Publications
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Controlling the Capital
(2023)
Authoritarianism is on the rise globally, with more than twice as many countries experiencing democratic decline as democratic enhancement in recent years. This has been occurring simultaneously with unprecedented rates ...
Introduction to General Relativity, Black Holes and Cosmology
(2023)
This book presents basic General Relativity and provides a basis for understanding and using the fundamental theory. General Relativity is a beautiful geometric theory, simple in its mathematical formulation. It leads to ...
The Impact of the Inter-American Human Rights System
(2024)
The Inter-American Human Rights System (IAHRS) fosters structural transformations throughout the Americas. This collection of analyses builds upon the studies on Ius Constitutionale Commune en América Latina and Latin ...
Mental Imagery
(2023)
This book is about mental imagery and the important work it does in our mental life. It plays a crucial role in the vast majority of our perceptual episodes. It also helps us understand many of the most puzzling features ...
Business Freedoms and Fundamental Rights in European Union Law
(2024)
The recognition of the freedom to conduct a business as a fundamental right within European Union law has reignited debate as to the proper place of competing economic freedoms and fundamental social rights within the ...
Tort Liability in Warfare
(2024)
Tort Liability in Warfare: States’ Wrongs and Civilians’ Rights develops a novel account of the tortious liability of states for wrongs they inflict on civilians during combat. Tort Liability in Warfare challenges orthodoxy ...
Digital Flows
(2024)
Digital Flows provides a radical study of the most recent chapter in the life of hip hop, one closely intertwined with the networked cultural flows of the internet. Some fifty years after its birth in the Bronx, hip hop ...
Rules to Infinity
(2024)
One central aim of science is to provide explanations of natural phenomena. What role(s) does mathematics play in achieving this aim? How does mathematics contribute to the explanatory power of science? Rules to Infinity ...
Aristotle on the Essence of Human Thought
(2024)
This book is concerned with Aristotle’s definition of the human capacity for rational thinking (nous) offered in De anima. For Aristotle, nous is the principle, and ultimate explanans, of all the phenomena of human thinking. ...
Saving Animals, Saving Ourselves
(2022)
In 2020, COVID-19, the Australia bushfires, and other global threats served as vivid reminders that human and nonhuman fates are increasingly linked. Human use of nonhuman animals is contributing to pandemics, climate ...
Designing Rulemaking
(2024)
Over the last twenty-five years, the Member States of the EU and the UK have introduced freedom of information acts, various types of Ombudsman, impact assessment of legislative proposals, and stakeholders consultation ...
Resources Matter
(2024)
The extraction and use of natural resources underpins a global economy that provides high living standards for many as well as the prospect of ending poverty in the developing world. Mining, as well as the oil and gas ...
Love in the Time of Scholarship
(2024)
Where is the ""life"" in scholarly life? Is it possible to find in academic writing, so often abstracted from the everyday? How might religion bridge that gap? In Love in the Time of Scholarship, author Anand Venkatkrishnan ...
Latinization, Local Languages, and Literacies in the Roman West
(2024)
This volume explores Latinization, local languages, and literacies in the Roman West, focusing on the Iberian Peninsula, Gaul, the Germanies, and Britain in the later Iron Age and Roman period. We use a combination of ...
The Politics of Unpaid Labour
(2025)
This book introduces a theory of the politics of unpaid labour, advancing our understanding of inequality within the context of precarious work. Arguing that this theory can help address the inequalities perpetuating the ...
Imagining Malaya
(2025)
Over the course of British colonial rule in Malaya, the Peranakan Chinese (hereafter referred to as Peranakan) attempted to bring to life a complex imagination of nationhood predicated on an inclusive and multi-ethnic ...
Living with the Dead
(2025)
The dead are everywhere in family life. From a great-grandmother’s recipe made time and again, to a dog-eared black-and-white photo of a family on a beach, and from a carefully curated family bible to a much-told story of ...
Resistance to Gender Quotas in Latin America
(2025)
Politicians want to stay in power. Because winners attain office under a given set of electoral rules, any change to these rules is puzzling. When electoral reform does take place, it is expected that changes will better ...
Levels of Explanation
(2024)
The different sciences furnish us with a wide variety of explanations: some work at macroscopic scales, some work at microscopic scales, and some operate across different levels. How do these different explanatory levels ...
EU Law and Economics
(2025)
This book examines the design and evolution of European law from the perspective of economics. It draws on various branches of the economic sciences—including rational choice and game theory, and institutional and behavioural ...
The People That Never Were
(2025)
The People That Never Were: Linguistic Scholarship and the Invention of the Aryans takes the reader through the history of the concept Aryan, beginning with colonial scholarship in India around 1800, and ending in the first ...
Scriptural Vitality
(2025)
Scriptural Vitality challenges the view that the Persian and Hellenistic periods constitute a time of decay, a period of ‘late Judaism’, languishing between an original, vibrant Judaism and the birth of Christianity. ...
The Ethics of Conceptualization
(2025)
Philosophy strives to give us a firmer hold on our concepts. But what about their hold on us? Why place ourselves under the sway of a concept and grant it the authority to shape our thought and conduct? Another conceptualization ...
The King and the Land
(2016)
The King and the Land offers a history of space and power in the world of the Hebrew Bible. It shows how the monarchies in ancient Israel and Judah asserted their legitimacy in relation to strategically important spaces: ...
Causal Inquiry in International Relations
(2024)
Causal Inquiry in International Relations defends a new, philosophically-informed account of the principles which must underpin any causal research in a discipline such as International Relations. Its central claim is ...
Concepts at the Interface
(2024)
Research on concepts has concentrated on the way people apply concepts online, when presented with a stimulus. Just as important, however, is the use of concepts offline, when planning what to do or thinking about what is ...
The Politics and Everyday Practice of International Humanitarianism
(2023)
Through a combination of eleven in-depth case studies of humanitarian emergencies and thematic chapters which cover key concepts, actors, and activities, this book explores the work of the largest international humanitarian ...
Novel-Poetry
(2024)
Novel-Poetry examines the verse-novel, a hybrid genre that emerged in the middle decades of Britain’s nineteenth century, and makes a larger claim about both the nature of genre and formal structures for time, action, and ...
The Edge of Sentience
(2024)
Can octopuses feel pain and pleasure? What about crabs, shrimps, insects, or spiders? How do we tell whether a person unresponsive after severe brain injury might be suffering? When does a fetus in the womb start to have ...
Minor Majesties
(2024)
This book is a study of the ancient small kingdom of Paluvūr, a town located about 30 km north of Tanjavur—today divided in two distinct villages and bearing the modern names of Kīlappaluvūr and Mēlappaluvūr. It was the ...
Socialism Vanquished, Socialism Challenged
(2012)
This book examines the 20-year aftermath of the 1989 assaults on established, state-sponsored socialism in the former Soviet bloc and in China. It brings together prominent experts on Eastern Europe and China to examine ...
The Philosophy and Physics of Duality
(2025)
This monograph discusses dualities in physics: what dualities are, their main examples—from quantum mechanics and electrodynamics to statistical mechanics, quantum field theory and string theory—and the philosophical ...
Climate Obstruction
(2025)
Climate obstruction involves intentional actions and efforts to slow or block policies on climate change that are commensurate with the current scientific consensus of what is necessary to avoid dangerous human interference ...
Poor Protection: The Role of Taxes and Social Benefits in the Developing World During Crises
(2025)
This book examines the role of social protection and taxation systems in developing countries during times of crises. The main objective of the work is to promote understanding about proper crisis response, and the way ...
Remembering Hope
(2025)
This book is the first to explore how protest is remembered in the stories told about it. How does the memory of past protest feed into new mobilizations? At stake is understanding how hope in the possibility of making the ...
Designing for Democracy
(2021)
Designing for Democracy addresses the question of how to “fix” digital technologies for democracy by examining how the design of the built environment (whether streets, sidewalks, or social media platforms) informs how, ...
The Survival of International Organizations
(2025)
While international organizations (IOs) have played a central role in global governance in the post-Cold War period, during the last decade many have struggled. Due to the rise of populism, the Trump presidency, and the ...
War
(2021)
How relevant is the concept of war today? This book examines how notions about war continue to influence how we conceive legal rights and obligations. It considers situations that recognize the significance of a Declaration ...
Pandemic Polity-Building
(2025)
Making Global Norms
(2025)
Global norms form the core infrastructure of economic and political globalization. To be influential, these norms need to be codified into policy scripts that spell out their practical application. This process of developing ...
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 ...