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

ヨーロッパとインド太平洋地域における地政学的リスク－国家安全保障の視点
Park, Sang-Chul / Lai, Yun-Chen (eds.), Geopolitical Risks in Europe and the Indo-Pacific Region: Perspectives of National Security. 206 pp. 2025:4 (Springer, GW) <743-883>
ISBN 978-981-9618-39-2 hard ¥32,490.- (税込) EUR 139.99

This book explores the geo-political risks in Europe and the Indo-Pacific region and interaction between the two regions in the rapidly changing global political landscape. The book explores the reasons for Europe extending its reach and engagement in the Indo-Pacific region, and the Indo-Pacific region increasing its ties with Europe. The book goes on to consider the impact and implications of these engagements on the global order, analyzing cases of potential geopolitical risks brought on by EU-India relations, EU-China relations, EU-Peru-China relations, EU in the Sino-Philippine territorial disputes, and EU's role in North Korean Nuclear matters. The book would be a valuable read for scholars of international relations and politics, policymakers, and those interested in the interactions between the two regions.

Lan, Shanshan / Debnar, Milos (eds.), Migration, Transnational Flows, and the Contested Meanings of Race in Asia. (IMISCOE Research Series) 212 pp. 2025:4 (Springer, GW) <743-943>
ISBN 978-3-031-81544-7 hard ¥11,601.- (税込) EUR 49.99

This open access edited volume addresses the multi-layered relations between migration, transnational flows, and the contested meanings of race in Asia. It tries to answer the following questions: how do migration and transnational flows from the Western world impact racial knowledge formation in Asian societies? To what extent do they challenge, perpetuate, and reshape unequal power relations based on the intersection of race, gender, class, nationality, citizenship, and migration status in Asia? How are dominant Western racial categories such as race, whiteness, and blackness redefined and reconstructed in the context of the Covid-19 pandemic, when transnational mobility became both heavily restricted and stigmatized ? The book is divided into three parts: Race, Language and Migration status, Covid-19 and the Dynamics of Racialization, Gender and Interracial Encounters. This book positions itself in the nexus of race, migration and pandemic research and will make a significant contribution to critical race studies, whiteness studies, globalization, multiculturalism, and social transformation in Asia. This book is aimed at students and scholars in race and migration studies in Asia and beyond. This is an open access book.

コロンボ・プラン－冷戦期アジアにおける開発国際主義
Lowe, David, The Colombo Plan: Development Internationalism in Cold War Asia. (Global and International History) 271 pp. 2025:8 (Cambridge U. Pr., UK) <743-944>
ISBN 978-1-009-60073-6 hard ¥25,344.- (税込) GB￡ 90.00

Conceived in 1950, the Colombo Plan for Co-operative Development in South and Southeast Asia was a unique experiment in foreign relations. Meeting annually across what we now know as the 'Indo-Pacific', talented administrators facilitated foreign aid provision, and promoted development fuelled state-making, internationalism and experimental regionalism across postwar Asia. David Lowe argues that this new setting and dynamic international cast created an unusually productive diplomatic environment of development internationalism. The Colombo Plan did not escape power politics or Cold War divisions. However, it did run according to its own rhythm, and, unlike other experiments, it endured, continuing today in much reduced form.

Quah, Ee Ling, Fire Dragon Feminism: Asian Migrant Women's Tales of Migration, Coloniality and Racial Capitalism. 216 pp. 2025:5 (Bloomsbury Academic, UK) <743-947>
ISBN 978-1-350-44781-3 hard ¥18,304.- (税込) GB￡ 65.00
ISBN 978-1-350-44782-0 paper ¥6,191.- (税込) GB￡ 21.99

Featuring stories of early settler and contemporary Asian migrant women in Asia-Pacific region, Fire Dragon Feminism discusses Asian migrant women's encounters with coloniality and racial capitalism at their workplace and in their everyday life.Centring anti-colonial, anti-racist feminist philosophies and strategies, this open access book introduces 'fire dragon feminism' - a migrant feminist strand that aims to blow flames at colonial, racial capitalist and neoliberal structures and build solidarities for more just and sustainable futures. Based on in-depth interviews with 40 Asian migrant employees in Australian universities, the book examines how Asian migrant women are implicated and complicit in white race-making projects while being subjected to racialisation and marginalisation simultaneously. Fire Dragon Feminism presents a historicised and sociological discussion of the contradictions, trade-offs, complicities and refusals in the Asian migrant women's tales of migration, coloniality and racial capitalism. The author ends the book with a celebration of anti-colonial, anti-racist grassroots feminist activisms.The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by the Bloomsbury Open Collections Library Collective.

Ortolland, Didier, Les mers de Chine: geopolitique, confrontation et droit international. (Inter-national) 274 p. 2024:12 (L'Harmattan, FR) <743-765>
ISBN 978-2-336-49009-0 paper ¥6,963.- (税込) EUR 30.00

Sanin-Restrepo, Ricardo / Machado-Araujo, M. et al. (eds.), Decrypting Justice: From Epistemic Violence to Immanent Democracy. (Decrypting Power and Coloniality: Philosophical Perspectives from and Through the Global South) 244 pp. 2025:2 (Lexington Books, US) <743-806>
ISBN 978-1-6669-6115-7 hard ¥23,595.- (税込) US$ 110.00 *

This book deploys the theory of encryption of to decrypt justice, setting in opposition Justice, written with the hegemonic capital letters of Western ideas, and justice, in its everyday workings within disparate communal forms and the exercise of multiplicity. As it decrypts justice, the book argues that late-coloniality, through its construction of the "hidden people," shattered the possibility of true communities in the service of a transcendent model, consisting ofthe market, the constitution, the nation, and the economy. The first three chapters serve as the theoretical backbone of the book, engaging sovereignty, posthumanism, Artificial Intelligence, and epistemic injustice. Chapters 4 and 5 describe the emancipation of the people through alternate communal practices: "Quilombismo" in Brazil and "Corazonar" of Tseltal women in Mexico. Chapter 7 examines the Tosepan's practices in Mexico to decrypt hegemonic territorial forms, and chapters 6 and 8 explore how Western judicial systems disempower the people, focusing on Central American migrants and critiques from the Colombian peace process.Edited by Ricardo Sanin-Restrepo, Marinella Machado-Araujo, and Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni, Decrypting Justice: From Epistemic Violence to Immanent Democracy is a transforming force, not only in the way which we understand reality but also in the tools with which we build it.