region as a zone of competition-and possible collaboration-between the littoral countries and major powers involved in the region.Comprehensive and topical, this volume will be an essential read for scholars and researchers of international relations, South Asian studies, foreign policy, diplomacy, Southeast Asian studies, defence and strategic affairs, maritime studies, international trade, regional cooperation, and political studies.

Kiaer, Jieun / Bianchi, Alessandro / Falato, Giulia et al., Missionary Translators: Translations of Christian Texts in East Asia. 144 pp. 2021:9 (Routledge, UK) * paper 2023 <664-455>
ISBN 978-0-367-46972-6 hard ¥14,241.- (税込) GB￡ 49.99 *
ISBN 978-1-03-212938-9 paper ¥5,694.- (税込) GB￡ 19.99 *

Exploring the history of missionary translation of Christian texts in East Asia, Missionary Translators offers a comparative perspective between the features of East Asian languages and the historical context of the translation. Focusing on the Bible and Christian theological works, it looks at the intersection of linguistics, translation studies and history. This book discusses the real-life challenges faced by missionary translators in producing Christian texts in East Asian languages. Students, historians, scholars and those interested in the study of East Asian cultures or translation will find this book to be an insightful and invaluable resource.

IISS (ed.), Asia-Pacific Regional Security Assessment 2021: Key Developments and Trends. 220 pp. 2021:6 (Routledge, UK) <664-2828>
ISBN 978-1-03-212275-5 paper ¥27,062.- (税込) GB￡ 94.99 *

The Asia-Pacific Regional Security Assessment 2021 provides insight into key regional strategic, geopolitical, economic, military and security topics. Among the topics explored are: US?China decoupling and its regional security implications; Japan's security policy and China; India's emerging grand strategy; Southeast Asia amid rising great-power rivalry; Australia's new regional security posture; NATO's evolving approach to China; The United Kingdom's 'tilt' to the Indo-Pacific; and Emerging technologies and future conflict in the Asia-Pacific.Authors include leading regional analysts and academics Kanti Bajpai, Gordon Flake, Franz-Stefan Gady, Prashanth Parameswaran, Alessio Patalano, Samir Puri, Sarah Raine, Tan See Seng, Drew Thompson, Ashley Townshend, Joanne Wallis and Robert Ward.

Peou, Sorpong, Peace and Security in Indo-Pacific Asia: IR Perspectives in Context. 352 pp. 2021:11 (Routledge, UK) <664-2846>
ISBN 978-0-367-67743-5 hard ¥38,461.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00 *
ISBN 978-0-367-67744-2 paper ¥10,253.- (税込) GB￡ 35.99 *

Peace and Security in Indo-Pacific Asia is for the informed, the interested, and the engaged. Sorpong Peou brings together the skills of the pedagogue with the knowledge of the scholar. -Dr. David Dewitt, University Professor Emeritus, Senior Scholar, York University, Toronto, Canada.Peou's excellent book provides both the lay reader and the specialist with six important theoretical frameworks which should provide the basis for better appreciation of what a security community in Indo-Pacific Asia means in our world today. There are very few scholars who understand the region like Peou. -Dr. W. Andy Knight, Professor of Political Science, the University of Alberta, Canada.Sorpong Peou's extraordinary breadth of knowledge, of both International Relations theory and the key trends in Indo-Pacific Asia, shines through in this authoritative analysis. -Dr. Richard Stubbs, Professor of Political Science, McMaster University, Canada. A pedagogical approach of the textbook that is appreciated is how the author respectfully engages with the theories of IR and is not pushing an agenda of denouncing some theories and trying to persuade the reader of others. We live in such polarizing times that it is truly refreshing to read scholarly work that avoids sensationalistic attacks on theories that have been debated for decades. Each theory in this manuscript is explored on its own terms, and the reader is encouraged to figure out where they stand on these enduring debates in the context of Indo-Pacific security. The approach will lead to compelling classroom discussions of the theories and the politics of the region.This book is a must-read for any student or observer of security trends in the region.-Dr. Mark Williams, Chair and Professor of Political Studies, Vancouver Island University, B.C., Canada.

Diesen, Glenn / Lukin, Alexander (eds.), The Return of Eurasia: Continuity and Change. 313 pp. 2021:7 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <664-2875>
ISBN 978-981-16-2178-9 hard ¥30,598.- (税込) EUR 129.99 *

This book defines Eurasianism, a political idea with a long tradition, for a new century. Historically, Eurasia was depicted as a "third continent" with a geographical and historical space distinctively different from both Europe and Asia. Today, the concept is mobilized by the Russian foreign policy elite to imagine a close relationship with China and indirectly inspires the Chinese Belt and Road Initiative. A Russian-Chinese partnership forms the core of a new Eurasian region, yet Turkey, India, Hungary, Central Asia and the other parts of the supercontinent are also embracing Eurasian concepts. This book is of interest to scholars of Russian and Chinese foreign policy, to economists, and to scholars of political thought.

Dullin, Sabine / Forestier-Peyrat, Etienne et al. (eds.), The Russian Revolution in Asia: From Baku to Batavia. (Routledge Studies in Modern History) 280 pp. 2021:11 (Routledge, UK) * paper 2023 <664-2876>
ISBN 978-0-367-36984-2 hard ¥38,461.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00 *
ISBN 978-1-03-212438-4 paper ¥11,392.- (税込) GB￡ 39.99 *

The Russian Revolution in Asia: From Baku to Batavia presents a unique and timely global history intervention into the historiography of the Russian Revolution of 1917, marking the centenary of one of the most significant modern revolutions. It explores the legacies of the Revolution across the Asian continent and maritime Southeast Asia, with a broad geographic sweep including Iran, the Caucasus, Central Asia, China, the Philippines, Vietnam, Indonesia, and India. It analyses how revolutionary communism intersected with a variety of Asian contexts, from the anti-colonial movement and ethnic tensions, to indigenous cultural frameworks and power structures. In so doing, this volume privileges Asian actors and perspectives, examining how Asian communities reinterpreted the Revolution to serve unexpected ends, including national liberation, regional autonomy, conflict with Russian imperial hegemony, Islamic practice and cultural nostalgia. Methodologically, this volume breaks new ground by incorporating research from a wide range of sources across multiple languages, many analysed for the first time in English-language scholarship.This book will be of use to historians of the Russian Revolution, especially those interested in understanding transnational and transregional perspectives of its impact in Central Asia and Southeast Asia, as well as historians of Asia more broadly. It will also appeal to those interested in the history of Islam.

Hofmann, Reto / Ward, Max (eds.), Transwar Asia: Ideology, Practices, and Institutions, 1920-1960. (SOAS Studies in Modern and Contemporary Japan) 240 pp. 2022:1 (Bloomsbury Academic, UK) <664-2877>
ISBN 978-1-350-18281-3 hard ¥25,641.- (税込) GB￡ 90.00 *

This volume considers the possibilities of the term 'transwar' to understand the history of Asia from the 1920s to the 1960s. Recently, scholars have challenged earlier studies that suggested a neat division between the pre- and postwar or colonial/postcolonial periods in the national histories of East Asia, instead assessing change and continuity across the divide of war. Taking this reconsideration further, Transwar Asia explores the complex processes by which prewar and colonial ideologies, practices, and institutions from the 1920s and 1930s were reconfigured during World War II and, crucially, in the two decades that followed, thus shaping the Asian Cold War and the processes of decolonization and nation state-formation. With contributions covering the transwar histories of China, Indonesia, Korea, Japan, the Philippines and Taiwan, the book addresses key themes such as authoritarianism, militarization, criminal rehabilitation, market controls, labor-regimes, and anti-communism. A transwar angle, the authors argue, sheds new light on the continuing problems that undergirded the formation of postwar nation-states and illuminates the political legacies that still shape the various regions in Asia up to the present.

Kepenc, Yaman, From the Anatolian Heartland to the Andean Mountains: An Account of Chilean-Turkish Diplomatic History, 1926-2018. 276 pp. 2021:5 (Lexington Books, US) <664-2882>
ISBN 978-1-79362-757-5 hard ¥25,225.- (税込) US$ 117.00 *

In this book, Yaman Kepenc highlights the significance of Chilean-Turkish relations throughout Turkey's struggle for state recognition. Despite their geographic remoteness, Chile and Turkey share a long diplomatic relationship from the early days of the Turkish Republic, and notably, Chile was the first country in Latin America to recognize the modern state of Turkey.

Lawrence, Mark Atwood, The End of Ambition: The United States and the Third World in the Vietnam Era. (America in the World) 408 pp. 2021:10 (Princeton U. Pr., US) <664-2884>
ISBN 978-0-691-12640-1 hard ¥8,613.- (税込) US$ 39.95 *

A groundbreaking new history of how the Vietnam War thwarted U.S. liberal ambitions in the developing world and at home in the 1960sAt the start of the 1960s, John F. Kennedy and other American liberals expressed boundless optimism about the ability of the United States to promote democracy and development in Asia, Africa, the Middle East, and Latin America. With U.S. power, resources, and expertise, almost anything seemed possible in the countries of the Cold War's "Third World"-developing, postcolonial nations unaligned with the United States or Soviet Union. Yet by the end of the decade, this vision lay in ruins. What happened? In The End of Ambition, Mark Atwood Lawrence offers a groundbreaking new history of America's most consequential decade. He reveals how the Vietnam War, combined with dizzying social and political changes in the United States, led to a collapse of American liberal ambition in the Third World-and how this transformation was connected to shrinking aspirations back home in America.By the middle and late 1960s, democracy had given way to dictatorship in many Third World countries, while poverty and inequality remained pervasive. As America's costly war in Vietnam dragged on and as the Kennedy years gave way to the administrations of Lyndon B. Johnson and Richard M. Nixon, America became increasingly risk averse and embraced a new policy of promoting mere stability in the Third World. Paying special attention to the U.S. relationships with Brazil, India, Iran, Indonesia, and southern Africa, The End of Ambition tells the story of this momentous change and of how international and U.S. events intertwined.The result is an original new perspective on a war that continues to haunt U.S. foreign policy today.

Lewis, Mark Edward, Violence and the Rise of Centralized States in East Asia. (Elements in Ancient East Asia) 75 pp. 2021:9 (Cambridge U. Pr., UK) <664-2885>
ISBN 978-1-108-97214-7 paper ¥4,843.- (税込) GB￡ 17.00 *

Violence, both physical and nonphysical, is central to any society, but it is a version of the problem that it claims to solve. This Element examines how states in ancient East Asia, from the late Shang through the end of the Han dynasty, wielded violence to create and display authority, and also how their licit violence was entangled in the 'savage' or 'criminal' violence whose suppression justified their power. The East Asian cases are supplemented through citing comparable Western ones. The themes examined include the emergence of the warrior as a human type, the overlap of hunts and combat (and the overlap between treatments of alien species and alien peoples), sacrifice of both alien captives and 'death attendants' from one's own groups, the impact of military specialization and the increased scale of armies, the emergent ideal of self-sacrifice, and the diverse aspects of violence in the regime of law.

Mackillop, Andrew, Human Capital and Empire: Scotland, Ireland, Wales and British Imperialism in Asia, c.1690-c.1820. (Studies in Imperialism) 344 pp. 2021:9 (Manchester U. Pr., UK) <664-2886>
ISBN 978-0-7190-7072-3 hard ¥24,216.- (税込) GB￡ 85.00 *

Human capital and empire compares the role of Scots, Irish and Welsh within the English East India Company between c. 1690 and c. 1820. It focuses on why the three groups developed such distinctive and different profiles within the corporation and its wider colonial activities in Asia. Besides contributing to the national histories of Scotland, Ireland and Wales, it uses these societies to ask how 'poorer' regions of Europe participated in global empire. The chapters cover involvement in the Company's administrative, military, medical, maritime and private trade activities. The analysis conceives of sojourning to Asia as a cycle of human capital, with human mobility used to access a key sector of world trade. As well as providing essential new statistical information on Irish, Scottish and Welsh participation, it makes a significant contribution to ongoing debates on the legacies of empire.

Minohara, Tosh / Dawley, Evan (eds.), Beyond Versailles: The 1919 Moment and a New Order in East Asia. 310 pp. 2020:11 (Lexington Books, US) <664-2887>
ISBN 978-1-4985-5446-6 hard ¥30,184.- (税込) US$ 140.00 *

This edited collection examines the effects of the Great War and the signing of the Treaty of Versailles in East Asia. Contributors to this collection highlight how Japanese, Chinese, Korean, and Mongolian groups and individuals actively sought to envision a global order in which the center of gravity lay in the Western Pacific, not the Northern Atlantic.

Rak, Karolina / Lipa, Michal / Barbasiewicz, Olga (eds.), Historical and Collective Memory in the Middle and Far East. (International Relations in Asia, Africa and the Americas: Politics, Economy, Society - Transdisciplinary Perspectives 13) 142 pp. 2021:6 (P. Lang, SZ) <664-2891>
ISBN 978-3-631-84387-1 hard ¥12,084.- (税込) SFR 48.40

Memories contribute to the construction of the image or interpretation of the past and the present. This book focuses on the topic of memory in the Middle and Far East societies by highlighting non-European cases of practicing collective and historical memory. The Far East cases include the memory of the Japanese occupation of Korea, issues of Japanization policies within the Taiwanese society, the role of museums in Chinese patriotism, the issue of contemporary Japanese nationalists, and public memory evaluation in India. The Middle Eastern contexts concentrate on the impact of the Arab Spring, historical memory in the politics of Muslim movements and interpreting aspects of heritage.

Verschuur, Christine / Guerin, I. / Hillenkamp, I. (eds.), Social Reproduction, Solidarity Economy, Feminisms and Democracy: Latin America and India. (Gender, Development and Social Change) 280 pp. 2021:9 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <664-2894>
ISBN 978-3-030-71530-4 hard ¥35,306.- (税込) EUR 149.99

This book contributes to timely debates on the conditions of resistance and changes with the aim to offer a ray of hope in times of ecological, economic, social and democracy crisis worldwide. In the context of the crisis of social reproduction, impoverishment and growing inequalities, myriads of women-led grass-root initiatives are bubbling up. They reorganize social reproduction; redefine the meaning of work and value; explore new ways of doing economics and politics; construct solidarity-driven social relationships and combat their subordination. In doing so, these initiatives challenge the patriarchal, financialized and dehumanizing capitalist system and offer transformative, sustainable paths for feminist social change. Drawing on fine-grained ethnographies in Latin America and India, this book sheds light on women's daily struggles, their difficulties, contradictions, fragilities, and also their successes and achievements. This book seeks to inspire activists, researchers and policy-makers in the field of feminism and solidarity economy to contribute to amplifying the movement, which rests on the articulation of the various initiatives.

Jal, Murzban, Essays on Marxism and Asia. 170 pp. 2021:11 (Routledge, UK) * paper 2023 <664-292>
ISBN 978-0-367-61865-0 hard ¥38,461.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00 *
ISBN 978-0-367-61879-7 paper ¥11,392.- (税込) GB￡ 39.99 *

Essays on Marxism and Asia begins with the largely forgotten prophet of ancient Iran Zarathushtra, remembered and immortalised by Friedrich Nietzsche's Also Sprach Zarathustra. In contrast to the infamous clash of civilisation thesis, this book argues for a humanist theory of civilisations and studies the Parsis or Persians who left Iran to settle in India and make it their home. It claims that Parsis, despite being a migrant community, took strength from their Persian heritage and civilisation and rose to become the architects of industrial modernity in India.This book locates this humanist theory in the larger genre of the Asiatic mode of production with caste as its sub- text. It then takes a phenomenological reading of caste in India and says that India is afflicted by a very strange illness called 'silent blindness' where humanity is silenced and blinded in front of the caste apparatus. It then analyzes how capitalism and modernity fashioned caste in the image of capitalism and how the Indian right- wing imagined its fascistic politics of race and racial superiority based on the image of caste hierarchy. The problem in India has been that the liberals could not take caste seriously so as to confront it and then annihilate this violent apartheid structure. This, the book argues, has led to the rise of fascism in India. The book concludes with positing two different strands of secularism, namely liberal or bourgeois secularism which merely separates religion and the state (but mixes these when required) and revolutionary secularism which humanises religion and politics first in order to find the human and class content in both.The chapters in this book were originally published in Critique: Journal of Socialist Theory.

Christoffersen, Gaye (ed.), Russia in the Indo-Pacific: New Approaches to Russian Foreign Policy. (Politics in Asia) 304 pp. 2021:11 (Routledge, UK) * paper 2023 <664-2654>
ISBN 978-1-03-201276-6 hard ¥38,461.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00 *
ISBN 978-1-03-201277-3 paper ¥11,392.- (税込) GB￡ 39.99 *

This volume zones in on Russia's relations with the Indo-Pacific region through the lens of theoretical pluralism, presenting alternatives to the mainstream Realist view of Russia as a major power using geopolitical strategies to establish itself. Russia in the Indo-Pacific is an understudied topic that needs a fresh perspective. Contributors to this volume are based across Russia, China, Japan, Malaysia, Vietnam, and the USA, drawing on a range of multinational perspectives and theoretical approaches encompassing realism and liberalism, constructivism and the English school of international relations. Reflecting a trend of internationalization in the Russian study of IR, such theoretical pluralism could facilitate Russian contributions to emerging global IR theory.Russia in the Indo-Pacific contributes towards a more intelligible common discourse in the Indo-Pacific, of interest to students and scholars of Sino-Russian relations, Indo-Pacific international relations, and international relations theory. It will also be of interest to policymakers and general readers following foreign policy and economic trends in the Indo-Pacific who want to better understand Russia's role.

Bossuyt, Fabienne / Dessein, Bart (eds.), The European Union, China and Central Asia: Global and Regional Cooperation in A New Era. (Rethinking Asia and International Relations) 336 pp. 2021:11 (Routledge, UK) * paper 2023 <664-2694>
ISBN 978-0-367-90068-7 hard ¥38,461.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00 *
ISBN 978-1-03-212181-9 paper ¥11,392.- (税込) GB￡ 39.99 *

This book examines the involvement of the European Union (EU) and China in Central Asia and critically assesses the implications this has for the region as a whole. The volume adopts a comprehensive, interdisciplinary approach, combining insights from International Relations, EU Studies, International Economics, International Law, Sinology, and History. It concentrates on three thematic levels: (1) historical and contextual, (2) geopolitical and geo-economic, and (3) socio-cultural and institutional. Paying particular attention to the role of the EU and the factors driving the EU's and China's relations with Central Asia, it looks at how the Central Asian countries position themselves vis-a-vis China's growing influence, and how the balance of power between China, Russia, and the EU plays out. Contributors also explore the important historical context of the 'Silk Routes', as well as of the erstwhile connection of the Central Asian states with the Soviet Union. Critically analysing the potential areas for collaboration and synergy between the EU and China, the book also discusses the extent to which they share a common ground in Central Asia that could serve as a basis for long-term cooperation.It will be of interest to all scholars and students of International Relations, Economics, Sinology, and History.

Howe, Brendan M. (ed.), The Niche Diplomacy of Asian Middle Powers. (Foreign Policies of the Middle Powers) 160 pp. 2021:5 (Lexington Books, US) <664-2716>
ISBN 978-1-79362-483-3 hard ¥21,560.- (税込) US$ 100.00 *

The four countries represented in this volume are East Asian middle powers with strategic constraints upon their traditional security policymaking. These middle powers have pursued diplomatic activities raising their international profile or footprint, and advancing their national interest, through normative foreign policy and humanitarian channels, including peacebuilding, development, and human security. In each case, therefore, there is a happy coincidence of the national interest of the middle power expressed though certain diplomatic "niches," and benefit to regional partners in peace and development. The Niche Diplomacy of Asian Middle Powers seeks to uncover the unique contributions of Asian middle powers to the furtherance of humanitarian and human-related policymaking, including the promotion of peace, development and democracy long associated with middle-powerism, with particular emphasis on their involvement in the Southeast Asian subregion. Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan have made Southeast Asia a focus for their attempts to get more "bang for their foreign policy buck" (or Yen or Won) and have adopted similar normatively justified variations on the theme of "new Southern policies." Meanwhile, Thailand looks to play a variety of middle power roles within a region where it is a major actor.

Pieper, Moritz, The Making of Eurasia: Competition and Cooperation Between China's Belt and Road Initiative and Russia. 184 pp. 2021:10 (I. B. Tauris, UK) <664-2741>
ISBN 978-1-83860-133-1 hard ¥21,367.- (税込) GB￡ 75.00 *
ISBN 978-1-83860-137-9 paper ¥6,549.- (税込) GB￡ 22.99 *

The Making of Eurasia investigates the multi-layered spectrum of China and Russia's Eurasian policies towards each other, ranging from competition to cooperation, as well as the role of regional actors in between. The book examines the impact of and responses to the dynamic Sino-Russian interaction in the wake of China's Belt and Road initiative, focusing on the selected case studies of Kazakhstan, Mongolia and Uzbekistan, but also on inter-regional implications across the Eurasian space. With China's imprint on inter-regional politics and ambition to make a distinctive Chinese contribution to 'globalization' and Russia's vision of a 'Greater Eurasia' in which Moscow stakes out a place for itself as an indispensable power, other regional actors adopt policies that respond to and co-shape the resulting centrifugal forces. Meanwhile, power shifts are underway on a global plane, as the normative divide between Russia and the West has widened, and as the Sino-American rivalry is intensifying. The book therefore also sheds light on the effects of Eurasian power shifts on global governance in a context where global 'leadership' is contested, and in which the US and Europe are re-defining their relationship not only towards a self-confident China but also towards each other. As such, this study will provide valuable insight for students and scholars of Eurasian Asia Studies, Foreign Policy Analysis, and International Relations at large.

Stallard, Katie, Dancing on Bones: History and Power in China, Russia and North Korea. 320 pp. 2022:5 (Oxford U. Pr., US) <664-2567>
ISBN 978-0-19-757535-2 hard ¥7,328.- (税込) US$ 33.99 *

History didn't end. Democracy didn't triumph. America's leading role in the world is no longer assured. Instead, autocrats and populist strongmen are on the rise, and the global order established after 1945 is under attack. This is the phenomenon Katie Stallard tackles inDancing on Bones, as she examines how the leaders of China, Russia, and North Korea manipulate the past to serve the present and secure the future of authoritarian rule. Russia has annexed Crimea, started a war in eastern Ukraine, and repeatedly massed troops on its borders. China has stepped up war games near Taiwan and militarized the South China Sea, while North Korea has resumed missile testing and blood-curdling threats against the United States. These three states consistently top lists of threats to US and European security, and yet the leaders of all three insist that it is their country that is threatened, rewriting history and exploiting the memory of the wars of the last century to justify their actions and shore up popular support. Since coming to power, Xi Jinping has almost doubled the length of China's World War II, Vladimir Putin has elevated the memory of the Great Patriotic War to the status of a national religion, and Kim Jong Un has invested vast sums in rebuilding war museums in his impoverished state, while those who try to challenge the official version of history are silenced and jailed. But this didn't start with Putin, Xi, and Kim, and it won't end with them. Drawing on first-hand, on-the-ground reporting,Dancing on Bonesargues that if we want to understand where these three nuclear powers are heading, we must understand the stories they are telling their citizens about the past.

Toernquist, Olle, In Search of New Social Democracy: Insights from the South - Implications for the North. 368 pp. 2021:10 (I. B. Tauris, UK) <664-2475>
ISBN 978-0-7556-3976-2 hard ¥24,216.- (税込) GB￡ 85.00 *
ISBN 978-0-7556-3977-9 paper ¥7,404.- (税込) GB￡ 25.99 *

Why is the classical social democratic vision of development based on social justice by democratic means losing ground? Why was it so difficult to renew, even in the context of the third wave of democracy in the South? How does this matter in the North too, and how might it be reinvented? This accessible book brings to life major insights gained through written sources and interviews with a large range of activists and political protagonists in the southern cases of Indonesia, India, and the Philippines - but also in the northern social democratic stronghold of Sweden. By considering the experiences in view of the basics of Social Democracy and a broader comparative framework, Olle Toernquist arrives at globally relevant conclusions. Crucially, Toernquist also puts forward suggestions for how to achieve this reinvention social democracy. Through implementation of broad alliances in the Global South, supported by the Global North, for transformative rights and welfare reforms - universal, participatory and impartially implemented - precursors to social economic growth pacts can thus be effected.

Junker, Kirk W. / Farah, Paolo Davide (eds.), Globalization, Environmental Law, and Sustainable Development in the Global South: Challenges for Implementation. (Routledge Explorations in Environmental Studies) 304 pp. 2021:11 (Routledge, UK) * paper 2023 <664-1806>
ISBN 978-0-367-74913-2 hard ¥38,461.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00 *
ISBN 978-0-367-74926-2 paper ¥11,392.- (税込) GB￡ 39.99 *

This volume examines the impact of globalization on international environmental law and the implementation of sustainable development in the Global South. Comprising contributions from lawyers from the Global South or who have experience in the Global South, this volume is organized into three parts, with a thematic inquiry woven through every chapter to ask how law can enable economies that can be sustained, given the limited carrying capacity of the earth. Part I describes and characterizes the status quo of environmental and economic problems in the Global South during the process of globalization. Some of those problems include redistribution of environmental burden on the public through over-reliance on the state in emerging economies and the transition to public-private partnerships, as well as extreme uncontrolled economic expansion. Building on Part I, Part II takes an international perspective by presenting some tools that are in place during the process of globalization that lead to friction and interfaces between developed and developing economies in environmental law. Recognizing the impossibility of a globalized Northern economy, the authors in Part III present some alternatives through framework ideas of human and civil rights, environmental rights, and indigenous persons' rights, as well as concrete and specific legal tools to strengthen justice and rule of law institutions. The book gives new perspectives to familiar approaches through concrete examples by professional practitioners and theoretical discourse by academic researchers, and can thereby form the basis for changes in practices, as well as further discussions and comparisons. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of environmental law, sustainable development, and globalization and international relations, as well as legal professionals and practitioners.