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

Carroll, Alison, Soviet Socialist Realism and Art in the Asia-Pacific. (Routledge Research in Art and Politics) 288 pp. 2024:10 (Routledge, UK) <727-705>
ISBN 978-1-03-266130-8 hard ¥38,610.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00 *

This study evaluates how the ideology of Socialist Realism, developed by the Soviets in policies and the practices of art, has been influential in the Asia-Pacific region from 1917 until today.Focusing primarily on Russia, then China, Vietnam, Korea, Singapore, Indonesia, the Philippines and Australia, this book demonstrates how each society adopted and adapted the Soviet example to make some of the most important imagery of recent history. Included is an examination of how the practice of Western art history, the nature of art history in Asia and the forces of the Cold War have led to this influence being inadequately acknowledged across Asia and more widely.The book will be relevant to those interested in art history, Asian studies, political history and cultural history.

Melber, Takuma / von Lingen, Kerstin (Hrsg.), Kriegsschauplatz Asien: Historische und globale Perspektiven. (Krieg in der Geschichte 125) 320 S. 2024:10 (Schoeningh, GW) <727-783>
ISBN 978-3-506-79134-4 hard ¥18,596.- (税込) EUR 79.00

Asien als Kriegsschauplatz ist in der deutschsprachigen Geschichtswissenschaft bislang nur am Rande behandelt worden. Um das Forschungsfeld auch bei uns zu etablieren, eroeffnet dieser Band historische und globale Perspektiven auf den Kriegsschauplatz Asien. Im historischen Langsschnitt durch alle Epochen werden militarische Konflikte in Asien thematisiert und liefern Impulse fur die globale Forschung zur Kulturgeschichte der Gewalt. Die facettenreichen Beitrage beinhalten verschiedene militargeschichtliche Themenkomplexe im geografischen und historischen Langsschnitt und reichen dabei von der Vormoderne uber das Zeitalter der Kolonialkriege, den Russisch-Japanischen Krieg (1904/05) und die beiden Weltkriege bis an das Ende der in Asien gefuhrten ?heissen Kriege“ des Kalten Krieges.

権力の移行を超えて－東アジア史の教訓と米中関係の将来
Ma, Xinru / Kang, David C., Beyond Power Transitions: The Lessons of East Asian History and the Future of U.S.-China Relations. (Columbia Studies in International Order and Politics) 280 pp. 2024 (Columbia U. Pr., US) <727-684>
ISBN 978-0-231-20536-8 hard ¥30,954.- (税込) US$ 140.00 *
ISBN 978-0-231-20537-5 paper ¥7,738.- (税込) US$ 35.00 *

Questions about the likelihood of conflict between the United States and China have dominated international policy discussion for years. But the leading theory of power transitions between a declining hegemon and a rising rival is based exclusively on European examples, such as the Peloponnesian War, as chronicled by Thucydides, as well as the rise of Germany under Bismarck and the Anglo-German rivalry of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. What lessons does East Asian history offer, for both the power transitions debate and the future of U.S.-China relations?Examining the rise and fall of East Asian powers over 1,500 years, Beyond Power Transitions offers a new perspective on the forces that shape war and peace. Xinru Ma and David C. Kang argue that focusing on the East Asian experience underscores domestic risks and constraints on great powers, not relative rise and decline in international competition. They find that almost every regime transition before the twentieth century was instigated by internal challenges and even the exceptions deviated markedly from the predictions of power transition theory. Instead, East Asia was stable for a remarkably long time despite massive power differences because of common understandings about countries' relative status. Provocative and incisive, this book challenges prevailing assumptions about the universality of power transition theory and shows why East Asian history has profound implications for international affairs today.

A.J.H.レイサム著　1945年以降のアジアにおける米の貿易
Latham, A. J. H., The Rice Trade in Asia. (Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia) 258 pp. 2024:8 (Routledge, UK) <727-307>
ISBN 978-1-032-79596-6 hard ¥38,610.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00

This book analyses the development of the rice trade in Asia since 1945. This book focuses on the three historically important exporters Myanmar, Thailand and Vietnam as well as the two key importers Indonesia and the Philippines. The book addresses the impacts of several major transitions during this period on the rice trade in these nations, namely their initial recovery post-war, the political turbulence during and following the independence struggles of these nations and the impact of the Vietnam War. It also tracks the fluctuating impact of the various El Nino/Southern Oscillation (ENSO) climatic events across the period on harvest and exports, for example, in events such as the rice crisis of 1973-1975.Using data from the London Rice Brokers' Association Circular to create a detailed narrative of the rice trade, this book will be of interest to students and scholars of Asian history, economic history and economic development in post-war Asia.

人道的な将来－課題と機会
Kent, Randolph C., Humanitarian Futures: Challenges and Opportunities. (Routledge Humanitarian Studies) 246 pp. 2024:9 (Routledge, UK) <727-205>
ISBN 978-1-03-274801-6 hard ¥38,610.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00 *
ISBN 978-1-03-274799-6 paper ¥9,434.- (税込) GB￡ 32.99 *

Humanitarian Futures: Challenges and Opportunities explores the increasing types, dimensions and dynamics of crises threatening the world in the twenty-first century, and argues that those with humanitarian roles and responsibilities can only meet such challenges if their approaches to strategic and operational planning undergo fundamental paradigmatic shifts. Strategically and operationally, such shifts must begin by planning from the future, for the future.Author Randolph C. Kent, the UN's first Humanitarian Coordinator, with experience in some of the most complex crises of modern times, including Rwanda, Ethiopia, Kosovo, Sudan and Somalia, provides a blueprint for dealing with ever greater complexity on planet Earth and beyond. That blueprint is not about upgrading existing tools or relying upon tried precedence. Rather, it points to a new paradigm for meeting crises. It begins by looking at the changing nature of humanness and governance, and then turns to plausible future crises based on such changes, before concluding with practical steps for dealing with ever more complex humanitarian threats, now and in the future.This book will be an essential read for humanitarian policymakers and practitioners as well as for humanitarian and global studies researchers and students who are and want to be engaged in understanding and preparing for ever more complex and unpredictable humanitarian challenges.

いかに東アジアにおける弱いリージョナリズムがうまく機能するか－雁行形態論を超えて
Ge Lai, Luna, How Weak Regionalism in East Asia Works Well: Beyond the Flying Geese Model. (China Policy Series) 232 pp. 2024:8 (Routledge, UK) <727-206>
ISBN 978-1-032-61328-4 hard ¥37,180.- (税込) GB￡ 130.00 *

This book investigates the reasons why regionalism in East Asia has been much weaker than in Western Europe and North America. It focuses particularly on economic factors, examining the regional and global linkages of production networks.Through a focused exploration of regional and global production networks, it argues that East Asia was not as regionally concentrated as was Western Europe or North America, lacking a regionally oriented productional basis to support the institutional arrangement of East Asia as a stand-alone economic community. Moreover, the regional production networks of each national economy in the region are influenced by a different set of value-added components from different global and regional origins. This divergence in their positions accounts for the mushrooming of divergent initiatives and projects for regional institutional arrangement. Finally, the institutional choices of the states to join Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CP/TPP) and/or Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) are found to be strongly influenced by the sectoral focuses and priorities of their economies.Demonstrating how the unique economic factors of each nation override other considerations for greater regional integration, this book will be a valuable resource to students and scholars of international trade, Asian politics and economics.