Society and Social Sciences

Provides a valuable transnational history of the African Diaspora through examination of British Afro-Caribbeans in Cuba.

Analyses European Union governance from the perspective of polycentric theory, aimed at improvements in achieving individual self-governance.

Shows how migration influenced American foreign policy in Cuban-American relations during the Cold War.

The Anthropocene narrative reproduces an ideological divide between Society and Nature and forecloses an inclusive politics of global warming.

This unique window into Muslim identities provides scholars and students with important up-to-date data about real Muslims living in Israel.

This extended treatment of insurgent fragmentation provides an innovative new theory tested through analysis of the Horn of Africa''s civil wars.

Studies all four branches of the Athenian armed forces to show how they helped make democratic Athens a superpower.

Develops a new theory of how politicians campaign and deploy electoral clientelism in weak party systems.

Explores aspects of the private lives and interpersonal ties, between the personal and communal domains of early Sufis.

Soldiers rebel when leaders attempt to build or dismantle ethnic armies, posing a deep challenge to contemporary democratization efforts.

Discusses how culture both facilitates and inhibits our ability to address, live with, and make sense of climate change.

Explores the effect of justice measures on ''regime consolidation'' in a post-transition context.

This book focuses on the material practice of ancient literacy through a contextual examination of Roman writing equipment.

A study of William James'' philosophy of democracy and pluralism, and its relevance to modern debates.

This study of the 1955 Bandung Conference is central to the history of international law and the post-colonial world order.

Uses a comparative analysis of case law in leading common law nations to demonstrate how religious discrimination is culturally determined.

This book explores the democratic methods by which political communities make their basic law, and the dangers associated with constitution-making.

A theoretical critique of the patent and innovation policy funnelled by intellectual property instruments towards developing countries.

Explores how political institutions and economic geography interact to shape governments'' policy decisions, particularly with respect to subsidies.

A comprehensive and comparative analysis of who advises government and how systems of policy advice operate in four Westminster countries.

Examines the changing meanings Americans invested in their country''s intensifying relationship with Israel from the 1950s to the 1980s.

Explains why the EU interacts and intervenes beyond its borders, using case studies to present a theory of practice-driven action.

Renowned scholars explore and discuss Nietzsche''s desire to challenge the very conception of philosophy, and his methods of doing so.

Develops a social psychological approach to revolutions through analyzes of cases from around the world and during different historical periods.

The fortlet, a previously overlooked military installation type, reveals how Rome built, secured, and lost its Empire.

Argues that radical right voting in Europe is rooted in people''s feelings of attachment to and defensiveness of their local communities.

A qualitative analysis of societal silences, demonstrating how the unsaid directs social action and shapes individual and collective lives.

Explores which laws and actors govern the negotiation, interpretation and implementation of peace agreements to settle intra-state conflicts.

Marking the Sesquicentennial of Confederation in Canada, this book examines the growing global influence of Canada''s Constitution and Supreme Court on courts confronting issues involving human rights.

Explains the complexities of how language supports human social interaction using the framework of embodied cognition.

The first analysis of how victims of crime and human rights abuses access justice in Latin America through private prosecution.

A comprehensive global study of the political ideology of Christian Democracy, from the mid-nineteenth century to the present day.

Establishes links between lack of societal peace, structural causes of human suffering, recurrent patterns of political violence and forced migration in the Global South.

The book examines the impact of poverty and other global crises in generating forms of structural coercion that cause agential and societal underdevelopment.

Peoples'' Tribunals and International Law is the first book to analyse how civil society tribunals implement and develop international law.

The first scientific analysis of Indonesian voting behavior from democratization in 1999 to the most recent general election in 2014.

An original account exploring the use of targets and performance measurement as a response to the crisis of political trust.

This book is the first collection in twenty years in English to address the whole of Bergson''s philosophy.

Tells the story of a sensational 1791 Virginia murder case, and explores Revolutionary America''s debates over justice, criminal punishment, and equality before the law.

Presents an extensive qualitative analysis of the transcripts of Stanley Milgram''s (in)famous obedience experiments.

Analyzes the labor experience of Israeli Palestinian women, arguing that state policies and widespread discrimination hinder their labor force participation and success.

This is a novel, transnational exploration of the major Chinese intellectual debates on radicalism in history, culture, and politics after 1989.

Argues that the Eurasian steppe political tradition has been globally influential, particularly in the socio-political formation of modern Russia and Turkey.

Develops an approach to contemporary religious, moral, and political conflicts in which conflict may be constructively reframed and creatively engaged toward productive democratic practice.

This book summarizes theoretical and empirical advancements in research on uncertainty in close relationships, and recommends practical applications and extensions.

This book traces how early Americans imagined what a ''nation'' meant during the first fifty years of the country''s existence.

An interdisciplinary approach to the foundations of moral agency, focusing on different forms and roles of fellow feeling.

The first exploration of how Mussolini employed population settlement inside the nation and across the empire to strengthen Italian sovereignty.

This book examines how justice and reconciliation in world politics should be conceived in response to the injustice and alienation of modern colonialism?

Through a comparative study of Morocco and Tunisia, Feuer proposes a compelling theory accounting for complexities in religion-state relations across the Arab world.