Publications
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The Power of the Periphery
(2020)
What is the source of Norway's culture of environmental harmony in our troubled world? Exploring the role of Norwegian scholar-activists of the late twentieth century, Anker shows how their portrayal of Norway as a pristine ...
Sustainable Development Report 2020
(2021)
The Sustainable Development Report 2020 features the SDG Index and Dashboards, the first and widely used tool to assess country performance on the UN Agenda 2030 and the Sustainable Development Goals. It contains insights ...
Ageing and Health
(2021)
Ageing societies can be healthy and productive- if they get the politics right. This book argues that the population ageing crisis can be solved through policies that reduce inequalities between and within generations. It ...
Trust in Government Agencies in the Time of COVID-19
(2021)
This Element explores variations in trust across various levels of government and government agencies based on a nationally-representative survey conducted in March of 2020. This title is also available as Open Access on ...
The Transformation of Historical Research in the Digital Age
(2022)
Almost all aspects of the historian's research workflow have been transformed by digital technology. The Transformation of Historical Research in the Digital Age equips historians to be self-conscious practitioners by ...
Beyond the Silk Roads
(2021)
Exploring Eurasian connections from the perspective of mobile Afghan traders, Marsden documents how trading communities thrive in geopolitically fraught contexts, analyses the structure of the networks they form, and ...
Can BRICS De-dollarize the Global Financial System?
(2022)
This study develops a 'Pathways to De-dollarization' framework and applies it to analyze the institutional and market mechanisms that BRICS (Brazil-Russia-India-China-South Africa) countries have created at the BRICS, ...
Living for the City
(2021)
A holistic understanding of the diverse history of the cross-border Central African Copperbelt, considered here as a single region, this study integrates neglected aspects of Copperbelt history including women, non-mining ...
Mind, State and Society
(2021)
Mind, State and Society examines reforms in psychiatry and mental health care in Britain during 1960–2010 and their relation to society. A truly multidisciplinary account, it will appeal to psychiatrists, mental health ...
The Theory, Practice, and Interpretation of Customary International Law
(2022)
This volume discusses the theory, practice, and interpretation of customary international law, as well as new developments and future research trajectories. Combining discussions of familiar concepts with new ideas, it is ...
Tense-Switching in Classical Greek
(2022)
Provides classicists and linguists in general with a complete account of the 'historical present' in Classical Greek. With its combination of philological and statistical methods and its cross-linguistic scope, it is ...
Transnational Crusoe, Illustration and Reading History, 1719–1722
(2025)
Bringing illustration studies, the history of reading and transnational book history together, the Element offers an original micro-history of illustrated editions and iconic interpretations of Daniel Defoe's Robinson ...
Aegeomania
(2024)
This Element provides an overview of Aegeomania: the fascination, sometimes bordering on the obsession, with the Aegean Bronze Age, which manifests itself in the uses of Aegean Bronze Age material culture to create something ...
Radically Legal
(2024)
Right in the middle of the German constitution, a group of ordinary citizens discover a forgotten clause that allows them to reclaim their homes from multi-billion corporations. Kusiak argues that to save our cities from ...
Empowering Affected Interests
(2024)
Empowering Affected Interests brings together a group of leading contemporary democratic theorists and philosophers to debate a taken-for-granted principle at the heart of the democratic project but increasingly under ...
Insurgent Cultures
(2024)
Moving beyond the normative frames of terrorism and counter-terrorism, this book shows how world literatures from the Global South can be used to examine the multiple modalities of violence that pervade contemporary world ...
Civil War Settlers
(2022)
Civil War Settlers is the first thorough analysis of Scandinavian Americans, examining citizenship, settler colonialism and whiteness in the Civil War era. Based on thousands of previously unearthed sources in multiple ...
Biodiversity and Nature Conservation Law and Policy in the Middle East and North Africa Region
(2025)
This book will be useful to practitioners, policymakers, graduate students and researchers of environmental law, environmental studies, human rights, sustainable development, social justice and area studies on the Middle ...
Reimagining Prosperity
(2024)
Articulates why the EU is well-placed to articulate and institute a new vision of prosperity that is both credible and appealing, whilst further fostering caring consumption, circular economy, sustainable industry and ...
The Problem of Animal Pain
(2024)
In this Element, atheists cite animal pain as compelling evidence against the existence of the loving God portrayed in the Judeo-Christian Bible. This Element engages the scientific literature in order to evaluate the ...
Embodied Experience in British and French Literature, 1778–1814
(2024)
Combining feminist, materialist, and comparatist approaches, Jillian Heydt-Stevenson reveals evocative and hidden information about objects like diamonds, hats, and statues, demonstrating women's life-preserving ecological, ...
The Water Diaries
(2025)
Provides insights into the regional and local factors influencing water insecurity and its effects on people's daily lives. With practical policy advice, this is a key resource for policy makers and practitioners, as well ...
The Nag Hammadi Codices and their Ancient Readers
(2024)
Since their discovery in 1945, the Nag Hammadi Codices have generated scholarly debate as to their date and function. This study analyses the palaeography and codicology of the manuscripts, focusing on paratextual elements ...
Intellectual Property, COVID-19 and the Next Pandemic
(2024)
This volume critically assesses the role of intellectual property in pandemic times through lessons learned from the COVID-19 pandemic. It broadens our understanding of the implications of intellectual property protection ...
Public Engagement with Science
(2025)
This Element crosses disciplinary boundaries to outline theoretical and practical resources for effectively engaging with the public about science. Useful to academics who would like to conduct or study public engagement ...
Survival of the Greenest
(2024)
Environmental sustainability is no longer a choice but a necessity to maintain a competitive edge in the global economy. This Element shows how nations adjust to -and take advantage of- the new dynamics of structural ...
Rethinking Global History
(2024)
This collection of essays by leading global historians sheds light on the field's conceptual foundations and analytical instruments. Readers are guided to question implicit assumptions, critically assess the extant literature ...
Security in Sustainable Energy Transitions
(2024)
Provides an interdisciplinary analysis of how zero-carbon energy transitions connect to security and defence policy in four European countries between 2006 and 2023. This book is intended for researchers and experts ...
Disinformation, Misinformation, and Democracy
(2025)
Dis- and misinformation propagated across traditional and social media clearly undermines democracy – yet so does repressing political speech in the name of truth. This book brings together legal experts from democracies ...
Mechanisms of Social Dependency in the Early Islamic Empire
(2024)
Explains the success of the early Islamic empire as not purely the result of military might but rather as the product of the cohesion achieved through social relationships and local power dynamics, especially between ...
Foundations of General Relativity
(2024)
In this Element, the author offers a comprehensive interpretation of general relativity, describing its potential reality, internal structure, and differences from previous theories. The aim is to shape research agendas ...
International Economic Law in the Era of Datafication
(2024)
This book addresses the challenges of datafication through the lens of international economic law. The target audience includes academics, scholars, graduate students, practitioners and policy-makers in the fields of ...
The IPCC and the Politics of Writing Climate Change
(2024)
Using a new analytical framework, this book examines the history and politics of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), and how this shapes its assessment practice and the climate knowledge it produces. It ...
Opinion Pooling
(2025)
This Element survey explores linear, multiplicative, and imprecise probability pooling options. It assesses these based on axiomatic approaches and epistemic and practical goals. It connects opinion pooling to philosophical ...
Herodotus and the Presocratics
(2024)
Explores Herodotus' Histories in dialogue with contemporary philosophical debates. Combining close readings, reader reception, and genre studies, it expands our understanding of Herodotus' context and restores the Histories' ...
Wittgenstein and Aesthetics
(2023)
This Element argues that aesthetics broadly conceived plays a significant role in Wittgenstein's philosophy. It traces a continuous line of thought pertaining to a non-conceptual form of encounter with reality and contributes ...
E-books and ‘Real Books’
(2024)
Laura Dietz explores a paradox of the e-book revolution: mass adoption without full acceptance as 'real books'. Drawing on new data, she investigates how conceptions of e-books as ersatz, digital proxy, and incomplete books ...
Pragmatism and Methodology
(2024)
Designed for social scientists working with big data sets, this book maps out the cycle of research, from epistemology and ethical questions to data collection and analysis. It introduces a unique mixed methods approach ...
Linguistic Knowledge and Language Use
(2023)
Combining insights from two of the most influential approaches in linguistics, Construction Grammar and Relevance Theory, this book furthers our understanding of how meaning comes about. This title is part of the Flip it ...
Nordic Bronze Age Economies
(2024)
Provides a multi-scalar synthesis of Nordic Bronze Age economies (1800/1700–500 BCE), organized around six sections: an introduction to the Nordic Bronze Age, macro-economic perspectives, defining local communities, economic ...
Customary International Law and Its Interpretation by International Courts
(2024)
This volume is an excellent reference work for readers interested in the theoretical dimensions of the work of international courts and in the reasoning and interpretation by international courts and tribunals. This title ...
Building Capabilities for Earth System Governance
(2024)
This Element develops a new Strategic Capabilities Framework for studying and steering complex socio-ecological systems. It offers capabilities-focused, community-centered frameworks that align multi-level systems of ...
Coming to Terms with the European Refugee Crisis
(2024)
Examines how the European Union and its member states managed the 2015–16 refugee crisis and how the institutional configuration of the EU polity shaped its response. Will appeal to readers interested in the European ...
Female Printmakers, Printsellers, and Print Publishers in the Eighteenth Century
(2024)
Sixteen international scholars uncover neglected histories about the contributions of eighteenth-century women to making, selling and publishing prints and emphasise the creativity and acumen they displayed. This title is ...
The Portable Mentor
(2022)
Written by more than seventy of the field's leading experts, this book consolidates some of the best career guidance into a single volume, designed to offer concrete and honest advice in professional development. It is a ...
Human–Robot Interaction in Law and Its Narratives
(2024)
Robots are with us, but law and legal systems are not ready. This book identifies the issues posed by human-robot interactions in substantive law, procedural law, and law's narratives, and suggests how to address them. ...
Decoding Anne Lister
(2023)
The first edited collection on Anne Lister (1791-1840), this interdisciplinary book explores how her diaries (as historical and literary text and in adaptation) reframe same-sex practices. This title is part of the Flip ...
Willingness to Communicate in a Second Language
(2024)
This Element offers a comprehensive review of advancements in willingness to communicate in a second language. It describes WTC in first language communication research, reviews key perspectives, discusses key associated ...
Legal Innovation
(2025)
Written for experts, students and the general public alike, this book offers a unique perspective on the intersection of technology, the legal profession and societal change. Each chapter takes the form of a lively discussion ...
Escaping Poverty Traps and Unlocking Prosperity in the Face of Climate Risk
(2024)
This Element outlines the origins and evolution of an international award-winning development intervention, index-based livestock insurance (IBLI), which scaled from a small pilot project in Kenya to a design that underpins ...
The Theatre of Louise Lowe
(2025)
This Element assesses Lowe's creative practice and production history since her early days as a drama facilitator in women's prisons and resource centres in her native Dublin, Ireland, paying particular attention to the ...
Immigration Nation
(2021)
How does migration control work beyond the spectacle of border violence? Examining the role of aid as a mode of migration control, this book, based on extensive research in Morocco, shows how migration control happens more ...
Language as Hope
(2024)
Drawing on original research into marginalised communities in Brazil, this pioneering book illustrates what language can teach us about what it means to hope and foregrounds the real-world effects of the study of language. ...
SCN2A-Related Disorders
(2024)
This Element provides a review of the clinical features, genetic basis, pathophysiology, pharmacology and treatment of these genetic conditions authored by leading experts in the field and accompanied by perspectives shared ...
Chilean Economic Development under Neoliberalism
(2024)
This Element examines the process of economic development of the last 50 years under the neoliberal model in terms of impacts on growth, inflation, income and wealth distribution and structural change. The analysis includes ...
The Coming of the Kingdom
(2024)
Explores the experiences of the Indigenous Muisca peoples of the New Kingdom of Granada during Spanish colonization. It will be useful for those interested in Latin American studies, ethnohistory, legal history, early ...
Crisis Policymaking in the EU
(2024)
This study compares crisis-specific policymaking, its causes and consequences, at the two levels of the EU polity during the COVID-19 and the refugee crisis 2015-16. In both crises, EU policymaking responded to exogenous ...
Partnerships in Policing
(2025)
This Element explores the effectiveness of Third-Party Policing (TPP) partnerships in reducing crime and disorder. It demonstrates that these partnerships are effective without displacement of problems. Dyad partnerships ...
Issues in Metrical Phonology
(2025)
This Element addresses these fundamental issues on the basis of an in-depth study of a hybrid (lexical-grammatical) metrical system of Ukrainian. The authors synthesize previous results with new findings, focusing on the ...
Agricultural Science as International Development
(2024)
For more than fifty years, international aid for agricultural research has been shaped by an ad-hoc consortium known as CGIAR. Drawing on the best of recent historical scholarship, this book presents a compelling new look ...
Environmental Foundations to the Rise of Early Civilisations in China
(2024)
Holocene socioeconomic transformations in late-prehistoric China led to regional civilisations. This Element divides prehistoric China into Highlands, Lowlands, and Coastal, arguing that environmental conditions and ...
Staging Class Conflict in the UK
(2025)
This Element focuses on the most precarious fraction of the working class in the context of a theatre industry and audiences that are dominated by the middle class. It reflects on the political potential of theatre that ...
Finding a Balance in the Exclusive Economic Zone
(2025)
Offers a comprehensive analysis of the implementation of the exclusive economic zone regime over five groups of activities by different States. It will appeal to a broad international audience across academics, students, ...
Personal Identity and the Self
(2024)
This Element raises the questions What are we? What owns our thoughts and experiences? Are we anything at all? addressing the 'no-bearer' theory of experience and the 'no-self' contention. It discusses the classic challenge ...
Beyond Social Democracy
(2024)
Explores how social democratic parties can win back voters and articulate their ideas through other party channels. This book addresses the core of debates within social democratic parties and left parties more broadly ...
Self-Defence against Non-State Actors
(2019)
This book provides an in-depth and up-to-date study of the international law on self-defence against non-State actors. The 'trialogical' method employs a novel and unique format that reacts to shifting world order. The ...
Gendered Jobs and Local Leaders
(2025)
Men from business are overrepresented in local politics in the United States. The authors propose a theory of gendered occupations and ambition: the jobs people hold—and the gender composition of those jobs-shape political ...
Good Governing
(2024)
Drawing upon law, history, and social science, this book is a close investigation of an important yet neglected area of constitutional law: the state police power and its function in regulatory governance in the US It is ...
Hydrodynamics of Markets
(2024)
Explores an intriguing link between a wide range of problems occurring in physics and financial engineering is presented. These problems include the evolution of small perturbations of linear flows in hydrodynamics and the ...
Infrared Spectroscopy of Archaeological Sediments
(2025)
This Element provides a guide to infrared spectroscopy of archaeological sediments, focusing on their dynamic system and their components. It presents a step-by-step methodological framework, interpreting infrared spectra ...
Sub-Patent Innovation Rights
(2025)
The first book-length study of utility models and other forms of sub-patent protection across jurisdictions in Europe, the Americas, Asia, Oceania and Africa, critically assessing how they are utilized by innovators, ...
Unraveling Abolition
(2022)
This book focuses on the legal origins of the antislavery movement in Colombia, revealing how slaves, former slaves, magistrates and legal workers called for freedom and citizenship during trials and litigation. A wholly ...
Language and Place
(2025)
This Element explores the relationship between language and place in sociolinguistics, focusing on place orientation, gentrification, globalization, and commodification. It introduces concepts and frameworks from geography, ...
A Prolegomenon to Differential Equations and Variational Methods on Graphs
(2025)
A bird's eye view of theoretical developments and concrete applications that will enable newcomers to get a flavour of key results. Provides an exhaustive, at the time of writing, bibliography which will point readers to ...
Jehovah's Witnesses
(2024)
Jehovah's Witnesses began as an informal Bible study group in the 1870s that sought to recover first-century Christian beliefs and practices. While briefly covering controversies, this Element focuses on the culture and ...
Reading with the Burneys
(2024)
This Element offers a multidimensional study of reading practice and sibling rivalry in late eighteenth-century Britain. It enriches scholarly understanding of the reception of Frances Burney's fiction, with broader ...
The Welfare Workforce
(2025)
What explains differences in how affluent democracies have deinstitutionalized mental health care? This book highlights how labor-organizing among welfare workers contributes to the success, or failure, of mental health ...
The League of Nations
(2025)
The Element challenges histories of the League of Nations that present it as a meaningful experiment in global governance. Such accounts have largely failed to admit its overriding purpose: to claim control over the globe's ...
Schopenhauer's Politics
(2025)
By reconstructing and contextualizing Schopenhauer's key political ideas, this book challenges the common view that Schopenhauer is an apolitical philosopher. Schopenhauer believed that politics could help mitigate conflict ...
Preference Change
(2024)
In recent years, decision theory has increasingly acknowledged the reality of preference change throughout life. This Element provides an accessible introduction and new contributions to the debates on preference change.