Society & Social Sciences

What was the role of elected legislators? Was it to represent the opinions of constituents or to vote according to their informed opinions reflecti...

Elena Atanassova-Cornelis, Yoichiro Sato, Tom Sauer, and their contributors examine the implications of the shifts in power for the regional securi...

As the crisis in Israel does not show any signs of abating, this remarkable collection, edited by an Israeli and a Palestinian scholar and with c...

Hidden information, double meanings, double-crossing, and the constant processes of encoding and decoding messages have always been important tec...

Decentralization reforms introduced to Africa in the 1990s have not always delivered the intended long-term outcomes. This is a collection on the c...

In recent years, Internet control has become one of the major indicators to assess the balance between freedom and security in democracies. This bo...

African Security: Local Issues and Global Connections provokes new ways of thinking about solutions to African security—solutions that consider the...

A study of how the city of Port Said was created, and its spaces mutually produced and transformed through the practices of both dwellers and the s...

Ethiopia is the darling of development economists: since 2005, the country’s economic growth rate has consistently been over the 10% mark. Ethiopia...

Despite the widespread trends of secularization in the 20th century, religion has played an important role in several outbreaks of genocide since...

*** WINNER OF THE 2023 UACES BEST BOOK PRIZE *** The UK's decision to leave the EU has opened up huge existential questions for Northern Ireland a...

This is the definitive account of an extremely influential movement in political history. Robert Owen has often been described as the ‘father of En...

Deliberative democracy is an approach to democracy that requires collective decision-making to be preceded by reasoned, inclusive, and respectful d...

First published between 1813 and 1828 The Pamphleteer, is a unique collection of pamphlets and articles on a variety of subjects including philosop...

This book contains some 600 entries on a range of topics from ancient Chinese warfare to late 20th-century intervention operations. Designed for a ...

Belgium has a unique place in the history of migration in that it was the first among industrialized nations in Continental Europe to develop int...

The Myth of Austrian victimization at the hands of both Nazi Germany and the Allies became the unifying theme of Austrian official memory and a k...

The death of authority figures like fathers or leaders can be experienced as either liberation or loss. In the twentieth century, the authority o...

To say that education in Africa is under stress is all to obvious. News reports from that continent seem to describe only war and violence, pover...

Despite the widespread trends of secularization in the 20th century, religion has played an important role in several outbreaks of genocide since...