Society & Social Sciences books

This Element examines clientelism and analyzes its systemic impact on democratic institutions and markets. Clientelism...  Read More >>

Historically, infant–parent synchrony has been measured using methods that provide a global assessment of interpersonal...  Read More >>

Over the course of the Covid-19 pandemic, health and care have become central claims. Transnational campaigns addressing...  Read More >>

The book is intended for academics, students, and practitioners of European and human rights law interested in a...  Read More >>

This is a study of Britain's most prominent armaments firms and of their relationships with the British Government...  Read More >>

Surveying the collecting culture from the French Revolution to the Belle Époque, this study explores how material...  Read More >>

Barnes focuses on the role of States as economic actors and their use of sovereign wealth funds, State-owned enterprises,...  Read More >>

Explores the dynamics of governance and responsibility between member states and international financial institutions,...  Read More >>

Umut Özsu recounts the history of the struggle to decolonize international law, commencing with the General Assembly's...  Read More >>

This book examines Argentina's Black resistance movement and how activists grapple with a history of erasure and...  Read More >>

Explains how the ideas of nationalist economists and policy makers have shaped the world economy for more than two...  Read More >>

Over the course of the nineteenth century, European states worked together to install a new order of collective...  Read More >>

This book offers a fresh and comprehensive look into a traditional area of international law, addressed to academics,...  Read More >>

Anna Brinkman uses in-depth analysis of cases brought before the Court of Prize Appeal during the Seven Years' War...  Read More >>

Examines the growing contributions of activists and lawyers to policy reforms and legal and institutional change...  Read More >>

Neil MacCormick (1941-2009) was one of the twentieth century's most important legal philosophers and one of Scotland's...  Read More >>

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Bringing together clear practical guidance, case studies, core skills and research, this book explores the development...  Read More >>

Institution Architecture: Building the Avant-garde takes a terminological, sociological and semiological approach...  Read More >>

Experts share how to develop cultural competence and integrate it into your practice. From the pervasive effects...  Read More >>

What does the right to be oneself entail? And how is it manifest in our understanding of the law? The leading...  Read More >>

This book provides a systematic and analytical account of the problems facing transnational criminal justice. It...  Read More >>

An anthology of essays, comics, and recipes that reveals the dynamic and transformative relationship between queerness...  Read More >>

A collection of open-hearted meditations on contemporary manhood by an ex-pat of its blustery shores.  Read More >>