Society & Social Sciences

This book represents the first anthropological ethnography of Ikea consumption and goes to the heart of understanding the unique and at times frant...

This volume, from an international and interdisciplinary cohort of scholars, offers independent-minded essays about central Greek texts and about t...

This multidisciplinary volume demonstrates how Freedom of Information (FOI) law and processes can contribute to social science research design acro...

This book relates social constraints and opportunities to micro-level exile decision making. It focuses on Cuban, Indo-Chinese, Ethiopian, Eritrean...

The rise of China has been shaped and driven by its engagement with the global economy during a period of intensified globalization, yet China is a...

Survival, the IISS’s bimonthly journal, challenges conventional wisdom and brings fresh, often controversial, perspectives on strategic issues of t...

Questions in Qualitative Social Justice Research in Multicultural Contexts take readers on an accessible and inspiring journey to critically self-r...

Networks and networking are essential concepts that transform organizational, economic, and social practices. Human capital is both a source of com...

This book, first published in 1977, presents a comprehensive survey of the upheavals experienced in warfare from 1793 to the end of the twentieth c...

This book offers an in-depth study of personal accounts of men and women who have at one time entered, participated in and ultimately exited the ne...

Monuments for Posterity challenges the common assumption that Stalinist monuments were constructed with an immediate, propagandistic function, argu...

First published in 1983, Aesthetics and the Sociology of Art provides a lucid account of two divergent tendencies in the study of aesthetics. At th...

This book examines the relation between energy and politics in South Asia and explores the geopolitics surrounding energy security in the region. A...

This handbook provides a theoretical and methodological exploration of the research on radicalisation and counter-radicalisation, one of the most i...

This book portrays how small, geographically dispersed, and progressive social change and social service organizations working within a coalition c...

The Routledge Handbook of Language and Mind Engineering is a comprehensive work that delves into the complex interplay between language, culture, p...

Deepening regionalism in Asia demands new leadership. Strong elites who are committed to a supranational identity are a minimum requirement of succ...

This book explores the evolution of the 30 functioning multilateral development banks (MDBs). MDBs have their roots in the growing system of intern...

Neutrality in World History provides a cogent synthesis of five hundred years of neutrality in global history. Author Leos Müller argues that neutr...

This book presents a concise introduction to China in the Xi Jinping era. It is intended as a first book for those coming new to the subject, provi...

International cooperation has never been more needed, but the current system of “aid” is outdated and ineffective. The Future of Aid calls for a wh...

The early 20th-century Russo-Polish legal thinker Leon Petrażycki (1867–1931) developed a comprehensive social psychology of law. Because only a fr...

Survival, the International Institute for Strategic Studies’ bi-monthly journal, is one of the world’s leading forums for analysis and debate of in...