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The promise and perils of theorizing international regime complexity in an evolving world
As the world becomes more complicated, so too does global governance. The political consequences of the rising density of institutions, policies,...
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Contested multilateralism as credible signaling: how strategic inconsistency can induce cooperation among states
This paper analyzes how patterns of international cooperation are affected if a group of states, led by a major power, pursues a strategy of...
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The predicament of social sciences in the 20th century: a dialogue with Clifford Geertz’s essay “Thick description: toward an interpretive theory of culture” (Part I)
The theorization of social sciences in the 20th century walked forward with difficulty. Clifford Geertz’s essay, “Thick description: Toward an...
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Early Child Psychiatry in Britain
This chapter surveys work in the history of child psychiatry to offer a history of early child psychiatry in Britain and suggest future research...
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Early Child Psychiatry in Britain
This chapter surveys work in the history of child psychiatry to offer a history of early child psychiatry in Britain and suggest future research...
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What Does China’s Twin-Pillared NGO Funding Game Entail? Growing Diversity and Increasing Isomorphism
Two trends are gaining prevalence across China: (1) NGO needs for funding in order to survive and (2) the transformation of the government and...
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Mobility and Social Change: Understanding the European Neolithic Period after the Archaeogenetic Revolution
This paper discusses and synthesizes the consequences of the archaeogenetic revolution to our understanding of mobility and social change during the...
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Sustainability of Community Managed Disaster Risk Reduction Projects
Disaster risk reductionRisk Reduction management (DRRM) initiatives attract political and financial commitments from government compared to rescue;...
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Health, Adaptationary Medicine, or Healing Sicknesses?
This Chapter provides the idea of health, adaptationary medicine, or healing sicknesses, including aging and health loss risks; mass media and older...
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Human Rights as Political Imaginary
Drawing on an emerging iconoclastic human rights historiography, pioneered by the historian Samuel Moyn, López traces the origins of human rights not...
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Introduction: the EU, East Asian conflicts, and the norm of integration
The promotion of regional integration is a core objective of the European Union’s (EU) foreign policy and has been seen as part of its attempt to...
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The Crisis of Journalism Reconsidered: Cultural Power
Recent technological change and the economic upheaval it has produced are coded by social meanings. Cultural codes not only trigger technological and...
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Seeking Health: Persons, Bodies, and Choices
For three years, he came to the family home every week to mow, rake, and maintain the garden for which two professionals had little time. Leonard,2 a...
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Conclusion: Reflections on Governance from an International Perspective
The warp and weft of this book so far has concerned processes of state restructuring and welfare state retrenchment taking place within the borders...
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Dialogue, Culture, Critique: The Sociology of Culture and the New Sociological Imagination
In this paper, I show how the consideration of the role of the intellectual in democratic society informs an understanding of the critical project of...
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“Games, Sports and What-Not”: Regulation of Leisure and the Production of Social Identities in Nineteenth Century America
At age 49, Adolph Sutro returned to his adopted home of San Francisco, astride a wave of popular and economic success. A Jewish-Prussian immigrant in...
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In a Constitutional Moment: Science and Social Order at the Millennium
Strolling east along the splendid swath of Constitution Avenue, beyond the recessed lawns of the White House, diagonally across from the back...