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

〔英語版〕土屋大洋他編『アメリカ太平洋軍の研究－インド・太平洋の安全保障』
Tsuchiya, Motohiro / Roy, Denny (eds.), U.S. Indo-Pacific Command: Implications for East Asia. (Evidence-Based Approaches to Peace and Conflict Studies 12) 177 pp. 2022:10 (Springer, GW) <686-827>
ISBN 978-981-19-5267-8 hard ¥29,168.- (税込) EUR 119.99

The purpose of this book is to introduce readers to INDOPACOM, which is responsible for U.S. military operations in a region covering approximately 50 percent of the Earth from the Pacific Ocean to the Indian Ocean. INDOPACOM has not received much attention in Japan compared to USFJ or the US Seventh Fleet. This book shines a spotlight on INDOPACOM in an effort to promote an understanding of its various aspects. The mission of INDOPACOM is to protect U.S. territory, people, and national interests. However, it also includes protection of the countries within its geographic scope that are U.S. allies and security partners. INDOPACOM and its precursor Pacific Command, established in 1947, have always been major contributors to the peace and safety of Japan in the post-World War II era. In view of the importance of U.S. interests in Northeast Asia, the region also has two Sub-Unified Combatant Commands called United States ForcesJapan (USFJ) and United States Forces Korea (USFK). Each of these organizations strives to strengthen the relationship with the Japan Self-Defense Forces and the Republic of Korea armed forces. Together, the United States, Japan and our partners around the globe will continue to safeguard the rules-based security order that has underpinned peace and prosperity for decades.

Baumanova, Monika, Urban Public Space in Colonial Transformations. (Contributions To Global Historical Archaeology) 167 pp. 2022:10 (Springer, GW) <686-903>
ISBN 978-3-031-14696-1 hard ¥12,151.- (税込) EUR 49.99

This book offers an interdisciplinary perspective on the precolonial to colonial transition in an urban context, by focusing on the changing distribution, character and role of public spaces and buildings. The volume focuses on three case study regions: East African coast, North-West Africa, and the Iberian Peninsula. The regions are selected to provide a novel perspective on the socio-spatial impact of colonialism on the public life of urban settlements, driven by different political forces, in different geographical contexts and time periods. The three study areas are also linked by sharing several features of urban lifestyle such as the role of trade and the influence of religion, Islam in particular. The intertwined influence of socio-spatial urban characteristics on public life is presented on a range of case studies selected from Africa and southern Europe. The approaches are rooted in archaeological thinking on the built environment as material culture and incorporate critical interpretation of ethnographies and historical accounts on both the precolonial and colonial eras. This volume is of interest to archaeologists and researchers working in urban history, anthropology, and heritage.

北岡伸一他編　日中関係史－古代世界から現代の世界秩序まで
Bu, Ping / Kitaoka, Shinichi (eds.), The History of China-Japan Relations: From Ancient World to Modern International Order. 230 pp. 2022:11 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <686-904>
ISBN 978-981-19-5598-3 hard ¥34,030.- (税込) EUR 139.99 *

Focusing on the ancient, medieval, and early-modern eras, this collection considers the beginnings of Sino-Japanese Relations in the Ancient East Asian World, focusing on changes of the East Asian international system. It examines the establishment of the East Asian International Order in the 7th Century and the advance of Sino- Japanese relations in medieval times. It also considers the impact of initial contact with modern Western powers on modernization, and examines the points of rupture which deeply affected both cultures, for China the Opium War, and for Japan it the Black Ships of Commodore Matthew Perry and the Meiji Restoration. Based on research conducted jointly by Chinese and Japanese scholars, this collection provides a unique insight into the development of Chinese and Japanese culture from comparative perspectives, offering an in-depth study of the countries' political, religious and societal structures to deepen objective perception toward history and promote mutual understanding in East Asia.

猪口孝著　アジア社会の類型論－ボトムアップのパースペクティブと実証ベースのアプローチ－
Inoguchi, Takashi, Typology of Asian Societies: Bottom-Up Perspective and Evidence-Based Approach. 180 pp. 2022:12 (Springer, GW) <686-907>
ISBN 978-981-19-5465-8 hard ¥29,168.- (税込) EUR 119.99 *

This book is about generating types of societies by the degree of individuals' satisfaction with life domains, aspects, and styles via factor analysis. It adopts an evidence-based approach in typologizing and a bottom-up rather than a top-down perspective. Thus, the book's position is against Hegel (freedom for one person), Marx (the Asiatic mode of production), Weber (Protestant ethics and the spirit of capitalism), Wittfogel (Asiatic autocracy), and Rostow (Western-led modernization). These classical and modern authors tend to see Asian societies with somewhat fixated eyes and categorize Asian societies in a top-down manner.When random-sampled respondents are questioned about their satisfaction with daily life in terms of life domains, aspects, and styles, public policy and institutions as well as survival and social relations are inevitably touched upon-the latter two being the key dimensions common to the World Values Survey and other cultural surveys. This book proposesa new mode of typologizing societies, Asian or non-Asian, not immediately familiar to human geographers, cultural anthropologists, or sociologists, but revealing many complex unknowns with the easy-to-learn typologizing method.

近代世界におけるグローバルなプランテーション
Le Petitcorps, Colette / Macedo, Marta / Peano, I. (eds.), Global Plantations in the Modern World: Sovereignties, Ecologies, Afterlives. (Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies) 353 pp. 2022:11 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <686-908>
ISBN 978-3-031-08536-9 hard ¥24,306.- (税込) EUR 99.99

Taking a multidisciplinary and global approach, this edited book examines the dynamic role of plantations as productive, socio-political and ecological forms throughout imperial and post-colonial worlds spanning multiple and broad temporalities. Showcasing an expansive range of case studies across different geographies, the collection sheds light on the heterogeneity of plantations and offers insights into the afterlives, spectres and remnants of systems that have been analysed as schemes of production, extraction and authority. Focusing on the expansion of plantation systems throughout various political-economic and ecological projects, and across the modern (and post-modern) period, allows the authors to move beyond analyses that often deal with individual empires through human-centered lenses. The contributors explore resistance to the mechanisms of extraction and control that plantations and their afterlives demanded, shedding light on their excesses, contradictions, failures and deviations. Offering a comprehensive treatment of global plantations, this book provides valuable reading for researchers with an interest in the socio-political and environmental effects of colonialism and imperialism in their various guises. Chapters 1, 8, 11 and 13 are available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.

Stapleton, Kristin, The Modern City in Asia. (Elements in Global Urban History) 75 pp. 2022:8 (Cambridge U. Pr., UK) <686-910>
ISBN 978-1-108-99492-7 paper ¥4,899.- (税込) GB￡ 17.00 *

Kristin Stapleton analyzes how concepts and practices associated with the 'modern city' were received, transformed, and contested in Asia over the past 150 years. In the early twentieth century, activists took advantage of the new significance of the city to pursue a wide variety of goals. Thus, the concept of the modern city played an important role in Asia, despite much critical commentary on the ideals associated with it. By the 1940s, the city yielded its political centrality to the nation. Still, modern cities remained an important marker of national achievement during the Cold War. In recent decades, cities have continued to play a central role in economic and cultural affairs in Asia, but the concept of the modern city has evolved. Asian ideas about urban governance and visions of future cities are significantly shaping that evolution.

Hsu, Jimmy Chia-Shin (ed.), Human Dignity in Asia: Dialogue between Law and Culture. 480 pp. 2022:9 (Cambridge U. Pr., UK) <686-552>
ISBN 978-1-108-83574-9 hard ¥31,702.- (税込) GB￡ 110.00 *

Using interdisciplinary methods, this book is a pioneering exploration of Asian understandings of human dignity and human rights. It encompasses rigorous scrutiny of dignity jurisprudence in major Asian apex courts, detailed philosophical analysis of dignity in religious traditions, and contextualized socio-political analysis of religious dignity discourse in several Asian societies. This is an innovative systematic survey of how human dignity is understood in Asia, demonstrating how those understandings converge and diverge with other parts of the world. Synthesising legal, philosophical, and sociological expertise, this volume furthers the dialogue between Asia and the West, and advances debates on whether human rights are universal or particular to any one region. As many of the world's liberal democracies are challenged by polarization and populism, this comparative study of human dignity broadens our horizons and offers a potential alternative to a rigidified social imagination.

グローバル・サウスにおける国際法と開発
Duruigbo, Emeka / Chibueze, Remigius et al. (eds.), International Law and Development in the Global South. 363 pp. 2022:11 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <686-260>
ISBN 978-3-031-13740-2 hard ¥31,599.- (税込) EUR 129.99 *

This book provides contributions in international law, development, and international relations from a cross section of jurists and scholars including a justice of the Supreme Court of Nigeria and a former Judge of the International Court of Justice at The Hague. The project, conceived as a festschrift in honor of Professor Christian Okeke, aims to amplify the voices and perspectives that are not often accorded the limelight in international legal discourse. Additionally, the contributors discuss such relevant issues as frozen conflicts in Eastern Europe, counter-terrorism and cyber-security in Central Asia, and judicial contrivance in African countries. Bridging the gap between political science and legal scholarship, the book presents an interdisciplinary perspective on the emergence of an international rule of law and development. It also provides much needed empirical research on the implications of multi-level governance and global legal pluralism for the rule of law beyond the nation state. This book will be highly relevant to scholars, academics, researchers, and students in the fields of international relations, law, and development.

中泉拓也著　発展途上国のための影響評価
Nakaizumi, Takuya, Impact Assessment for Developing Countries: A Guide for Government Officials and Public Servants. (Contributions to Economics) 186 pp. 2022:10 (Springer, GW) <686-263>
ISBN 978-981-19-5493-1 hard ¥5,588.- (税込) EUR 22.99

Impact Assessment (IA) is introduced in this book, with a guide to the process, scope, content, and management of IA for the governments of developing economies. In doing so, evidence-based policy making is taken into full consideration. After the principles of IA are set forth, its procedures are described, illustrated by typical cases from the United States and Japan. Then an explanation follows of the components of IA such as necessity, alternatives, and assessment of cost and benefit, with a description of competition assessment. In developing economies, it is not effective to simply import a system from developed countries directly into developing countries, especially for economic regulation and in consideration of compliance and competition issues. Thus the book provides recommendations on how to appropriately modify developed countries' systems for countries that are still developing. The book concludes by taking up several issues surrounding IA, especiallynudge theory and public involvement.

Ahn, Se Hyun, Power Struggles: Energy Security and Energy Diplomacy in the Asia Pacific. 230 pp. 2022:11 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <686-268>
ISBN 978-981-19-5473-3 hard ¥24,306.- (税込) EUR 99.99

This book explores East Asia's and the Asia Pacific's energy security exploring key issues including major trans-border energy projects, major country's energy mix policy, trans- border pipelines, LNG transfer between nations, balance of power relations between major powers, the North Korean energy situation, energy alliances, Belt and Road Initiative, Indo-Pacific Strategy, World Choke point and more. In particular, this book provides the detailed analysis of the current problems of energy security and diplomacy among various countries as well as policy implications. It will clearly serve as a manual to enhance energy security in the region and boost energy transaction as well as the pioneering step to conceptualize the notion of energy security among political circles, in the diplomatic community and energy industry as well as international relations academics.