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

Saavedra, Manuel Bastias (ed.), Norms beyond Empire: Law-Making and Local Normativities in Iberian Asia, 1500-1800. (Max Planck Studies in Global Legal History of the Iberian Worlds 3) 356 pp. 2021:11 (Brill / Nijhoff, NE) <670-950>
ISBN 978-90-04-47282-2 hard ¥31,072.- (税込) EUR 132.00

Norms beyond Empire seeks to rethink the relationship between law and empire by emphasizing the role of local normative production. While European imperialism is often viewed as being able to shape colonial law and government to its image, this volume argues that early modern empires could never monolithically control how these processes unfolded. Examining the Iberian empires in Asia, it seeks to look at norms as a means of escaping the often too narrow concept of law and look beyond empire to highlight the ways in which law-making and local normativities frequently acted beyond colonial rule. The ten chapters explore normative production from this perspective by focusing on case studies from China, India, Japan, and the Philippines. Contributors are: Manuel Bastias Saavedra, Marya Svetlana T. Camacho, Luisa Stella de Oliveira Coutinho Silva, Romulo da Silva Ehalt, Patricia Souza de Faria, Fupeng Li, Miguel Rodrigues Lourenco, Abisai Perez Zamarripa, Marina Torres Trimallez, and Angela Barreto Xavier.

谷垣真理子編　日本とアジア－ビジネス・政治的・文化的相互作用
Tanigaki, Mariko (ed.), Japan and Asia: Business, Political and Cultural Interactions. (Advances in Japanese Business and Economics 29) 284 pp. 2022:2 (Springer, GW) <670-819>
ISBN 978-981-16-7988-9 hard ¥37,660.- (税込) EUR 159.99 *

This book aims to review the postwar interactions of Japan with Asia. The Japanese factory production system, kaizen, has been shared in Asia. This book collects more diverse topics from Japan's interactions with China, the Philippines, Indonesia, and Hong Kong. Each chapter provides details on how the business, political, and cultural interactions enrich both sides. The findings are then used to suggest the possibility of a de-facto Asian Community and Japan's role in the present and post-COVID-19 world.

Bieler, Andreas / Nowak, Joerg (eds.), Labour Conflicts in the Global South. (Rethinking Globalizations) 164 pp. 2022:4 (Routledge, UK) <670-643>
ISBN 978-1-03-221127-5 hard ¥38,461.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00 *

Against the background of the global economic crisis since 2007/2008 and increasing inequality across the world, the Global South has experienced widespread, large-scale industrial action, including in countries such as China, Brazil, India and South Africa, which had been hailed as the new growth engines of the global political economy as part of the so-called BRICS. This volume systematically evaluates how the new forms of labour mobilization witnessed in the past ten years responded to the predominance of the informality-precarity complex of industrial relations and what conclusions can be drawn for potentially successful strategies against exploitation in the future. Can we identify a convergence of new approaches across the Global South, or do we witness an ongoing fragmentation of actors, models and strategies? In addressing this question, consideration is given to issues of class as well as gender and race. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of the journal Globalizations.

Chu, C. Y. C. / Lee, P. C. / Lin, C. C. / Lo, C. F., Ultimate Economic Conflict between China and Democratic Countries: An Institutional Analysis. (Routledge Studies on Challenges, Crises and Dissent in World Politics) 224 pp. 2022:5 (Routledge, UK) <670-585>
ISBN 978-1-03-223326-0 hard ¥38,461.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00 *

This book investigates various dimensions of the economic conflicts between the US - and other democratic market-economy countries - and state-capitalist communist China in the past decade, examining how differences in institutions and ideology bring these about. Through the lens of institutional analysis, the book elaborates and explains the underlying institutional designs and reasons behind the disputes, highlighting how such variances are embedded and reflect fundamental value divergences between China and other democratic countries.This book will be of key interest to scholars, students, and practitioners in law, economics, political sciences, international relations, international organisations and global governance.

Balkwill, Stephanie / Benn, James A. (eds.), Buddhist Statecraft in East Asia. (Studies on East Asian Religions 6) 200 pp. 2022:4 (Brill, NE) <670-349>
ISBN 978-90-04-50961-0 hard ¥24,481.- (税込) EUR 104.00 *

Buddhist Statecraft in East Asia explores the long relationship between Buddhism and the state in premodern times and seeks to counter the modern, secularist notion that Buddhism, as a religion, is inherently apolitical. By revealing the methods by which members of Buddhist communities across premodern East Asia related to imperial rule, this volume offers case studies of how Buddhists, their texts, material culture, ideas, and institutions legitimated rulers and defended regimes across the region. The volume also reveals a history of Buddhist writing, protest, and rebellion against the state. Contributors are Stephanie Balkwill, James A. Benn, Megan Bryson, Gregory N. Evon, Geoffrey C. Goble, Richard D. McBride II, and Jacqueline I. Stone.

Coggins, Chris / Chen, Bixia (eds.), Sacred Forests of Asia: Spiritual Ecology and the Politics of Nature Conservation. (Earthscan Forest Library) 336 pp. 2022:4 (Routledge, UK) <670-379>
ISBN 978-0-367-69872-0 hard ¥38,461.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00 *

Presenting a thorough examination of the sacred forests of Asia, this volume engages with dynamic new scholarly dialogues on the nature of sacred space, place, landscape, and ecology in the context of the sharply contested ideas of the Anthropocene. Given the vast geographic range of sacred groves in Asia, this volume discusses the diversity of associated cosmologies, ecologies, traditional local resource management practices, and environmental governance systems developed during the pre-colonial, colonial, and post-colonial periods. Adopting theoretical perspectives from political ecology, the book views ecology and polity as constitutive elements interacting within local, regional, and global networks. Readers will find the very first systematic comparative analysis of sacred forests that include the karchall mabhuy of the Katu people of Central Vietnam, the leuweng kolot of the Baduy people of West Java, the fengshui forests of southern China, the groves to the goddess Sarna Mata worshiped by the Oraon people of Jharkhand India, the mauelsoop and bibosoop of Korea, and many more. Comprising in-depth, field-based case studies, each chapter shows how the forest's sacrality must not be conceptually delinked from its roles in common property regimes, resource security, spiritual matters of ultimate concern, and cultural identity. This volume will be of great interest to students and scholars of indigenous studies, environmental anthropology, political ecology, geography, religion and heritage, nature conservation, environmental protection, and Asian studies.

Mak, Bill M. / Huntington, Eric (eds.), Overlapping Cosmologies In Asia: Transcultural and Interdisciplinary Approaches. (Crossroads - History of Interactions across the Silk Routes 4) 310 pp. 2022:4 (Brill, NE) <670-285>
ISBN 978-90-04-51141-5 hard ¥28,248.- (税込) EUR 120.00

The history of cosmology is often understood in terms of the development of modern science, but Asian cosmological thought and practice touched on many aspects of life, including mathematics, astronomy, politics, philosophy, religion, and art. Because of the deep pervasion of cosmology in culture, many opportunities arose for transmissions of cosmological ideas across borders and innovations of knowledge and application in new contexts. Taking a wider view, one finds that cosmological ideas traveled widely and intermingled freely, being frequently reinterpreted by scholars, ritualists, and artists and transforming as they overlapped with ideas and practices from other traditions. This book brings together ten diverse scholars to present their views on these overlapping cosmologies in Asia. They are Ryuji Hiraoka, Satomi Hiyama, Eric Huntington, Yoichi Isahaya, Catherine Jami, Bill M. Mak, D. Max Moerman, Adrian C. Pirtea, John Steele, and Dror Weil.

Pruegel, Elisabeth / Rigual, C. / Kunz, R. et al. (eds.), Gender in Peacebuilding: Local Practices in Indonesia and Nigeria. (International Development Policy 13) 186 pp. 2021:11 (Brill / Nijhoff, NE) <670-1788>
ISBN 978-90-04-49846-4 paper ¥18,832.- (税込) EUR 80.00

Gender, age, class, ethnicity, religion, and political ideologies all matter in peacebuilding. Adopting a feminist approach, the 13th volume of International Development Policy analyses such intersecting differences in local contexts to develop a better understanding of how intersectionally gendered dynamics shape and are shaped by peacebuilding. In this volume, findings are presented from a six-year collaborative research project that, involving scholars from Indonesia, Nigeria, and Switzerland, investigated peacebuilding initiatives in Indonesia and Nigeria. The authors identify a number of logics that highlight how gender is deployed strategically or asserts itself inadvertently through gender stereotypes, gendered divisions of labour, or identity constructions. Contributors include: Mimidoo Achakpa, Ceren Bulduk, Rahel Kunz, Henri Myrttinen, Joy Onyesoh, Elisabeth Pruegl, Arifah Rahmawati, Christelle Rigual and Wening Udasmoro.

Cainkar, Louise / Vinson, Pauline Homsi et al. (eds.), Sajjilu Arab American: A Reader in SWANA Studies. (Critical Arab American Studies) 496 pp. 2022:4 (Syracuse U. Pr., US) <670-1803>
ISBN 978-0-8156-3735-6 hard ¥26,950.- (税込) US$ 125.00 *
ISBN 978-0-8156-3721-9 paper ¥14,014.- (税込) US$ 65.00 *

Both a summative description of the field and an exploration of new directions, this multidisciplinary reader addresses issues central to the fields of Arab American, US Muslim, and Southwest Asian and North African (SWANA)-American studies. Taking a broad conception of the Americas, this collection simultaneously registers and critically reflects upon major themes in the field, including diaspora, migration, empire, race and racialization, securitization, and global South solidarity. The collection will be essential reading for scholars in Arab/SWANA American studies, Asian American studies, and race, ethnicity, and indigenous studies, now and well into the future.Contributors include:Evelyn Alsultany, Carol W. N. Fadda, Akram Khater, Nadine Naber, Theri Pickens, Steven Salaita, Ella Shohat and Sarah Gualtieri.

Kim, Youna (ed.), Media in Asia: Global, Digital, Gendered and Mobile. (Media, Culture and Social Change in Asia) 416 pp. 2022:5 (Routledge, UK) <670-1807>
ISBN 978-0-367-65322-4 hard ¥39,886.- (税込) GB￡ 140.00 *
ISBN 978-0-367-67285-0 paper ¥10,822.- (税込) GB￡ 37.99 *

This book is an upper-level student source book for contemporary approaches to media studies in Asia, which will appeal across a wide range of social sciences and humanities subjects including media and communication studies, Asian studies, cultural studies, sociology and anthropology. Drawing on a wide range of perspectives from media and communications, sociology, cultural studies, anthropology and Asian studies, it provides an empirically rich and stimulating tour of key areas of study. The book combines theoretical perspectives with grounded case studies in one up-to-date and accessible volume, going beyond the standard Euro-American view of the evolving and complex dynamics of the media today.

Li, David C. S. / Aoyama, Reijiro / Wong, Tak-sum (eds.), Brush Conversation in the Sinographic Cosmopolis: Interactional Cross-border Communication using Literary Sinitic in Early Modern East Asia. (Routledge Studies in the Early History of Asia) 392 pp. 2022 (Routledge, UK) <670-1808>
ISBN 978-0-367-49940-2 hard ¥49,857.- (税込) GB￡ 175.00 *
ISBN 978-0-367-49942-6 paper ¥8,621.- (税込) US$ 39.99 *

For hundreds of years until the 1900s, in today's China, Japan, North and South Korea, and Vietnam, literati of Classical Chinese or Literary Sinitic (wenyan ??) could communicate in writing interactively, despite not speaking each other's languages.This book outlines the historical background of, and the material conditions that led to, widespread literacy development in premodern and early modern East Asia, where reading and writing for formal purposes was conducted in Literary Sinitic. To exemplify how 'silent conversation' or 'brush-assisted conversation' is possible through writing-mediated brushed interaction, synchronously face-to-face, this book presents contextualized examples from recurrent contexts involving (i) boat drifters; (ii) traveling literati; and (iii) diplo- matic envoys. Where profound knowledge of classical canons and literary works in Sinitic was a shared attribute of the brush-talkers concerned, their brush-talk would characteristically be intertwined with poetic improvisation.Being the first monograph in English to address this fascinating lingua-cultural practice and cross-border communication phenomenon, which was possibly sui generis in Sinographic East Asia, it will be of interest to students of not only East Asian languages and linguistics, history, international relations, and diplomacy, but also (historical) pragmatics, sociolinguistics, sociology of language, scripts and writing systems, and cultural and linguistic anthropology.

Lin, Hsiao-Ting, Taiwan, the United States, and the Hidden History of the Cold War in Asia: Divided Allies. (Politics in Asia) 288 pp. 2022 (Routledge, UK) * paper 2024 <670-1809>
ISBN 978-1-032-12466-7 hard ¥38,461.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00 *
ISBN 978-1-032-13499-4 paper ¥11,392.- (税込) GB￡ 39.99 *

This book explores the challenges which faced the United States and Taiwanese alliance during the Cold War, addressing a wide range of events and influences of the period between the 1950s and 1970s.Tackling seven main topics to outline the fluctuations of the U.S.-Taiwan relationship, this volume highlights the impact of the mainland counteroffensive, the offshore islands, Tibet, Taiwan's secret operations in Asia, Taiwan's Soviet and nuclear gambits, Chinese representation in the United Nations, and the Vietnam War. Utilizing multinational archival research, particularly the newly available materials from Taiwan and the United States, to reevaluate Taiwan's foreign policy during the Cold War, revealing a pragmatic and opportunistic foreign policy disguised in nationalistic rhetoric. Moreover, this study represents a departure from previous scholarship, emphasizing the dictatorial and incompetent nature of the Chinese Nationalist regime, to provide fresh insights into the nature of U.S.-Taiwan relations.Presenting a revisionist view of one of the strongest bilateral relationships of the Cold War, this will be an insightful resource for scholars and students of Chinese and East Asia History, Cold War History, Asian Studies, and International Relations.

Mahbubani, Kishore, The Asian 21st Century. (China and Globalization) 270 pp. 2022:1 (Springer, GW) <670-1810>
ISBN 978-981-16-6810-4 hard ¥11,766.- (税込) EUR 49.99
ISBN 978-981-16-6813-5 paper ¥9,412.- (税込) EUR 39.99

This open access book consists of essays written by Kishore Mahbubani to explore the challenges and dilemmas faced by the West and Asia in an increasingly interdependent world village and intensifying geopolitical competition. The contents cover four parts: Part One The End of the Era of Western Domination. The major strategic error that the West is now making is to refuse to accept this reality. The West needs to learn how to act strategically in a world where they are no longer the number 1. Part Two The Return of Asia. From the years 1 to 1820, the largest economies in the world were Asian. After 1820 and the rise of the West, however, great Asian civilizations like China and India were dominated and humiliated. The twenty-first century will see the return of Asia to the center of the world stage. Part Three The Peaceful Rise of China. The shift in the balance of power to the East has been most pronounced in the rise of China. While this rise has been peaceful, many in the West have responded with considerable concern over the influence China will have on the world order. Part Four Globalization, Multilateralism and Cooperation. Many of the world's pressing issues, such as COVID-19 and climate change, are global issues and will require global cooperation to deal with. In short, human beings now live in a global village. States must work with each other, and we need a world order that enables and facilitates cooperation in our global village.

Mahdavi, Mojtaba / Keskin, Tugrul (eds.), Rethinking China, the Middle East and Asia in a "Multiplex World". (Social, Economic and Political Studies of the Middle East and Asia 128) 260 pp. 2022:4 (Brill, NE) <670-1811>
ISBN 978-90-04-39160-4 hard ¥30,366.- (税込) EUR 129.00

This edited volume critically examines the changing dynamics of multidimensional relations between China, Middle East and North Africa (MENA) and Asia in an emerging "multiplex world". It challenges both extremes of "Sinophobia" and "Sinophilia" by studying the real "pragmatist" China. This book, in fifteen chapters, problematizes what MENA and Asia means to China in the age of neoliberalism, explores what are the real or perceived pillars of Sino-MENA-Asia relations, and sheds light on how MENA can benefit from its relations with China while keeping a clear distance from the harms of neoliberal authoritarianism. Contributors are Mojtaba Mahdavi, Tugrul Keskin, Manochehr Dorraj, Sari Hanafi, Habibul Haque Khondker, Dara Conduit, Rigas Arvanitis, Saeed Shafqat, Jordi Quero, Mahesh Ranjan Debata, Andrea Ghiselli, Mher D. Sahakyan, Michael McCall, Yossra M. Taha and Xiaoyue Li.

Marochkin, Sergey / Bezborodov, Yury (eds.), The Shanghai Cooperation Organization: Exploring New Horizons. (Routledge Studies on Asia in the World) 248 pp. 2022:5 (Routledge, UK) <670-1813>
ISBN 978-0-367-77280-2 hard ¥38,461.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00 *

The Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) is one of the most rapidly developing centres of the multipolar world, covering an enormous landmass including China, India, Russia and its southern Eurasian neighbours.With both its eight member states and a growing group of observer states, the SCO's activities have expanded beyond its initial focus on security and stability to broader cooperation with the UN and other groupings such as the G20, BRICS, NATO and ASEAN. Bringing together large and disparate nation-states with often rival geostrategic agendas means that it not only faces substantial structural challenges but also has great potential. The contributors to this volume, representing a range of the states within the SCO, evaluate the possibilities for the Organization, and the challenges it faces in achieving them through a prism of legal regulation. They evaluate the bloc's prospects for economic, humanitarian, legal, trade, labour, migration, and environmental cooperation, as well as its more traditional concerns with security and defence. The authors, analyzing the quality of cooperation between states within the SCO, note the controversial character of this process: it demonstrates both efficiency and declarative and decorative nature of the SCO.A valuable read for scholars and policy-makers with a focus on Eurasian cooperation, and processes of regionalism and universalism in international relationships.

May, Timothy / Hope, Michael (eds.), The Mongol World. (Routledge Worlds) 890 pp. 2022:5 (Routledge, UK) <670-1814>
ISBN 978-1-138-05667-1 hard ¥62,678.- (税込) GB￡ 220.00 *

Drawing upon research carried out in several different languages and across a variety of disciplines, The Mongol World documents how Mongol rule shaped the trajectory of Eurasian history from Central Europe to the Korean Peninsula, from the thirteenth century to the fifteenth century.Contributing authors consider how intercontinental environmental, economic, and intellectual trends affected the Empire as a whole and, where appropriate, situate regional political, social, and religious shifts within the context of the broader Mongol Empire. Issues pertaining to the Mongols and their role within the societies that they conquered therefore take precedence over the historical narrative of the societies that they conquered. Alongside the formation, conquests, administration, and political structure of the Mongol Empire, the second section examines archaeology and art history, family and royal households, science and exploration, and religion, which provides greater insight into the social history of the Empire -- an aspect often neglected by traditional dynastic and political histories.With 58 chapters written by both senior and early-career scholars, the volume is an essential resource for all students and scholars who study the Mongol Empire from its origins to its disintegration and legacy.

Menon, Dilip M. (ed.), Changing Theory: Concepts from the Global South. 298 pp. 2022:5 (Routledge, UK) <670-1815>
ISBN 978-1-03-218752-5 hard ¥38,461.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00 *
ISBN 978-1-03-222647-7 paper ¥10,538.- (税込) GB￡ 36.99 *

This book is an original, systematic, and radical attempt at decolonizing critical theory. Drawing on linguistic concepts from 16 languages from Asia, Africa, the Arab world, and South America, the essays in the volume explore the entailments of words while discussing their conceptual implications for the humanities and the social sciences everywhere. The essays engage in the work of thinking through words to generate a conceptual vocabulary that will allow for a global conversation on social theory which will be necessarily multilingual.With essays by scholars, across generations, and from a variety of disciplines - history, anthropology, and philosophy to literature and political theory - this book will be essential reading for scholars, researchers, and students of critical theory and the social sciences.

峯陽一著　アフリカとアジアをつなぐ
Mine, Yoichi, Connecting Africa and Asia: AfrAsia As a Benign Community. (New Regionalisms Series) 192 pp. 2022:5 (Routledge, UK) <670-1816>
ISBN 978-1-03-213453-6 hard ¥38,461.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00 *

By 2100, more than 80 per cent of the world's population is expected to live in Afrasia (Africa and Asia). This book draws lessons from history, provides a new cognitive map of the world, and discusses multiple challenges global citizens will face in the age of Afrasia, an emerging macro-region.The centre of gravity of the world is shifting. Whether the world can manage a soft landing into sustainable equilibrium depends on the nature of the dialogue people in Africa and Asia will organise. The author argues that a state of equilibrium between the two is achievable, provided issues related to gender, employment, agriculture, human-nature relationships, and multicultural coexistence are simultaneously addressed. Can future Afrasia present itself as a community determined not to allow the return of predatory practice internally and externally? Will the fates of African and Asian peoples converge or diverge? How about the future relationships between Afrasia and the rest of the world?Exploring these questions using multiple disciplines, this book will be of interest to professional researchers and graduate students in IR and Afro-Asian relations, as well as Asian and African area studies, demography, geography, history, development economics, anthropology, language education, and religious studies.The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.

イエメンから横浜までの海洋世界－中国と東アフリカの間の接触の歴史
Tagliacozzo, Eric, In Asian Waters: Oceanic Worlds from Yemen to Yokohama. 520 pp. 2022 (Princeton U. Pr., US) <670-1821>
ISBN 978-0-691-14682-9 hard ¥9,702.- (税込) US$ 45.00 *

A sweeping account of how the sea routes of Asia have transformed a vast expanse of the globe over the past five hundred years, powerfully shaping the modern worldIn the centuries leading up to our own, the volume of traffic across Asian sea routes-an area stretching from East Africa and the Middle East to Japan-grew dramatically, eventually making them the busiest in the world. The result was a massive circulation of people, commodities, religion, culture, technology, and ideas. In this book, Eric Tagliacozzo chronicles how the seas and oceans of Asia have shaped the history of the largest continent for the past half millennium, leaving an indelible mark on the modern world in the process.Paying special attention to migration, trade, the environment, and cities, In Asian Waters examines the long history of contact between China and East Africa, the spread of Hinduism and Buddhism across the Bay of Bengal, and the intertwined histories of Islam and Christianity in the Philippines. The book illustrates how India became central to the spice trade, how the Indian Ocean became a "British lake" between the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries, and how lighthouses and sea mapping played important roles in imperialism. The volume ends by asking what may happen if China comes to rule the waves of Asia, as Britain once did.A novel account showing how Asian history can be seen as a whole when seen from the water, In Asian Waters presents a voyage into a past that is still alive in the present.

Walker, Iain / Fouere, Marie-Aude (eds.), Across the Waves: Strategies of Belonging in Indian Ocean Island Societies. (African Social Studies Series 44) 232 pp. 2022:4 (Brill, NE) <670-1823>
ISBN 978-90-04-51009-8 paper ¥17,655.- (税込) EUR 75.00 *

All the islands of the western Indian Ocean are immigrant societies: Austronesian seafarers, African slaves, Arab traders, South Asian indentured labourers and European plantation owners have all settled, some voluntarily, others less so, on Madagascar and Zanzibar, in the Mascarenes and the Comoros. Successive arrivals often struggle to establish their places in these societies, negotiating their way in the face of antipathy, resistance, even violence, as different claims to belonging conflict. The contributions to this volume take a selection of case studies from across the region, and from different perspectives, contributing to a theorisation of the concept of belonging itself. Contributors are Patrick Desplat, Franziska Fay, Marie-Aude Fouere, Akbar Keshodkar, Hans Olsson, Gitanjali Pyndiah, Ramola Ramtohul, Iain Walker

Zarakol, Ayse, Before the West: The Rise and Fall of Eastern World Orders. (LSE International Studies) 2022:4 (Cambridge U. Pr., UK) <670-1824>
ISBN 978-1-108-83860-3 hard ¥27,065.- (税込) GB￡ 95.00 *
ISBN 978-1-108-97167-6 paper ¥8,828.- (税込) GB￡ 30.99 *

How would the history of international relations in 'the East' be written if we did not always read the ending - the Rise of the West and the decline of the East - into the past? What if we did not assume that Asia was just a residual category, a variant of 'not-Europe', but saw it as a space of with its own particular history and sociopolitical dynamics, not defined only by encounters with European colonialism? How would our understanding of sovereignty, as well as our theories about the causes of the decline of Great Powers and international orders, change as a result? For the first time, Before the West offers a grand narrative of (Eur)Asia as a space connected by normatively and institutionally overlapping successive world orders originating from the Mongol Empire. It also uses that history to rethink the foundational concepts and debates of international relations, such as order and decline.

Patman, Robert G. / Koellner, Patrick / Kiglics, B. (eds.), From Asia-Pacific to Indo-Pacific: Diplomacy in a Contested Region. (Global Political Transitions) 353 pp. 2021:11 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) * paper 2022 <670-1735>
ISBN 978-981-16-7006-0 hard ¥32,952.- (税込) EUR 139.99 *
ISBN 978-981-16-7009-1 paper ¥32,952.- (税込) EUR 139.99 *

This book brings together a unique team of academics and practitioners to analyse interests, institutions, and issues affecting and affected by the transition from Asia-Pacific to Indo-Pacific. The Indo-Pacific has emerged as the world's economic and strategic centre of gravity, in which established and rising powers compete with each other. As a strategic space, the Indo-Pacific reflects the rise of geo-political and geo-economic designs and dynamics which have come to shape the region in the early twenty-first century. These new dynamics contrast with the (neo-)liberal ideas and the seemingly increasing globalisation for which the once dominant 'Asia-Pacific' regional label stood.

Peng, Nian / Ali, Ghulam / Zhang, Yi (eds.), Crossing the Himalayas: Buddhist Ties, Regional Integration and Great-Power Rivalry. (Contributions to International Relations) 194 pp. 2021:10 (Springer, GW) <670-1736>
ISBN 978-981-16-5807-5 hard ¥30,598.- (税込) EUR 129.99

This book aims to analyze two contrasting trends of integration and rivalry among great powers and regional states of Himalaya. It examines the interactions between the great powers and the small states in the Himalayan region, analyzes the multiple effects of the great power rivalry on the regional cooperation, and predicts the possible directions of the future of the geo-politics and geo-economy in the Himalayan region by incorporating the most recent developments. The main content of the book is divided into 11 parts. The Introduction briefly explains the aims and scope of this book. The following chapter focuses on the Buddhist ties between China and the Himalayan states in the past two millennia and its dual influence in the Himalayan region. The rest 9 chapters provide an in-depth analyses of the security dilemma between China and India, Indian perspectives on China-South Asian relations, Chinese perspectives on U.S. and Japan's engagement with South Asia and Indo-Myanmar relations, and Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and Nepal's responses to the regional integration and great power rivalry in the Himalayan region respectively.This is the first study which brings the Himalaya region at the center of geopolitical and geo-economics cooperation and rivalry thus highlighting its significance in Asian politics. It offers a comprehensive analysis of the complicated geo-political and geo-economic competition in the Himalayan region by inviting experts from both South Asia and China to contribute chapters. It also balances the west-centered views on the great power rivalry by introducing cultural perspective and small state perspective. The broad approach adopted in the book with focus on all important countries expands the scope of readership beyond specific academic community. The book will interest academics, policy makers, journalists, general reader and students of Asian politics.

R.ショウ他編　アジア太平洋における災害リスク削減－ガバナンス、教育、能力－
James, Helen / Shaw, Rajib / Sharma, Vinod et al. (eds.), Disaster Risk Reduction in Asia Pacific: Governance, Education and Capacity. (Disaster Risk, Resilience, Reconstruction and Recovery) 402 pp. 2022:2 (Springer, GW) <670-1641>
ISBN 978-981-16-4810-6 hard ¥35,306.- (税込) EUR 149.99 *

This book brings together interdisciplinary perspectives from across the Asia Pacific region, covering four main sections: 1) Governance, 2) Education and Capacity, 3) Science, Technology, Risk Assessment and Communities, and 4) Recovery. The chapters address different dimensions of Sendai Framework of Disaster Risk Reduction (SFDRR), which are linked to Sustainable Development Goals, as well as Paris Agreement on Climate Change.

Bao, Gangsheng, Politics of Democratic Breakdown. (China Perspectives) 448 pp. 2022:5 (Routledge, UK) <670-1647>
ISBN 978-1-03-226586-5 hard ¥68,376.- (税込) GB￡ 240.00 *

Democratic breakdown as a political and historic event can impact the fate of millions, if not hundreds of millions of people, by changing the political complexion of a country. This book attempts to systematically explain why democracies collapse.The author's main theoretical argument is based on the examination of two factors. One is political cleavages among voters. These can cause serious political conflicts and may lead to fierce political confrontation and major upheaval at the society level. The other revolves around the types of political and institutional arrangements under democratic regimes. Centrifugal democratic regimes are likely to weaken government capacity or state capacity, rendering governments incapable of effectively resolving political conflicts and, when these two factors come together, political conflicts are less likely to be controlled effectively. These situations can evolve into serious political crises and eventually lead to the collapse of democratic regimes. The empirical research of this book is based on a comparative historical analysis of Germany, Nigeria, Chile, and India.Examining democratic collapses from both theoretical and empirical perspectives, this book will be of interest to those engaged in the study of democracy, Political Science, Comparative Politics, and Political Theory.