BOOKS

Disrupting Criminal Networks: Network Analysis in Crime Prevention
Gisela Bichler and Aili E. Malm, editors

Tackling issues that range from disruptive street gangs to online illicit markets, the authors use the insights of network analysis—a sophisticated methodology for illuminating    More >

The Ticos: Culture and Social Change in Costa Rica
Mavis Hiltunen Biesanz, Richard Biesanz, and Karen Zubris Biesanz

This unparalleled social and cultural history traces the development of Costa Rica's culture and institutions. With the perspective of more than half a century of first-hand    More >

Seriously Funny: Disability and the Paradoxical Power of Humor
Shawn Chandler Bingham and Sara E. Green

Exploring a paradox, Shawn Bingham and Sara Green show how humor has been used both to challenge traditional views of disability and to reinforce negative stereotypes and social    More >

EU Enlargement and the Transatlantic Alliance: A Security Relationship in Flux
Sven Biscop and Johan Lembke, editors

What is the interplay between EU enlargement and a fluctuating transatlantic security partnership? Will the accession of new EU members reinforce this partnership, or instead increase the    More >

Great Powers in the Changing International Order
Nick Bisley

What does it mean to be a great power? What role do great powers have in managing international order, and is that role still relevant in a globalizing world? Are new great powers likely to    More >

Inequity in the Global Village: Recycled Rhetoric and Disposable People
Jan Knippers Black

Jan Black shows us how the narrow distribution of benefits from globalization has created a yawning gap in wealth and power both among and within states—a gap that she attributes to a    More >

Hands Off Our Grants: Defending the Constitutional Right to Social Protection
Black Sash

In 2012, South Africa's social welfare system came under attack. Enormous sums of money were siphoned from South African Social Security Agency accounts—allegedly with the    More >

Race in the Schools: Perpetuating White Dominance?
Judith R. Blau

Winner of the ASA Oliver Cromwell Cox Award Judith Blau's disturbing study presents strong evidence that our schools, assumed by many to be an equalizing force in U.S. society, are in    More >

Mediating Sustainability: Growing Policy from the Grassroots
Jutta Blauert and Simon Zadek, editors

Focusing on efforts in Latin America aimed at achieving sustainable agricultural and rural development, the authors describe successful initiatives that seek to distill and articulate    More >

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