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

猪口孝他著　4つのアジアのリージョナリズムのデジタル化された国政術－国家の多国間協定への参加と市民の生活の質の満足－
Inoguchi, Takashi / Le, Lien Thi Quynh, Digitized Statecraft of Four Asian Regionalisms: States' Multilateral Treaty Participation and Citizens' Satisfaction with Quality of Life. (Evidence-Based Approaches to Peace and Conflict Studies 13) 230 pp. 2023:1 (Springer, GW) <693-922>
ISBN 978-981-19-8244-6 hard ¥30,598.- (税込) EUR 129.99 *

This book attempts to develop a novel way of conceptualizing regionalism under hyper-globalization. Until recently, regionalism has been often framed in terms of economic interdependence and security connectivity in which sovereign states are the key navigators within the liberal world order. Under hyper-globalization in the third millennium, hyper-globalization forces us to capture global politics at two more levels of measurement at the state level and both there below and there above. First, how 29 Asian sovereign states join multilateral treaty participation to develop their global quasi-legislative types and how citizens' satisfaction with quality of life in 29 civil societies shapes their societal types. Second, relating these two features above and below sovereign states, the book attempts to measure the features and speculate on the futures of four Asian regionalisms (Central Asia, South Asia, Southeast Asia and East Asia) and their prospect of the demographically largest continent called Asia in the twenty-first century. Regionalism is measured by the proclivity of 600 multilateral treaty participation in terms of speed (cautious versus agile), angle (global commons versus individual interests) and strategy (aspirational bonding versus mutual binding), whereas quality of life is measured by citizens' satisfaction with 16 domains, aspects and styles of individual daily life in terms of survival (or materialism), social relations (post-materialism) and public policy preponderance. The book opens an innovative vista to better understand tumultuous global politics. This ambitious volume leverages original survey data on citizen satisfaction and country-level data on treaty accessions to characterize the trajectories of countries in four regions of Asia as they adapt -- or fail to adapt -- to the challenges of globalization in the 21st century and beyond. Readers will learn much about politics from the basic level of the individual citizen to the most comprehensive level of the global system - and about the interactions of politics at all levels. -- Andrew J. Nathan, Class of 1919 Professor of Political Science, Columbia University A wonderful attempt to link a country’s domestic development and its adaptation to the global politics. It is truly eye-opening and the findings are likely to significantly shape our understanding of life and global politics. -- Zhengxu Wang, Ph.D. Distinguished Professor, Department of Political Science, Fudan University

Islam, Md. Nazmul, Power of Bonding and Non-Western Soft Power Strategy in Iran: Comparing China and India's Engagement. 356 pp. 2022:12 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <693-923>
ISBN 978-3-031-19866-3 hard ¥30,598.- (税込) EUR 129.99

This book comparatively assesses the China and India's soft power strategy in Iran. By employing Joseph S. Nye's "Soft Power" theory and forming the new concept of "Power of Bonding", this book formulated China and India's soft power narratives and applied it through the empirical analysis in Iran. Based on this theory, this book seeks explanations for the question of "How China and India respectively, strategically and comparatively use the soft power strategy in Iran?". To reach the find-out, this book compares the understanding, resources, strategies, influences and uses of China and India's soft power in Iran under three thematic areas, including "power of bonding through cultural attractions, and attributions"; ?"political and diplomatic engagement" and "economic partnerships". By analysing China and India's soft power strategy in Iran, this book ?seeks to contribute to the soft power literature through a theoretical replication based ?on non-Western soft power strategy, the concept and its empirical application in China and India.

新旧の冷戦におけるアジア
Tan, Kenneth Paul (ed.), Asia in the Old and New Cold Wars: Ideologies, Narratives, and Lived Experiences. 164 pp. 2023:2 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <693-930>
ISBN 978-981-19-7680-3 hard ¥30,598.- (税込) EUR 129.99 *

This is a collection of essays marking the 30th anniversary of the historic Cold War's formal conclusion in 1991. It enriches Cold War studies-a field dominated by Political Science, International Relations, and History-with insights from Sociology, Anthropology, Cultural Studies, and Film and Media Studies. Through critical analysis of newspaper and magazine articles, films, novels, art exhibits, museums, and other commemorative sites that engage with the themes of conflict, violence, trauma, displacement, marginalization, ecology, and identity, the book provides rich and diverse perspectives on the complex relationship between the historic Cold War and its legacies on the one hand and, on the other, their impact on Asia, its plural histories and peoples, and their shifting identities, ideological beliefs, and lived experiences. Today, we often speak of an 'Asian century' and witness intensifying concerns over 'new cold wars' or 'Cold War 2.0'. A United States in decline and a China on the rise create conditions for a new superpower rivalry, with a trade war already being fought between the two competitors. Russia continues to flex its geopolitical muscles, launching a full-scale invasion of neighbouring Ukraine in 2022, as its strongman leadership yearns nostalgically for the good old days of the USSR. As grand narratives and strategies of the Cold War jostle to make sense of high-level geopolitical events, this book descends to the level of lived experience, zooming in on ordinary and marginalized peoples, whose lives and livelihoods have been affected over the decades by the Cold War and its legacies.

中東・アフリカにおける紛争と紛争後のガバナンス
Elayah, Moosa A. / Lambert, Laurent A. (eds.), Conflict and Post-Conflict Governance in the Middle East and Africa. 301 pp. 2023:3 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <693-953>
ISBN 978-3-031-23382-1 hard ¥28,244.- (税込) EUR 119.99 *

This book explores the challenges of the governance and public policy in the midst and after conflicts, revolutions, and civil wars in the Middle East and Africa. As anywhere else, the task of rebuilding peace and institutionalizing stability in countries experiencing a conflict or just emerging from it is daunting, uncertain and context specific. Yet, focusing on the Middle East and Africa is of particular relevance, as these two regions feature the highest numbers of inter- and intra-state conflicts on the one hand, and the central states are more often contested than in the rest of world regions. The first half of the book proposes different cases addressing the fundamental challenge of inclusion and cohesion as well as the recurring issue of exclusion in conflict-affected situations, with four different cultural and institutional settings. The second half of the book offers more theoretical insights and proposed pathways to develop more inclusive and peaceful governance settings in Africa, the Middle East and beyond. This edited book has been designed to be a helpful contribution to the analysis of conflict and post-conflict governance and peacebuilding. To do so, it deploys different lenses of social sciences, especially public policy and international relations, but also benefits from social psychology, political anthropology, and other disciplines that enable a more comprehensive understanding of the multifaceted, complex and dynamic issues at play.

モンゴル帝国史　全2巻
Biran, Michal / Kim, Hodong (eds.), The Cambridge History of the Mongol Empire. 2 vols. 1300 pp. 2023:6 (Cambridge U. Pr., UK) <693-981>
ISBN 978-1-107-11648-1 hard ¥72,649.- (税込) GB￡ 255.00 *

In the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries Chinggis Khan and his progeny ruled over two-thirds of Eurasia. Connecting East, West, North and South, the Mongols integrated most of the Old World, promoting unprecedented cross-cultural contacts and triggering the reshuffle of religious, ethnic, and geopolitical identities. The Cambridge History of the Mongol Empire studies the Empire holistically in its full Eurasian context, putting the Mongols and their nomadic culture at the center. Written by an international team of more than forty leading scholars, this two-volume set provides an authoritative and multifaceted history of 'the Mongol Moment' (1206-1368) in world history and includes an unprecedented survey of the various sources for its study, textual (written in sisteen languages), archaeological, and visual. This groundbreaking Cambridge History sets a new standard for future study of the Empire. It will serve as the fundamental reference work for those interested in Mongol, Eurasian, and world history.

Blair, James J. A., Salvaging Empire: Sovereignty, Natural Resources, and Environmental Science in the South Atlantic. 312 pp. 2023:8 (Cornell U. Pr., US) <693-982>
ISBN 978-1-5017-7117-0 hard ¥28,028.- (税込) US$ 130.00 *
ISBN 978-1-5017-7154-5 paper ¥6,888.- (税込) US$ 31.95 *

Salvaging Empire probes the historical roots and current predicaments of a twenty-first century settler colony seeking to control an uncertain future through resource management and environmental science. Four decades after a violent 1982 war between the United Kingdom and Argentina reestablished British authority over the Falkland Islands (Las Malvinas in Spanish), a commercial fishing boom and offshore oil discoveries have intensified the sovereignty dispute over the South Atlantic archipelago. Scholarly literature on the South Atlantic focuses primarily on military history of the 1982 conflict. However, contested claims over natural resources have now made this disputed territory a critical site for examining the wider relationship between imperial sovereignty and environmental governance. James J. A. Blair argues that by claiming self-determination and consenting to British sovereignty, the Falkland Islanders have crafted a settler colonial protectorate to extract resources and extend empire in the South Atlantic. Responding to current debates in environmental anthropology, critical geography, Atlantic history, political ecology, and science and technology studies, Blair describes how settlers have asserted indigeneity in dynamic relation with the environment. Salvaging Empire uncovers the South Atlantic's outsized importance for understanding the broader implications of resource management and environmental science for the geopolitics of empire.

Breyfogle, Nicholas B. / Brown, Philip C. (eds.), Hydraulic Societies: Water, Power, and Control in East and Central Asian History. 320 pp. 2023:6 (Oregon State U. Pr., US) <693-983>
ISBN 978-0-87071-237-1 paper ¥8,613.- (税込) US$ 39.95 *

Hydraulic Societies explores the linked themes of water, power, state-building, and hydraulic control. Bringing together a range of ecological, geographical, chronological, and methodological perspectives, the essays in this book address the how humans have long harnessed water and sought to contain its destructive power for political, economic and social ends. Water defines every aspect of life and remains at the center of human activity: in irrigation and agriculture; waste and sanitation; drinking and disease; floods and droughts; religious beliefs and practices; fishing and aquaculture; travel and discovery; scientific study; water pollution and conservation; multi-purpose dam building; boundaries and borders; politics and economic life; and wars and diplomacy. From the earliest large irrigation works thousands of years ago, control over water has involved control over people, as the essays in this volume reflect. The intersections of water and political, economic, and social power historically span international as well as domestic politics and operate at scales ranging from the local to the global. The authors consider the role of water in national development schemes, water distribution as a tool of political power, international disputes over waterways and water supplies, and the place of water in armed conflicts. They explore the ways in which political power and social hierarchies have themselves been defined and redefined by water and its control, how state leaders legitimized their rule both culturally and economically through the control of water, and how water management schemes were a means to impose and refine colonial power.

香港のメディアとアジアの冷戦
Fu, Po-Shek, Hong Kong Media and Asia's Cold War. 248 pp. 2023:3 (Oxford U. Pr., US) <693-986>
ISBN 978-0-19-007376-3 hard ¥26,950.- (税込) US$ 125.00
ISBN 978-0-19-007377-0 paper ¥7,975.- (税込) US$ 36.99 *

Hong Kong was a key battlefield in Asia's cultural cold war. After 1948-1949, an influx of filmmakers, writers, and intellectuals from mainland China transformed British Hong Kong into a hub for mass entertainment and popular publications. While there was no organized movement for independence, largely because of its location directly next to Mao's China, Hong Kong was central in the cultural contest between Communist China, Nationalist Taiwan, and the United States. Hong Kong Media and Asia's Cold War discusses how China, Taiwan, and the U.S. fought to mobilize Hong Kong cinema and print media to sway ethnic Chinese in Southeast Asia and across the world. Central to this propaganda and psychological warfare was the emigre media industry. This period was the "golden age" of Mandarin cinema and popular culture. Throughout the 1967 Riots and the 1970s, the emergence of a new, local-born generation challenged and reshaped the Cold War networks of emigre cultural production, contributing to the gradual decline of Hong Kong's cultural Cold War. Through untapped archival materials, contemporary sources, and numerous interviews with filmmakers, magazine editors, and student activists, Po-Shek Fu explores how global conflicts were localized and intertwined with myriad local historical experiences and cultural formation.

篠原初枝他編　国際連盟における東アジア人
Hughes, Christopher R. / Shinohara, Hatsue (eds.), East Asians in the League of Nations: Actors, Empires and Regions in Early Global Politics. (New Directions in East Asian History) 226 pp. 2023:2 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <693-987>
ISBN 978-981-19-7066-5 hard ¥30,598.- (税込) EUR 129.99

This book looks at East Asian actors in the League of Nations to explore a pivotal moment in the early stage of the development of global international relations. It breaks new ground by drawing on extensive sources in East Asian languages to show how actors from the region played significant roles in shaping the emerging norms and practices that underpin the international system. The chapters cover cases from the three East Asian member states, namely China, Japan and Siam (Thailand) to address topics that involve the intersection of disciplinary fields, such as law and warfare, sovereignty and international organization, and public health and international co-operation. The research draws on new material that will be of interest to academic researchers and is presented in a style suitable for teaching at undergraduate and graduate levels, especially for courses that strive to achieve a global outlook and the decolonization of the curriculum.

池谷和信他編　歴史的視点におけるグローバルなエコロジー－モンスーンアジア他
Ikeya, Kazunobu / Balee, William (eds.), Global Ecology in Historical Perspective: Monsoon Asia and Beyond. 329 pp. 2023:2 (Springer, GW) <693-988>
ISBN 978-981-19-6556-2 hard ¥32,952.- (税込) EUR 139.99

This book primarily examines human-animal and human-plant interactions in Asian forests (Southeast Asia?and Japan) and inland waters (China). For comparison, cases from the Americas (whales in the Arctic, sea turtles in the Caribbean, and plants in the Amazon) and Central Asia are also included. The relationship between plants, animals, and humans in Asia is quite unique from a global perspective. For example, "satoyama" in Japan means ecotone area, or the boundary between a village and a forest. There, as the number of inhabitants declines, bears, wild boars, and other animals increasingly ravage crops, sometimes attacking humans as well.By showing the regional nature of human-animal and human-plant interactions in Asia, this book provides for the first time a framework for understanding the world's animal and plant-human relationships. It is assumed that the relationships between humans and animals and plants during this period were diverse, including hunting, taming, semi-domestication, and full domestication. At the same time, for regions outside of Asia, the extent to which these diverse relationships were adapted and how diversity was formed is explained from the perspective of historical ecology.Customers can expect to derive perspectives on the coexistence of human-animal and plant-animal relationships from this book in the near future.The conservation of rare species, diverse habitats, and biodiversity is a central theme in considering the relationship between modern civilization and the global environment. In post-industrial Japan, one focus has been the protection of iconic animals such as storks, crested ibis, dugongs, and sea turtles, while damage to crops and humans by deer, wild boars, monkeys, bears, and other common animals has become an important social issue. How can the world's 7.7 billion-plus people live in harmony with other species? We would like to get some hints on how to solve the problems we are facing.

感覚人類学－アジアにおける文化と経験
Low, Kelvin E. Y., Sensory Anthropology: Culture and Experience in Asia. 232 pp. 2023:3 (Cambridge U. Pr., UK) <693-991>
ISBN 978-1-00-924083-3 hard ¥27,065.- (税込) GB￡ 95.00 *

From constructions of rasa (taste) in pre-colonial India and Indonesia, children and sensory discipline within the monastic orders of the Edo period of Japan, to sound expressives among the Semai in Peninsular Malaysia, the sensory soteriology of Tibetan Buddhism, and sensory warscapes of WWII, this book analyses how sensory cultures in Asia frame social order and disorder. Illustrated with a wide range of fascinating examples, it explores key anthropological themes, such as culture and language, food and foodways, morality, transnationalism and violence, and provides granular analyses on sensory relations, sensory pairings, and intersensoriality. By offering rich ethnographic perspectives on inter- and intra-regional sense relations, the book engages with a variety of sensory models, and moves beyond narrower sensory regimes bounded by group, nation or temporality. A pioneering exploration of the senses in and out of Asia, it is essential reading for academic researchers and students in social and cultural anthropology.

Pradhan, Pushkar K. / Leimgruber, Walter (eds.), Nature, Society, and Marginality: Case Studies from Nepal, Southeast Asia and other regions. (Perspectives on Geographical Marginality 8) 327 pp. 2023:1 (Springer, GW) <693-992>
ISBN 978-3-031-21324-3 hard ¥30,598.- (税込) EUR 129.99

This book focuses on the interrelations between nature and humans, in particular on those segments of societies that have been left behind (marginal groups). Nature is both the friend of humans and their adversary, depending on the way people treat and use it. Consequently, the book adopts a wide perspective of marginality: nature that has been marginalized by man (ecological marginality), but also social groups marginalized by politics, economic interests, and value judgements imbedded in culture. Many chapters deal specifically with issues in Nepal, but along with the other chapters with case studies from Southeast Asia and other regions, they demonstrate that the major man-nature problems are the same everywhere and can only be solved by constructive politics through clear regulations, convincing actions and general acceptance.

中国とインド太平洋
Singh, Swaran / Marwah, Reena (eds.), China and the Indo-Pacific: Maneuvers and Manifestations. 190 pp. 2023:2 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <693-993>
ISBN 978-981-19-7520-2 hard ¥28,244.- (税込) EUR 119.99

The book emanates from the geopolitical and geo-economic churning and transformations set in motion by the unprecedented economic rise of China resulting in its expanding political influence across the region and the world. In both the economic and the security realms, the United States and China alike are increasingly seen contesting in shaping the Indo-Pacific regional order to their own advantage. This book unfolds the contours and dimensions of China's responses to various multilateral initiatives of the US and its friends and allies like Japan, Australia, and India and, to some extent, even ASEAN. While China's medium-term strategy envisages a non-hostile external environment in order to focus on domestic priorities; reducing dependence of littoral nations of the Indo-Pacific region on America while increasing their engagement and dependence on China. China's expanding reach and influence overseas has resulted in US-led initiatives being China-focused inviting a response from China where adverse reactions have become increasingly palpable.

Wang, Linggui / Zhao, Jianglin, Exchanges and Mutual Learning Among Asian Civilizations. (Research Series on the Chinese Dream and China's Development Path) 301 pp. 2023:2 (Springer, GW) <693-995>
ISBN 978-981-19-7164-8 hard ¥32,952.- (税込) EUR 139.99

This book consists of global scholars' views on mankind's wishes for the future, the Belt and Road Initiative, bilateral cooperation, inter-civilization exchanges, and mutual learning among Asian civilizations, which represent a critical way to boost the construction of an Asian community with a shared future and a community with a shared future for mankind. It also gives some insight into the future development of Asian civilizations. The book aims to present a diverse and balanced overview on the prospect of Asian development.

不正の地政学
Brombacher, Daniel / Maihold, G. / Mueller, M. u. a. (eds.), Geopolitics of the Illicit: Linking the Global South and Europe. (Weltwirtschaft und internationale Zusammenarbeit 25) 411 S. 2022:10 (Nomos, GW) <693-334>
ISBN 978-3-7560-0015-9 paper ¥20,950.- (税込) EUR 89.00 *

Dieser Sammelband untersucht verschiedene Dimensionen illegaler Warenstroeme und fragt, wie diese durch einen geographischen Blickwinkel vom globalen Sueden bis nach Europa verstanden werden koennen. Durch eine Lieferkettenperspektive werden Erkenntnisse ueber die Verschmelzung zwischen illegalen, grauen und legalen Maerkten an bestimmten Punkten der Produktionskette gewonnen. Dieser Band wendet durch eine ?dichte Beschreibung" der spezifischen Stroeme eine ganzheitliche Sichtweise an und entwickelt praxisnahe Politikempfehlungen. Es versammelt Beitraege von Autor:innen mit unterschiedlichem Hintergrund, darunter internationale Wissenschaftler, Fachleute aus dem Bereich der Strafverfolgung und der Entwicklungszusammenarbeit sowie Journalist:innen. Mit Beitraegen von Lorenzo Bagnoli; Stefan Bauchwitz, PhD; Dr. Dyhia Belhabib; Daniel Brombacher, Inga Carry; Peter Fabricius; Prof. Dr. Gerardo Damonte; Dr. Nhomsai Hagen, PhD; Dr. Cathrin Hauk, PhD; Prof. Dr. Lutz Heide, PhD; Prof. Dr. Philippe Le Billon, PhD; Prof. Dr. Guenther Maihold; Fatjona Mejdini; Dr. Melanie Mueller; Dr. Bettina Schorr; Jan Schubert; Ina Tessnow-von Wysocki; Dr. Leopold von Carlowitz und Dr. Judith Vorrath.