Crime, criminality and injustice

The chapters in this volume present data and analysis that sheds light on the live experiences of those at the lowest intersections of injustice—Indigenous peoples, ethnic minorities, refugees, disabled people, youth, women, children and the poor. The contributors include eminent academics, stude...

Managing climate risks in coastal communities

Drawing on research from the New England Climate Adaptation Project, this book introduces a framework for building local capacity to respond to climate change. It argues that most of the responsibility for responding to climate risks must be taken by local stakeholders, and that climate adaptatio...

Authoritarian collectivism and ‘real socialism’

The book discusses so-called real socialism and offers an alternative conceptualization of it as authoritarian collectivism, making use of an analytical methodology. It concentrates on the principles of ‘real socialism’ in its golden age but also assesses its present embrace of capitalism.

The spanish frustration

Old troubles persist in modern Spain, including huge public debts, extensive corruption, widespread unlawfulness, oligarchical politics, territorial splits, and permanent protests and riots. The origins of these problems are remote: the ruinous Spanish Empire made a weak state, which built an inc...

How louis xiv survived his hegemonic bid

This book explains how Louis XIV survived his bid for European hegemony unscathed while other aspiring hegemons in modern history suffered catastrophic defeats. It argues that Louis employed a powerful coalition-breaking strategy unique to him and lays out the implications of Louis XIV’s unique c...

Us consular representation in britain since 1790

'US consular representation in Britain since 1790' is a history of US consular activities in the UK, which began in 1790 and continue to the present with consulates general in Edinburgh and Belfast. It also contains many previously unpublished illustrations.

Subjectivism and interpretative methodology in theory and practice

“Subjectivism and Interpretative Methodology in Theory and Practice” uses the subjectivist approach originated in Max Weber’s interpretation method, Alfred Schutz’s phenomenology, and Peter Berger and Thomas Luckmann’s sociology of knowledge to understand economic and social phenomena.

Rethinking pakistan

Rethinking Pakistan brings together some of the best minds of the country and invites them to reflect upon the most pressing issues that it is facing in all spheres, including politics, external relations, environment, human rights, gender relations, religious fundamentalism, education, and freed...

Transforming the politics of mobility and migration in aotearoa new zealand

Transforming the Politics of Mobility and Migration in Aotearoa New Zealand is a future-focused book that formulates alternative paradigms timely and necessary for a just and ethical politics of mobility and migration in Aotearoa New Zealand. Examining a variety of topics, the book addresses the ...

Resurgent africa

‘Resurgent Africa: Structural Transformation in Sustainable Development’ is a study of structural change dynamics in Africa and its effect on job creation, living standards and the efficiency of productive cities through manufacturing productivity growth that benefit the majority. It provides in-...

South–south trade and finance in the twenty-first century

This book examines the rise of South–South economic relations while including a historical, theoretical, and empirical examination that attempts to both place current South–South relations within their historical trajectory and examine in what ways current South–South relations differ from previo...

Ricardo's gauntlet

‘Ricardo’s Gauntlet’ advances a critique of the mainstream economic case for international free trade. Taking apart the cluster of interconnected and mutually enforcing ‘economic fictions’ upon which the argument for free trade relies, the book challenges the case where it is thought to be strong...

South asia 2060

“South Asia 2060” is a dialogue between 47 thought leaders, ranging from policymakers to academics to civil society activists and visionaries from across South Asia and the world, on the likely longer-range trajectories of South Asia’s future as a region. The collection explores how South Asia’s ...

The social ecology of border landscapes

A collection of essays from a wide range of disciplines, “The Social Ecology of Border Landscapes” addresses social ecologies in the marginal spaces, liminal landscapes and territorial interfaces of border zones.

Food insecurity and revolution in the middle east and north africa

‘Food Insecurity and Revolution in the Middle East and North Africa’ examines the political economy of agrarian transformation with case studies of Egypt and Tunisia. It critiques the dominant tropes of food security offered by the international financial institutions and promotes the importance ...

Veblen’s america

‘Veblen’s America’ examines the astonishing political rise of Donald Trump through the portal of Thorstein Veblen’s theory of barbaric legacies in American development.

Resolving land and energy conflicts

Based on decades of experience in addressing energy-siting conflicts, the authors of ‘Resolving Land and Energy Conflicts’ provide details of a host of tools, strategies and principles for tackling them.

Brazil’s international ethanol strategy

This comprehensive study analyzes Brazil’s efforts to create a global market for ethanol under the governments of the Workers’ Party. 

Paradoxes of populism

“Paradoxes of Populism” discusses the fantasies, promises and contradictions of populism as also its backgrounds and causes. While demonstrating the many varieties of populism, the book explains its rising popularity and steers the reader through the many myths and misconceptions surrounding it.

Is brazil afraid of the world?

Have you ever thought Brazil was a country afraid of becoming more international? Written by a Brazilian expert in foreign affairs, this book describes Brazilian position in the international scenario and presents an authentic and provocative point of view on the Brazilian international relations

Water diplomacy in action

Rooted in the ideas of complexity science and mutual gains negotiation, this volume shows why traditional systems engineering approaches will not work for complex water problems and what emerging tools and techniques are needed to resolve them. This collection successfully synthesizes insights fr...

Foreign aid to the gaza strip between trusteeship and de-development

One of the very few books that focus on the political economy of Gaza under the foreign aid regime that has emerged post Oslo Agreement 1993. 

Complexity of transboundary water conflicts

‘Complexity of Transboundary Water Conflicts’ seeks to understand transboundary water issues as complex systems with contingent conditions and possibilities. To address those conditions and leverage the possibilities it introduces the concept of enabling conditions as a pragmatic way to identify ...

On the fall of the roman republic

On the Republic juxtaposes the fall of the Roman Republic with the contemporary political landscape of the United States: a republic in disarray, violence and corruption thwarting the will of the people, military misadventures abroad, and rampant economic inequality diminishing a shared sense of ...

The rise of little big norway

“The Rise of Little Big Norway” chronicles Norway’s unheralded rise from Nordic peripherality to the global example and Arctic frontliner of today. Scholars and non-specialist readers alike will appreciate its wide-ranging subject matter, astute analysis and wealth of comparative insight, written...

Crimes of states and powerful elites

A collection of case studies investigating the crimes of the powerful, the social harms caused and the perpetuation of inequalities through lack of prosecution.

The democracy amendments

A vicious spiral of political polarisation, failing government, loss of public faith, and conspiracy-mongers undermining US elections, are pushing the country toward the abyss of political violence. Only deep constitutional change, brought about by a new national convention, can free us from this...

Thucydides' meditations on fear

Adapting Greek philosopher Thucydides’ fivefold classification of fear, this book analyses fears emerging in contemporary great-power states facing existential crises in their identity politics. 

Sustainable peace in northeast asia

Sustainable Peace in Northeast Asia examines the causes of lasting and complex tensions in the region and explores possible solutions to build lasting peace here.

Complex solutions to local problems

This book questions the dominant narrative used in stereotyping Africa and the status of Al-Shabaab in Somalia’s quest for peace. It trumps up local alternatives to solving conflicts on the continent and avers that it is possible to revert to these local mechanisms of governance and conflict reso...

Contestatory and creative poetics for a time of climate catastrophe

This volume is a collaborative work of ficto-critical ecopolitics written by two Australian scholar-poets based in the Western Australian Wheatlands (John Kinsella) and Germany’s south-western Württemberg (Russell West-Pavlov).

The failure of the voice referendum and the future of australian democracy

This book provides the first sustained scholarly and practical analysis of the 2023 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice referendum loss, with a view to informing the future attempts at First Nations structural reform and the practice of Australian democracy.

The role of land and natural resources in conflict and peacemaking

Aiming to contribute to the literature of what works to make peace, this volume examines the roles of land, water and mineral resources in conflict and peacemaking. The analysis focuses on six cases of prolonged, ethno-national, asymmetric conflict and six cases of special interest.

Urban crisis, urban hope

Urban Crisis, Urban Hope is an urgent, informed, and passionate critique at the crisis that has been allowed to develop in our cities, and a wide-ranging agenda for change to challenge all political and government institutions.

Turkey’s water diplomacy

‘Turkey’s Water Diplomacy’ presents the legal and institutional foundations of Turkey’s water diplomacy within its historical and geographical contexts. It analyses the evolving position of Turkey vis-à- vis the international water law. Delineating actors and processes in transboundary water poli...

Collective complaints as a means for protecting social rights in europe

This monograph explores and clarifies the specific features of the collective complaints procedure, established by the treaty system of the European Social Charter as an instrument for the protection of social rights, in the light of its evolutive application by the European Committee of Social R...

The politicization of gender

This monograph examines how far-right political parties in Europe instrumentalize gender to shape voter mobilization and reinforce exclusionary national identities, with comparative case studies of Italy and the Netherlands highlighting strategies targeting women, LGBTQ+ individuals, and migrants.

Legal duty and upper limits

This book offers innovative solutions to our democratic, economic, and ecological crises.

A critical political economy of inflation

The book is an original critical economy account of the meaning, causes and consequences of inflation.

Law and peace

This book provides a critical introduction to the complex relationship between law and peace.

Bulgaria and europe

'Bulgaria and Europe: Shifting Identities' offers a comprehensive analysis of Bulgaria's relationship with the European continent, focusing particularly on its accession to the EU and the aftermath.

Decisionmaking in an enlarged european union

This book discusses EU member state institutions that vote either by unanimity or by two-thirds majority

Latin american foreign policies in the new world order

At a time of growing US-China tensions, and of Latin America’s deepest crisis in a century, Active Non-Alignment option embodies a novel way out of this predicament.

Public diplomacy on the front line

The Exhibition of Modern Brazilian Paintings, held at the Royal Academy of Arts of London and seven other major venues, had never been academically investigated. The research unearthed abundant firsthand documents to reconstruct the episode and claims that the initiative was intended and managed ...

Ukraine’s move to the west

This book provides a great backstory of what is happening in Ukraine. It contextualises Ukraine’s 2014 EU-IMF aid deal and provides up to date empirical information and analysis through the lens of a socially connected global elite network. It contributes to the understanding of how power operate...

Nuclear power policies in britain

This book analyses Britain’s most recent nuclear project launched in the mid-2000s against a backdrop of rising international concerns about energy security and climate change mitigation. This case study offers insight into the public policy dynamics at work in British nuclear policies and confro...

The politics of public opinion in the novels of anthony trollope

The Politics of Public Opinion: Trollope'’s ‘Tenth Muse’ takes as its subject the rise of public opinion in the nineteenth-century British novel as (1) a uniquely collective narrative form posing as a singular voice and (2) a “voice” that distances itself from re-sponsibility by disguising its pr...

The anthem handbook of soft power and public diplomacy in the age of ai

This handbook unpacks the evolving relationship between AI, soft power, and public diplomacy. Covering metrics, narratives, culture, governance, and conflict, it features leading scholars alongside fresh perspectives. It is a valuable resource for students, researchers, practitioners, and policym...

Everyday encounters with state and capitalism

Everyday Encounters with State and Capitalism depicts the experiences of working people and how the state and capitalism squeeze their labour and knowledge traditions in the processes of profit maximisation.

Black ‘race’ and the white supremacy saga

This book examines the conundrum that has haunted the Black and White ancestry for ages on what supremacy actually means. Is it Black or White supremacy? Granted, the term White supremacy has occupied the sociopolitical, cultural and economic discourse for ages, but what does that really imply? T...

The new motivation and dilemma of china's soft power in the age of noopolitik

The monograph investigates whether China is mindful of exporting its political ideas and whether it considers its governance model to be the pillar of its soft power portfolio. Through framing analysis of media coverage and in-depth interviews with Australian public diplomacy experts, the monogra...

Up against the wall

The book offers a step-by-step blueprint of radical proposals for the U.S.-Mexico border that go far beyond traditional initiatives to ease restrictions on immigration. The book argues that the border with Mexico should be completely open for Mexicans wishing to travel north.

Civic engagement in australian democracy

This edited collection provides contemporary and interdisciplinary reflections on the changing patterns of civic participation in Australian democracy.

Japan’s budget black hole

This book describes the astonishing policy failures of populist politicians in Japan. Focussing on popular tax cuts in Japan as a salutary case study the book details their serious side effects: government debt, cuts to social security expenditure, inadequate public services and even the potentia...

International scientific relations

International Scientific Relations offers a holistic analysis of the role and impact of science, technology, and innovation in the international system of the twenty-first century.

The culture of the second cold war

This title analyses the deeper structures and mindsets of the Second Cold War.

Green growth, smart growth

Advances a proactive response to the dangers of climate change, which can only be overcome by decoupling economic growth from environmental consumption and focusing on a new approach to efficiency, innovation and policymaking.

Planning for water security in southeast asia

This book examines how four communities in the rapidly developing cities of Southeast Asia have creatively solved growing environmental problems. It’s description of how community-level collaboration in Vietnam, Cambodia and Indonesia provide new ways for thinking about how marginalized people ca...

The great transformation

This book examines the definitional differences between classical and modern political theory pertaining to the constituent parts of justice.

Transnational community mobilization and transformation, 2010-2020

This book explores transnational community mobilization through local transnational encounters and connections.

Freedom isn't free

Freedom Isn’t Free takes an analytical look at political, economic, social and moral trade-offs in a world in flux. Highly readable, the volume’s collected foreign affairs essays are wide-ranging and engaging—from manageable regional issues to dramatic geopolitical tensions—presented not as dista...

Datafication of public opinion and the public sphere

The book, anchored in stimulating debates about the enlightenment ideas of publicness, analyses historical changes in the core phenomena of publicness: possibilities, conditions and obstacles to developing a public sphere in which publics create, articulate and express public opinion by means of ...

Make america sane again

Make America Sane Again: Reflections on Trump’s Travesties catalogues Donald Trump’s many travesties, dating back to his first inauguration but concentrating on his second term. The book is a nearly daily analysis of Trump's horrors, one by one, including his personal demons, his quest for unlimi...

The deoband madrassah movement

This innovative book analyses the growth of Deobandi Islam, a religious sect whose followers include extremist groups such as the Taliban, through the frame of a counterculture in conflict with mainstream Muslim society.

Anarchism in local governance

‘Anarchism in Local Governance’ relates the municipal political and administrative governance of Savonlinna, Finland, to anarchist thought and praxis to investigate how they might complement each other.

Politics, inequality and the australian welfare state after liberalisation

Neoliberalism has made Australia less equal and our welfare system more brutal. But it has also changed the politics of inequality. Using examples from health to housing, unemployment to universities, this book identifiesopportunities to make a more equal Australia.

Transnational crimes in the americas

'Transnational Crimes in the Americas’ emphasizes the importance of working within public, international organizations to combat transnational crimes. It documents the role of international institutions within the Americas to form a united effort against the proliferation of illicit drugs, human ...

International drug control law

This book critically examines the international drug control regime’s legal framework, implementation challenges, and emerging tensions. It explores the system’s shortcomings and the ongoing debates around its modernization, outlining potential reform pathways to address expanding drug markets, p...

The morality of politics

This book deals with the morality, self-conception and honour of states, something that goes well beyond the narrow, rationalist defence of national interests, which dominates most IR studies. The volume pursues this line of thinking by focussing on three different but interconnected thematics: m...

The model of open cooperativism

The Model of Open Cooperativism investigates the potential of open-source technologies and the digital commons in transforming the economic landscape. Drawing from the "Techno- Social Innovation in the Collaborative Economy" research project, the book presents case studies such ...

The cold war in the 1950s

The book describes the domestic and external conditions that shaped the interaction between the United States and the Soviet Union during the 1950s.

Sophisticated interdependence in climate policy

With the US as the world’s most prominent climate change outlaw, “Sophisticated Interdependence in Climate Policy” offers a unique combination of state-level analysis, international comparison and domestic policy prescription, pointing the way to a productive federal–state partnership for climate...

Political discourse and media in times of crisis

This edited book examines the key challenges in political discourse and journalistic practice in times of crises. It focuses on European paradigms and links political rhetoric and media challenges with the societal, political, and financial crises from 2008 until the present.

Decolonial perspectives on entangled inequalities

This book engages with decolonial social and cultural analyses of global entangled inequalities by focusing on their local articulations globally and, in particular, in Germany, Trinidad and Tobago and the United Kingdom.

Transnational nationalism in the mediterranean sea

This book investigates how pre-nationalist ties between Mediterranean cultures have been inherited, repurposed and rejected by nationalist movements from 1815 until the present day. The book uses five case studies of regional nation-states to explore this theme of ‘transnational nationalism’: Ita...

Politics, media and campaign language

‘Politics, Media and Campaign Language’ is an original, groundbreaking analysis of the story of Australian identity told through Australian election campaign language. Introducing the concept of identity security, the book argues that the story of Australian identity is characterised by recurring...

Radicalisation, counter-radicalisation, and prevent

This book offers urgent exploration of how ‘ordinary’ citizens understand and make sense of radicalisation and counter-radicalisation policy.

A more democratic community

European perspectives on transition

Postcolonial urban studies

Drawing on ideas from postcolonial theory and literary and cultural studies, in particular the work of Martinican poet and thinker Édouard Glissant, Garth Myers develops a new framework for re-imagining global urban studies.

Growth, democracy or climate action?

Governments face a conflicting choice between economic growth, democracy and tackling the climate crisis. They cannot achieve all three objectives simultaneously and the growing tensions between them are being played out in countries across the world. It is the new trilemma of advanced capitalist...

The hobbled state

Germany’s moral and political dilemma, as a nation unwilling to assume a leadership role in the international community, for fear of becoming dominant, is well rehearsed. Mark Vail traces Germany’s reluctant embrace of power from its state formation in the nineteenth century to its current recons...

Turkey and the liberal international order

This book examines Turkey’s increasingly unstable position in the liberal international order and its complicated relationship with the West. 

Whose sovereignty?

In this carefully argued case for a federal Europe, Céline Spector proposes that national sovereignty has become increasingly untenable as mechanisms perpetuating fiscal, social and environmental inequities transcend borders. Indeed, in the face of Russian aggression and America’s apparent retrea...

Disappearance

Disappearance has become a defining problem of our times – the disappearance of humans, communities, cultures and life-sustaining systems. This book provides a much-need critique, which offers new thinking and aesthetic responses to understanding the deep political, cultural and philosophical sta...

Downing street downfalls

Before Johnson’s rollercoaster ride, and the ensuing “blink and you missed it” premiership of Truss, the high wastage-rate among Britain’s prime ministers was becoming a cause for concern. This book examines 30 years of prime ministerial misadventures to answer why 10 Downing Street has become a ...

The new politics of nationalism in contemporary europe

This book brings together experts to analyse nine countries that contribute specific aspects to the study of nationalism in Europe.

Visions for europe

This book offers a fresh look at some of the most challenging dilemmas of European integration and proposes innovative solutions to them by building on perspectives and insights from twelve classical authors in the history of political thought.

Undermining resistance

Why do multinational mining corporations use participation to undermine resistance? Do the struggles of communities, activists and NGOs matter on a global scale? This book provides a new critical political economy of extractive accumulation to explain how participation crises and governance are r...

False profits of ethical capital

This book is a timely study of an important political economic phenomenon: ESG investing and stakeholder capitalism. This book encourages new ways of thinking about corporate responsibility and how to contest it.

Instruments of international order

This book explores the transformation of international relations in the first half of the twentieth century as internationalist schemes for doing world politics came to be practices and principles shared by diplomatic actors across the globe – instruments of international order.

Beyond nationalism

This book discusses the meaning of the common good in a European Union thorned by nationalism and presents concrete policies to improve its achievement. It analyses the normative relevance of EU values as a shared moral standpoint between the member states and discusses institutional reforms that...