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

Duarte, Paulo Afonso B. / Albuquerque, R. et al. (eds.), Portugal and the Lusophone World: Law, Geopolitics and Institutional Cooperation. 423 pp. 2023:6 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <700-835>
ISBN 978-981-9904-54-9 hard ¥34,030.- (税込) EUR 139.99

This book responds to a serious need for a consistent and comprehensive publication which combines an analysis of Law, Geopolitics and Institutional cooperation within the Lusophone world. Research in the book includes contributions from scholars with diverse educational and professional experiences working in these disciplines, from all around the world. The book will assist readers in comprehending, recognizing and discussing on-going debates about the Lusophone world in the 21st century.

Social Outlook for Asia and the Pacific 2022: The Workforce We Need. 84 pp. 2022:10 (UN, US) <700-420>
ISBN 978-92-1-120843-6 paper ¥7,854.- (税込) US$ 35.00 *

The Social Outlook is a flagship ESCAP publication produced every two years with a dedicated focus on social development issues in Asia and the Pacific. In 2022, under the theme of "The Workforce We Need", the Social Outlook focuses on building a healthy, protected and productive workforce in Asia and the Pacific to achieve inclusive and sustainable development and build back better after COVID-19 pandemic, particularly in the presence of four key megatrends including climate change, ageing, digitalization and rising inequalities which has already prompted green, demographic and digital transitions that are altering the future world of work. Through its analysis, the Social Outlook aims to strengthen the evidence base and build capacity of policymakers on how to design and expand social protection, active labour market policies and health systems to achieve a resilient workforce today and in the future. The Report is structured along six chapters. Chapter 1 sets the latest social development context in the region highlighting the need for deepening solidarity and rebuilding trust to implement the 2030 Agenda on Sustainable Development. Next, Chapters 2-4 delve into three components of a resilient workforce, namely a healthy, productive, and protected workforce and emphasize the role of such a workforce in inclusive and sustainable development. Chapter 5 discusses policy recommendations for attaining such a workforce in Asia and the Pacific and proposes the renewal of the social contract which can put the region on a path for breakthrough and prosperity. Chapter 6 concludes

Miller, Owen (ed.), State Capitalism and Development in East Asia since 1945. (Historical Materialism Book Series 282) 296 pp. 2023:6 (Brill, NE) <700-422>
ISBN 978-90-04-25190-8 hard ¥32,332.- (税込) EUR 133.00 *

During the second half of the twentieth century the countries of East Asia saw one of the most remarkable transformations in human history, from relatively poor societies to global powerhouses of accumulation, proletarianisation and mega-urbanisation. This volume features Marxist scholars from East Asia and Europe who are pioneering a new approach to this transformation using the theory of state capitalism. The essays analyse the histories of countries on either side of the Cold War divide within the broader framework of twentieth century global capitalist expansion, while at the same time offering a sophisticated critique of Developmental State Theory. Contributors are: Tobias ten Brink, Gareth Dale, Jeong Seongjin, Michael Haynes, Kim Ha-young, Kim Yong-uk, Lee Jeong-goo, and Owen Miller

Rithmire, Meg, Precarious Ties: Business and the State in Authoritarian Asia. 384 pp. 2023:9 (Oxford U. Pr., US) <700-423>
ISBN 978-0-19-769752-8 hard ¥22,215.- (税込) US$ 99.00
ISBN 978-0-19-769753-5 paper ¥6,719.- (税込) US$ 29.95 *

Developing Asia has been the site of some of the last century's fastest growing economies as well as some of the world's most durable authoritarian regimes. Many accounts of rapid growth alongside monopolies on political power have focused on crony relationships between the state and business. But these relationships have not always been smooth, as anti-corruption campaigns, financial and banking crises, and dramatic bouts of liberalization and crackdown demonstrate. Why do partnerships between political and business elites fall apart over time? And why do some partnerships produce stable growth and others produce crisis or stagnation? In Precarious Ties, Meg Rithmire offers a novel account of the relationships between business and political elites in three authoritarian regimes in developing Asia: Indonesia under Suharto's New Order, Malaysia under the Barisan Nasional, and China under the Chinese Communist Party. All three regimes enjoyed periods of high growth and supposed alliances between autocrats and capitalists. Over time, however, the relationships between capitalists and political elites changed, and economic outcomes diverged. While state-business ties in Indonesia and China created dangerous dynamics like capital flight, fraud, and financial crisis, Malaysia's state-business ties contributed to economic stagnation. To understand these developments, Rithmire presents two conceptual models of state-business relations that explain their genesis and why variation occurs over time. She shows that mutual alignment occurs when an authoritarian regime organizes its institutions, or even its informal practices, to induce capitalists to invest in growth and development. Mutual endangerment, on the other hand, obtains when economic and political elites are entangled in corrupt dealings and invested in perpetuating each other's dominance. The loss of power on one side would bring about the demise of the other. Rithmire contends that the main factors explaining why one pattern dominates over the other are trust between business and political elites, determined during regime formation, and the dynamics of financial liberalization. Empirically rich and sweeping in scope, Precarious Ties offers lessons for all nations in which the state and the private sector are deeply entwined.

グローバル・サウスにおけるソーシャル・プロテクションと社会開発ハンドブック
Patel, Leila / Plagerson, Sophie / Chinyoka, Isaac (eds.), Handbook on Social Protection and Social Development in the Global South. (Elgar Handbooks in Social Policy and Welfare) 576 pp. 2023:9 (E. Elgar, UK) <700-594>
ISBN 978-1-80037-841-4 hard ¥66,286.- (税込) GB￡ 230.00 *

This cutting-edge Handbook argues for social protection to be situated in a wider system of social welfare and development programmes for low- and middle-income countries. Focusing on the role of citizens and communities in enhancing human development, it explores how welfare systems are unfolding in diverse contexts across the global South.Tracing the evolution and theory of social protection, the Handbook examines the nature, design, scope, goals and linkages of social protection and social development programmes. Case studies examine responses to the COVID-19 pandemic; the entrepreneurial character of modern social protection schemes; cash transfer schemes and the move towards cash-plus policies; and the fluidity between progression and regression of social protection. With global and regional reviews of social protection from in-country experts, the Handbook provides innovative solutions to key challenges.Bridging theoretical and empirical approaches, the Handbook on Social Protection and Social Development in the Global South will prove an invaluable resource for academics and graduate students of development, social policy and sociology. Its comprehensive overview of the field will also be useful for policymakers and practitioners working on social welfare and development in the global South.

植民地世界における疫病との出会い、コミュニティ、実際
Bala, Poonam / Viljoen, Russel (eds.), Epidemic Encounters, Communities, and Practices in the Colonial World. 380 pp. 2023:2 (Lexington Books, US) <700-599>
ISBN 978-1-79365-122-8 hard ¥28,050.- (税込) US$ 125.00 *

The essays in this volume examine the nature and extent of disease on indigenous communities and local populations located within the vast regions of the Indian and Pacific Oceans as a result of colonial sea power and colonial conquest. While this established a long-term impact of disease on populations, the essays also offer insights into the dynamics of these populations in resisting colonial intrusions and introduction of disease to newly-acquired territories.

Power, Greg, Inside the Political Mind: The Human Side of Politics and How It Shapes Development. 352 pp. 2023:11 (Hurst, UK) <700-1352>
ISBN 978-1-80526-051-6 hard ¥7,205.- (税込) GB￡ 25.00 *

Drawing on his experience of working with hundreds of politicians in more than sixty countries, Greg Power explores how social norms, public expectations and the personal interests of MPs influence the path of political development. Where states are weak, politicians solve problems by going around the state. From Tanzania and Nepal to Iraq and Ukraine, voters actually want MPs who can find informal fixes, and a reciprocal logic holds the system in place. But this also means that weak institutions tend to stay weak. Combining insights from behavioural economics, change management and comparative politics, this fascinating book argues for a different approach to political reform, one concerned less with institutional design and more with the existing logic of human behaviour. One that starts inside the political mind, and works outwards from there.

Raman, K. Ravi, Political Ecospatiality: Livelihood, Environment and Subaltern Struggles. 280 pp. 2023:8 (Cambridge U. Pr., UK) <700-1353>
ISBN 978-1-00-933739-7 hard ¥24,497.- (税込) GB￡ 85.00

平和と国際安全保障への脅威－アジア対西洋
Cayon Pena, Juan / Ramirez, J. Martin (eds.), Threats to Peace and International Security: Asia versus West: Current Challenges in a New Geopolitical Situation. (Advanced Sciences and Technologies for Security Applications) 243 pp. 2023:3 (Springer, GW) <700-1523>
ISBN 978-3-031-28335-2 hard ¥34,030.- (税込) EUR 139.99 *

This book aims to analyze from a multidisciplinary perspective the current geopolitical conflict between East and West, between two differentiated and apparently conflicting cosmogonic visions. The geopolitical evolution of the current panorama seems to lead to a new world in the field of international relations, a new board played on a planetary level. Once again, bloc geopolitics can be glimpsed in the immediate future, in which the most important actors such as Russia, China, the United States of America, and the European Union are called to position themselves with respect to the territorial and strategic ambitions of the opponent. International law seems to be overwhelmed by military actions and factual pressure on the ground, while the battle of ideas extends to the technological field and cyberspace. The different origins of the authors, with extensive academic, military, police forces, and business experience undoubtedly enriches the unique perspective that this work intendsto address, always in the attempt to enforce international law and the channels of dialogue between nations, such as the best solution to conflicts.

アジアの世紀におけるインドと中国の対立－外交・戦略史
Balachandran, Vappala, India and China at Odds in the Asian Century: A Diplomatic and Strategic History. 288 pp. 2023:10 (Hurst, UK) <700-1562>
ISBN 978-1-80526-062-2 hard ¥10,087.- (税込) GB￡ 35.00

The term 'Asian century' was first coined by the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee in 1985 when discussing the Asian economic leap forward. From 1988, diplomats and the media also started using the term, further to the successful Deng Xiaoping-Rajiv Gandhi summit held that December in Beijing, for which Vappala Balachandran, under Prime Minister Gandhi's express directions, led a small team of officials for more than a year of discreet 'off-line' talks with key Chinese counterparts--separate from the official diplomatic engagement. The Chinese-Indian thaw, which lasted until 1998, prompted highly optimistic visions of a 'China-India Century of Cooperation' enabling both powers to compete with the US and EU in terms of trade and military capacity. None of this happened, and instead the China-India relationship is highly rancorous, punctuated by trade spats and border skirmishing between the People's Liberation Army and the Indian Army. New Delhi has gravitated towards the US in the hope of checkmating an assertive Beijing's pursuit of global military and trade dominance. This book offers a comprehensive analysis of India and China's comparative strategic capabilities, sharing many insights drawn from the author's first-hand engagement with and research into the questions discussed. The opinions expressed in this book are personal and do not represent those of the Government of India.

Cawley, Kevin / Schneider, Julia (eds.), Transnational East Asian Studies. (Transnational Modern Languages) 312 pp. 2023:1 (Liverpool U. Pr., UK) <700-1563>
ISBN 978-1-80207-729-2 hard ¥28,820.- (税込) GB￡ 100.00 *
ISBN 978-1-80207-730-8 paper ¥9,507.- (税込) GB￡ 32.99 *

Transnational East Asian Studies demonstrates how transnationalism as a mode of intellectual enquiry has wide-ranging interdisciplinary potential and has immense value when examining the past, just as much as much as when examining the present. Artificially erected borders, which appear on maps and globes, fail to consider the ways people in diverse regions live and practice their everyday lives, existing beyond boundaries. The people of East Asia have always been on the move, they have never been homogeneous, and have evolved together, not apart. In this sense, people around the globe and also in East Asia have always been involved in a process of change and transformation. Hence, transnationalism is a way to overcome methodological nationalism, not only as a concept of identity and spatiality, but also as a concept temporally situated in the modern, because as a methodology, transnationalism does not take the national as a precondition. It allows us to move beyond and across borders, and to examine how ideas have been used and transformed in different contexts. This book thus underscores the complex interactions in the context of East Asia, past and present, while shaping the future of this complicated region.

Hegewald, Julia A. B. (eds.), Embodied Dependencies and Freedoms: Artistic Communities and Patronage in Asia. (Dependency and Slavery Studies 5) 450 pp. 2023:7 (de Gruyter, GW) <700-1566>
ISBN 978-3-11-099110-9 hard ¥24,296.- (税込) EUR 99.95 *

Have you ever thought about dependencies in Asian art and architecture? Most people would probably assume that the arts are free and that creativity and ingenuity function outside of such reliances. However, the 13 chapters provided by specialists in the fields of Asian art and architecture in this volume show, that those active in the visual arts and the built environment operate in an area of strict relations of often extreme dependences. Material artefacts and edifices are dependent on the climate in which they have been created, on the availability of resources for their production, on social and religious traditions, which may be oral or written down and on donors, patrons and the art market. Furthermore, gender and labour dependencies play a role in the creation of the arts as well. Despite these strong and in most instances asymmetrical dependencies, artists have at all times found freedoms in expressing their own imagination, vision and originality. 　 This shows that dependencies and freedoms are not necessarily strictly separated binary opposites but that, at least in the area of the history of art and architecture in Asia, the two are interconnected in what are often complex and multifaceted layers.

Kirkby, Diane, Maritime Men of the Asia-Pacific: True-Blue Internationals Navigating Labour Rights 1906-2006. (Studies in Labour History) 352 pp. 2023:1 (Liverpool U. Pr., UK) <700-1567>
ISBN 978-1-80207-719-3 hard ¥27,379.- (税込) GB￡ 95.00 *
ISBN 978-1-80207-751-3 paper ¥8,642.- (税込) GB￡ 29.99 *

Winner of the Australia and New Zealand Law and History Society (ANZLHS) Prize for 2023 Maritime workers occupy a central place in global labour history. This new and compelling account from Australia, shows seafaring and waterside unions engaged in a shared history of activism for legally regulated wages and safe liveable conditions for all who go to sea. Maritime Men of the Asia-Pacific provides a corrective to studies which overlook this region's significance as a provider of the world's maritime labour force and where unions have a rich history of reaching across their differences to forge connections in solidarity. From the 'militant young Australian' Harry Bridges whose progressive unionism transformed the San Francisco waterfront, to Australia's successful implementation of the Maritime Labour Convention 2006, this is a story of vision and leadership on the international stage. Unionists who saw themselves as internationalists were also operating within a national and imperial framework where conflicting interests and differences of race and ideology had to be overcome. Union activists in India, China and Japan struggled against indentured labour and 'coolie' standards. They linked with their fellow-unionists in pursuing an ideal of international labour rights against the power of shipowners and anti-union governments. This is a complex story of endurance, cooperation and conflict and its empowering legacy.

帝国に対する闘争における想像、移動性、ネットワーク
Manela, Erez / Streets-Salter, Heather (eds.), The Anticolonial Transnational: Imaginaries, Mobilities, and Networks in the Struggle against Empire. (Global and International History) 332 pp. 2023:8 (Cambridge U. Pr., UK) <700-1568>
ISBN 978-1-00-935910-8 hard ¥23,056.- (税込) GB￡ 80.00 *
ISBN 978-1-00-935909-2 paper ¥7,489.- (税込) GB￡ 25.99 *

This volume is the first to explore transnational anticolonialism as a general global phenomenon that spanned the entire twentieth century. Its collected essays model both a broadening of the issues under consideration and the collaboration necessary to do justice to the scope of this vibrant field. They showcase new work by scholars who explore the anticolonial transnational in multiple geographical regions, from a variety of perspectives, and at many different times across the long twentieth century. Revealing that anticolonial movements everywhere in this period were invariably transnational in terms of their imaginaries, mobilities, and networks, these essays also demonstrate that centering transnational connections can change our understanding of the anticolonial past. The legacies of transnational anticolonial strategies and networks fundamentally shaped the present. Together, these essays present a fresh, kaleidoscopic view of the geographical, chronological, and thematic possibilities of the global anticolonial transnational.

H.メルバー著　ドイツ植民地主義の長い影
Melber, Henning, The Long Shadow of German Colonialism: Amnesia, Denialism and Revisionism. 336 pp. 2023:11 (Hurst, UK) <700-1569>
ISBN 978-1-80526-045-5 paper ¥8,646.- (税込) GB￡ 30.00

From 1884 to 1914, the world's fourth-largest overseas colonial empire was that of the German Kaiserreich. Yet this fact is little known in Germany and the subject remains virtually absent from most school textbooks. While debates are now common in France and Britain over the impact of empire on former colonies and colonising societies, German imperialism has only more recently become a topic of wider public interest. In 2015, the German government belatedly and half-heartedly conceded that the extermination policies carried out over 1904-8 in the settler colony of German South West Africa (now Namibia) qualify as genocide. But the recent invigoration of debate on Germany's colonial past has been hindered by continued amnesia, denialism and a populist right endorsing colonial revisionism. A recent campaign against postcolonial studies sought to denounce and ostracise any serious engagement with the crimes of the imperial age. Henning Melber presents an overview of German colonial rule and analyses how its legacy has affected and been debated in German society, politics and the media. He also discusses the quotidian experiences of Afro-Germans, the restitution of colonial loot, and how the history of colonialism affects important institutions such as the Humboldt Forum.

Soon, Carol (ed.), Mobile Communication and Online Falsehoods in Asia: Trends, Impact and Practice. (Mobile Communication in Asia: Local Insights, Global Implications) 420 pp. 2023:6 (Springer, GW) <700-1575>
ISBN 978-94-024-2224-5 hard ¥34,030.- (税込) EUR 139.99 *

This book focuses on developments and trends pertaining to online falsehoods and mobile instant messaging services (MIMS), the impact of online falsehoods transmitted via MIMS, and practice and intervention. As the reliance on mobile devices for news seeking and information sharing continues to grow, the spread of online falsehoods on MIMS is a problem that confounds academics, practitioners, and policymakers. Recent developments in countries such as Brazil and India demonstrate how MIMS facilitate the spread of online falsehoods. Given that a number of non-academic and non-governmental institutions in the region are doing important work in countering the influence of online falsehoods, this book also includes contributions by practitioners who design initiatives and programmes in this area. The book is a timely contribution in addressing the distinct issues of online falsehoods in a large, technophilic region such as Asia, grappling with problems of online falsehoods on so many fronts, including ideological extremism, political opportunism, cyberscams, political activism, digitalised learning, geopolitical tensions, and more. Relevant to researchers and policymakers, this book provides a timely and critical analysis of both research and practice conducted in the Asian context by scholars hailing from a range of disciplines such media studies, political communication, cultural studies, and cognitive science.

Velde, Paul, The Asian Studies Parade: Archival, Biographical, Institutional and Post-Colonial Approaches. 318 pp. 2023:2 (Leiden U. Pr., NE) <700-1576>
ISBN 978-90-8728-399-5 hard ¥32,566.- (税込) GB￡ 113.00 *

Wang, Zhengxu (ed.), The Long East Asia: The Premodern State and Its Contemporary Impacts. (Governing China in the 21st Century) 219 pp. 2023:6 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <700-1577>
ISBN 978-981-19-8783-0 hard ¥31,599.- (税込) EUR 129.99

This book brings together a range of studies that aim at illustrating the ideas, institutions, historical patterns, and contemporary relevance of the social-political system that existed in the main part of East Asia during the premodern era. This is most often known as the Confucian literati-bureaucratic state, the imperial Chinese bureaucratic state, or the Confucian-Legalist state, that was established and endured most notably in China, but also in several East Asian societies such as Korea, Vietnam, Japan. That state and sociopolitical system also greatly shaped state making in several kingdoms in the region - such as Ryukyu and Dali - which were later merged into larger polities. Illuminating the significance of these historical patterns for today, this book will interest political scientists, historians, philosophers, and the general public.

Wilcox, Phill / Rigg, Jonathan / Nguyen, Minh T. N. (eds.), Rural Life in Late Socialism: Politics of Development and Imaginaries of the Future. (Social Sciences in Asia 44) 315 pp. 2023:8 (Brill, NE) <700-1578>
ISBN 978-90-04-52805-5 hard EUR 0.00

China, Laos, and Vietnam are three of a handful of late socialist countries where capitalist economics rubs up against party-state politics. In these countries, sweeping processes of change open up new vistas of opportunity and imaginaries of the future alongside much uncertainty and anxiety, especially for their large rural populations. Contributors to this edited volume demonstrate the diverse ways in which rural people build futures in this unique policy landscape and how their aspirations and desires are articulated as projects involving both citizens and the state. This produces a politics of development that happens through and around the state as people navigate discourses of betterment to imagine and make new futures at individual and collective levels.

Yi, Chin-Chun / Tsai, Ming-Chang (eds.), Journey to Adulthood: East Asian Perspectives. (Sage Studies in International Sociology) 440 pp. 2023:2 (Sage, UK) <700-1579>
ISBN 978-1-5296-0844-1 hard ¥22,767.- (税込) GB￡ 79.00 *
ISBN 978-1-5296-0843-4 paper ¥4,607.- (税込) GB￡ 15.99 *

Young people in East Asia are increasingly experiencing a prolonged transition to adulthood. They are spending longer in school, entering the labour market later, and getting married later still. This protracted young adulthood interacts with forces of both tradition and modernization, as social and economic changes generate profound effects on the transition from school to work, on family formation, on personal relationships, and on subjective well-being. Journey to Adulthood explores the special characteristics of young adulthood in East Asia. It uses Taiwan as illustrative example, with comparative findings from its East Asian neighbours Japan, Korea and Hong Kong. It describes the particular growth context of a millennial generation, and the challenges they face as they attempt to balance family formation, personal development and entry into a market economy. Edited by Chin-Chun Yi and Ming-Chang Tsai, this collection helps us to understand the structural configurations East Asian young adults collectively represent. Taking a cross-cultural and comparative perspective, it enables meaningful policy suggestions on family dynamics, educational strategy, and health and well-being across the globe. Dr Chin-Chun Yi and Dr Ming-Chang Tsai both work within the Institute of Sociology, Research Center for Humanities and Social Sciences, Academia Sinica, Taiwan