Publications
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Industrial Upgrading in the Textiles and Clothing Industry
(2025)
The path charting industrial policy towards economic catch-up increasingly recognize the importance of a profound knowledge of firms, including their location, industry, and time specificities. Going beyond simple case ...
Who is Conscious?
(2025)
Consciousness is the most fascinating—but tantalizingly difficult—topic in the whole of biology. Although many people now believe that mammals, birds, and possibly all vertebrates are conscious, there are also claims that ...
Fragile Aid
(2025)
An important question for the future of aid concerns its role in fragile states and conflict-affected areas. While considerable research points to a record of effectiveness that is mixed at best in these contexts, the ...
The Domestic Savings Shortfall in Sub-Saharan Africa
(2025)
This book aims to increase knowledge about (i) the key drivers of domestic saving rates in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA); (ii) whether alternative approaches, such as pension funds or fintech, could provide new solutions to ...
EU Informal Debt-Collection Regulation
(2025)
The book dissects the European Union’s regulatory failure to address abusive informal debt-collection practices, revealing an industry where consumers are left vulnerable to aggressive tactics and inadequate protections. ...
Transforming Justice Responses to Non-Recent Institutional Abuses
(2025)
This book critically examines justice responses to non-recent institutional abuses across the island of Ireland, comprising Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland within an international context, drawing on insights ...
Waste as a Critique
(2025)
This volume shows how waste in its manifold variety provides an innovative starting point for interrogating twenty-first-century society. Waste in and of itself, along with those who work with it, may suffer from social ...
Cultivating Race
(2025)
Cultivating Race examines the intersections and relationships between scientific knowledge in farming and race politics in early twentieth-century South Africa. Considering agricultural progressivism as both a Pan-Africanist ...
Pluralizing Political Philosophy
(2025)
This book makes an argument for pluralizing political philosophy, thereby focussing specifically on economic and ecological inequalities. By reducing the current marginalization of a range of traditions and approaches in ...
Corruption and Constitutionalism in Africa
(2020)
This is the fourth volume in a series which is based on the Stellenbosch Annual Seminar on Constitutional Law in Africa (SASCA). The aim is to focus on an issue of critical constitutional importance to Africa in its ongoing ...
Essays on Longtermism
(2025)
Recent years have seen a flurry of interest in longtermism: roughly, the view that positively influencing the long-term future is a key moral priority of our time. Familiar calls to take a long-term view towards global ...
Josephus and Jesus
(2025)
Deep Contestations of the Liberal International Order
(2026)
The book analyses the contested nature of the Liberal International Order (LIO) by distinguishing between ‘normal’ contestations, which constitute routine engagement with norms, and ‘deep’ contestations, which challenge ...
Clinical Manual of Palliative Care for Any Setting
(2025)
This manual is an easy-to-use clinical guide for providing high-quality, contextually adapted palliative care in low- and middle-income settings. Palliative care is a medically and morally imperative response to any acute ...
Cross-Linguistic Variation and Efficiency
(2014)
This book argues that major patterns of variation across languages are structured by general principles of efficiency in language use and communication. Evidence for these comes from languages permitting structural choices ...
The History and Future of Bioethics
(2011)
Seemingly every day society faces a new ethical challenge raised by a scientific innovation. Human genetic engineering, stem cell research, face transplantation, synthetic biology – all were science fiction only a few ...
Migration
(2014)
Migration is a dramatic behaviour distinct from other movements. It is an important component of life histories of biodiverse organisms including terrestrial and marine vertebrates, insects, many invertebrates, and the ...
Pragmatist Democracy
(2011)
Drawing inspiration from the philosophy of Pragmatism, this book argues for a new “problem-solving democracy,” where public agencies build consent for public policy by engaging the public in active problem-solving. More ...
The Shape of Thought
(2015)
This book presents a roadmap for an evolutionary psychology of the twenty-first century. It brings together theory from biology and cognitive science to show how the brain can be composed of specialized adaptations, and ...
Defining Deutschtum
(2014)
Defining Deutschtum: Political Ideology, German Identity, and Music-Critical Discourse in Liberal Vienna Defining Deutschtum offers a nuanced look at the intersection of music, cultural identity, and political ideology in ...
Faces of Poverty
(1997)
Most Americans are insulated from the poor; it is hard to imagine the challenges of poverty, the daily fears of crime and victimization, the frustration of not being able to provide for a child. Instead, we are often exposed ...
The Party Politics of Electoral System Choice
(2026)
The Party Politics of Electoral System Choice explores the strategic manipulation of electoral systems by political actors to maintain power. It delves into how electoral systems are more than mere governance tools; they ...
Unexplained Wealth Orders and the UK's Anti-Corruption Regime
(2025)
The powers available to criminal enforcement authorities to investigate and seize the UK-based proceeds of overseas grand corruption are piecemeal in nature and collectively under-researched. In considering how the UK uses ...
Contested Competences in the European Union
(2025)
What role do rules really play in shaping the behaviour of legislative actors? In theory, competences and procedures provide a framework within which ministers, members of parliament, and senators draft and bargain over ...
A Century of Asia Minor Refugees in Greece
(2026)
This book is a comparative—intergenerational and interregional—history of Asia Minor memories and identities of forced displacement that examines the multilayered relationship between contemporary attitudes and refugee ...
Banking on Europe
(2026)
The European Union (EU)’s small, balanced budget is commonly considered to be one of the most important constraints on the Union’s powers. However, the EU has always borrowed, and it is now borrowing on the scale of a large ...
Euroclash
(2009)
The European Union's (EU) market integration project has dramatically altered economic activity around Europe. This book presents evidence on how trade has increased, jobs have been created, and European business has been ...
Empire, Media, and the Autonomous Woman
(2011)
Drawing lessons from the intersection of literature, photography, cinema, television, dance-drama, and ethnography, this book presents a unique analysis of Indian activist thought spread over two centuries. It discusses ...
Protecting Minds
(2026)
It is widely accepted that we each possess a right against interference with our body. In this book, Thomas Douglas argues that we each also possess an analogous right against interference with our mind. Douglas offers two ...
Idiosyncratic Issue Opinion and Political Choice
(2026)
What is the nature of mass opinion on public policies? And what role do citizens’ policy opinions play in their political choices? This book re-examines these questions, which lie at the heart of fundamental debates ...
Civil Society Knowledge Networks
(2026)
This book examines the ways ideas gain power and momentum (and are contested, challenged, and circumvented) within global networks of development actors, institutions, and programmes. But it goes a step further: it examines ...
Peak Pharma
(2026)
This book argues that we have reached the ‘peak’ of a particular model for pharmaceutical innovation—the neoliberal value model that has been in place since the early 1980s. ‘Peak’ designates a state where a given and ...
The Red and the Real
(2009)
This book offers a new approach to longstanding philosophical puzzles about what colors are and how they fit into the natural world. The author argues for a role-functionalist treatment of color — a view according to which ...
Speaking Rights to Power
(2013)
How can “Speaking Rights to Power” construct political will to respond to human rights abuse worldwide? Examining dozens of cases of human rights campaigns, this book shows how communication politics build recognition, ...
Engineering Mechanics of Deformable Solids
(2012)
This book covers the essential elements of engineering mechanics for mechanical elements in tension-compression, torsion, and bending. Its approach emphasizes a fundamental bottom-up approach to the subject for a concise ...
The Equilibrium Theory of Inhomogeneous Polymers
(2005)
This book provides an introduction to the field-theoretic methods and computer simulation techniques used in the design of structured polymeric fluids for a wide variety of applications. By such methods, the principles ...