World politics is entering a new phase, in which the great divisions among humankind and the dominating source of international conflict will be cultural.

To understand world politics, you need to understand how states think. Are states rational? Much of international relations theory assumes that they are. But many scholars believe that political leaders rarely act rationally. The issue is crucial for both the study and practice of international politics. John J. Mearsheimer and Sebastian Rosato argue that rational decisions in international politics rest on credible theories about how the world works and emerge from deliberative decision‑making processes.

本書は、1950年代から60年代にかけて、新聞記者として世界各地を巡った著者の"旅のエッセイ"集です。それは……ドイツが西と東に分かれていたころ。ベトナムのハノイに米軍の爆撃機が来襲していたころ。アメリカが、まだ人種差別を克服できずにいたころ。ソビエト連邦という「東」の大国があったころ……。旅人の目に映った、そんな時代の世界の素顔が25編のエッセイに綴られています。遺跡の町アテネの広場で、キリマンジャロのふもとのロッジで、サハラ砂漠の満天の星の下で、夕月が見下ろすカサブランカの市場で、ヒマラヤを望むネパールの丘で、コーヒーの香りとともに刻まれる旅の記憶、いくつもの出会い。珠玉のエッセイを、小野田英一さんの朗読でお楽しみください。(c)株式会社ＡＩＲ

学校や資格試験対策で学んだ英語だけで海外のお客さまと取引をしたり、出張や駐在をしたりすることは可能でしょうか？ 答えはNoです。

'Decline of the English Murder' analyses the kinds of murders depicted in popular media during Orwell's life and why society of the time was obsessed with these grizzly crimes. Tribune published it on 15th February 1946, and Secker and Warburg republished it after his death in Shooting an Elephant and Other Essays in 1952. 

中国語単語帳の決定版が、中検の最新傾向に合わせて改訂！　 聞いて覚える中国語単語帳「キクタン中国語」の改訂版！　中検の最新傾向に合わせて内容を刷新しました。初級後半（初中級）レベルの語彙

Commercialization and globalization, coupled with a decline in U.S. Defense spending, have ushered in a new era for the U.S. Defense industry. The Pentagon is off to a slow start, however, in weathering the current transition.

石油の支配者はだれなのか?石油の値段を決めているのは一体誰なのか?石油という存在から読み解く世界の本当の構図とは。


私たちの記憶にまだ新しい、原油高による経済危機。
なぜこのような事態が起こったのか、そしてその犯人は誰なのか・・・

石油世界の中心はアメリカや中東。
近年ではロシア・中国、アフリカでは採掘を巡って激しい覇権争いが繰り広げられているようです。
本書は原油高騰の元凶とメカニズム、原油生産に関する政治的な駆け引きについても迫ります。

Washington’s current efforts to resolve the conflict in Syria will not break the stalemate. The only way to restore peace without committing U.S. troops is to build a new Syrian army capable of defeating both the Assad regime and the extremists.

再生可能エネルギーの調達をめぐり巨大企業がしのぎを削る。

キープレーヤーはインドだ 〝ポストGゼロ〟〝ポスト米中対立〟の「新グレートゲーム」のキープレーヤーとなるのはインド――。

Instead of trying to predict "Black Swan" events such as coups or crises, forecasters should look at how political systems handle disorder. The best indicator of a country's future trajectory is not a lengthy past stability, but recent moderate volatility.

Jeff Bezos, founder of Amazon, talks to Foreign Affairs about American competitiveness, creative disruption, and why he runs into the office every morning.

The coming revolution in genetic engineering will be exciting to some, frightening to others, and challenging for all. If not adequately addressed, it will also likely lead to major conflict both within societies and globally.

Well over a century after Wagner's death, the man and his music are as controversial as ever. Praised for his profound insights into the workings of the human heart, he has also been condemned as a dangerous libertine, a proto-fascist and an arrogant bore. His vast four-part operatic Ring cycle has been elevated as one of the greatest achievements of western culture and dismissed as an unparalleled example of creative megalomania.

Language defines us as a species, placing humans head and shoulders above even the most proficient animal communicators. But it also beguiles us with its endless mysteries, allowing us to ponder why different languages emerged, why there isn't simply a single language, how languages change over time and whether that's good or bad, and how languages die out and become extinct.

Epigenetics is the science of living DNA, charting the chemical pathways that spur DNA into action by turning genes on and off. While the Human Genome Project of the early 2000s was hailed as the key to understanding human heredity and disease, that historic effort was just the beginning. It has taken epigenetics to fill in the picture, explaining how the fixed code of our genome is implemented in countless living processes.

Twenty-five years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, critics say postcommunist reforms have failed. But the evidence says otherwise. Transition states in Europe and Eurasia have become normal countries - no worse, and sometimes better, than other states at comparable levels of development.

Responding to Mearsheimer's controversial essay blaming the West for the Ukraine crisis, McFaul and Sestanovich put the blame back on Putin and his ideological extremism, denying that NATO expansion provoked him. Mearsheimer replies.

Compared with the most sophisticated weapons systems in use today, tunnels have withstood the test of time. There’s no way to know how long drones or lasers or anti-missile defense systems will last, but as long as there is warfare, tunnels will almost certainly be part of the fight.

This explosive new audiobook challenges many of the long-held assumptions about blacks, about Jews, about Germans and Nazis, about slavery, and about education. Plainly written, powerfully reasoned, and backed with a startling array of documented facts, Black Rednecks and White Liberals takes on the trendy intellectuals of our times as well as historic interpreters of American life.

A classic of Japanese history, this audiobook is the preeminent work on the history of Japan. Newly revised and updated, A History of Japan is a single-volume complete history of the nation of Japan. Starting in ancient Japan during its early pre-history period, A History of Japan covers every important aspect of history and culture through feudal Japan to the post-Cold War period and collapse of the bubble economy in the early 1990s. Recent findings shed additional light on the origins of Japanese civilization and the birth of Japanese culture.

まったくウルサイおやじである。 素晴らしいマグロがないとお話にならないとか（私はマグロはあったら食うけどなくてもいい）、飯に昆布や砂糖をいれたのはだめだとか（入れてました）。 店の経営方法やら、大正の人格やら、客の格やら、下世話で遠慮がない。 そこがおもしろいのが悔しい。 偉そうに！･･･と思いながら耳をそらせない。 寿司の人気の理由は「肴と飯が安直にいっしょに食べられるところが時代の人気に投じたものだろう。」などと日本料理の横綱かたなしだ。

果たしてコロナワクチンに効果はあったのか――。国民の約8割が2回以上のワクチン接種をしたにもかかわらず、感染症は収束することなく、その後の第8波では過去最多の死者数も記録した。