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

東西関係における非国家アクター・ハンドブック
Thomasen, Gry / Bekes, Csaba / Racz, Andras (eds.), The Palgrave Handbook of Non-State Actors in East-West Relations. 932 pp. 2024:9 (Springer, GW) <737-938>
ISBN 978-3-031-40545-7 hard ¥94,156.- (税込) EUR 399.99

The Handbook introduces to readers (accessibly for specialist and non-specialist scholars, students and layman audiences) the diverse universe of non-state actors (NSAs) that have played or are currently playing a significant role in the context of East-West relations (from 1945 to the present). With a view to the oft-seen political debates about which non- state actors may be independent or controlled by particular states, and in what ways they may be useful or harmful to the interests of particular actors, this volume is interested in analysing and assessing the relationship of NSAs to key state actors in the context of the politics of East-West relations. Key state actors in this context include more than just the United States (on the one hand) and the Soviet Union or Russia (on the other hand). To offer a structured overview, the volume explores possible typologies of the relationships conceivable between NSAs and states. New concepts and organising principles are presented, to support a process-tracing analysis of the evolution of proxy ships, partnerships and other types of connections between states and non-state actors. Degrees, sources and types of control and influence are considered. Further, the Handbook's chapters also examine NSAs' impact on the dynamics of interstate conflict and cooperation in the East-West dimension. The systematic examination of the relationship between states and NSAs in East-West relations proposed here is the first undertaking of its kind. International scholarship in political science and strategic analyses have so far neglected to develop an analytical framework and a truly nuanced understanding that could capture the intricate and multilevel relationships that exists between NSAs and states in this context.

Cho, Joanne Miyang / Kurlander, Eric / McGetchin, D. (eds.), German-Speaking Jewish Refugees in Asia, 1930-1950: Shelter from the Storm? (Routledge Studies in Cultural History) 400 pp. 2025:2 (Routledge, UK) <737-994>
ISBN 978-1-032-84985-0 hard ¥38,610.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00

Although most perished, hundreds of thousands of Central European Jews escaped the Holocaust; tens of thousands of these Jewish refugees ended up in East Asia, Southeast Asia, or South Asia. Taking a global and transnational approach, this volume examines the cultural, political, and socioeconomic encounters among and between Asian and European states and empires, Central European Jews, and Asians between 1930 and 1950, offering important case studies that address the policies toward and experiences of German-speaking Jews across East Asia, Southeast Asia, and South Asia.The strength of this volume lies not only in its efforts to include multiple theoretical perspectives, which integrate German, Jewish, Asian, and Migration Studies, but in the original empirical research on which it is based. Engaging directly with the rich and growing historiography on the origins, course, and consequences of the Holocaust globally and in East, Southeast, and South Asia specifically, this volume provides a framework in which we can better understand how global traditions of empire and colonialism matter in our efforts to understand the Holocaust, while indicating that Asian states and peoples were keenly aware of the so-called "Jewish Question" and made efforts, though widely differentiated, to provide shelter from the Nazi storm.German-speaking Jewish Refugees in Asia, 1930-1950 will appeal to students and scholars alike interested in the history of Jewish refugees in the twentieth century, as well as all those interested in the modern history of Germany and Asia.

東アジア・太平洋における地域気候リーダーシップ
Crowley, Kate / Nakamura, Akihiro, Regional Climate Leadership in East Asia and the Pacific. (Routledge Advances in Management and Business Studies) 168 pp. 2025:1 (Routledge, UK) <737-995>
ISBN 978-0-367-77235-2 hard ¥38,610.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00

This book defines regional climate leadership in East Asia and the Pacific as a novel addition to the climate leadership theory. It develops criteria for measuring such leadership on a country basis and uses these for assessing the efforts of developed, lesser-developed, and developing countries within these regions.The book suggests that regional climate leadership consists of leading domestic actions, leading actions within the region, leading actions that are regionally coordinated, and leading actions on a differentiated basis between countries with greater and lesser capacity, and with neighbourly intent. The book is policy and climate solutions-focused, and identifies opportunities for lesson learning and policy transfer for more effective mitigation and adaptation. These solutions take into account the widely varying and complex geographical, political, and institutional circumstances of the region.It is intended for a broad readership of climate policy actors, including policy professionals, academics, non-government researchers, and all who are looking for climate leadership solutions to the problems of accelerating climate impact in East Asia and the Pacific.

中世後期フランスにおけるモンゴルのアーカイブ
Cruse, Mark, The Mongol Archive in Late Medieval France: Texts, Objects, Encounters, 1221-1422. (Medieval Societies, Religions, and Cultures) 360 pp. 2025:2 (Cornell U. Pr., US) <737-996>
ISBN 978-1-5017-7935-0 hard ¥14,801.- (税込) US$ 66.95

The Mongol Archive in Late Medieval France is the first comprehensive study of contact between France and the Mongols in the late Middle Ages. As these realms expanded across Eurasia-the French through crusade and settlement, the Mongols through conquest-their encounters altered each other's understanding of the world and their place in it. The Mongol influence on French culture is visible in what Mark Cruse calls the Mongol archive-a wide range of materials including chronicles, crusade treatises, encyclopedias, manuscript illuminations, maps, romances, and travel accounts-revealing how the French court made sense of a people previously unknown to the European intellectual tradition. Cruse mines this archive of Franco-Mongol contact to reassess France's place in the continental history of medieval Eurasia. By comparing the French and Mongol courts, Cruse shows how their similarities allowed meaningful communication between them and highlights the surprising connections-diplomatic, intellectual, and genealogical-across vast distances. The library of King Charles V (r. 1364-1380), one of the largest in medieval Europe, is a monument to the richness of these encounters, which anticipate the global interconnectedness of the modern world. Ultimately, the innovative approach in The Mongol Archive in Late Medieval France toward French conceptions of and relations with the Mongols demonstrates how a global perspective transforms our understanding of the medieval world.

Ernst, Maximilian, China's Coercion of States in the Asia-Pacific Region: Balancing and Wedge Strategies in the Context of Sino-American Competition. (Asian Security Studies) 304 pp. 2025:2 (Routledge, UK) <737-997>
ISBN 978-1-032-81233-5 hard ¥38,610.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00

This book explains why China chooses to coerce Asia-Pacific regional states, despite the risk of such actions creating a backlash and complicating its strategic calculus.China's coercion of neighboring states, often a variation of heavy informal economic sanctions combined with diplomatic pressure and gray-zone coercive measures, has been increasingly observable in the past decade. It has become an important tool in China's foreign policy toolbox and is frequently used by Beijing to shape the security-political environment of the Asia-Pacific. The book begins with an appreciation of China's complicated geopolitical exposition and an understanding that such coercion creates a backlash, since the target state will likely be alienated and pushed into closer security cooperation with the United States, China's main geopolitical rival. Through two in-depth case studies of Chinese coercion, targeting the Philippines and South Korea respectively, the book demonstrates that, first, the reason China coerces is that the secondary state engages in actions that fundamentally threaten China's security interests, and, second, it will coerce these states only if other policy options geared to change the secondary state's course of action have not worked. Employing balance-of-power theory, and particularly wedge strategies, the book solves a pertinent research question and improves our knowledge of contemporary security politics in the Asia-Pacific.This book will be of interest to students, scholars and practitioners of Asia-Pacific Security, Chinese foreign policy, and International Relations.

交通革命とアジアへの旅行　1860～1920年代
Ewertowski, Tomasz / Forajter, W. / Gromadzka, O. (eds.), Transport Revolution and Travels to Asia, 1860s-1920s. (Routledge Research in Travel Writing) 280 pp. 2025:2 (Routledge, UK) <737-998>
ISBN 978-1-032-72336-5 hard ¥40,040.- (税込) GB￡ 140.00

During the "long" nineteenth century, a technological revolution occurred, leading to the emergence of new means of transport such as steamships, railways, cars, aeroplanes, bicycles, and rickshaws. This transport revolution not only fundamentally transformed modes of travel and made distant lands more accessible, but it also significantly impacted how travellers experienced the world. The authors of this volume aim to deepen the understanding of the influence of these new modes of transportation and their coexistence with older ones by incorporating a comprehensive range of sources written by both European and Asian travellers. The approach presented in this volume is inspired by the anthropology of the senses, the sociology of travel, and the cultural history of transport. These methodological frameworks are applied to accounts of travels to, from, and within Asia. This perspective enables a focus on various contexts not visible in Europe, including imperialism, Eurocentric approaches to modernisation, and the reactions of colonised peoples to these developments.

東アジアの歴史－文明の発生から21世紀まで　第3版
Holcombe, Charles, A History of East Asia: From the Origins of Civilization to the Twenty-First Century. 3rd ed. 495 pp. 2025:5 (Cambridge U. Pr., UK) <737-999>
ISBN 978-1-009-50478-2 hard ¥30,030.- (税込) GB￡ 105.00
ISBN 978-1-009-50479-9 paper ¥10,006.- (税込) GB￡ 34.99

Koschorke, Klaus / Burlacioiu, Ciprian / Kuster, P. (eds.), Early South-South Links in the History of World Christianity (16th - Early 19th Century). (Studien zur Aussereuropaeischen Christentumsgeschichte 38) 272 S. 2024:7 (O. Harrassowitz, GW) <737-152>
ISBN 978-3-447-12224-5 hard ¥13,653.- (税込) EUR 58.00

It was by no means only Western missionaries who brought Christianity to the countries of the Global South. In various places they encountered old Christian churches which had been already existing such as in India and Ethiopia. In other places, voluntary or forced migration and indigenous Christian initiatives also led to an independent expansion and the formation of transregional networks at an early stage. This resulted in various exchange relationships between different areas of the expanding Christian world, which were carried out by local representatives. The volume contains the contributions of an international conference held in 2023, which discussed early examples of such South-South connections between the 16th and early 19th century. It not only provides important insights for a polycentric approach to the history of World Christianity, it also offers new perspectives on diverse discourses regarding the history of globalization and transcontinental religious entanglements.

南北アメリカ、アフリカ、アジアにおける植民地資本主義の論争
Kapoor, Dip (ed.), Contesting Colonial Capitalism in the Americas, Africa, and Asia. (Routledge Critical Development Studies) 284 pp. 2025:3 (Routledge, UK) <737-1000>
ISBN 978-1-032-51934-0 hard ¥38,610.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00
ISBN 978-1-032-51933-3 paper ¥10,578.- (税込) GB￡ 36.99

This book is a critical excavation of capitalist development that is being driven by the Global North in the modern (neo)colonial era, with a related focus on the anticolonial and anticapitalist resistance by indigenous peoples, peasants, and migrant workers in Africa, Asia/Middle East and the Americas/Caribbean.Informed by the work of Dr. Abdul Aziz Choudry, the contributors demonstrate how indigenous, peasant, and migrant worker learning in political action and knowledge production are essential for growing and sustaining social movements and organised struggles. The collection demonstrates how these resistances challenge racialized processes of territorial occupation, accumulation by dispossession, exploitation, and cultural and educational imperialism. Focusing on the regions of the Americas/Caribbean, Africa, Asia/Middle East, and across both settler and exploitation colonies, the chapters amplify indigenous, peasant, and migrant worker activism and draw out critical perspectives pertaining to colonial capital.The indigenous, anticolonial, and anticapitalist politics highlighted in this book will be essential reading for activists engaged with international relations and social change. It will also inform the work of students and critical scholars of social movement and resistance studies, critical development studies, indigenous studies, peasant and critical agrarian studies, migrant/labour studies, sociology, political science, and regional/area studies.

東アジアの奇跡の下での悲惨さ
Lukauskas, Arvid J. / Shimabukuro, Yumiko, Misery beneath the Miracle in East Asia. (Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University) 318 pp. 2024:12 (Cornell U. Pr., US) <737-1002>
ISBN 978-1-5017-7873-5 hard ¥28,743.- (税込) US$ 130.00
ISBN 978-1-5017-7874-2 paper ¥7,726.- (税込) US$ 34.95

Misery beneath the Miracle in East Asia challenges prevailing views of the East Asian economic miracle. Existing scholarship has overlooked the severity, persistence, and harmful consequences of the social-welfare crises affecting the region. Arvid J. Lukauskas and Yumiko Shimabukuro fill this gap and put a major asterisk on East Asia's economic record. Combining big-picture analysis, abundant data, a dynamic interdisciplinary framework, and powerful human stories, they shed light on the social ills that governments have failed to address adequately, including low wages, child abuse, elderly poverty, and substandard housing. One of the major forces behind the multidimensional welfare crises is the region's productivist welfare strategy, which prioritizes economic growth while abandoning a robust social safety net, leaving the most vulnerable segments of society largely unprotected. Misery beneath the Miracle in East Asia brings the region into debates over the dangers of seeking growth at all costs that are currently embroiling the United States and other advanced industrialized countries.

冷戦の難民－ポストコロニアルのアジアの強制退去と移民の接続された歴史
Moon, Yumi (ed.), Cold War Refugees: Connected Histories of Displacement and Migration across Postcolonial Asia. 296 pp. 2025:7 (Stanford U. Pr., US) <737-1003>
ISBN 978-1-5036-4263-8 hard ¥28,743.- (税込) US$ 130.00
ISBN 978-1-5036-4313-0 paper ¥7,075.- (税込) US$ 32.00

Scenes of refugees fleeing Communist countries have created iconic images of the Cold War in Asia. Despite their symbolic prominence, the experiences and trajectories of these refugees have remained relatively obscure in Cold War history and global refugee studies. Featuring contributions from Phi-Van Nguyen, Dominic Meng-Hsuan Yang, Yumi Moon, Ijlal Muzaffar, Robert D. Crews, Sabauon Nasseri, and Aishwary Kumar, Cold War Refugees meticulously investigates and connects cases across East, Southeast, and South Asia. Offering a transnational and trans-imperial perspective, this book illuminates the massive mobility of refugee populations across Asia and emphasizes the critical roles of artificial borders, displacement, and violence in shaping the global Cold War. Drawing from multi-lingual archival sources, the authors explore the local, regional, and global contexts of displacement through five cases: Taiwan, Vietnam, Korea, Afghanistan, and Pakistan. They examine the agendas, identities, and cultures of the refugees who left their homes due to revolutions or wars amid the conflict between the US and the USSR, presenting them as historical actors rather than mere subjects of legal, governmental, or humanitarian discourse. By revisiting key Cold War events in Asia, the book provides a critical revision of Cold War history through the lens of refugee experiences and agency.

北東アジアと南アジアー習近平とD.トランプの影響
Raghavan, Vyjayanti, Northeast Asia and South Asia: The Impact of Xi Jinping and Donald Trump. 168 pp. 2025:2 (Routledge, UK) <737-1004>
ISBN 978-1-032-96906-0 hard ¥38,610.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00

This book focuses on the role of China and the US in Northeast Asia and South Asia, and examines their traditional policies and progression under Donald Trump and Xi Jinping. It details how the approaches of these leaders put strain on the delicate and balanced relationship in the regions. The subject matter also explores India's role as a middle power in the emerging dynamics in these regions in order to develop a multipolar alternative.Print edition not for sale in South Asia (India, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bangladesh, Pakistan and Bhutan)