Society and Social Sciences

An outline of how power, an inherent feature of social interactions, operates and affects close relationships.

The first collection of essays on Aristotle''s philosophy of human nature, covering the metaphysical, biological and ethical works.

This book provides a unique framework for understanding diverse issues across behavior studies, facilitating collaboration between sub-disciplines.

Examines the politics shaping whether, how and to what extent cities engage in global climate governance.

These specially commissioned essays by prominent lawyers and philosophers analyse a range of approaches to legal authority beyond the state.

Beyond mere emotivism, a self-organizational enactivism grounded in an exploratory drive, or SEEKING system, suggests a truth-functional yet hermeneutical moral psychology.

Investigates relationships between sovereign states and banks, and their conflicts over the creation of money in government debt and mobile capital.

This book analyzes how developmental states contributed to economic prosperity, sometimes with spectacular success, and sometimes with less brilliant results.

An innovative collection of perspectives on school bullying and cyberbullying from India, Western Europe and Australia.

Combining scholarship across psychology, philosophy and cognate fields, Natsoulas highlights surprising connections between the works of leading theorists of consciousness.

Discover the Power of Questioning to Transform Your Beliefs and DecisionsHave you ever wondered if doubt could be your greatest ally?

Explores gender and identity in fourth-century Cappadocia, where bishops used a rhetoric of contest to align with classical Greek masculinity.

Reinterprets Liberia''s economic history during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries to investigate the challenges and opportunities of sovereignty during the age of empires.

Shows that Homer was a philosophic thinker who played a crucial role in the thought of Plato, Machiavelli, and Nietzsche.

A human rights study of businesses from emerging and developing countries acting as competitors to European Union-based businesses.

Masculine cultures define urban cultures and are defined by them.

Analyses contentious politics in Tripoli, Lebanon''s Sunni city, and the relations between Islamist and sectarian groups in governing the city.

Argues that Peirce wrote philosophy as a scientist, expanded empiricism, and conceived of science as responsible for its own philosophy.

An in-depth introduction to Merleau-Ponty''s greatest work that foregrounds his theory of our projectively embodied being in the world.

Demonstrates the importance of music in ancient Roman political culture and social relations.

Offers an innovative reappraisal of the impact of Late Ottoman Turkish scholars on modern Islamic thought.

The inspiring story of 162 US paratroopers, dropped hopelessly off target, and the French villagers who assisted and supported them.

Explores foreign seamen''s employment in the British Royal Navy of the French Wars, and deconstructs the meanings of ''foreignness'' itself.

We don''t remember what went on during our first 1,000 days, but those ''secret'' events affect our health for life.

Reveals how nationalism shapes global business strategy with a focus on the historical example of German firms in India.

This book explores the comparative evolution and varying approaches of the European, Inter-American and African human rights systems.

Examines how the legacies of colonial bureaucracy continue to shape political life after empire.

Beaudry shows how the social contract fails to take account of the moral status of people with severe intellectual disabilities.

Develops a framework to explain shifts in judicial assertiveness towards militaries, using Pakistan as an illuminating case study.

The first systematic analysis and explanation of the political success of the Israeli settler movement based on a novel theoretical framework and rich empirical analysis.

The first study of Israeli foreign policy towards the Middle East and selected world powers, since the end of the Cold War to the present.

Casts new light on of the ''official'' French nineteenth-century narrative by examining how historians and philosophers conceived of the country''s past.

A detailed analysis of emotion theories in psychology and philosophy and the proposal of a new skeptical, goal-directed theory.

A sweeping account of the rise and evolution of liberal internationalism in the modern era"e;The crowning achievement of [Ikenberry's] decades-long work explaining and defending the liberal international order.

Historic littoral cities and sites of Southeast Asia that grew along the coast, seascapes, and the confluence of rivers as evolvements from Indigenous settlements linked the dynamism of trade and confluence of cultures, have defied categorization and characterization.

This book explores the intricacies of the post-pandemic world, delving into diverse themes such as international politics, diplomacy, democracy, migration, climate justice, mental well-being, education, human rights and the marginalised.

This book is available in an open access edition thanks to the generous support by the Lund University Library and the Joint Faculties of Humanities and Theology at Lund University.

Eve Tignol investigates the impact of collective grief on Muslim community formation in north India from 1857 to the 1940s.

The collective biography of the only generation of economists who lived their entire professional life in GDR''s socialism.

A collection of first-person case studies that detail serious ethical problems in medical practice and research.

Offers a novel solution to technology addiction through legal action to pressure the technology industry to re-design its products.

The author argues that Doric architecture originated in a disruptive shift in urbanism, land use, and colonization in Archaic Greece.

Studies the rise of Bengali nationalism in East Pakistan in the 1950s and 60s.

This book provides an innovative theoretical framework for studying and comparing autocratic rule across the globe.

Studies the largest foreign bribery case in history to identify the drivers, impact and dilemmas of resolute anti-corruption efforts.

An original and immersive account of how immigrant communities navigate end-of-life decisions while facing barriers to political inclusion and citizenship.