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

Liu, Hongwu / Luo, Jianbo, Sino-African Development Cooperation: Studies on the Theories, Strategies, and Policies. (Research Series on the Chinese Dream and China's Development Path) 155 pp. 2021:11 (Springer, GW) <668-313>
ISBN 978-981-16-5480-0 hard ¥21,875.- (税込) EUR 89.99

This book reviews the background and evolving features of Sino-African relations, exploring various stages over the past 50 years. Pursuing an objective and forward-looking approach, it analyzes the development, current issues and future direction of Sino-African relations, as well as their global impact. Despite ideological and policy differences, it also outlines potential avenues of cooperation between China and western countries in promoting development in Africa. Potential means of adapting and improving China's "going into Africa" policy in the post-crisis era are also discussed, highlighting the importance of enhancing soft power in Africa.

Richardson, Eric N., The Art of Getting More Back in Diplomacy: Negotiation Lessons from North Korea, China, Libya, and the United Nations. 208 pp. 2021:10 (U. Michigan Pr., US) <668-1056>
ISBN 978-0-472-07506-5 hard ¥17,952.- (税込) US$ 80.00 *
ISBN 978-0-472-05506-7 paper ¥6,719.- (税込) US$ 29.95 *

In the field of negotiation theory, the Harvard Project's Getting to Yes and Donald Trump's The Art of the Deal occupy polar opposition locations on a spectrum considering distributive and integrative negotiation theories. Getting More Back offers case studies from international negotiations in which the author participated that can help illustrate the tactics and theories of each type of negotiation and to make students in law, business, and other fields into better negotiators. Among the case studies are lessons drawn from negotiating denuclearization with North Korea, political reconciliation in Libya, human rights improvements in China, Israel-Palestinian peace processes, and UN negotiations over surveillance, privacy, atrocities prevention, LGBT rights, and other fundamental freedoms. By illustrating these lessons, Getting More Back strengthens the tools that students and teachers of negotiations should have in their negotiating toolbox. Perhaps most importantly, Richardson provides concrete examples of how a negotiator is likely to Get More Back for their clients if they deploy these tactics, rather than having them used against the negotiator.

Domingo, Francis C., Making Sense of Cyber Capabilities for Small States: Case Studies from the Asia-Pacific. (Routledge Advances in International Relations and Global Politics) 240 pp. 2022:3 (Routledge, UK) * paper 2023 <668-1082>
ISBN 978-1-03-207762-8 hard ¥38,907.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00 *
ISBN 978-1-03-207763-5 paper ¥11,524.- (税込) GB￡ 39.99 *

Domingo explores the potential of cyber capabilities for small states in the Asia-Pacific, the most active region for cyber conflict. He develops a systematic explanation for why Brunei, New Zealand, and Singapore have developed or are developing cyber capabilities.Studies on cyber conflict and strategy have substantially increased in the past decade but most have focused on the cyber operations of powerful states. This book moves away from the prominence of powerful states and explores the potential of cyber capabilities for small states in the Asia-Pacific, the most active region for cyber conflict. It develops a systematic explanation of why Brunei, New Zealand, and Singapore have developed or are developing cyber capabilities despite its obscure strategic value. The book argues that the distribution of power in the region and a "technology-oriented" strategic culture are two necessary conditions that influence the development of cyber capabilities in small states. Following this argument, the book draws on neoclassical realism as a theoretical framework to account for the interaction between these two conditions. The book also pursues three secondary objectives. First, it aims to determine the constraints and incentives that affect the utilization of cyber capabilities as foreign policy instruments. Second, the book evaluates the functionality of these cyber capabilities for small states. Lastly, it assesses the implications of employing cyber capabilities as foreign policy tools of small states. This book will be an invaluable resource for academics and security analysts working on cyber conflict, military strategy, small states, and International Relations in general.

Steenbergen, Michanne, Female Ex-Combatants, Empowerment, and Reintegration: Gendered Inequalities in Liberia and Nepal. (Routledge Studies in Gender and Global Politics) 230 pp. 2022:2 (Routledge, UK) * paper 2023 <668-1097>
ISBN 978-1-03-216031-3 hard ¥38,907.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00 *
ISBN 978-1-03-216034-4 paper ¥11,524.- (税込) GB￡ 39.99 *

Female Ex-Combatants, Empowerment, and Reintegration investigates the role of United Nations-led Disarmament, Demobilization, and Reintegration (DDR) programs in undermining female ex-combatants' empowerment.The participation of female combatants in conflict has increasingly been recognized in feminist literatures and in policies and programs concerned with reintegrating ex-combatants and building peace. This has illustrated that female ex-combatants often experience "empowerment" through their role as combatant; however, this empowerment is often lost upon reintegration. UN-led DDR plays an important role in the broader peacebuilding process, as it is one of the largest interventions and directly aims to reintegrate ex-combatants into civilian life. This book draws on extensive field research and interviews with female ex-combatants and DDR officials in Liberia and Nepal to develop a nuanced and comprehensive picture of female ex-combatants' empowerment and how this is undermined by DDR. Through reconceptualized frameworks of empowerment and an emancipatory peace, the book explores the pivotal role that DDR programs play in undermining female ex-combatants' empowerment. The author argues that this is detrimental to peacebuilding, because DDR officials and documentation narrate female ex-combatants in limited and gendered ways, which reproduces gendered inequalities and define how female ex-combatants should behave.This book will be of great interest to scholars and practitioners working on gender, conflict, peace, security, and development.

Huang, Xiaoming, Political Order in Modern East Asian States. 256 pp. 2022:4 (Routledge, UK) <668-1106>
ISBN 978-0-367-77464-6 hard ¥38,907.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00 *
ISBN 978-0-367-77463-9 paper ¥10,371.- (税込) GB￡ 35.99 *

This text explains political change and the shaping of political order in modern East Asian states: China, Japan, North Korea, South Korea, Taiwan, and Vietnam.Examining the transformative role of power, authority, and political culture in the shaping of political order, this book:Describes the emergence of statist and pluralist political order in East Asia.Outlines the dual process of state-building and nation-building, revealing the transformative role of the state.Highlights the causes and consequences of the reversion to centralized political order, describing the structure and institutions of Cold War regimes in East Asian states.Explores the structural and institutional consequences of industrial development on politics and state in East Asian states.Discusses the methods and outcomes of the democratization movements in the 1980s and 1990s and public sector reforms in the 1990s and 2010s.Utilizes survey data and newly developed indicators to measure and reveal the shaping of national political culture in each East Asian state.Features structural, institutional, and normative analysis of political change in modern East Asia.This will be an essential textbook for students of Political Science, International Relations, East Asian Politics and East Asian History, as well as policy analysts of East Asian states.

Ouyang, Yao, Large Countries' Development Path: Experience and Theory. 290 pp. 2022:3 (Springer, GW) <668-1108>
ISBN 978-981-16-5694-1 hard ¥12,151.- (税込) EUR 49.99

This book aims to propose a unique analytical framework to find out the general successful experience for large developing countries, which are defined with two main physical characters of large population and vast land. They are naturally crucial for the global development. Thirteen countries are chosen as large developing countries in this book, which are China, India, Russia, Brazil, Mexico, Indonesia, South Africa, Iran, Egypt, Pakistan, Nigeria, Ethiopia and Congo (DRC). On the basis of selecting massive data, the author analyzes the performance of large countries in terms of human resources, natural resources, market size and other factors. The book conducts the comparative study of large countries' latecomer strength, transformation path and innovation strategy with the perspective of development economics. It presents a comprehensive overview about large developing countries

Vigil, Sara, Land Grabbing and Migration in a Changing Climate: Comparative Perspectives from Senegal and Cambodia. (Routledge Studies in Global Land and Resource Grabbing) 232 pp. 2022:2 (Routledge, UK) * paper 2023 <668-1112>
ISBN 978-1-03-204426-2 hard ¥38,907.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00 *
ISBN 978-1-03-204428-6 paper ¥11,524.- (税込) GB￡ 39.99 *

This book provides a theoretical and empirical examination of the links between environmental change, land grabbing, and migration, drawing on research conducted in Senegal and Cambodia.While the impacts of environmental change on migration and of environmental discourses on land grabs have received increased attention, the role of both environmental and migration narratives in shaping migration by modifying access to natural resources has remained under-explored. Using a variegated geopolitical ecology framework and a comparative global ethnographic approach, this book analyses the power of mainstream adaptation and security frameworks and how they impact the lives of marginalised and vulnerable communities in Senegal and Cambodia. Findings across the cases show how environmental and migration narratives, linked to adaptation and security discourses, have been deployed advertently or inadvertently to justify land capture, leading to interventions that often increase, rather than alleviate, the very pressures that they intend to address. The interrelations between these issues are inherent to the tensions that exist, in different contexts and at different times, between capital accumulation and political legitimation. The findings of the book point to the urgency for researchers and policymakers to address the structural causes, and not the symptoms, of both environmental destruction and forced migration. It shows how acting upon environmental change, land grabs, and migration in isolated or binary manners can increase, rather than alleviate, pressures on those most socio-environmentally vulnerable.This book will be of interest to students, scholars, and practitioners working on the topics of land and resource grabbing and environmental change and migration. The book will also be of interest to those analysing political ecology transitions in Africa and Asia, as well as to those interested in novel theoretical and methodological frameworks.

豊田利久、金子由芳他編　より良い復興－アジアの災害後の回復への挑戦
Toyoda, Toshihisa / Wang, Jianping / Kaneko, Yuka (eds.), Build Back Better: Challenges of Asian Disaster Recovery. (Kobe University Monograph Series in Social Science Research) 214 pp. 2021:11 (Springer, GW) <668-1009>
ISBN 978-981-16-5978-2 hard ¥34,030.- (税込) EUR 139.99 *

International society led by the United Nations has been working to improve and standardize every country's post-disaster recovery policy. In particular, the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction adopted at the UN World Conference at Sendai, Japan, in 2015 declared the slogan "Build Back Better (BBB)." In this book, the BBB is considered an essential common criterion for evaluating recovery status, but BBB variations in each individual country's context are pursued. In contrast to a governmental approach to recovery evaluation focusing mainly on physical structures and macro indicators, this volume focuses more on the affected societies, communities, economies, and especially victims' livelihoods. The authors are academics from diverse fields, including governance, law, economics, and engineering, so that the book is truly interdisciplinary. This collection results from an international collaboration by scholars from "disaster-affected universities" in global-scale mega-disasters occurring in the Asian region in recent decades. The universities include Kobe University in Japan; Iwate University in Japan; Syiah Kuala University in Aceh, Indonesia; Sichuan University in China; and the University of the Philippines.

Asia-Pacific Disaster Report 2021: Resilience in a Riskier World: Managing Systemic Risks From Biological and Other Natural Hazards. 112 pp. 2021:12 (UN, US) <668-1002>
ISBN 978-92-1-120828-3 paper ¥12,342.- (税込) US$ 55.00 *

This publication presents a new and extended analysis of the regional risk-scape based on multidisciplinary research conducted. It defines risk hotspots where disasters and biological hazards, climate and health emergencies - including Covid-19 - collide. It further presents the emergence of new systemic risks and cascading hazards, alongside their impacts on peoples and economies. Identifying regional and sub-regional gaps in building resilience into the disaster-health-climate nexus, the report provides tailored, sub-regional insights into opportunities for policy actions and operational solutions to build back better with resilience. The ability to identify and address the unmet needs of those furthest behind within the new risk-scape is also considered here, as is the fiscal cost of a resilience agenda for the region.

Asia-Pacific Disaster Report 2019: The Disaster Riskscape across Asia-Pacific, Pathways for Resilience, Inclusion and Empowerment. 128 pp. 2019 (UN, US) <668-1004>
ISBN 978-92-1-120793-4 paper ¥12,342.- (税込) US$ 55.00 *

This report examines the state of resilience of the region vis-a-vis the Sustainable Development Goals and targets relating to disaster risk reduction. It highlights tools and approaches for resilience-building focusing on those that could possibly offer transformative shifts to achieve those goals and targets. It points to a way forward for the region, including specific action that could be prioritized to support efforts by countries to achieve resilience to disasters and the whole 2030 Agenda