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

グローバル化の時代におけるアジアの安全保障
Hebron, Lui (ed.), Asian Security in the Age of Globalization. 192 pp. 2024:5 (Routledge, UK) <717-741>
ISBN 978-1-03-275281-5 hard ¥38,907.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00 *

This book examines the security challenges and opportunities that the nation-states of Asia confront in an era of globalization. With consideration of the increasingly border-less nature of international relations via the integrative process of globalization, this book explores the emerging threats to regional and national security in Asia. It looks beyond traditional military threats, analysing non-traditional aspects of security including economic, social, environmental, transnational, energy, health concerns and threats posed by organized-crime groups. Its approach is organized both theoretically and, in a country-specific, case study form which provides contemporary examples of the threats faced in the region. By acknowledging that contemporary Asian security has become much more complex and complicated, it highlights the uncertainty and instability that the nation-states of the Indo-Pacific region confront. Presenting both a globally oriented and expanded vision of Asian security, this book is an excellent resource for scholars and students of Asian Studies, International Relations and Global Studies.

南シナ海における安全保障の動学－現代の課題と機会
Hensel, Howard M. (ed.), Security Dynamics in the South China Sea: Contemporary Challenges and Opportunities. (Military Strategy and Operational Art) 400 pp. 2024:5 (Routledge, UK) <717-743>
ISBN 978-1-03-265747-9 hard ¥38,907.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00 *

This volume examines the South China Sea's regional security dynamics, highlighting the challenges and opportunities for both littoral and non-littoral states.The South China Sea is a vital pathway for the great container ships and tankers, as well as for the naval vessels of today. Indeed, the security of the contemporary global economy is reliant more than ever upon the dependability of freedom of navigation through the waters of the South China Sea. This volume concentrates on the security of the South China Sea sub-region. It is designed to help illuminate the contemporary security dynamics within this important sub-region by highlighting its development, the contemporary challenges and opportunities confronting both the littoral states and the non-littoral powers that are active in the sub-region, and the policy responses of those states as they seek to defend and promote their national interests. This book is composed of 16 chapters and is organized into five thematic sections. Part I of the book is designed to set the historical context. Part II examines some of the contemporary challenges and opportunities that present themselves in the sub-region, while Part III focuses on Chinese policy in the South China Sea sub-region. Parts IV and Part V analyse and evaluate the contemporary policies of the various littoral and non-littoral powers that are active in the South China Sea sub-region. The collective analyses and assessments of the contemporary perceptions and policies of the various littoral and non-littoral powers active in the South China Sea in response to the traditional and non-traditional challenges within the sub-region that are examined in the chapters contained in Parts III, IV, and V, framed against the material presented in Parts I and II, provides the basis for observations concerning areas of conflicting and coinciding interests in the concluding chapter of the book.This book will be of interest to students of the South China Sea, maritime security, Asian politics, and international relations.

B.カンリフ著　考古学の証拠等を用いたインド洋の交易の歴史
Cunliffe, Barry, Driven by the Monsoons: Through the Indian Ocean and the Seas of China. 544 pp. 2024:10 (Oxford U. Pr., UK) <717-759>
ISBN 978-0-19-888681-5 hard ¥8,646.- (税込) GB￡ 30.00

The Silk Road may be one origin of globalization, but the Indian Ocean is another. Barry Cunliffe examines the beginning of maritime trade using the evidence of archaeology and the tales of great travellers such as Marco Polo, Ibn Battuta, and the Chinese Admiral, Zheng He. This story complements that of the land routes, showing how humans have been driven across thousands of years to create and maintain networks whatever the difficulties. Driven by the Monsoons illuminates maritime connections between the Indian Ocean and its surrounding water routes: the Arabian Gulf and the Red and China Seas. It begins with the movement of humans into South-East Asia and ends about 1600 CE when European companies emerge to takeover. It is tale of exotic goods, material needs, adventure, and desire. While conditions at sea and the abilities of the maritime communities provided a degree of stability, the direction and intensity of trade and the types of commodities on the move was determined by the fortunes and aspirations of distant empires, those of China in the east and South-West Asia and the Mediterranean in the west. This ever-changing pressure provided the dynamic situation in which society and economies in East Africa, India and South-East Asia flourished. Driven by the Monsoons explores the birth of the modern, connected, world.

Duvenage, Amy, Roads to Decolonisation: An Introduction to Thought from the Global South. 256 pp. 2024:4 (Routledge, UK) <717-760>
ISBN 978-1-03-274254-0 hard ¥36,025.- (税込) GB￡ 125.00 *
ISBN 978-1-03-273594-8 paper ¥10,371.- (税込) GB￡ 35.99 *

Roads to Decolonisation: An Introduction to Thought from the Global South is an accessible new textbook that provides undergraduate students with a vital introduction to theory from the Global South and key issues of social justice, arming them with the tools to theorise and explain the social world away from dominant Global North perspectives. Arranged in four parts, it examineskey thinkers, activists and theory-work from the Global South;theoretical concepts and socio-historical conditions associated with 'race' and racism, gender and sexuality, identity and (un)belonging in a globalised world and decolonisation and education;challenges to dominant Euro-American perspectives on key social justice issues, linking decolonial discourses to contemporary case studies.Each chapter offers an overview of key thinkers and activists whose work engages with social justice issues, many of whom are under-represented or left out of undergraduate humanities and social sciences textbooks in the North. This is essential reading for students of the humanities and social sciences worldwide, as well as scholars keen to embed Southern thought in their curricula and pedagogical practice.

アジアにおけるポピュリズムの3つの顔
Wang, Shiru (ed.), Three Faces of Populism in Asia: Populism as a Multifaceted Political Practice. (Politics in Asia) 240 pp. 2024:4 (Routledge, UK) <717-764>
ISBN 978-1-03-250820-7 hard ¥38,907.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00 *

Drawing on evidence from eight case studies from across three Asian subregions, this volume highlights the distinctive features of Asian populism in comparison with Western experiences. In contrast to the latter, populist practices in Asia tend to exhibit an ambiguous nature, often characterized by ad hoc and mixed ideological add-ons.The case studies shed light on the cultural dimension of populism, an aspect that has been largely overlooked in Western contexts. Empirical evidence shows that political culture and identity politics exert an influence on populist practices in Asia. In the meantime, populist attitudes towards the role of politicians, the popular will and the relationship between the elite and the people can serve as an explanatory variable for political outcomes. The relationship between populism and democracy in Asia is observed to be more intricate than that in Western contexts. Populism is not necessarily endogenous to democracy, and thus its emergence may not solely be a response to the crisis of democracy.The book presents a valuable resource for scholars and students of Asian politics and those looking at the phenomenon of populism through a comparative lens.

Chiu, Wang-Kin / Law, Vincent T. S. (eds.), Healthy Ageing after COVID-19: Research and Policy Perspectives from Asia. (Routledge Focus on Business and Management) 120 pp. 2024:2 (Routledge, UK) <717-320>
ISBN 978-1-03-256718-1 hard ¥14,406.- (税込) GB￡ 49.99 *

Written by researchers and experienced health professionals from Hong Kong, China, Chiu and Law identify and examine important issues of healthy ageing after COVID-19 from research and policy perspectives in the Asian contexts.This book opens with discussions of healthy ageing from personal, social, economic, and political perspectives. These discussions make reference to the key characteristics of a community health model. It aims to examine the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on aged care in an international perspective, citing the fifth wave of COVID-19 in Hong Kong as a case report. Comprehensive analysis on the influence of COVID-19 infection on Hong Kong and the implemented anti-pandemic policy measures, as well as recommendations of post-pandemic policies to promote healthy ageing, are provided. This monograph also reviews the worldwide impacts on aged care during and after the pandemic, as well as the experience of aged care services in Hong Kong and other Asia-Pacific regions. The responding changes in policies and strategies for healthy ageing in selected countries are also reviewed. This monograph ends with a highlight on the design and development of a community model for healthy ageing, providing insights to the achievement of sustainable healthy ageing with reference to the sustainable development goal (SDG) 3.A valuable resource to governments, politicians, academics, and practitioners, it is intended for formulating future directions of relevant research, and the design and implementation of interventions for the promotion of healthy ageing in the post-pandemic era.

危機にある世界における対外援助
Jakupec, Viktor / Kelly, Max / McKay, John, Foreign Aid in a World in Crisis: Shifting Geopolitics in the Neoliberal Era. (Routledge Explorations in Development Studies) 152 pp. 2024:2 (Routledge, UK) <717-192>
ISBN 978-1-03-253053-6 hard ¥14,406.- (税込) GB￡ 49.99 *

This book investigates the geopoliticisation of foreign aid in recent years, against a background of global overarching crises such as climate change, conflict, Covid-19, economic crisis, energy shortages and migration.Foreign aid has historically been understood as assisting both with the development objectives of the recipients and with the trade and geopolitical interests of the donors. In the first decades of the 21st century, however, this balance has been shifted by a series of complex global challenges. This book argues that donors have now moved towards framing aid as a geopolitical instrument, wherein aid can be given or withheld based on power or political intent, thus imposing the donor's specific values and norms. This book provides an in-depth analysis of this weaponisation of foreign aid within a framework of global disruption and ultimately concludes that the world is at a tipping point towards a new socio-political world order.Asking important questions about the power dynamics at play within the aid sector, this book will be an important read for researchers across development studies, political science, international relations and global affairs.

Services Unbound: Technological Change and Policy Reform in East Asia and Pacific. 90 pp. 2024:5 (World Bank, US) <717-197>
ISBN 978-1-4648-2082-3 paper ¥9,185.- (税込) US$ 43.95 *

Services will be central to the transition of East Asia and Pacific to a high-income region. This report argues that deeper reforms could unleash a virtuous cycle of increasing economic opportunity and enhanced human capacity that would power development in the region.

東アジアにおける地域協力と弾力性
Bobowski, Sebastian (ed.), Regional Cooperation and Resilience in East Asia. (Routledge Advances in Regional Economics, Science and Policy) 152 pp. 2024:5 (Routledge, UK) <717-198>
ISBN 978-1-03-260256-1 hard ¥38,907.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00 *

This book argues that a resilient region should act reactively and proactively in the face of shocks and disruptions and asserts that the institutionalization of regional cooperation may be the answer to development challenges in times of uncertainty and instability.It considers regional, transregional, and subregional cooperation initiatives for building regional resilience and critically examines a broad spectrum of issues, such as international security and trade, economic development, value chains in production, and social welfare. Adopting the concept of resilience allows for a holistic, dynamic, and systematic approach to the studies on the regional process of institutionalization, responsiveness, and adaptability to challenging circumstances. The economic and social indicators of the countries in the region are examined alongside an analysis of the regional institutional architecture.The reader is acquainted with the essence of resilience concerning each category of challenges and the mechanisms of its achievement and strengthening through regional integration. The interdisciplinary character of the book makes it suitable for usage not only by economists but also by lawyers. As such, the book will be helpful to scholars and students of international economics, international security, and policymakers.The Open Access version of this book, available at www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license. This project has been funded by Wroclaw University of Economics and Business, WUEB, Poland and SGH Warsaw School of Economics, Poland.