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

Baizakova, Kuralay / Alix, Yann / Chabal, Pierre (eds.), The Completion of Eurasia?: Continental convergence or regional dissent in the context of 'historic turns'. (New International Insights / Nouveaux Regards sur l'International 16) 530 pp. 2023 (P. Lang, SZ) <709-824>
ISBN 978-2-87574-778-5 paper ¥19,465.- (税込) SFR 79.00

Berrettini, Mireno / Borsani, Davide (eds.), Bringing Eurasia Back In?: The Resilience of the Western-Centric Alliance System Between History and Politics. 198 pp. 2023:7 (P. Lang, SZ) <709-826>
ISBN 978-3-0343-4525-5 paper ¥10,102.- (税込) SFR 41.00

Since the end of the Second World War, the role of the United States in the international arena has been closely linked to the stability of its security alliance system. For strategic reasons, one of the major goals for the U.S. foreign policy has always been preventing the rise of a hegemonic power in Eurasia. Actually, history and geopolitics tend to show that the global balance of power strictly depends on dynamics, threats and acting players in Eurasia. Despite China’s growing global influence, it is in Asia-Pacific that the Chinese quest for power has played out more vividly. In this framework, the partnership between Russia and China represents a source of worries for the West as a whole and, more specifically, the gravest strategic threat to U.S. overseas interests.

Ashencaen Crabtree, Sara, An Historiography of Twentieth-Century Women's Missionary Nursing Through the Lives of Two Sisters: Doing the Lord's Work in Kenya and South India. (Routledge Research in Gender and History) 272 pp. 2023:12 (Routledge, UK) <709-865>
ISBN 978-1-03-241796-7 hard ¥38,907.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00 *

This volume draws on a trove of unpublished original material from the pre-1940s to the present to offer a unique historiographic study of twentieth century Methodist missionary work and women's active expression of faith practised at the critical confluence of historical and global changes.The study focuses on two English Methodist missionary nursing sisters and siblings, Audrey and Muriel Chalkely, whose words and experiences are captured in detail, foregrounding tumultuous socio-political changes of the end of Empire and post-Independence in twentieth-century Kenya and South India. The work presents a timely revision to prevailing post-colonial critiques in placing the fundamental importance of human relationships centre stage. Offering a detailed (auto)biographical and reflective narrative, this 'herstory' pivots on three main thematic strands relating to people, place and passion, where socio-cultural details are vividly explored.The book will appeal to a wide range of readers, both the interested public and the academic alike, where a lively, entertaining, literary style introduces readers to the politics of women's lives, and principle and professional service foreground ethno-class-caste oppression, emancipation, conflict, commitments and religious tensions. It reveals the human, vulnerable qualities of these women, illuminating their stories and courageous choices.

Hauser, Mark William / Haines, Julia Jong (eds.), The Archaeology of Modern Worlds in the Indian Ocean. 350 pp. 2023:12 (U. Pr. Florida, US) <709-868>
ISBN 978-0-8130-6984-5 hard ¥20,196.- (税込) US$ 90.00 *

Case studies that show the importance of the Indian Ocean region to the emergence of modernity and globalization. This volume brings together a diverse range of specialists working in multiple areas of the Indian Ocean world, providing broad geographical coverage and comparisons across sites. Contributors use a historical archaeological approach, which bridges everyday life in the recent past with large-scale processes of globalization, to examine topics related to colonialism, labor, race, ethnicity, diaspora, human-environment relationships, and heritage. Case studies from Zanzibar, Mauritius and the Mascarene islands, India, Indonesia, Java, and other locations emphasize networks and connections across the Indian Ocean. Contributors apply a variety of disciplinary methods, including bioanthropology, analysis of medieval illustrations and colonial documents, architectural history, and anthropology of built space. They discuss the material history of domestic areas, religious structures, and colonial outposts; the structure of the slave trade; and the everyday implications of disease and health management within laboring populations. This volume decenters European narratives and actors to show the important ways this region shaped the modern world. By highlighting the experiences of ordinary people in East Africa and South and Southeast Asia, the research in these chapters contributes to a better understanding of histories in the Global South over the last four hundred years. Contributors: Mark Hauser Julia Haines Mick de Ruyter Ellen Hseih Sakai Takashi Krish Seetah Stefania Manfio Akshay Sarathi Sasa Caval Alessandra Cianciosi Adria LaViolette Neil Norman V. Selvakumar Brian C. Wilson Chapurukha M. Kusimba Supriya Varma

Woodcraft, Clare / Munir, Kamal / Khemka, N. M. (eds.), Reimagining Philanthropy in the Global South: From Analysis to Action in a Post-COVID World. 200 pp. 2024:3 (Cambridge U. Pr., UK) <709-872>
ISBN 978-1-00-940054-1 hard ¥27,379.- (税込) GB￡ 95.00 *

While there have always been high levels of philanthropic giving in the Global South, the urgency and unexpectedness of COVID-19 transformed the parameters within which philanthropy operates. 'Reimagining Philanthropy in the Global South' examines how newer models of philanthropy are tackling development challenges, including poverty, inequality and access to healthcare and education, and questions how organisations are coping with structural changes in donor-driven philanthropy; how changes in traditional grant making are impacting the imperatives of recipient organisations; and how indigenous philanthropy is making a difference. The chapters provide frank assessments of the priorities, challenges and opportunities of emerging market philanthropy, and the lessons learned from the pandemic. The authors highlight the deeper issues at play, as well as offering ideas and positive examples of how diverse stakeholders are coming together to solve social challenges in creative and practical ways. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

山本大策、鳥越皓之編　日常の生活環境主義－アジアにおけるコミュニティの持続可能性と弾力性
Yamamoto, Daisaku / Torigoe, Hiroyuki (eds.), Everyday Life-Environmentalism: Community Sustainability and Resilience in Asia. 336 pp. 2023:12 (Routledge, UK) <709-873>
ISBN 978-1-03-202751-7 hard ¥38,907.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00 *

This book provides one of the first systematic introductions to the Japanese concept of life-environmentalism, Seikatsu-Kankyo Shugi. This concept emerged in the 1980s as a shared research framework among Japanese social scientists studying the adverse consequences of postwar industrialization on everyday life in communities.Life-environmentalism offers a lens through which the agency of small communities in sustaining their everyday life and living environment can be understood. The book provides an overview of this approach, including intellectual backgrounds and foundational concepts, along with a variety of empirical case studies that examine environmental and sustainability issues in Japan and other parts of Asia. It also includes critical reflections on the approach in light of contemporary sustainability challenges. The empirical topics covered in the book include local community responses to development projects, resource governance, disaster response and recovery, and historical environmental preservation. The chapters are contributed by researchers working at the forefront of the field. It provides only a glimpse into the vast literature that awaits further exploration and engagement in the future.The book is suitable for upper undergraduate students, graduate students, and researchers interested in environmental problems, sustainability and resilience, disaster mitigation and response, and regional development in Asian contexts, particularly Japan. It is well-suited for courses in anthropology, geography, sociology, urban and regional planning, political science, Asian studies, and environmental studies.

S.ローズフィールド著　ロシア・ウクライナ戦争－アジア太平洋のための含意
Rosefielde, Steven, Russo-Ukrainian War: Implications for the Asia Pacific. 348 pp. 2023:9 (World Scientific, SI) <709-820>
ISBN 978-981-12-7487-9 hard ¥26,479.- (税込) US$ 118.00 *

Russo-Ukrainian War: Implications for the Asia Pacific explores the implications of the Russo-Ukrainian war for American and Chinese engagement in the Asia Pacific. It interprets Russia's invasion of Ukraine which began on February 24, 2022 as part of a complex double game where the Kremlin and Washington simultaneously spar, bluffing for high stakes despite catastrophic risks in the name of lofty ideals, while pursuing expedient default agendas. Both sides champion virtuous global orders compatible with their tastes and objectives. Washington seeks to compel Moscow to abide by its rules and vice-versa.The immediate impact of the Russo-Ukrainian War on the Asia Pacific has been to confirm Chinese President Xi Jinping's perception that Washington is committed to low-cost, regime-changing Cold War with China to preserve its status as the world's preeminent superpower. Washington is willing to increase hard power defense spending modestly to tackle the Taiwan and South China Sea issues, but will not compete with China in an arms race, curtail productivity stifling government over-regulation and social spending or curb China's abusive state trading.Emboldened by what Washington considers America's successes in the Russo-Ukrainian proxy war, American President Joe Biden plans to reinforce military spending with attitude management campaigns, moral suasion and coalitions of the willing including the North Atlantic Treaty Organization - efforts to spark Chinese color revolution and regime change. Biden diplomatically calls his policy Cold Peace, but his actions bespeak Cold War.Amid the power contestation among the United States, Russia and China, it is naive in the contemporary world to suppose that the three major powers can permanently subjugate each other. Wise leadership requires satisficing for the attainable good rather than striving for the delusional best.

Yi, Ilcheong / Kaasch, Alexandra / Stetter, Kelly (eds.), Emerging Trends in Social Policy from the South: Challenges and Innovations in Emerging Economies. (Research in Comparative and Global Social Policy) 272 pp. 2024:4 (Policy Pr., UK) <709-286>
ISBN 978-1-4473-6790-1 hard ¥23,056.- (税込) GB￡ 80.00 *

Drawing on international case studies from emerging economies and developing countries including South Africa, India, Egypt, Morocco, Jordan, Tunisia, Indonesia, China and Russia, this book examines the rise, nature and effectiveness of recent developments in social policy in the Global South. By analysing these new emerging trends, the book aims to understand how they can contribute to meaningful change and whether they could offer alternative solutions to the social, economic and environmental policy challenges facing low-income countries within a contemporary global context. It pays particular attention to reforms and innovations relating to the objectives of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, including the move away from a welfare state, towards a 'welfare multitude', in which new actors, such as civil society organisations, play an increasingly important role in social policy.

藤川清史他編　東アジアにおける原子力の安全性とガバナンス
Lee, Soocheol / Zhou, Weisheng / Fujikawa, Kiyoshi (eds.), Nuclear Power Safety and Governance in East Asia. (Routledge Studies in the Modern World Economy) 280 pp. 2023:12 (Routledge, UK) <709-246>
ISBN 978-1-03-259615-0 hard ¥38,907.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00 *

Confronting the challenges of nuclear power governance, this book provides pathways to nuclear safety cooperation between countries in East Asia where regional cooperation is challenged by geopolitical tensions.The book is split into three parts: first looking at nuclear risk and safety communications, second on nuclear policy and harmonization of safety standards, and third a comparative analysis of nuclear regulatory agencies in East Asia. Taken as a whole, the contributors recommend the establishment of a nuclear safety system that, which allows for mutual verification of safety standards at the regional level, and a regulatory framework with international credibility, which will help standardize risk communication. They suggest that the exchange of experiences involving nuclear power plant safety, efforts toward common safety standards, safety management, and collaborative efforts between Japan, China, and South Korea are extremely urgent issues. By comparing the European system of nuclear governance with that of East Asia, the book highlights the need for nuclear safety organizations in East Asia to strengthen interconnections and build regional linkages.This book will be of interest to policymakers, academics, and researchers in the field of energy policy, energy economics, nuclear safety, nuclear governance, and nuclear engineering.

朝鮮の開国と現代東アジアの誕生
Jager, Sheila Miyoshi, The Other Great Game: The Opening of Korea and the Birth of Modern East Asia. 2023 (Belknap Pr., US) <251-47769>
ISBN 978-0-674-98339-7 hard ¥8,963.- (税込) US$ 39.95 *

A dramatic new telling of the dawn of modern East Asia, placing Korea at the center of a transformed world order wrought by imperial greed and devastating wars.In the nineteenth century, Russia participated in two "great games": one, well known, pitted the tsar's empire against Britain in Central Asia. The other, hitherto unrecognized but no less significant, saw Russia, China, and Japan vying for domination of the Korean Peninsula. In this eye-opening account, brought to life in lucid narrative prose, Sheila Miyoshi Jager argues that the contest over Korea, driven both by Korean domestic disputes and by great-power rivalry, set the course for the future of East Asia and the larger global order.When Russia's eastward expansion brought it to the Korean border, an impoverished but strategically located nation was wrested from centuries of isolation. Korea became a prize of two major imperial conflicts: the Sino-Japanese War at the close of the nineteenth century and the Russo-Japanese War at the beginning of the twentieth. Japan's victories in the battle for Korea not only earned the Meiji regime its yearned-for colony but also dislodged Imperial China from centuries of regional supremacy. And the fate of the declining tsarist empire was sealed by its surprising military defeat, even as the United States and Britain sized up the new Japanese challenger.A vivid story of two geopolitical earthquakes sharing Korea as their epicenter, The Other Great Game rewrites the script of twentieth-century rivalry in the Pacific and enriches our understanding of contemporary global affairs, from the origins of Korea's bifurcated identity-a legacy of internal politics amid the imperial squabble-to China's irredentist territorial ambitions and Russia's nostalgic dreams of recovering great-power status.