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

佐藤洋一郎他編　アジアと欧州における同盟－進化するインド太平洋戦略のコンテクストと地域間の連携－
Atanassova-Cornelis, Elena / Sato, Yoichiro / Sauer, T. (eds.), Alliances in Asia and Europe: The Evolving Indo-Pacific Strategic Context and Inter-Regional Alignments. 182 pp. 2023:10 (Routledge, UK) <703-767>
ISBN 978-1-03-255040-4 hard ¥38,461.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00 *

This book explores the transformation of the American-led alliances, as well as of US allies' responses to potential American disengagement from regional security amid the rising Russian and Chinese threats.The post-Cold War international order has led to three challenges for the West. The first challenge was the ending of the Cold War, which had served as the fundamental rationale of the US-centred alliance systems in both Europe and Asia. The second challenge was that while the fear of US disengagement in the post-Cold War era was initially about its political willingness, the relative decline of the US has gradually turned the question into that of capability. And the third challenge is that for the first time since very long, a war in which one of the great (nuclear) powers is involved takes place on European territory. In Europe, the immediate consequence of the war has been a strengthening of NATO. In Asia and the Indo-Pacific, regional reactions to the war have been much more muted, for the division between "friends and foes" remains less clear-cut than in Europe. The chapters in this volume bridge the dynamics in the European and Asian theatres and provide a comparative framework for examining security alignments amid the shifting strategic context of the Indo-Pacific.With 4 new chapters and a revised Introduction, this book will be of great interest to students and researchers of Politics and International Relations, Asian and European studies. The other chapters were originally published in Asian Affairs.

ポスト帝国の可能性－ユーラシア、ユーラフリカ、アフロアジア
Burbank, Jane / Cooper, Frederick, Post-Imperial Possibilities: Eurasia, Eurafrica, Afroasia. 312 pp. 2023:11 (Princeton U. Pr., US) <703-856>
ISBN 978-0-691-25037-3 hard ¥7,546.- (税込) US$ 35.00 *

A history of three transnational political projects designed to overcome the inequities of imperialismAfter the dissolution of empires, was the nation-state the only way to unite people politically, culturally, and economically? In Post-Imperial Possibilities, historians Jane Burbank and Frederick Cooper examine three large-scale, transcontinental projects aimed at bringing together peoples of different regions to mitigate imperial legacies of inequality. Eurasia, Eurafrica, and Afroasia-in theory if not in practice-offered alternative routes out of empire.The theory of Eurasianism was developed after the collapse of imperial Russia by exiled intellectuals alienated by both Western imperialism and communism. Eurafrica began as a design for collaborative European exploitation of Africa but was transformed in the 1940s and 1950s into a project to include France's African territories in plans for European integration. The Afroasian movement wanted to replace the vertical relationship of colonizer and colonized with a horizontal relationship among former colonial territories that could challenge both the communist and capitalist worlds.Both Eurafrica and Afroasia floundered, victims of old and new vested interests. But Eurasia revived in the 1990s, when Russian intellectuals turned the theory's attack on Western hegemony into a recipe for the restoration of Russian imperial power. While both the system of purportedly sovereign states and the concentrated might of large economic and political institutions continue to frustrate projects to overcome inequities in welfare and power, Burbank and Cooper's study of political imagination explores wide-ranging concepts of social affiliation and obligation that emerged after empire and the reasons for their unlike destinies.

モノが語る物語－初期のグローバリズムの物質史
Flood, Finbarr Barry / Fricke, Beate, Tales Things Tell: Material Histories of Early Globalisms. 304 pp. 2024:1 (Princeton U. Pr., US) <703-857>
ISBN 978-0-691-21515-0 hard ¥11,858.- (税込) US$ 55.00 *

New perspectives on early globalisms from objects and imagesTales Things Tell offers new perspectives on histories of connectivity between Africa, Asia, and Europe in the period before the Mongol conquests of the thirteenth century. Reflected in objects and materials whose circulation and reception defined aesthetic, economic, and technological networks that existed outside established political and sectarian boundaries, many of these histories are not documented in the written sources on which historians usually rely. Tales Things Tell charts bold new directions in art history, making a compelling case for the archival value of mobile artifacts and images in reconstructing the past.In this beautifully illustrated book, Finbarr Barry Flood and Beate Fricke present six illuminating case studies from the sixth to the thirteenth centuries to show how portable objects mediated the mobility of concepts, iconographies, and techniques. The case studies range from metalwork to stone reliefs, manuscript paintings, and objects using natural materials such as coconut and rock crystal. Whether as booty, commodities, gifts, or souvenirs, many of the objects discussed in Tales Things Tell functioned as sources of aesthetic, iconographic, or technical knowledge in the lands in which they came to rest. Remapping the histories of exchange between medieval Islam and Christendom, from Europe to the Indian Ocean, Tales Things Tell ventures beyond standard narratives drawn from written archival records to demonstrate the value of objects and images as documents of early globalisms.

北東アジアにおける近代性
Kwak, Jun-Hyeok / Cheng, Ken (eds.), Modernities in Northeast Asia. (Political Theories in East Asian Context 10) 256 pp. 2024 (Routledge, UK) <703-859>
ISBN 978-1-03-250560-2 hard ¥38,461.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00 *

To form a truer portrait of Northeast Asian perspectives on modernity, this book presents a broad range of analyses from philosophical and political-philosophical scholars specializing in the region.The book considers the encounter between "Western" modernity and "Eastern" tradition not as a simple clash of cultures, but as a generative and hybridizing process of negotiation. It examines the concrete manifestations of modernity in various intellectual and political movements that attempted to radically restructure Northeast Asian societies. And through these situated perspectives, it rethinks and redefines the idea of "modernity" itself, challenging and presenting alternatives to Western-centric thinking on the topic.This book will be of particular interest to political philosophers, political theorists, comparative philosophers, regional specialists in East Asia, and all scholars grappling with the perplexities of global "modernity."

Roesner, Marco Michael, Herrschaftswissen: Imperiale Begegnungen in der deutschen kolonialen Schule. 1885-1929. (Historische Grundlagen der Moderne 24) 650 S. 2023:2 (Nomos, GW) <703-860>
ISBN 978-3-8487-8780-7 hard ¥31,543.- (税込) EUR 134.00 *

Die deutsche koloniale Schule ist ein kultureller Kontaktraum von Indigenen und Nicht-Indigenen, ein Ort der Generierung von Herrschaftswissen und ein Arbeitsplatz deutscher Lehrerinnen und Lehrer. Deren Berufsbiographien fuehren von 1885 bis 1929 durch ein bislang unzureichend erforschtes Kapitel der deutschen Kolonialgeschichte. Sie erzaehlen von sozialer Disziplinierung und paternalistischer Naehe, von sprachpolitischen Eingriffen in indigene Sprachen und kultureller Normierung, von persoenlichem Ehrgeiz und der Aushandlungsbeduerftigkeit kolonialer Herrschaft im Alltag. Die Studie zeichnet ein Bild kolonialer Schulpraxis in Afrika und im Pazifik und verortet diese in den Kontexten von Verwaltung, Religion, Siedlerschaft und imperialer Konkurrenz.

アジア太平洋におけるポピュリズム・ハンドブック
Subedi, D. B. / Brasted, Howard et al. (eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Populism in the Asia Pacific. (Indo-Pacific in Context) 356 pp. 2023:9 (Routledge, UK) <703-861>
ISBN 978-0-367-70185-7 hard ¥62,678.- (税込) GB￡ 220.00 *

This handbook brings national and thematic case studies together to examine a variety of populist politics from local and comparative perspectives in the Asia Pacific. The chapters consider key and cross cutting themes such as populism and nationalism, religion, ethnicity and gender, as well as authoritarianism. They show how populist politics alters the way governments mediate state-society relations.The essays in this volume consider:diverse approaches in populist politics, for example, post-colonial, strategic vs ideational, growth and redistribution, leadership styles, and in what ways they are similar to, or different from, populist discourses in Europe and the United Statesunder what social, political, economic and structural conditions populist politics has emerged in the Asia-Pacific regionnational case studies drawn from South, East and Southeast Asia as well as the Pacific analyzing themes such as media, religion, gender, medical populism, corruption and cronyism, and inclusive vs exclusive forms of populist politicsmodes and techniques of social and political mobilization that populist politicians employ to influence people and their impact on the way democracy is conceived and practiced in the Asia PacificAs a systematic account of populist ideologies, strategies, leaders and trends in the Asia Pacific, this handbook is essential reading for scholars of area studies, especially in the Asia Pacific, politics and international relations, and political and social theory.

アジア太平洋におけるパンデミック、国家、社会　2020～21年－COVIDへの対応
Hawksley, Charles / Georgeou, Nichole (eds.), Pandemic, States and Socieites in the Asia-Pacific, 2020-2021: Responding to COVID. (Routledge Studies on the Asia-Pacific Region) 240 pp. 2023:10 (Routledge, UK) <703-292>
ISBN 978-1-03-231821-9 hard ¥38,461.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00 *

Hawksley and Georgeou bring together scholars and practitioners from across the region to analyse the main effects of the first two years of the COVID pandemic in a range of case studies from Southeast Asia, East Asia, South Asia, and Oceania.The book provides a broad survey of how Indonesia, Bangladesh, Japan, the Philippines, Vietnam, Nepal, Australia, Cambodia, Taiwan, and New Zealand attempted to manage the COVID pandemic; the challenges they faced; and how they fared. Drawing on insights from politics, economics, sociology, law, public health, education, and geography, most authors are nationals of the cases they discuss. Written in non-specialist language, ten case studies are examined, providing a useful analysis of the first two years of COVID in the Asia-Pacific from the emergence of COVID in January 2020 to the lifting of restrictions in December 2021. Chapters focus on different issues according to the scholar's academic expertise, and a wide diversity of national pandemic experiences, challenges, and responses are showcased. An essential read for scholars and students interested in the areas of Asia-Pacific politics, sociology, and public health.