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

インド洋をめぐる争い
Baruah, Darshana M, The Contest for the Indian Ocean: And the Return of Great Power Politics. 256 pp. 2024:5 (Yale U. Pr., US) <714-552>
ISBN 978-0-300-27091-4 hard ¥7,007.- (税込) US$ 32.50 *

A major new examination of the Indian Ocean, revealing how the region has become a hotly contested geopolitical flashpoint Throughout history, the Indian Ocean has been an essential space for trade, commerce, and culture. Every European power has sought to dominate it. Now, after a lull in the postwar period, control of major shipping routes has once again become a critical aspect of every rising state's ambition to be a global power. Darshana M. Baruah shows how governments from Washington, DC, to Nairobi and Canberra are expanding their interests in the region. The Indian Ocean is resource rich, strategically placed, and home to over two billion people. Island nations have become more important than ever, with Madagascar forming ties with Russia and the Comoros with Saudi Arabia. It is also through the region that China engages with Africa and the Middle East. This is a compelling account of the geopolitical significance of the Indian Ocean-showing how the region has taken centre stage in a new global contest.

アジアにおける人間の安全保障
Nandy, Debasish / Majee, Debtanu (eds.), Human Security in Asia: Interrogating State, Society, and Policy. 310 pp. 2024:1 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <714-592>
ISBN 978-981-9935-84-0 hard ¥28,244.- (税込) EUR 119.99

This book discusses Human Security from a theoretical perspective. It builds theories in order to understand a phenomenon in a structured and well-ordered way. It sheds light on the conditions of the economy, food, health, community, environmental and political security in Asian states. It explores the idea of human security to understand the issues jeopardizing an individual's security in the Asian continent and suggests policies to overcome these problems. This book argues that the nature of the government and the constitution are equally essential in ensuring the human security of a country. Some countries in Asia are not only economically vulnerable but also politically disrupted. The issues of hunger, poverty, illiteracy, militancy, terrorism, and ethnoreligious conflicts have posed threats to human security. The pandemic COVID-19 has brought a great humanitarian crisis. The role of the Asian states in combatting COVID-19 and protecting public health is highlighted in this book. With a multidimensional outlook this edited volume attempts to delineate an interdisciplinary discourse of human security in an Asian context.

Chan, Catherine S. / Ma, Tsang Wing (eds.), East Asia beyond the Archives: Missing Sources and Marginal Voices. 265 pp. 2023:10 (Amsterdam U. Pr., NE) <714-602>
ISBN 978-90-8728-424-4 hard ¥30,484.- (税込) GB￡ 107.00 *

東アジアの政治制度－入門
Derichs, Claudia / Heberer, Thomas / Schubert, G. (eds.), The Political Systems of East Asia: An Introduction. 500 pp. 2024:2 (Springer, GW) <714-603>
ISBN 978-3-658-42950-8 paper ¥20,005.- (税込) EUR 84.99

This textbook presents a comprehensive overview of the political systems of East Asia in its expanded and updated 4th edition. Readers will find chapters on the People's Republic of China, Hong Kong, Macao, Taiwan, Japan, and South and North Korea. The introduction focuses on institutional and societal change in the individual systems, drawing on social science theories and also undertaking a comparative analysis. The book is thus an indispensable volume for an in-depth understanding of the processes of change in a dynamic world region.

J.Hoare著作選集　1973～2021年
Hoare, James (ed.), East Asia Observed: Selected Writings 1973-2021. (Distinguished Asian Studies Scholars: Collected Writings) 420 pp. 2023:10 (Amsterdam U. Pr., NE) <714-604>
ISBN 978-90-485-6001-1 hard ¥39,031.- (税込) GB￡ 137.00 *

This collection brings together themes in East Asian history, diplomacy, culture and politics written by J.E. Hoare since the early 1970s. His writings derive from his training as a historian, from his time as a Research Analyst in the British Foreign Office from 1969-2003, and from his experiences as a diplomat in the Republic of Korea (South Korea), the People's Republic of China, and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea). The writings selected for this volume include academic papers, book reviews and some quasi-journalistic articles which reflect both historical research and analysis of current events and issues. The wide-ranging content speaks to the author's specialist fields of interest including diplomacy, biography, extraterritoriality and architecture on which he has published extensively.

Landa, Ishayahu, Marriage and Power in Mongol Eurasia: A History of the Chinggisid Sons-in-law. (Asiatische Forschungen 161) XVIII, 424 S. 2023:6 (O. Harrassowitz, GW) <714-605>
ISBN 978-3-447-12052-4 hard ¥23,069.- (税込) EUR 98.00

Since the beginning of his rise to power, Chinggis Khan used matrimonial relations between the members of his family and his allies in order to strengthen his support base and to expand the potential of his army. Whereas research has discussed in detail the history of the Chinggisid women, the role of their male non-Chinggisid counterparts ? the imperial sons-in-law (Mon. gueregen, Ch. fuma ?馬), mostly the powerful military commanders ? is still an under-researched topic. In his monograph, Ishayahu Landa for the first time provides a comprehensive and detailed discussion of the Chinggisid in-laws, approaching them as a separate political institution with its own status, privileges, and ambitions, which played a crucial role in underpinning the Mongol rule across the continent. The monograph is unique in its combined usage of Arabic, Persian, Chinese, Latin and Old Slavonic primary sources as well as its temporal scope, ranging from the early thirteenth century to the period of the Chinggisid Crisis and beyond. The monograph will be of interest for specialists in Mongol, Chinese, Islamic, Russian, and Global histories, as well as in the field of gender studies, and nomadic history and ethnography. At the same time, it covers an important aspect of the power structure behind the Chinggisid expansion, its maintenance of power from Korea to the Black Sea, as well as its decline.

Lee, Don S., The Presidents Dilemma in Asia. (Comparative Politics) 256 pp. 2024:5 (Oxford U. Pr., UK) <714-606>
ISBN 978-0-19-287018-6 hard ¥21,652.- (税込) GB￡ 76.00 *

The President's Dilemma in Asia provides one of the first comprehensive and comparative theory of presidential government formation. In the authoritarian era, presidents had greater control over key institutional actors in the process, such as the legislature, the ruling party, and the bureaucracy. However, after democratic transition, they have to navigate competing pressures from these political institutions. This book highlights the major trade-off that presidents of new democracies face in their relationship with the different political institutions, the so-called "president's dilemma," and their strategy in dealing with the dilemma. Existing studies of presidential government formation in new democracies have largely overlooked the entirety of the structure of the political institutions surrounding the president and its impact on the president's government formation strategy. This book offers a view that government formation is a window to understanding how presidents weigh the benefits of appointing ministers representing different political institutions under a variety of given institutional circumstances. The question of which institution presidents attempt to accommodate through government formation is a high stakes one, and addressing it is important, because particular patterns of personnel distribution can influence the kind of policies political leaders adopt and the level of accountability and responsiveness to constituents these policies represent. Comparative Politics is a series for researchers, teachers, and students of political science that deals with contemporary government and politics. Global in scope, books in the series are characterized by a stress on comparative analysis and strong methodological rigour. The series is published in association with the European Consortium for Political Research. For more information visit: www.ecprnet.eu. The series is edited by Nicole Bolleyer, Chair of Comparative Political Science, Geschwister Scholl Institut, LMU Munich and Jonathan Slapin, Professor of Political Institutions and European Politics, Department of Political Science, University of Zurich.

中根育子他編　アジアにおける混乱のディスコース
Nakane, Ikuko / Maree, Claire / Ewing, Michael C. (eds.), Discourses of Disruption in Asia: Creating and Contesting Meaning in the Time of COVID-19. 204 pp. 2023:10 (Leiden U. Pr., NE) <714-608>
ISBN 978-90-8728-423-7 hard ¥27,350.- (税込) GB￡ 96.00 *

Mills, Elizabeth, HIV, Gender and the Politics of Medicine: Embodied Democracy in the Global South. 256 pp. 2024:4 (Bristol U. Pr., UK) <714-224>
ISBN 978-1-5292-2191-6 hard ¥24,498.- (税込) GB￡ 85.99 *

This book centres on women living with HIV in South Africa who have navigated affective relationships, activist networks, government institutions and global coalitions to transform health policies that govern access to HIV medicines. Drawing on 20 years of ethnographic and policy research in South Africa, Brazil and India, it highlights the value of understanding the embodied and political dimensions of health policy and reveals the networked threads that weave women's precarity into the governance of technologies and the technologies of governance. It illuminates the entwined histories of health policy evolution, systemic inequality and everyday life and calls for a recognition of the embodied ramifications of democratic politics and global health governance. By integrating medical anthropology with science studies and political theory, this book traces the history of the struggle to access HIV medicines in the Global South and brings it into the present by articulating the lessons learned by activists and policy makers engaged in shaping these vital health policies.