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 ...