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

南シナ海－インド太平洋の地政学的中心地？
Hung Son, Nguyen / Thi Lan Anh, Nguyen (eds.), The South China Sea: The Geo-political Epicenter of the Indo-Pacific? 129 pp. 2025:1 (Springer, GW) <736-706>
ISBN 978-981-9782-08-6 hard ¥11,766.- (税込) EUR 49.99

This open access book focuses on the geopolitical competition in the South China Sea, an area with highly concentrated choke points in the Indo-Pacific, presenting ideas and recommendations to manage this competition and foster cooperation to maintain a peaceful and stable environment and promote sustainable governance of the South China Sea and of the Indo-Pacific in a broader sense. The increasingly complex geopolitics of the Indo-Pacific has made the South China Sea the epicenter of strategic competition between the great powers, with a rising China on the one hand and the United States, its allies, and partners on the other. In this strategic chessboard, the South China Sea is a test of resilience of the rules-based international order, such as versus grey zone operations, as well as disruptive technological developments in both traditional and non-traditional domains. The book incorporates foreign policy analysis methods to analyze and forecast key players' goals, intentions, and behaviors within the competitive strategic environment of the South China Sea. The success or failure of managing major power competition in the South China Sea, one of the hot spots of the Indo-Pacific region, will determine the future structure of international relations. In addition, as a dynamically developing region of the world, promoting collaborative ideas, particularly in areas related to conflict management is essential for maintaining a peaceful and stable environment, restoring economic growth, and progressing toward a sustainable future. This book is of interest to politicians, policy-makers, experts, scholars, researchers, and other readers who are interested in how regional issues can shape the global order.

東アジアの国際関係
Wan, Ming, East Asian International Relations: Evolution and Social Construction. 388 pp. 2024:11 (Cambridge U. Pr., UK) <736-857>
ISBN 978-1-009-36457-7 hard ¥28,596.- (税込) GB￡ 99.99
ISBN 978-1-009-36459-1 paper ¥10,006.- (税込) GB￡ 34.99

Through the outline of a coherent theoretical foundation for understanding East Asian international relations, this textbook offers a fresh, analytical approach, including applications of evolutionary theory that differ from and contextualize the prevailing theories currently offered for studies of East Asia. It provides an extensive coverage of ancient world order and European imperialism preceding contemporary themes of security, economic development, money and finance, regionalism, the US-China rivalry, and democracy versus autocracy. Demonstrating systemically how facts and theories are constructed, and how these are bound by evolutionary constraints, students gain a realistic view of knowledge production and the mindset and tools to participate actively in determining which facts and theories are more acceptable than alternatives. Feature boxes, discussion questions, exercises, and recommended readings are incorporated into each chapter to encourage active learning. A vital new resource for advanced undergraduate and graduate students in political science, international relations, and Asian studies.

Alles, Delphine / Jaffrelot, Christophe (dir.), L'Indo-Pacifique. (L'enjeu mondial) 189 p. 2024:9 (Presses de Sciences Po, FR) <736-898>
ISBN 978-2-7246-4305-3 paper ¥5,885.- (税込) EUR 25.00

Korolkov, Maxim, Institutions and Environment in Ancient Southern East Asia (3000 BCE to 300 CE). (Elements in Ancient East Asia) 75 pp. 2024:12 (Cambridge U. Pr., UK) <736-900>
ISBN 978-1-009-50726-4 hard ¥14,296.- (税込) GB￡ 49.99
ISBN 978-1-108-96467-8 paper ¥4,862.- (税込) GB￡ 17.00

Over the past decades, archaeological exploration of southern China has shattered this image of primitive indigenous people and their pristine environments. We know, for example, that East Asia's largest settlements and hydraulic infrastructures in the third millennium BCE were located in the Yangzi valley, as were some of the most sophisticated metallurgical centers of the following millennium. If southern East Asia was not a backward periphery of the Central Plains, then what created the power asymmetry that made possible "China's march toward the Tropics"? What did becoming "Chinese" practically mean for the local populations south of the Yangzi? Why did some of them decide to do so, and what were the alternatives? The present Element focuses on the specific ways people in southern East Asia mastered their environment through two forms of cooperation: centralized and intensive, ultimately represented by the states, and decentralized and extensive, exemplified by interaction networks.

現代アジア－連続性、課題、変容
McKay, John, Contemporary Asia: Continuities, Challenges and Transformations. (Contemporary States and Societies) 264 pp. 2024:11 (Bloomsbury Academic, UK) <736-901>
ISBN 978-1-350-46693-7 hard ¥27,170.- (税込) GB￡ 95.00
ISBN 978-1-350-46694-4 paper ¥8,576.- (税込) GB￡ 29.99

For the first time in the modern era, Asia is not dominated by an outside power. Is this the Asian Century? Will internal rivalries emerge between China, Japan and India? How will growing tensions between the United States and China shape the global economic, strategic and political system? Covering governance, culture, and society in East and South Asia, this book introduces:- Key economic developments, including the Asian economic miracle and the 1997/8 Financial Crisis- The central role of education, and the contentious debate about 'Asian values'- The rapid expansion of military spending in the region- The demography and geography of major nations and their forms of nationalismWith further reading suggestions and discussion questions for every chapter, this is essential introductory reading for students of Asian Studies and interested general readers alike.

Vijayaraghavan, Arya Parakkate / Chattaraj, Dishari (eds.), Critical Food Studies in Asia: A Machine-Generated Literature Overview. 410 pp. 2024:10 (Springer, GW) <736-902>
ISBN 978-981-9793-01-3 hard ¥35,306.- (税込) EUR 149.99

This book offers a curated collection of scholarship that significantly contributes to the shaping of Critical Food Studies in Asia. Drawing on a machine-generated literature review of select Springer publications, it highlights the critical turn in Food Studies rooted in the recognition that everyday social discourses surrounding food embody complex interrelations of power dynamics, identity politics, and ideological underpinnings. The book maps out key conceptual frameworks, methods, and methodologies from various disciplines, offering insights into the understanding and analysis of foodways and practices. The editors' introductions accompanying the structured reviews open up discussions on prominent trajectories, frameworks, and future research scope in the area, making it an essential reference point for scholars, educators, and students alike. It also initiates deliberations on the complexities of working within a heterogeneous space like Asia, while exploring its potential to evolve newer frameworks and alternative knowledge systems to critically engage with gastronomic practices. The auto-summaries have been generated by a recursive clustering algorithm via the Dimensions Auto-summarizer by Digital Science. The editors of this book selected which SN content should be auto-summarized and decided its order of appearance. Please be aware that these are extractive auto-summaries, which consist of original sentences, but are not representative of its original paper, since we do not show the full length of the publication. Please note that only published SN content is represented here, and that machine-generated books are still at an experimental stage.

Yee, Andrew Zi Han (ed.), Mobile Media Use Among Children and Youth in Asia. (Mobile Communication in Asia: Local Insights, Global Implications) 374 pp. 2025:1 (Springer, GW) <736-905>
ISBN 978-94-024-2281-8 hard ¥32,952.- (税込) EUR 139.99

This book examines mobile media use among children and youths within an Asian context. By studying the impact of mobile media on children and youth in Asia, it focuses on the explosive growth of mobile media among young people and seeks to understand the potential consequences of mobile media use on society, relationships, and what it means to be a young person. With this, it provides a richly contextualized Asian voice to research on mobile media and young people, enriching the global conversation surrounding an increasingly central aspect of youths' everyday lives. Research on mobile media and its impact on children and youths in Asia is not thoroughly represented, despite the proliferation of smartphone and tablet use in the region. This volume fills this gap by canvassing contemporary research on mobile media, children, and youth in Asia through the perspectives of emerging scholars in the region and beyond. It promotes an understanding of the motivations and patterns of use by children and youth in the region, examines contemporary research on the antecedents and consequences of mobile media use on society, relationships, and the individual, and provides a critique of mobile media use among children and youth. The volume also provides a culturally sensitive examination of mobile media use among children and youth, describing and analyzing policies enacted to manage young people's smartphone use. It acknowledges Asia as a large and diverse region with differing linguistic, cultural, and sociopolitical traditions and contexts, and so the work does, as far as possible, look to ensure geographic and cultural diversity by prioritizing works from countries that are typically underrepresented. It is a relevant text to graduates and researchers in communication and media studies, social and developmental psychology, human development studies, science and technology, information systems, and design science.

東アジアにおける福祉国家
Wong, Joseph, The Welfare State in East Asia. (Elements in Politics and Society in East Asia) 75 pp. 2025:2 (Cambridge U. Pr., UK) <736-384>
ISBN 978-1-009-61840-3 hard ¥14,296.- (税込) GB￡ 49.99
ISBN 978-1-108-81479-9 paper ¥4,862.- (税込) GB￡ 17.00

During the postwar period, Japan, Taiwan and South Korea emerged as industrial and democratic exemplars in the East Asia region. A less well-known story is of their equally remarkable achievements in social policy reform and the formation of welfare states. Section 1 of the Element provides an overview of welfare state deepening in Japan, Taiwan and Korea and an account of why and how the developmental states institutionalized the social insurance model. Section 2 examines the drivers of social welfare universalization in Japan, Taiwan and Korea, notably the importance of democratization. Section 3 focuses on emerging challenges to the East Asian welfare state and how it has adapted. Though Japan, South Korea and Taiwan evolved their welfare states in a distinctive way historically, the current challenges they face and their responses have converged with other developed, post-industrial democracies.